I think I will caramelize some onion and fig and serve it over leftover london broil on a salad tonight.
And I think this will be good.
Posts tagged Yummy
Last Minute Substitution
I had planned to have pizza with crust made from cauliflower tonight, but circumstances and the availability of shredded cheese caused me to look around for something else.
Almond butter in my pantry brought me to a fabulous new recipe for an almond based breakfast bread.
It had honey in it… which made it a bit carbier than if I had used all stevia … but I didn’t want to change anything the first time out. Next time I might try all stevia.
It was super yummy 
Going to plan on the cauliflower piazza tomorrow!
Things I Will NEVER Again Attempt to Make at Home
- Thai Food
- Chinese Food
- Indian Food
- Mexican food
Some things just need to be cooked for you and brought to you by a nice waitress.
I reserve the right to update this list if I decide to try any more stupid experiments.
You should totally check this out…
Pausing just a minute here to pimp a friend’s new blog…
Healthy Cooking for the Unhealthy Eater
My quest to de-mystify healthy cooking, adopt a balanced, nutritious diet, and still make my taste buds happy. And help you do the same.
http://healthy4unhealthy.blogspot.com/
Megan is a big fan of meat, cheese, bacon… all things burger, fries, beer… you get the picture.
Also? A trained professional chef (not currently working as one, but you don’t lose the skills).
So when she puts something together… you KNOW it’s going to taste good.
Now she is putting her had at trying to eat more healthily while still keeping her taste buds happy. I know some of you folks are trying to get a bit healthier and still figure out how to maintain your relationship with cheeseburgers…. here’s an awesome site that might help!
Her Intro: http://healthy4unhealthy.blogspot.com/2011/06/healthy-eating-for-unhealthy-eater.html
Soup of the Week – Turkey and Barley Stew
I was traveling two days this week for work… and what with the catching up when you get back… I guess the whole blogging thing went by the way-side.
But!!
It’s still “this week” – so I didn’t miss my chance to post the soup I made on Saturday.
I am inherently lazy, so a lot of my soups start with ground meat. I’m not a big fan of the chopping. I buy my vegetables frozen and have even started buying frozen chopped onions for soup too (hey… they are only about 50 cents more, and they save me at least 10 minutes of prep time… Worth it!
This could easily also be made with chopped up chicken or turkey and fresh-type veggies.
Turkey and Barley Stew
- 4 second spray canola oil
- 20 oz ground turkey breast (99% fat free)
- 12 oz chopped onion (Frozen if you like)
- 16 oz package frozen mixed vegetables
- 165 grams barley
- 32 ounce low sodium chicken broth
- 16 oz mushrooms
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon dried sage
- 1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cups water with one packet no sodium chicken bouillon
- corn starch to thicken
Serves 6
Directions
- Add onion and turkey to spray of oil; sauté 3 minutes.
- Add mixed vegetables; sauté 2 minutes.
- Add broth, water, bouillon, and barley and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 5 minutes.
- Add salt, thyme, sage, poultry seasoning and pepper to barley mixture; simmer 10 minutes. (I’m pretty generous in my definition of 1/4 teaspoon) Also, if you feel like it, toss in some rosemary.
- Thicken with corn starch. (Here I’m just assuming you know how to do that)
Voila! A Thick and Hearty stew of yumminess. It could be more of a soup if you leave off the corn starch part, but I like my soup thicker.
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size – 1 serving (525 g)
- Calories – 286
- Calories from Fat – 25
- Total Fat – 2.8g
- Saturated Fat – 0.2g
- Trans Fat – 0.0g
- Cholesterol – 58mg
- Sodium – 378mg
- Total Carbohydrates – 35.2g
- Dietary Fiber – 5.7g
- Sugars – 4.9g
- Protein – 30.0g
- Vitamin A 79%
- Vitamin C 15%
- Calcium 3%
- Iron 14%
Can’t Talk…. Making… Donuts…
Tiny Donuts Have Consumed My Life!
Apple Cinnamon…
MORE apple cinnamon…
Maple bacon… yes, BACON!
Brownie mix… ANYTHING can go in here!
Did I mention ANYTHING?! Cut up canned cinnamon rolls are heavenly!
I am a full fledged member of the Church of Tiny Donuts!
Slacker
Wow… it’s been a month since I posted anything here. That’s pretty slack of me.
Or… perhaps it’s just an indication of how busy I’ve become at work.
I can’t even read blogs at work anymore, I have to wait until I am home and sitting on the couch after dinner. Luckily, I have my handy little tablet that makes reading my blogs easier. It does put a bit of a crimp in commenting, though.
So what’s so important that I broke my streak of blogging slackitude?
DONUTS!!!
Specifically… tiny, baked, make at home donuts that will soon be mine!!!
I just have to wait for my package to ship with this…
A friend of mine got one last week, and she’s been baking mini donut versions of pretty much any baked good you can think of since then.
With my love of tiny foods, and her going on about all the things she’s making in hers… I pretty much had to have one.
At the very least, it’ll be a fun thing to do with my sister’s kids.
At worst, you’ll find me in the corner of my house some time in the near future buried in a puddle of my own drool and a pile of tiny, tiny baked goods!
Things That Are Yummy
This mix…
- 9 grams of unroasted, unsalted pumpkin seeds
- 9 grams unroasted, unsalted pistachio nuts
- 16 grams of Sunmaid Fruit Bits.
put in a wee little snack bag
Eat after lunch.
I don’t know what it is about this combo exactly, but it is soooooooooooooo yummy!
I think it’s the mix in the fruit bits… that mix is genius!
5 grams of protein, 8 grams of healthy nut-based fats, 15 grams of carbs. 150 calories. Awesome little snack for a post-lunch treat.
(you know, if you are out of BUNNY GRAHAMS!)
I like my food so much more now that I make it myself!
We Won!!!
So Saturday was awesome. Just…. Yeah… AWESOME!
We won handily, although it felt like a really hard fought game because those girls hit SO HARD!
Final was 215 to 128…. so that totally rocked.
I was very please with a lot of the work I did. I went after those girls and laid some good hits. I held my inside line (mostly). I did quite a bit of blocking the jammer. We made some awesome walls.
What really amazed me is just how much all the cross training and strength work has helped me. After out bout in December, I was in pain for weeks from the hits I had taken. My back was so sore. It was terrible. But since I have been doing SO MUCH work on my back and core, I woke up on Sunday feeling great. No pain at all. So.. that’s something to be said for all those crunches, supermans, deadlifts, etc. It’s not all for nothing!
The only sad part of the weekend was an appalling lack of pre-sliced cake at the Harris Teeter after the bout.
Derby day burns roughly 2700 calories all told.
I had saved up about 1200 of those for a BIG HONKIN PIECE OF CARROT CAKE WITH ICE CREAM at the end of the day.
Then… there was no cake.
NO CAKE!
I mean, OK, I went home and grabbed one of the frozen carrot cake muffins I keep on hand and had that with ice cream and some strawberries. But it wasn’t the same. It also wasn’t anywhere close to the number of calories I had planned for the real cake, so I ended the day with a big old calorie deficit. Boo.
Then Sunday, I have no idea why, but I just wasn’t hungry. I kind made myself eat enough calories for the day, but this morning I weighed in lower than I have ever seen, which is bad.
Today I will be very good and eat all the way up to my 2300 (actually, I have planned it out, and I’ll be at 2323. I don’t mind where I am weight-wise, but losses are unacceptable. Maybe it was just water fluctuations or something, though. We’ll see where tomorrow lies – I’ll drink enough water today.
BUT!
Other than the cake sadness… YAY WEEKEND!!!
Lack of Daily Log
OK… really…. why should I inflict that on you, my 3 loyal readers? Is my calorie intake and outlay that fascinating?
NO… No it is not.
In other news.
I am now TOTALLY in love with these…
http://www.annies.com/bunny_grahams#jump133
They are so full of yum, it’s ridiculous. I can’t wait to try the other flavors.
Those and… THESE….
http://www.latejuly.com/late_july_organic_snacks/2008/01/our-sandwich-co.html
The dark chocolate sandwich cookies. I think I might shiv my own mother for another one of those babies.
OK… maybe not… but sooooooooo gooooooooood!
Plus, you know, with the list of all pronounceable ingredients… I like that.
So those were my big discoveries this weekend. I adore my local healthy food store!
