The Golden Tamater
Hi friends 😀 How are ya? Things are bueno over here 😀
Have you ever seen a golden tomato?
I hadn’t, either.. until this one caught my eye at Whole Foods.
It was $6.
For a tomato.
My food splurge of the week… I couldn’t turn it down, it was so beautiful 🙂
I did it up right by chopping the golden tomato into some Caprese-style salad.
–1 beautiful heirloom tomato
-1 serving goat gouda
-fresh organic basil
-Fig vinegar
–Sea salt and pepper
+ some kamut bread a la paper towel (and a little bread nub that I chiseled off “fell off” when I was cutting a slice)
More snackage:
-1 C almond milk
-1 scoop Sun Warrior
-1/2 banana
-1 T raw cacao powder
-cinnamon
Look what came in the mail!
I was so excited to open the package and see Shaun T.’s sculpted abs staring at me.
Thank you so much to Michelle for sending these my way! I can’t wait to try them out <3
I haven’t been as productive as possible today.. but I did order two dresses for Healthy Living Summit weekend from Rent The Runway.
I’ve had my heart set on a certain dress for the past 2 weeks and the pilot said to go for it… he didn’t need to twist my arm with that one 😉
Off to work!
Tonight:
-Making Tres Leches for Saturday night
–TURBOFIRE (still lovin’ the fiyahh!)
xoxo,
Gina
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OOH i cant wait to see which dresses you chose!!!! and that tomato is gorgeous. $6 well spent chica
I paid $12 for a smallish yellow watermelon at Whole Foods. To this day it is the BEST watermelon I have ever eaten.
I spent $15 on 3 tomatoes at the farm market the other day. They are definitely the best tomatoes I have ever had and worth every penny.
Holy cow. I buy some expensive food but I don’t think I’ve ever shelled out $6 for produce – at least 1 piece of produce. 😉 I’m glad it was worth it!
$6 for a tomato?! WOW! Haha! I hope it tasted as good as it looks!
I would like to get some of that in mail! Lucky girl!
that tomato is beautiful, and hopefully delicious at that price! I love caprese…
I *SO WISH* I was going to HLS (tear)… I have a wedding to attend that weekend. Please campaign on my behalf to have HLS2011 in BEAUTIFUL Portland Oregon!! 🙂
amazing vegan + rawr 😉 food here!
I hope you show us your dresses, is where I started with the HLS that turned into a selfish rant 🙂
Oh my squash, $6 for a tomato? Eek! I was raised with a garden overflowing with all colors of tomatoes, so maybe it blows my mind a little more than average. What I want to try is a black tomato, though I heard they taste “inky.
Yummm love Tres Leches. I used to work for a chef and this was the first cake she taught me to make.
Can’t wait to see which dresses you ordered. 🙂
ooh, can’t wait to see the dresses. I SO wish I could go to HLS, but every year it’s the same weekend as my bf’s bday. he’s turning 30, so I couldn’t ditch him for my bloggie friends. maybe next year!
i wish you could go too!! :/ we need to chill and have a vino yoga sesh one of these days!
Let us know how Hip Hop Abs go! I saw them on an infomercial ages ago and thought it looked really good, but I wasn’t in a position to buy them at the time!
oh i <3 tomaters of all kinds. that is one whopping beasty of a boy though! the farmer's market (if you can call it that) in NYC has some gorgeous heirlooms…and it's juuuuusttt about that time…!
I can’t wait to see what dresses you get. I bet they are beautiful.
I JUST made a spinach salad with a GINORMOUS tomato too! Not quite $6 though 😉
I hope someone magically starts sending me DVDs in the mail! haha You’re a lucky girl!!!
Have a great night! XOX
I love tomatoes! 🙂 That’s really expensive though… but as long as it was delicious, it’s all good!
Can’t wait to see your dresses, you always have a great taste in fashion.
you know, if you have some extra tres leches to get rid of i think i could take it off your hands… 😉
come on over, well 🙂
I love yellow tomatoes! They are just as easy to grow as red ones so if you have a garden, you should try them!
Post pictures of the dresses please!
i will as soon as i get them! 🙂
That salad looks amazing!
I didn’t realize how much heirloom tomatoes are I grew a bunch last year I’d making sandwiches and would end up just eating the tomato it’s great just sliced up plain
That tomato better have tasted orgasmic…LOL
I bought a watermelon without looking at the price…$21.34!!!!
I think Whole Foods is sneaky in their pricing.
You just made me feel so much better about spending $6 on a box of organic cherry tomatoes at Whole Foods– I didn’t even pay attention to how expensive they were when I threw them in my cart! But they are SOOO worth it!
Can’t wait to see the dresses you ordered! 🙂
Tres Leches?! Will you post the recipe for us? I’d love to make that!
i’m using alton brown’s recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/tres-leche-cake-recipe/index.html
omg I want those!! i think i should be a beach body coachj to get a discount on all this stuff since I have insanity, turbofire AND p90x!! haha
cant wait to see your review
That tomato looked beautiful 🙂 I got some from the chicken farmer down the street from me (but his chickens aren’t laying eggs??) haha. I just got Insanity in the mail…I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but can’t wait! I totally got sucked in by the infomercial, and it looks like my fitness classes at my gym (LesMills) all rolled into one!
I can’t wait to see your dresses! I am sure they are beautiful. What an odd tomato — I love buying expensive fruits and veggies sometimes — it makes them so much more special, right? Just a few days ago I bought $7 worth of cherries — way overpriced but so delicious!
thats a pretty fantastic looking tomato, and an even better looking salad it was turned into!
~~100 Day Get Healthy Challenge on now~~
I love when bread pieces “fall off” 😉
You always manage to make eating healthy look so easy…and delicious! I wish these ideas came as easily to me!
thank you!
it gets easier the more ya do it 🙂
I love yellow tomatoes! All colors are good actually 🙂
Luckyyyyy! I still have to find two!
I always find it kind of funny that heirloom produce – the old school, salt of the earth kind of seeds – are so expensive nowadays. Where I live (NC), most of the farms in Appalachia sell all the varieties just because they always have, and so they’re super affordable. Cherokee purple tomatoes, striped green German Boys – who knew tomatoes could be so beautiful!
I’ve never heard of the website “Rent the Runway” but I think I will definately have to use it for the next military ball because the dresses look amazing!
it’s perfect for military formals because the dresses you get for those are only worn once anyway 🙂
YAY!! enjoy hip hop abs!! id love to have him in my living room 😛
wow, thats gotta be one special tomato!! <3
Omg please move to CA!! At the farmers market (across the street from my house, year round) there are TONS of tomatoes (locally grown & organic even if not certified) that look just like that…all kinds of amazing heirloom varieties, purple, red, organe, green, mottled/multi-colored and they are about a buck each, tops. And, if you can’t make it to the market, the local CSA’s have BAGS of those tomatoes in your box/share every week. Girl. You have got to move. Sorry to point out the obvious, but you need to be on my side of the country 🙂 Tell Pilot he needs a job transfer LOL
Ok so your dresses…now I am wishing I maybe was going to HLS. Not sure if I should. Hmm. Ok I know you will look awesome in them!
i would LOVE to be on your side of the country
if we get tucson, i can do road trips to come and chill with you! 🙂
wish you were coming to hls, too…
Can’t wait to see the dresses! I haven’t tried Rent the Runway yet but I’m intrigued!
Those shirts are great. Alllllllllllllllllllso, what is that I spied in the background of your juice picture from your last post? Looks like a photograph from some sort of formal. Your readership respectfully demands a closer look.
I can never seem to remember which is which for barbells and dumbbells, despite regularly using them both. I also really like lifting with plates, which I guess is similar to using kbs in many respects, but there are some things unique to plates that I like. And I may or may not have once used a ghetto ass heavier than crap circa 1953 vaccum cleaner to do deadlifts once when I didn’t have access to a gym and set up a garage circuit with random stuff.
picturing you doing deadlifts with a vaccuum is awesome…and hardcore 🙂
ok, i will post a close up for ya. it’s from a goofy formal two years ago 😉
We tried some of those other Shaun T videos, for some reason our mom had them, not sure why, haha anyways. They are alright we did the hip hop abs, it is different. Nothing like insanity. We liked insanity over it.
And that tomato is gorgeous. Isn’t tomato season great? HAHA
That tomato is beautiful as is the salad you made!
Hip Hop Abs is interesting…not a very sweat-inducing workout and Shaun T’s EXTREMELY fabulous side comes out. But it’s so fun! 🙂 It’s funny thought, I did Hip Hop Abs first and then I got Insanity and it’s almost like two completely different people…Shaun T’s got multiple trainer personalities 🙂
hahah awesome 🙂
Is Hip Hop Abs new? The cover looks like its from the 90s hahaha. are you still doing turbofire everyday? 🙂
hahah no, it’s old. old school beach body 🙂 they still run infomercials all the time, though! i’m still doing turbo and loving it 🙂
dood, i once spent $2.50 on an onion. i understand, it happens. and i think i need hip hop abs in my life. more so than “unemployed abs”
Geez, that tomato should have been made of gold. I love tomatoes, but I think that is one I would have passed up! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Right now I’m waiting on my Cherokee Purples to ripen in my garden…wish they would hurry up!
Awww the pilot is so great for supporting your dress cravings! Now thats a man 😉
Six bucks for a tomato? That thing better be made of real gold… or at least taste like it. (Hey, it’s better than a lot of other things you could spend $6 on!)
I’m interested to hear your opinion on the Hip Hop Abs DVDs. I keep seeing the ads for them on the Insanity DVDs and I’m intrigued. 🙂 And yay for Rent the Runway!! I haven’t used that site yet, but I think it’s a great idea and I probably will eventually. I can’t wait to see the dresses you chose!
OMG!!!! You’re gonna love love Hip Hop Abs! I’m currently on my 4th week of the program and I am having so much fun!!! Plus, I am seeing results! Gotta Love Shaun T!
If I were rich, I’d eat heirloom tomatoes all the time. Once I went on an heirloom tomato splurge at Whole Foods, paid in the double digits for them, and loved every second of my caprese salad. But that’s more of a once in a while thing–never regular!
That tomato looks so good! The cafe I shadowed at this week has MASSIVE heirloom tomatoes that are super gnarled but so delicious. So good!
I think a caprese salad is the best way possible to use up a $6 tomato. 😀
I can’t wait to see the dresses!!!!
How come I didn’t know you were coming to HLS?! That’s awesome! I can’t wait for it 🙂
yes, i’ll be there! a girl who couldn’t make it sold me her ticket 🙂 i’m so excited!
Gah!! I don’t know what to wear for HLS. But I cant wait to go shopping for it!! 🙂