In my quest to add a broader range of foods to my diet, eggplant makes another appearance.
Some good ol’ chicken breast baked with tomato sauce, mushrooms, onions, eggplant thrown on top of some whole wheat pasta.
Of course a little parsley sprinkled on top prior to the meals photo-shoot.
Never, ever made beets before.
Mrs. OddBody/Shortcake loves beets.
I have some in the pantry…I know, why don’t I cook them!
Genius.
Here is a recipe for a simple, yet tasty beet salad.
I used 4 beets. Boiled them, peeled them and thinly sliced them.
Cut up up several radishes mixed them all with red wine vinegar, olive oil and mustard. Which I conveniently also had in my fridge for the first time ever!
Placed it all on a bed of lettuce and sprinkled the mixture with parsley.
Surprisingly filling…and super tasty.
Beets will definitely be making a few more appearances in my meals
I mean, just look at this nutritional info!
Feeling like some Saturday night burgers?
I know I am!
But let's make them turkey burgers.
Add:
Add it all into some ground turkey mix it up and roll it into balls and place them in the fridge.
When you are ready, throw them on the foreman grill or the frying pan and when they are cooked throughout, melt some cheese with some mushrooms and onions on top.
Today, these delectable burgers were served on thin whole wheat burger buns with some home-made fries and Caesar's salad.
Sometime I just get into a groove and to save time for the rest of the week I cook 3 or four meals at once.
Last night was one such night!
First on the menu, well mostly to snack on while I cooked, some hummous and veggies!
I finally prepared some soup from the vegetable broth I had slaved over last Friday (by slaved I mean thrown veggie debris into water and cooked for 4 hours without paying attention)
This hearty soup consisted of:
1 cup of black beans
2 Russet Potatoes
1/2 cup of basmati rice
Several medium-sized carrots
An onion
Several stalks of celery all sliced up
Some green onions
One large Green Pepper
Minced Garlic
some salt and pepper
I brought it to a boil and let it simmer on low for a couple of hours while I prepared my pasta (The actual meal of the day)
Today's pasta ended up with a mixture of left-over spaghetti mixed with some shell noodles to finish off a couple of bags (luckily both were whole grain, phew, dodged a bullet there)
The sauce was rather meaty with a pound of extra lean ground beef, an onion and several cups of spinach simmered in a can of tomato sauce.
Magnifique!
When all was ready, I mixed all of the noodles up with the sauce to make it all so hamburger helperesque
Throw on some mozzarella cheese, blur the picture and you have a good meal...or three!
Does anyone else have a day of dinner mass production?
Tonnes of protein, tonnes of energy...Perfect!
Here is my typically breakfast right now:
About a cup of egg whites + 1 whole egg + a whole wack (wack is a unit of measurement right?) of mushrooms, scrambled.
1 Cup of oats + raisins or banana + almond or peanut butter sprinkled with shredded coconut
And a cup or two of Joe (fair trade of course) to set my gears in motion!
Recently stumbled across this nice little tool at the Eat Well Guide web site.
This site is great because it allows you to find farmers, farmer's markets, food co-ops, or other stores that sell healthy beef, dairy, eggs, bison, chicken produce or anything else you are looking for.
The beauty part is that you can screen through whatever sustainable production method you would like your food to have gone through. Anything from no antibiotics, organic, non-certified organic, grass-fed to biodynamic farming where the animals are read bedtime stories and live in the house with the farmer! Okay, I made that last one up, but overall a very useful search engine if you are looking for an alternative to the same old fare.
happy cow found here
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