Highlight

Lucky Number Week 13 in #QuarantineCooking

I’m a bit late on this post! I had fun on the weekend, seeing more family and friends now and celebrated Father’s Day yesterday. We played board games with friends and ate some good food with our family.

The east coast is opening back up slowly – more restaurants are lifting their restrictions soon, where they are allowing up to 25% capacity inside. I’m still a bit hesitant to dine in, but it’s nice to see people enjoying some state of normalcy. However, I know we have more work to do – a lot of states are seeing increases in COVID-19 cases as a result of some of the re-opening protocols so we still need to be careful! Mask up!

I haven’t been as active posting IG stories of my meals as I’m continuing to learn more about the Black community, reading articles and genuinely listening to those who are speaking out on fighting systemic racism and protesting for defunding the police.

I do still want to highlight my weekly highlights though and share what I’ve been up to otherwise. It’s where I find the most joy – cooking and eating it lol. Here we go!

Week 13 of Quarantine Meals:

Breakfast

Peanut Butter Yogurt Honey Cinnamon Banana Rice Cake Snack
Morning runs require some post fuel! I mix in peanut butter + yogurt (optional) + honey + cinnamon with banana (and more cinnamon)! Usually I would have this with toast, but I have some rice cakes to go through 🙂 DELISH snack.
Yogurt Hemp Seed Frozen Berries Cinnamon Nuts Snack
Simple yogurt with hemp seed, nuts, frozen berries, cinnamon, cacao nibs.

Lunch

Chipotle To Go
I had participated in Live IG workout event and the host was giving away FREE CHIPOTLE! I got this free bowl, but clearly not pretty, and did not fill me up as much as I hoped. Still, FREE!
Spinach Egg Lox Scramble
Spinach Egg Lox scramble on top of a piece of pita. You know me, eggs are super easy and I love them for any meal!
Arugula Salad with Spinach Cakes
Arugula salad w/avo, with Chosen Foods Lemon Garlic dressing, leftover steamed beans and Spinach Cakes!

Dinner

Cuban Lemon Pepper Plantain Rice
First time trying out a Cuban Fusion diner.. not bad! This is lemon pepper snapper over plantain rice! Portions were huge so we had some rice for the next night…
Jamaican patties
Jamaican Patties I got from the store, just simply air fried them, made some sauteed kale and the leftover plantain rice. Can’t beat a simple dinner! We enjoyed it on our patio while the weather wasn’t too too hot!
Unadon Eel Bowl
My favorite meals that I don’t eat often (it’s not cheap!) is Unadon. It is an eel bowl over rice. I had some leftover nikuman (meat buns) my friend made that I stored in the freezer. Quite a heavy dinner but it was soo satisfying!

Work has been keeping me busy, but I am still trying to get inspiration to cook. I’ve been eyeing some recipes lately that I’ll make and post in future #QuarantineCooking meals. Cooking burnout is a real thing – I have been starting to feel it recently so it really helps to give yourself a break and get take out (while helping small businesses when you can).

Have a GREAT rest of the week and stay cool!