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What’s your morning routine like?
Are you a snooze button smasher? A rise with the sun yogi? A running-out-the-door last minute mismatched frenzied mess?
I like to keep things consistent with the biggest coffee I can get my hands on and a mental “to-do” list. Although an occasional “to-don’t” list thrown in there when i’m feeling wild – er, needing restriction from getting wild could be a good idea, too.
To do: billsbillsbills – pay em, forward mail, smile at people, go to the… gym (i’m mentally screaming about this part already).
To don’t: eat like a 5 year-old, yell like a 2 year-old, drink like a 21 year-old.
To don’t lists are no fun.
Alas, I set myself a little list of to-don’ts before I set my trouble tappin’ toes out the door today:
Don’t raid the candy drawer the minute you get to work.
Don’t buy ice cream and cookies for lunch and convince yourself you just got a whopping amount of dairy.
Don’t convince Eddie to bring you cheesecake on his way home.
I set myself up for failure with that list: the sugar totally won!
Remember swedish fish?! I dove back into a deep cave of love with those chewy red wonders today.
Whatevs. I’m not sweating it!
Creamy eggplant swooped in and saved the day – er night – with it’s vibrant flavors and brilliant ingredients.
I found this light on the hips, heavy in flavor recipe over at Deb’s blog, and like everything she ever posts – I’ll be making it over and over again.
A glass of white wine and al fresco dining makes this magnificent meal a dinner dreamland!
Here’s the link to her post and the recipe!
I LOVE your to-don’t list of 2, 5, and 21 years old. 😉 I could use a reminder of that every now and again.
My kids wake me up – I don’t know why they wake up so early, even on weekends… Your roasted eggplant looks delicious. I love eggplants despite I get some kind of allergic reaction on my tongue, but I still eat it because it’s my favorite veggie. 🙂 I’d love to try your recipe one day. It looks yum!
My dirty secret is that I sleep so heavily that I can’t actually hear the alarm – ever. It’s terrible – my wife has to wake me up every morning and I feel so bad for her 🙁
Wonderful looking dish – eggplant is one of my favourites, especially when roasted… all glossy… mmm.
I love the flavor combo here! Eggplant and I have a complicated relationship, I’m always expecting too much of it. This simple little dish would highlight it perfectly.
Hah – I used to be a snooze-button person, until I had kids. Now I’m up and at-em with my to do lists right away. This eggplant dish looks gorgeous.
Making and eating this eggplant dish is most definitely on my to-do list. Don’t sweat it about the Swedish fish. Kinda funny–I rarely eat that candy, but oddly just finished an entire bag last week. A friend gave them to me and that would have been cruel to reject them, right? Right? Oh well. Anyways, this sounds delicious!
Eggplant is one of those things I want to love but really, I just tolerate. And yet, I keep buying it. Case in point would be the ginormous one on my counter right now. It’s destined for this b/c even if the eggplant is just blah, the rest of it looks delicious!
Nice. I’ve never really cooked much eggplant, but I’ve got five plants arriving when my parents come to visit soon, so I’ve got to figure out something to do with them!
Nothing wrong with a goodly amount of Swedish fish;)