Hey guys! Happy Wednesday… time for another What I Ate Wednesday Post.
Breakfast
Anne recently wrote about making poached eggs, which is something I’ve always wanted to do but felt intimidated. Her experience inspired me to give it a shot and it turns out it wasn’t so hard!
I ended up using this Alton Brown recipe from the Food Network. I made 2 eggs with sides of center cut bacon and blueberries. (I know I’ve mentioned this in other WIAW posts but I choose center cut bacon over regular and turkey bacon because it has less fat and usually less sodium.)
The verdict: I didn’t hate the poached eggs, but I think I prefer pretty much every other kind of egg over poached 
I think I like my eggs best with a little crisp around the edges. But at least I tried it, right?
Lunch
I made a simple lunch of tuna salad: tuna, mustard, relish, avocado, tomato and cracked pepper. I typically eat tuna with crackers or on a sandwich but I skipped that part today because I was still kind of full from breakfast. I didn’t feel like I was being too skimpy because the avocado (extra calories + healthy fats) added some staying power to the meal.
Snack
Compulsively ate these sweet potato chips. I swore I would never buy another bag of them for this very reason, yet here I am. Full of sweet and salty goodness.
Dinner
I had a bunch of random ingredients in my fridge and ended up putting them all together to make some little stuffed peppers.
I basically halved the peppers and layered them with herbed goat cheese and ground beef (seasoned with salt, pepper and italian seasoning). Pretty random but turned out well!
I have been on a berry kick because I bought blueberries, raspberries and blackberries at the grocery store and I knew they would stay good for approximately 27 hours in my fridge.
I also discovered that peppers and herbed goat cheese make an excellent snack.
If I were to do it over again, I would probably mix the goat cheese with the ground beef first and then add them to the pepper. I layered the goat cheese on the bottom this time for portion control but it ended up adding an extra step to the dish.
What’s a completely random recipe/meal you’ve made lately?
Do you use the word “dinner” or “supper”? I always use dinner but at work, everyone says supper.
Do you like goat cheese? I loooooooooove it but can’t buy it all the time. I have no self control.
Goat cheese + ground beef + peppers + seasoning.. what a tasty sounding combination. I may give it a try for lunch one of these days.
To answer your question – I say dinner.
I recommend getting the herbed goat cheese. It is so good on peppers!
I’m definitely trying goat cheese on peppers- goat cheese is awesome on everything though. PS your eggs looked poached perfectly, its a shame you didnt like them more… mine never turn out that good, haha.
I think they were just too soft for me? I don’t know.
I’ll eat your share of poached eggs – they’re my favourite! I have silicon cups that I use for poaching and I love them.
All of your meals looked amazing!
I will send some to Canada!
And now you are making me want to try poached eggs! I admit that I have been a bit too intimidated to try making them, but if you say that I can do it then maybe I will try ;)
It really wasn’t hard. I’m one of those people who needs to try a recipe a few times before I’m not screwing it up but these turned out well on the first try. So they can’t be that hard to make, haha.
Great eats! I want to come to your house and eat;)
Definitely! Come on over :)
I can’t stop eating sweet potato chips. TOTALLY LOVE THEM!
I can seriously eat an entire bag in one day. That’s why I have to keep myself from buying them!
Good job on the poached eggs! Those were my grandpa’s favorite, but I’ve never had any. I’m an over easy fan, just a bit runny so I can swipe it up with my toast! ;)
I’m a big fan of over easy myself!
Those stuffed peppers look adorable AND delicious. I could see that being a good after-work snack for my husband and I. Too often, cheese and crackers win out and then we ruin our appetite for dinner!
Yeahhhh that was the problem with this meal! I ran out of room on the pan and still had some peppers and cheese left, so I started eating the raw peppers and cheese while the rest was cooking.
YUM! These look like such tasty eats! I love sweet potato crackers! YUMMY!
They’re addicting
Mmm those peppers look great- What a neat idea for a filling! I suck so bad at poaching eggs!
Do you put vinegar in the water? I think that’s a game changer.