Happy Wednesday! How is your week going? Right now I am doing a rotation with Michigan Medicine’s Comprehensive Eating Disorder Program which I am LOVING because it is so interesting and I am learning a lot! I will have a post next week with some more details on what that has been looking like. I have a lot of delicious food to share with today you to inspire you in the kitchen!

Let us start off with this salad… this is probably my favorite salad that I have ever made! I LOVE fattoush salad – I used to always get it at the poolside grill at this club where we used to keep our family’s boat and I have not had a fattoush salad that I like as much as that one until now… this one was absolutely fabulous! Usually when I make salads I just make up the topping/dressing combinations, and then occasionally, like for this salad, I like to follow a recipe. This salad was made using this fattoush salad recipe. The toasted pita chips and mint dressing were both especially amazing! Note: Costco also has organic authentic Greek feta cheese which also put the salad over the top.

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Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a nice week so far! I am enjoying the slightly cooler temps here in Michigan as well as having less rain! It has been quite the humid, rainy, and either too hot or too cold summer. This week has been a busy week with a rotation I am doing with the dietitians at the Michigan Medicine Pediatric Surgery clinic. I am mostly shadowing them in their patient visits and then we discuss the cases together, and I am also working on going through different learning assignments and resources related to topics like managing tube feeding regimens and other nutritional aspects of different surgery conditions. Many of the patients seen at this clinic have had pretty involved surgeries for various issues in their GI tracts making it impossible or hard for them to eat orally, so it is vital that they are working with a dietitian and the rest of their healthcare team to still get the nutrition that they need. I will be in this rotation for this week and next. So far I have been liking it and also learning a lot!

Here are some tasty eats I have been enjoying in the meantime!

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Hi friends!

I hope you are having a good week! My rotation with Meals on Wheels is off to a good start overall. I’ve also been enjoying going running in the morning and have found the sun to be very interesting lately!

As is typical, on to sharing some recent eats from the past couple of weeks to hopefully inspire you with some fresh ideas in the kitchen!

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Hello friends! I hope you are having a nice week! We are getting ready to head to Florida with Alec’s side of the family on Saturday and will be there for all of next week, and then will be heading back to Michigan to go to my grandparents’ for the 4th (also will have lots of cousins/extended family there). Looking forward to the time away and all of the family time! On to some delicious eats from the past couple of weeks!

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Happy Memorial Day! I hope you have been enjoying the weekend and have been able to spend some time relaxing with family and friends. I am grateful for all the Americans who have sacrificed so much for our country in the fight for freedom here and around the world. We are hoping to spend the weekend going on a hike and are planning to make some burgers topped with caramelized onions (the best burger topping!) and this potato salad. On to some delicious eats from the past couple weeks!

More overnight steel-cut oatmeal – hidden underneath all the berries is some creamy almond butter, honey, and flax seeds! I am so happy that fresh berries are back in season!

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