GOOD FOOD AND HOBART SUNDAY

Wow it's hot here.  Hoping the forecasts are true that we've hit the hottest part of the Summer and now it's going to be "less hot", ha.  Time for some good food and Hobart!

Last weekend, 2nd Man made meatloaf, for the first time since we changed our eating habits.  First up we had a salad (as we usually do now).  Since we were going with an all-American type meal, we opted for an American salad blend, iceberg, shredded cabbage and carrots, tomatoes and a simple vinaigrette. 

This is a quintessential American meal, ha.  Meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn on the cob.  He took his meatloaf recipe and changed it to be more healthy. Since we don't really eat red meat anymore, he made this with ground chicken, ground turkey and ground Italian sausage for some extra flavor.  We use the ground chicken made with white breast meat and no skin so there's almost no fat, the ground turkey is also the 99% fat free version (as opposed to the 94% version that has ground skin) and then the ground sausage has only lean pork.  He loads it up with mushrooms and carrots and green bell pepper and even used whole wheat bread crumbs.  Then some mashed potatoes using evaporated milk to remove that fat and a spoon of greek yogurt for some extra creaminess.  We topped it with some heart healthy butter.

It was SO good.

Here's Hobart (last night actually) posing for the camera, ha.  We have a sofa table behind the couch and we keep "his quilt" up there for him to sleep on.  He jumps up on the couch on his own and then, because his jumping is not like it used to be, we give him a boost up there where he sleeps for a couple of hours.  I sit on this couch and reach back to pet him while he's sleeping and this time, he was looking at me like he was saying "thank you".  Because...

#notspoiled