Posted in Recipes, tagged clean eating, fall foods, health living, recipe, squash on 10/12/2013| Leave a Comment »
Last night I wanted to keep with the fall theme.
I love acorn squash, but instead of the standby with butter and brown sugar, I wanted to try something different.
I wanted to stuff is with something.
I found a recipe that suggested using macaroni and cheese.
The macaroni and cheese was good, homemade and some of the best I’d ever created, BUT stuffing it into half of an acorn squash for baking didn’t do anything for it … or the squash.
Fall food fail.
Better luck next time.
Posted in Recipes, tagged healthy, Nutella, recipe on 08/28/2013| Leave a Comment »
Oh sweet goodness, YES!
Nutella. I love the stuff. Smeared on a bagel, a piece of toast or even a scrumptious slice of banana bread. Whatever you put it on, it’s good. No, it’s great. This hazelnut spread adds instant deliciousness to just about anything, especially banana bread…
Ironically, this realization hit me like a big double decker bus in the middle of my workout (go figure): if I bake Nutella into my homemade banana bread, there’s no need to smear it on! Pure genius, I know.
This recipe originally comes from the Better Homes and Garden cookbook. I added the three heaping teaspoons tablespoons of Nutella. Trust me, it completely revolutionizes this classic.
Ingredients
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Posted in Health and Fitness, Recipes, tagged almond milk, food, getfit, healthy, recipe, smoothie, smoothie recipe on 08/01/2013| Leave a Comment »
Today I had a new smoothie.
It’s a variation of the Blueberry Sunrise Smoothie recipe by never homemaker – there are days I would be at a total nutritional loss without that blog!
It has (rough amounts):
½ cup frozen blueberries
½ cup frozen peas
¾ cup unsweetened almond milk
½ a frozen banana
And a few shakes of cinnamon.
I was skeptical, but it’s pretty good. A health green smoothie that turns out to be a pretty purple colour!
Also, back in the pool, massage and music lessons today – feeling better.
Posted in Life or something like it, tagged fitspo, green smoothie, health, life, recipe, running on 05/26/2013| 3 Comments »
This morning I ran a 10K race – my first ever. I wanted to come in less than one hour.
59:45 Wheeee!!!
Two-and-a-half years ago if you told me I would be running I would have responded with something along the lines of, the only way I’d run is if I was being chased by a bear. Now, with four 5Ks under my belt and my first 10K completed, I couldn’t imagine my life without running.
Running has changed how I eat – because running after binging on not healthy food the night before, sucks. It’s changed how I work out, how I look and how I feel about myself.
If you’ve ever considered running – don’t be held back. Start slow. My first “run” I walked for five minutes, ran for 30 seconds, and then repeated that cycle for 30 minutes. Overtime the run portions became longer, things hurt less and I started to appreciate the time I had with myself.
My initial plan was to go out and have a totally gross breakfast as my reward, but I was feeling so good, I came home and had a super healthy smoothie … and a couple of eggos.Here’s to that good feeling that stays after getting the runner’s high.
Green Smoothie Goodness – avocado, frozen banana, spinach, chocolate milk
Posted in Recipes, tagged food, good food, love, Nutella, peanut butter, recipe on 04/20/2011| Leave a Comment »
Peanut butter is one of those foods people either love or hate.
Those that hate it seem to be either violently allergic to it or just have a significant distaste for it.
I, however, am in the love camp. Peanut butter is among the greatest foods ever. It’s just so versatile I can’t really think of any other topping that goes from stirfry to dessert to snack food so effortlessly.
In what turned out to be a very good decision, I even picked peanut butter over a boyfriend, in my younger dating years. It wasn’t a conscious decision, but after showing up too soon after eating peanut butter and nearly giving him a huge reaction … twice, I decided if I really cared about him I’d probably would have remembered to stay away from the M&Ms, trail mix and peanut butter bars.
It is a great protein source especially for people who are lower income.
And this evening I created, what could actually be, the greatest snack ever. I managed to eat it in entirety even before remembering that I was going to take a photo of it. I’d make another, but honestly I wouldn’t be able to resist it and it’s not exactly the most low-fat snack in the world.
It’s simple and fantastic with a glass of milk — A Peanut Butter and Nutella Quesadilla.
Before anyone has a fit, quesadilla isn’t really the greatest descriptor as there is no cheese, but it’s the easiest way to describe it.
Posted in Recipes, tagged cheese, dill, easy, egg whites, eggs, nutririon, recipe, simple, tasty on 03/20/2011| Leave a Comment »
When trying to sort out one’s rules for living, you can get hungry and in today’s world where women are expected to be actively involved in practically everything, environmentally friendly, not wasteful, avoiding fast or pre-packaged food and healthy, it can be difficult to know what to cook.
I know I often finding myself looking longingly at premade breakfast burritos in the frozen food aisle, before looking at the nutritional information on the back.
Unless it is the weekend, I struggle with finding time to cook and often I don’t get enough protein. Then I learned the miracles of those egg whites in a carton.
They are simply egg whites, no chemicals or anything.
I created this recipe this weekend, which has rapidly shot up my list of favourite breakfast foods. On its own there are less than 100 calories (about 83, in fact), but I like them with a piece of toast (especially if I have found time to make bread.
Eggs a la The Girl
½ cup liquid egg whites
1 wedge light laughing cow Swiss cheese
Pinch of salt, shake of pepper
¼ tsp. dill
Cooking spray, or for a slightly higher calorie count a little bit of butter, into a non-stick frying pan.
Add all the ingredients, mashing up the cheese with whatever you use to make eggs. Scramble together.
Remove from heat.
Enjoy.
If you don’t like dill, which I think it kind of crazy, add whatever herbs it is that you do like.
Eggs a la The Girl
Posted in Life or something like it, Recipes, tagged cookies, food, food share, friends, recipe, share, slow food, soup on 02/21/2011| Leave a Comment »
Somewhere along the way, we have lost the art of food.
Whether it’s because we are too busy to cook or women don’t spend their time sharing recipes like they once did, the community of food is disappearing.
I think that it’s disappointing.
But today, by accident, a friend and I began to bring back the food share.
Independently we had spent the day cooking.
I had ventured into the kitchen to clear my head, after making the decision to let go, because I find I the kitchen one of the best places to think. Things seem to get better, while dropping cookies on to a baking sheet or kneading bread, as the house fills with the good smells of onions cooking with celery.
My friend clearly feels the same way. At 5 p.m. she asks me if I want some soup because she forgot to stop cooking after making a pot of chilli. The huge pot of soup she just made was going to cause too many leftovers.
I was looking at the growing stack of cookies while checking my text messages and kissing my plan to lose weight goodbye.
An idea dawned on me.
I filled a Ziploc with cookies and swung by her house to pick up a Tupperware container of soup. She’ll have snacks for the week and I will have a couple of dinners planed.
I’ll get more variation then what I get cooking for myself. It’s a brilliant plan and something we should have started ages ago.
Here’s to hoping this is the beginning of a delicious trend to bring slow food back.
The starting point of a fantastic food trend
Peanut Butter & Ginger Snap Cookies
3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon all spice1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
3 tablespoons margarine
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup egg whites (or egg substitute) or one egg
1 tablespoon molasses
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix peanut butter and margarine in a bowl and add brown sugar. Combine until smooth. Add the egg, molasses and vanilla.
Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl. Add to the liquid ingredients. Mix with wooden spoon to form a stiff dough.
Roll into balls, roll balls in a 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon mixture and place on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Flatten with fork.
Bake at 350 F for seven minutes.
Adapted from Eat, Shrink and Be Merry
Posted in Recipes, tagged pumpkin, recipe, soul, soup on 02/08/2011| Leave a Comment »
While it might not be the title of my first book, a great soup does go a long way to sooth the soul.
Lately it seems that my soul needs a lot of soothing, so here it is.
Pumpkin Mulligatawny Soup
3/4 pound of onions, chopped
2 TBSP oil
2 tsp curry powder
1 TBSP ground coriander
1 tsp cumin
1 – 15 oz can pumpkin puree
2 cups milk
1 cup water
1 cup heavy cream
2 TBSP lemon juice
Cook onions in a pan until softened and pale golden. Add spices and cook.
Puree mixture with pumpkin and milk.
Return to saucepan over medium heat and stir in water, cream , lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.
Simmer covered for about 10 minutes.
Rules for living 