Snack Time: Tomato and Mozzerella Salad

This has been my snack of choice as of recently. Probably not as pretty as some of my past post, but sometimes ya just need a garden fresh tomato and mozzarella with fresh basil. Simple, light, refreshing, and filling.

Since I've Been Gone

When I returned home from my trip out of town, I had hoped to returned to vines full of tomatoes like the previous week. Sadly I returned home to a much depressing sight.

My poor plant had dried up while I was away! I have it on an automatic sprinkling system so I'm not sure if there was an error and it didn't get watered or if it was just too hot here in Vegas. Either way, look at all these sad tomatoes.

I did have two survivors though!

And with these tomatoes went into so tacos! I made fish tacos using some frozen ahi tuna I'd defrosted. I'm moving at the end of the week, so I'm trying to use up a lot of what's in my freezer. I marinated the tuna in lime juice with cumin and chili pepper then sauteed it with some cooking spray in a frying pan. Placed the tuna inside two corn tortillas with some pico de gallo, cojita cheese, and fresh avocado. Yum!

Garden Fresh

I came home from my work trip to find a delicious surprise in my garden.

Nine ripe tomatoes! Of course the only sensible thing to do was to make this!

Welcome to my recent breakfast, lunch and dinners. Yes, I eat tomatoes and fresh mozzarella for breakfast, along with just about anything else that isn't waffles, pancakes, cereal or eggs. I'm just not a breakfast fan!

Tomato LOVE

I bought this little dream for my backyard.

I love LOVE LOVE fresh tomatoes! And all vegetables in general! Growing up we always had a huge veggie garden out back and all of produce came from the garden. Seriously, when I started college, I didn't know where to get jam or salsa because my mother had always made it from our garden! Anyway, I'd love to have a big veggie garden myself but, 1) I live in the desert, 2) I tried last year and it was pretty much a flop, there are more bugs in the desert then you'd think! 3) The home I've been renting has gone into foreclosure so by mid summer I'll be moving anyway. But I still wanted to give fresh tomatoes a chance! So I made a $30 investment, $20 for an XL pot that can move with me, $6 for soil, $4 for this little dream!! It ended up being really windy out and since the plant was still so small, I decided to keep it inside for a little bit.

For dinner I made some Yves Meatless Ground Lettuce Wrap. I love how quick, easy and low calorie this meal is. I put half the package in a frying pan with a 1/4 cup peanuts and heated it up. Then I topped it with some leftover plum & red chili sauce from a Thai place and added a few dashes of vinegar. They were quite tasty! And the whole meal was around 400 calories. If I hadn't added peanuts it would have been around 200. Plus a glass (or two) of wine. :-)