Apple & Goat Cheese Salad

This is what you do when you send your husband to Costco with a short list that includes the 2-pack, 3-lb block of fresh mozzarella cheese but he accidentally grabs goat cheese instead. You make Apple & Goat Cheese Salad:

The "recipe" is not rocket science, and I am really only posting it to the blog because A) it's delicious and B) I want to remember to make it again, which won't be hard with the goat cheese surplus I'm facing. I followed it as-is but added cherry tomatoes, pine nuts, and some dried berries. And a LOT more goat cheese than called for. LOVE this dressing.

Oh and after I chopped the apple, I tossed it in lemon juice so I can have the salad sitting in the fridge for a few days without the apple getting gross. Kept the dressing separate, added as needed.

Grab & Go Egg White Bites

I've been getting pretty tired lately of my usual quick weekday breakfasts: toast or cereal or a yogurt. The kids, on the other hand, never get tired of their tried-and-trues (oatmeal or microwave scrambled eggs for Camden; bagels or waffles or cinnamon toast for the big kids). I decided on a whim to try something new, something that was quick to make initally and gives me a week of grab-and-heat breakfasts, Egg white bites:

I pretty much followed the recipe as written, though I used regular muffin tins (not mini) so it's a better portion. Also, I added a bit of shredded cheese, because who doesn't like that. I even bought the egg-whites-in-a-carton product which I found highly gross in theory but worked great, saved time on separating eggs, etc. Less wasteful.

And just to take it over the top, when I ate them today, I topped them with a bit of sour cream and avocado that I had leftover from last night's taco dinner. YUM.

(Disclaimer: no, my kids don't eat this. But I do!)