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Food for Thought Friday: sounds weird but it's 👌 - salad for breakfast!
 

Good evening from me and the bump^ !

I'm later than usual today, but coming through just in time to give you a recommendation on what to make for breakfast tomorrow....

my new favorite thing - the breakfast salad!

Here is one that I made last week:
 
 

My favorite thing about the breakfast salad (and what makes it feel "breakfast-y" to me) is the addition of two fried eggs - placed on top, then cut up and mixed in. They add a luxuriousness that I just adore, and they make this cooler, summertime breakfast a bit more hearty. Of course, if you don't eat eggs, your breakfast salad can include whatever you want!

The Breakfast Salad is a great place to use up leftover veggies/sauces/extras from the night before. In the one pictured above, I had some seasoned Mexican corn and leftover grilled peppers and onions. I piled those both onto some lettuce, added a little feta cheese, dressed it simply with oil + vinegar, topped it off with my fried eggs, then cut and mixed it all up and VOILA! Yum, it really hit the spot.

I don't really have a recipe for this, the only thing I would say is that if you're gonna add the eggs, make sure you have your salad completely prepped + ready before you fry them (especially if you want your yolks to stay runny and contribute to the "dressing" of your salad, which I recommend!). Also if you do have cold leftovers you are putting on your salad, I'd recommend putting those on top of the lettuce and adding the hot eggs right on top of those, which will help warm them up slightly!

If using a tender summer lettuce, the hot eggs may wilt it a bit - which is ok, just something to note (and that's why I added my egg on top of the cold veggies instead of directly on the lettuce). If using a heartier green like kale or romaine, I don't mind if those get a little wilted/softened.

Annddddddd that concludes your summer breakfast inspiration for tonight!

Also - a note about FFTF... I have not fully decided yet what I am going to do with this newsletter when the baby comes (in ~5 weeks), but as of this week I can seriously feel my brain telling me to "shut everything down that is not related to mom-mode/baby prep," which feels very weird and also seems appropriate. I don't want to write meh-level content just to keep up with my once/week cadence (even though in the past I have loved that commitment), so... for now/for the next month I'm gonna switch to every other week as I figure out what I want to do... so look for your next FFTFs on 7/22 and 8/5, and more updates soon!

love,
Jess
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