What did you eat for dinner?
One of my struggles on healthy eating is being creative with meals. I hate to eat the same things too often. Cook books are so formal and have ingredients I never heard of or am missing. I would love some real people, real food, meal ideas!!!
Vegetarian and non-vegetarian, raw, cooked...are all welcome!
So, yesterday for dinner I had sknls, bnls chicken thigh sauted in olive oil with onions, red peppers and garlic, with romaine, cheese and avocado and 1 corn tortilla. What did you have?
PS. Let's try to keep the dietary advice to other posts and just share meal ideas, please!!! Many of us disagree on what is healthy to eat, but let's get a variety of meals real people eat across the board. I seriously want to try some vegetarian or raw dishes since I get soooooo tired of cooking and can use more non-boring veggies in my diet :) Gracias!
Vegetarian and non-vegetarian, raw, cooked...are all welcome!
So, yesterday for dinner I had sknls, bnls chicken thigh sauted in olive oil with onions, red peppers and garlic, with romaine, cheese and avocado and 1 corn tortilla. What did you have?
PS. Let's try to keep the dietary advice to other posts and just share meal ideas, please!!! Many of us disagree on what is healthy to eat, but let's get a variety of meals real people eat across the board. I seriously want to try some vegetarian or raw dishes since I get soooooo tired of cooking and can use more non-boring veggies in my diet :) Gracias!
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Permalink Reply by debbie on -
I'm with Bobby on the re freezing chicken. I do freeze soup in wide mouth glass ball mason jars. milk i freeze this way too. only freeze 3/4 full it expands. For some reason narrow mouth break more often in the freezer. when i started filling theese even less full they did better. I also defrost in the fridge. It takes a couple days. Pint jars work good too. I have frozen chicken dishes that are really saucy or are very moist. I use the glad freezer containers. We eat these within a couple months.
Also with the storing the veggies. I find sometimes wrapping them in paper towels helps. Expecially good with grapes to prevent moldy ones. In my large costco spinach and baby green containers i will put paper towels through out the container kinda wrapping in piles. It really helps keep it fresh. I make lots of ice cream with raw milk and cream and i sweeten it with stevia. On line you can buy a simple ice cream maker cuisen art like the one i have for like 40 bucks. it's so easy to make. I made fresh strawberry with local organic strawberries. I freeze that after the ice cream machine does it's thing in very small snack size glad storage containers. Yes they are plastic. I figure i cover most of my bases so i'm not sweating this one. The reason i like these is because they hold like 2/3 cup mabey less. so pooooooortion controll. It really helps to not over eat something really yummy. Here is a recipe out of a Ben and Jerrys ice cream book i use minus the sugar. from this basic "raw' recipe the possibilities are endless. (of course they don't use raw)
BASIC ICE CREAM
2 c raw cream
1 1/2 raw milk
2 good quality eggs non pasturized if possible
2 tsp vanilla
3 squirts (or to taste) liquid stevia. Or powder to taste.
If using sugar omit stevia and use 1 c raw sugar or use both.
In blender on high add eggs whip a few min untill frothy
add milk continue to whip
add cream continue to whip
add sweetner and vanilla
put some good air into it.
Make sure the freezer bowl has been frozen for 1 day
add all the frothy mixture and mix aprox 25-30 mn. you can eat then or freeze untill later.
I have added 3 Tbl instant organic coffee while "whipping" to make coffee ice cream
I have added 4 Tbl cocoa pwdr to make chocolate
I added both to make mocah.
you can add anything to this basic recipe.
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Permalink Reply by Darla Anderson on -
Really, freezing in glass. Never ever heard of that. I thought the jars would break. You're amazing Debbie.
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Permalink Reply by naturenut on -
Today I made the best lunch from leftover stewed chicken: I sliced it into thin pieces, placed it on a corn tortilla, topped it with cheese, a little plain whole yogurt, lettuce, chopped onions, then a tortilla on top, toasted it in the toaster oven, then spread smashed avocado on top :) mmmm,mmmm, it was good, sort of a modified quesadilla, lol.
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Permalink Reply by debbie on
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I made a blackberry pie from fresh picked blackberries and crust with organic flour,organic butter,sea salt and spectrum organic shortning. Added fresh squeezed lemon raw organic sugar and tapacioa to the berries. Put it all in a jelly roll pan with a lattice top and brushed it with egg. Beautiful and sooo tasty. We had company they loved it. also i froze the rest in tiny containers so we didn't feel we had to eat the whole thing. i served it with home made ice cream.
Also dug some huge butter clams. split and cleaned them in the 1/2 shell. Heavly seasoned them and dreged them in flour and fried clam side down,shell for lid. Served these with lime wedges. Also made a cerry cole slaw with peanuts tossed over the top and golden raisins. Our company went nuts....they live by mexico and don't eat alot of seafood. our neighbors also brought us fresh crab we ate in garlic butter.
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Permalink Reply by naturenut on
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Debbie, every time I get daring with food I think of you, lol! I start with the basics and think, hmm, how would Debbie jazz this up, haha. I've been making some good use of leftovers, like yesterday I mixed leftover grilled chicken and zucchini,with organic mayo, carrots, onions, garlic, halved grapes, cucumbers, and added basil, salt, pepper and slivered almonds for a chicken salad on lettuce. I realized I was a bit light on the seasonings before and wondered why my dishes didn't taste that good. Now, I've been heavier on the herbs and garlic and they are tasting much better.
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Permalink Reply by debbie on
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thats Great !!!! I love that i have inspired you. I find also seasioning is the key. the neighbor on my other side (a wonderful cook i have heard) also makes clams the same ay as i do(i have never heard of any one doing it that way, my dad taught me) and the neighbors on my other side i gave the clams to said they were so good because of the seasonings. i put a bit of thai,onion bits(dried),garlic,sea salt,pepper and no salt seasoning,also a bit of ground hot red pepper flake. the lime was a after thought,we were just trying all sorts of things with them and every one liked lime hands down.
your concoction sounds really good,somthing i would have done.
I had a bunch of roma tomatoes last week. I cut them in some olive oil and sea salt,pepper,onion flakes and a ton of fresh basil. then cooked some seasoned chicken breasts,skinand bone off in 400 oven like 10 mn. cut that up and added to the sauce. I made polenta with that using veggi broth and hard cheese and butter stired in at the end.
We had company fri un anounced and for a snack i had some some pesto i made from kale, parsley and spinach from my garden. the pesto had olive oil,pine nuts,a litle hard cheese,lemon,red perrer flake. i layered the chicken tomatoe left over stuff with pesto,spinach and fresh mozzerella. like 3 layers in a glass baking dish. Baked till brown abd bubbly. I served it with organic blue corn chips for dunking. every one was like wow this is really good. like you,just putting things together...i hate waste,and rarely ever throw away food,it all gets used.
i made a roast yesterday from our grass fed beef. i split open the bottom about 4 inches and stuffed it with fresh rosemary. i just broke the long sprigs to bring out aroma. then i put frech crushed korean garlic in little slits i made everywhere. I heavly seasoned it like with the clams(same seasonings. Baked in cast iron wrapped in parchment on 200 for 6 hrs. wow sooooo good. for lunch yesterday i made my husband butter grilled 16 grain sprouted bread,then put mayo on one side sliced meat(roast) white cheddar, melted. tomatoe,hot sweet mustard,horse radish. with orange slices and some left over curry cole slaw. He was like oh man you could never get this at a restraunt. keep expermenting,its fun.
when i get off the computer i'm making a apple pie from our own apples. And roasted chicken. i love to cook and bake. i'm still loosing though,so is my husband...moderation is the key,and super small amounts. i weigh 50 less than in april and my husband about 10.
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