Epic Fail for supper, anyone?

Yep it was kinda gross. Maybe if I put it out there someone can tell me how I should have done this recipe.
I'll start with the only good thing about dinner. I combined a cup of organic greek yogurt, a tablespoon of mayo a handful of chives and a handful of basil. Put it all in the blender til everything was green and added crushed black pepper for taste. This sauce was freaking good, and I will have to find a place to use it again - but it wont be in this yucky meal.

Then I added some chopped up cocktail shrimp, a variety of lettuce, and some sliced mango, and wrapped it up in a whole grain wrap tortilla. Mostly, the worst thing about it, was it was just too sweet. Maybe I could have traded the mango for something less sweet like an avocado... Idk the combination was just too sweet, and brian was frustrated because the tortillas were so thin and the kept ripping.

This meal doesnt stand another chance, but I might try it with the avocados in some pita bread. That sauce was too good!

Before that at lunch we had Chipotle. I had 2 soft tacos with veggies and chicken and gaucamole.

Breakfast was a bowl of FiberOne Raisin Bran. mmmmmmmmmmmmm

A Homecoming Celebration of Sorts

Watch What I Eat is falling in love with seafood! Last night we had salmon. Yes, it was very good. I have prepared it differently in the past always using about half an orange and searing it. But for last night, I did it in a packet just like the cod. My packet had asparagus, and Brian's had broccoli. It was pretty dad-gone-good.
Over the weekend, ,we had Genghis Grill which is always a satisfying but never over filling meal, Jersey Mikes which isnt the best for you probably but it is the BEST DAMN philly cheesesteak this side of the Mississippi in my opinion, pan seared pork chops and steamed veggies with a bottle of muscadine wine followed by an over abundance of mixed drinks as Brian played bartender while my guest Kayla and I proceeded to get quite sauced and share stories, Corner Bakery breakfast sandwiches, Boston's Hawaiian pizza, and Oikos Greek Yogurt sparsed through the weekend for breakfast.
Not a bad weekend for eating at all.... some indiscretions with the alcohol, but hey, I'm not posing for the cover of Self magazine anytime soon, so who gives a rip, right?

Love and good eats to ya,

Lessie

Sloppy Sketti Salad and the Best Classic Snack/Dessert/Breakfast

Sloppy sketti salad for supper last night. When I was headed out the door to the grocery store this week, Brian requested we have spaghetti every night this week. I know he was serious, but he knew who he was talking to. And plus, I buy the groceries around here. So to honor his request, I made spaghetti on Tuesday night for him. Well spaghetti is kind of a fluid concept around here, because I dont care for spaghetti noodles, and Brian doesnt care; as long as it's pasta and a tomatoe based sauce with some sort of meat in it, well that constitutes spaghetti.

I had some whole grain penne in the pantry and did the whole sauce thing with a bit of fresh garlic, a hand full of chopped fennel, with Organics Spaghetti Sauce from Tom Thumb.

For my meal I made a huge bed of spinach, topped it with about a fourth of a cup of cooked penne, a generous helping of spaghetti sauce and some fresh grape tomatoes. Brian had the regular with the bed of pasta and then the sauce.
Both meals were complemented with a side of those yummo steamed whole green beans.

For dessert, which I did not need, but wanted. And since it's pretty healthy...why not? I had about a half cup of cottage cheese and some delicious cling peaches (about five slices, maybe a small peach, or half a good sized one) these were canned, but not in a can. They were in a jar, and somehow tasted so much better. And some fresh blueberries for added color and variety.

Unfortunately I scarfed dinner down before I thought to photograph it, but I will post that dessert tonight after work.

Perrty darn good, if I do say so myself... and I do.

Cod Packs

So I did my own twist on something I saw Rachel Ray doing the other day on a rerun from like 1990. Yep, it was an oldie but a goodie. She was baking cod in parchment paper with some yummo herbs and such so I took down the temperature which was 400 degrees and added in what I wanted.

I started with the bulb of a fennel plant, if you havent let your olefactory organ soak that in, then you should drive yourself to the grocery store right now, just to sniff it. Then I chopped up about half of a medium sized onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves and rinsed (really well) about two tablespoons of capers. This is kind of where I strayed from RR. My family doesnt do well with olives which is what she recommended, so I did capers. And RR wanted me to add parsley but I didnt have any, so I chopped up a little of the fennel fern and added that. RR said to add lemon juice, but I forgot to do that, and my fish was perfect without it..., but you might need it (fish is funky that way).

Then between two pieces of parchment paper I split up the cod portions, the fennel, onion, and capers. I added about a tablespoon of good olive oil and a pinch of salt and generous pepper (cause me likes it).

I wrapped up the parchment paper and set it on a cookie sheet and let her go in the oven for about thirty five minutes. My fish was frozen, so if yours is thawed it probably takes less time to get it all flakey and delicious.

I served it right on the parchment paper... I just put a plat under it, and sliced that package open with a side of steamed whole green beans. Dang, that was some flippin out good eating. The only complaint in the house was that the portion was too small. That was kinda my fault... I didnt know how much fish would shrink up in the cooking, and I thought there were 4 portions in the bag I bought, but there were only 2. So make sure you have enough to keep the guests happy. Other than that, hope this works out as well for you as it did for me.

Greek Yogurt and Ezekial Bread

So, I have been hearing about Ezekial Bread from my good friends Charlie and Kristene for a long time, and then I heard Jillian Michaels raving about it. So I had to try it, right? I picked up the sandwich sliced bread and the cinnamon raisin english muffins from my local Sunflower Natural Foods store. The sandwich bread is super dry. I like it toasted with a bit of pb and j, most often though, just a bit of pb. It's too dry and too whole for Brian. He's not loving it, so it wont work for my family. We usually love sandwiches, and I feed him two sandwiches for dinner the first night we had it, and that was the last sandwich he has eaten. NOT A SOLUTION... totally a new problem. So we'll have to go back to wheat bread until i can find something better. I really want a bread that doesnt have HFCS, or soy. I'll keep searching. I'm really loving the english muffins for breakfast, with a little bit of peanut butter. I know that the whole world seems all hung up on Almond Butter, but I have a full jar of peanut butter, so I'm going to finish that off first.
I also picked up some Almond Breeze Milk from the Sunflower. Yeah, the almond milk has the best milk alternative consistency for sure. My first couple sips though, I gagged on. Nothing really prepares you for the taste of nuts in a liquid form. I got really used to it. I used some chocolate Quik in it, and that was freaking fabulous. I put it on my cereal and even enjoyed drinking the last of it, and by the end of the carton I was drinking it by the glassful.... but alas, it's not really an option for my household because my husband is allergic to nuts, and refuses to touch the stuff... not sure if the nut allergens are in the almond milk, but I'd rather not risk it, myself. So Jillian Michaels did the research for me and has been telling me of some of the ill effects of having too much soy in your diet, and how estrogenic it is. Seeing that I have already got some sort of estrogen problem, I'm thinking I am going to pass on it. So after trying everything else, I think that my family is going to go back to moo milk. Yep, I totally went off the deep end hating milk this summer, and now that i have come full circle in my research, it really is the best choice. I'll be buying ORGANIC clean milk for a long time now. I think my husband is relieved. He has gone the whole summer with my alternative milk experiments, and I have noticed that the cereal boxes stay around longer.

Anyway, my amazing delicious wonderful find from the grocery store this week was Oikos Greek Yogurt (Honey) OMG, so freaking delicious. I will not be able to live the rest of my life without this. And it is conveniently located in my regular grocery store. I dont even have to drive all the way to the Sunflower for it.... although, I'll still be making trips to the Sunflower for my english muffins and some other natural organic clean yummy food.

skewers, kabobs... back on track

so I totally jumped ship last week. I barely exercised, I ate like a fat cow and now, I am back on board.
I had a stroke of genius last night at the grocery store and decided we'd have kabobs. good for you, fun, and has absolutely 0 risk for tempation for bread. so i was all over cooking in the skillet and then stringing the meat onto the veggies and broiling, but when I got home and the hubs was looking for something to do, I suggested he fire up the grill downstairs by the pool. he loved that idea, and I loved dinner. I made a fruit salad to go with the kabobs and we ate outside by the pool. it was fabulous. i love when i start the week off properly. it's gonna be a good week for watching me eat.

oh, did i mention that i had to go to a second grocery store to find skewers? yeah, super weird - who runs out of skewers? so i'm wondering, because i was not thinking about kabobs when i went in, did they have some kind of subliminal message suggesting that everyone have kabobs last night??? i know, im such a conspiracy theorist.

something hilarious

you know how coffee makes your urine smell? yeah, rice milk does that, too.