B: shredded wheat, 1 banana, milk, coffee
almonds while hiking
L: ham Sammy, wg bread, lettuce, some low fat potato chips
D: beef stew, salad (spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, oranges, red onion and honey/vinegar/oj dressing)
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B: shredded wheat, 1 banana, milk, coffee
almonds while hiking
L: ham Sammy, wg bread, lettuce, some low fat potato chips
D: beef stew, salad (spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, oranges, red onion and honey/vinegar/oj dressing)
B: egg whites and one egg, scrambled with kale, 3 Czech meatballs, 2 slices fresh pineapple, coffee
one hour on the trainer, 4X1 minutes intervals and 10 30 seconds on/off intervals, plus warm up, spinnning rests, cool down, then 15 minutes of stretching
S: 3 pecans, 2 dried apricots, 4 oz almond milk
L: 6 oz salmon salad stuffed in a red pepper, on lettuce, an apple
green tea
D: made the lamb Rogan Josh from the Paleo cookbook, with spaghetti squash "spaghetti." It came out well, even though I had to buy lamb stew meat on the bone, not boneless. one glass of red wine, one square dark chocolate
Crankin, I've made the Rogan Josh with beef stew meat and it was good! I've been trying lots of good recipes from Well Fed 2 and like it even better than the first one. Also have NomNom Paleo, ot is a beautiful cookbook and am looking forward to working with her recipes as well. Her website is the first one I visit for recipes.
B: usual (need to get some variety going here) eggs, spinach, fermented veggies & coffee
1 hour group training followed by a protein shake
L: roasted chicken salad with romaine lettuce wraps, casablanca carrots
S banana
D: West African Chicken stew, cauli-rice, roasted mustard-garlic Brussels Sprouts.
S: peppermint tea with 100% cacao powder...pure chocolate goodness and peppermint...perfect for a cold winter night!
B: 1 bowl shredded wheat, milk, coffee
1 banana
L: 1 chicken burrito
D: salad, spinach, red pepper, cucumber, avocado, vinaigrette with roasted pumpkin seeds, 1 glass red wine
1 slice of marble cake
Today (rest day)
B: scrambled eggs and "coco-nutty" no-grain hot cereal (unsweetened shredded coconut, almond butter, spices and water) - and pretty good!
L: cinnamon beef stew over cauli-rice
S: a small apple
D: planning on the last of the West African Chicken stew, last of the Casablanca carrots and, probably, a beer.
I looked at the nom nom Paleo site; the recipes look good and I liked her attitude, not "holier than thou" about Paleo. So, since I'm home today, and I had the ingredients, I decided to make the marinade for the Asian chicken. I had a much smaller amount of chicken thighs (1.25 vs. 4), so I adjusted the marinade amounts down a little. I got to use my new food processor, which miraculously, arrived in the blizzard yesterday. As with most recipes, I found the amounts of ingredients for the marinade were widely off of what I would have done on my own... not enough. However, since I had adjusted the amount down just a little, it ended up fine. I probably will cook the thighs the way I usually do, and not turn them half way. I find that this often ruins the coating and is not really necessary.
The marinade tasted great, and I have some nice broccolini to eat with it.
Crankin, you can't go wrong with her recipes, they are indeed nomnomnomnomnom, and she is just fun about it all. Her new cookbook is great, it is a large hardback that is full of comic illustrations that are right on target. They are also her way of sharing her life and family with her fans.
You might be interested in knowing the recipes in Well Fed 2 tend to be smaller, 1 pound of protein (generally) over the average of 2 pounds from Well Fed 1. There also isn't much duplication. I am having problems getting away from Well Fed 2 to try more recipes from the NomNom Paleo cookbook, but I will get to them! With a blizzard forecast for Sunday, I will get some cooking done that day...
Interesting about the Well Fed 2. I will be buying it soon.
It is longer than the original, has more recipes, and she takes a different approach regarding meatballs/bangers recipes. Well worth the money, that gives me 4 cookbooks and that is more than sufficient for my needs!Quote:
Originally Posted by Crankin
B: scrambled eggs, 2 slices uncured bacon, oranges and strawberries, coffee
S: 4 walnuts, 2 dried apricots
about a half hour of easy snow shoveling (snow was light)
L: chicken salad with almonds and dried cranberries in 2 romaine leaves, cup of tomato roasted red pepper soup
an hour or so of snow shoeing, 3.5 miles, including a big climb
S: handful of pumpkin seeds
D: 2 Asian chicken thighs, roasted broccolini, 1.5 slices of fresh pineapple. one glass of red wine, one square of dark chocolate
Catrin, I looked through more of the nom nom Paleo recipes... I am going to bring some of the Asian meatballs for appetizers to a friend's tomorrow and do one more easy dish from there. But, a lot of the recipes take way too long to prep for me during the week; except for Wed. when I only see one person. Also, there were a couple of duck recipes I wanted to make, but I have to figure out where I can buy the duck.
She is a least part asian and that is reflected in her recipes. They are well worth the effort, and I love her pork recipes :) I am more likely to use hers on Sunday's when I am doing major cooking anyway for the week.
When you get Well Fed 2 you need to make the West African Chicken Stew first :)
B:egg whites, 2 slices Canadian bacon, mushrooms scrambled. an orange, coffee
L: sweet potato, 2 left over Asian chicken thighs, an apple
went x country skiing, for about 1.5 hours, although the total time may have been less. It was crowded and I was not having a good day, but I sweated like crazy
S: 4 oz.glass of almond milk, walnuts, dried apricots, dried cranberries
D: went to a friend's for dinner. Had about 4 of the Asian meatballs and some hummus with carrot chips for apps. dinner was salmon roasted with lemon and green beans with garlic and tomatoes. I skipped the rice. Someone else brought some "Zone" brownies, which I had a small piece of. They were OK, but not worth it, since they were made with fake sugar, which I never eat. Had one glass of red wine.
Yesterday:
B: cornflakes with yogurt, tea with milk
Snack: apple scone and coffee
Supper: leftover pasta with mushroom wine sauce, stir fried squash, roasted beet slices and parsnips
Today (blizzard enforced rest day)
B: eggs scrambled with spinach, bacon, coffee, 1/2 apple
L: NomNom Paleo's "Spicy Tuna Cakes" with a small salad. I don't especially care for tuna, but these were great! I didn't use the muffin tin as the recipe recommends, just dropped them on a parchment lined baking sheet. Worked out well! This is one of her more simple recipes - who would have thought that mashed sweet potatoes and canned tuna would go so well together!
S: 1/2 apple
D: Probably a couple more spicy tuna cakes with roasted kale and carrots, either that or a cold salad with smoked salmon and eggs, but I suspect I will want something hot.
At some point this afternoon a glass of wine will be involved.
I exercised yesterday, so will settle for some mobility/stretching/hamstring work tonight. I will be snowed in tomorrow as well and am putting together a workout I can do at home tomorrow.
Well, I had bread today for the first time in 10 days. Nordic skiing does require a lot of calories for me and I can't do it on fruit alone :).
B: sweet potato, 2 turkey sausages, an orange. Right before we left for skiing, I ate a piece of raisin spelt bread with almond butter.
L: had half a chicken salad/walnut/cranberry sandwich with a cup of zucchini/tomato/veggie soup at the ski lodge
S: ate 2 Asian meatballs when I got home and drank a glass of water. We skied for about 2-2.5 hours
D: slice of Machengo, glass of red wine. one small lamb burger patty on a bed of butter lettuce, topped by home made guacamole, fried egg, tomato, mushrooms, onions. sweet potato "fries" The cooking of the lamb in the oven caused so much smoke in my kitchen, I had to open the front door and one of the sliders! I am finally full.
Not feeling so well today. My stomach was off Sat. and Sunday, but after breakfast today, it was really off and I had to take meds so I could leave for work. Rest day today, I am exhausted from 3 days in a row of winter sports. I feel like the intense exercise is setting off my symptoms from a few years ago, but also, today is the day I had to start telling my clients I am leaving, which=stress.
B: 4 ham roll ups with light veggie cream cheese and walnuts, an orange, coffee. Then, I felt sick, so I had a half a piece of dry matzah before leaving. It's the only thing that helps when I feel this way.
L: I ate some plain chicken breast shredded over left over salad DH made for dinner at friends Sat. I ate the chicken, just a little of the veggies. Half an apple
S: Lara Bar
D: I couldn't face the dinner I had planned, so I had wagon wheel pasta (yes, real, white pasta) with olive oil and cheese, and one left over lamb burger patty.Lots of seltzer water. Feel much better!
Catrin - It Starts With Food has a recipe for something simliar using canned salmon and sweet potatoes. Delicious! I'll have to try it with tuna...never thought of that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
NomNom's spicy tuna cake recipe is here - scroll down. Her recipes are always image heavy, and her cookbook is the same way. I DO have "It Starts With Food", it's been so long since I last looked at it that I had actually forgotten there were recipes...Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
NomNom has a spicy shrimp recipe as well that I want to try, if I don't make it tomorrow then will do so this coming weekend. Yesterday I braised a large pastured pork shoulder roast, but I do like to have a choice of protein so I don't have to eat the same thing for every meal.
Today:
B: 2 egg pulled pork/spinach scramble with fermented veggies and coffee
40ish minute home workout - very thankful for my Jungle Gym and kettlebell in this weather!
L: 2 spiced tuna cakes, roasted kale. The kale was a bit...over-roasted but I ate it anyway. More like kale charcoal...
D: pulled pastured pork, small baked sweet potato, 2 dark chocolate squares
B: shredded wheat, milk, coffee
Snack: Granola bar
L: leftover beef stew
D: tomato meat sauce, pasta, sprinkle parmesan, salad with spinach, cuc, yellow bellpepper, vinaigrette, 1 glass red wine
2 orange slices (the candy ones)
B: 2 eggs over easy, 2 slices uncured bacon, 1/4 avocado, strawberries, coffee
L: salad with spinach, lettuce, tuna, grape tomatoes, fig vinegar, an apple
D: I made the Nom Nom Paleo chicken with tomato chili salsa. Basically you cook some broccoli florets, dump some left over shredded chicken over it, add guacamole, salsa, and halved grape tomatoes. It was good and filling. glass of red wine
Another rest day, but my stomach is better. Now, for my allergic eyes to get better. Will exercise no matter what tomorrow.
Today
Hopefully my last snow day. I decided to allow my shoulder a bit of a protracted rest and took a rest day.Back to usual exercise schedule Thursday.
B: 1 spicy tuna cake, pastured bacon and 1/2 orange
L: Cinnamon beef stew over spinach, half of a small baked sweet potato
D: 2 egg omelet with pulled pork, spinach, the rest of the baked sweet potato and fermented veggies. 2 glasses red wine
Apparently I can't go an entire day without eggs :)
What sort of fermented veggies do you eat? Do you make them yourself? I want to try kimchee, but I'm afraid I won't like it. (And BF would hate it, I'm sure.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Also, what is this spicy tuna cake of which you speak?
Owlie, I posted a link to the spicy tuna cake recipe in post #3390 (5 posts up). It is quite good and also inexpensive. Many of NomNom's recipes do take a fair amount of effort, but they are all great. This one is more simple than many.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
I get my fermented veggies from Fermenti Artisan. Sadly they have no website and they do not have an internet side to their business. They've a wide range of fermented veggies, my favorite is the Curtido, which is a variety of veggies with a bit of a spicy kick to it. I think this is a kraut recipe from El Salvador, but it is awesome. They also have a non-spicy version that they call "Garden Kraut". They also offer Kimchee, pickled beets, etc., etc., etc. As their name implies, fermented veggies is all they do! They also are the only place where I will actually buy my lunch if I've forgotten mine, they have great salads with well-sourced ingredients, including the protein.
B: dark, wg seeded toast, butter, coffee
L: leftover beef stew
D: brown rice and beans, salsa, sprinkle of cheddar cheese, 1 glass of red wine
1 piece dark chocolate almond bark
B: egg whites, 2 slices of low salt ham, an orange, coffee
did an hour and ten minutes of ladder drills on the trainer, plus stretching.
S: nuts, dried cranberries
L: 2 left over chicken legs, a cup of black beans and salsa, an apple
D: I made the Blue Ribbon Country chicken from Well Fed. I had DH do the prep, so I could just finish it and bake when I got home. Very good. 2 squares of dark chocolate
B: 1 piece wg bread with cherry jam, coffee
1/2 grapefruit
L: leftover chicken, potatoes, peas
D: homemade chicken, vege soup, 1 glass white wine, piece of toast with fontina cheese
slice of spelt raisin toast with almond butter before boot camp
B: a cup of chicken breast with low fat melted cheddar and green chil salsa. an orange, coffee
L: bought some tandori tofu and brown rice yesterday at the natural foods store. yum. an apple.
S: Lara Bar
D: salad, sauted salmon with ginger/coconut amino sauce, roasted brussel sprouts, mashed butternut squash, glass of red wine
B: oatmeal, raspberries, strawberries, bananas, milk, coffee
L: leftover chicken vege soup
D: went to a thai restaurant had about 1/2 plate of chicken with flat noodles, 1 beer
dessert: small helping of vanilla pudding at home
piece of wg toast with cherry jam, coffee
S: 1 banana
L: bowl of homemade chicken vege soup
D: 1 piece of fontina cheese toast, 1 glass of wine
1 small helping of vanilla pudding
still hungry so I had a bowl of rice chex with milk
B: 2 eggs, over easy, Canadian bacon, an orange, coffee
one hour of climbing drills on the trainer
S: nuts, cranberries, chocolate bits
L: cup of roasted corn soup, tuna salad in 3 romaine leaves
D: theatre night! Went to a pub, split a pear/goat cheese saladwith DH, had a portobella and tufu burger, and a cup of white bean soup. One beer and half a slice of one of the most decadent chocolate cakes I've had.
B: we stayed in the city overnight and went to a fabulous old sandwich shop for breakfast. Shared tables, no bathroom! We had an awesome conversation with our 3 table mates from the South End. This does not happen in Concord. Anyway, I had their specialty, turkey hash with 2 eggs over easy, and rye toast, coffee. I ate one slice of the toast, but ate 3/4 of the hash. Great.
L/S: ate a couple of dried apricots and walnuts when I came home from the grocery store, then I had a bowl of oranges and strawberries topped with a little plain non fat Greek yogurt, more coffee.
Did about a 45 minute workout with running intervals, weights, core, jacks, burps, then stretching at home.
D: went out to our favorite pub. I had steak tips and veggies. had one forkful of rice and 2 of DH's onion rings. one beer.
B: piece of wg toast with butter, coffee, bowl of cereal
L: cottage cheese
S: hummus pita bread and a beer
D: stuffed butternut squash (with mixed brown and wild rice, chicken italian sausage, zucchini, onions, mushrooms, topped with marinara and mozzarella, 1 glass red wine
B: Sweet potato hash, eggs, spinach, coffee
Usual Sunday Funday conditioning workout, plus I ran a mile afterwards, followed by protein shake
L: Cinnamon beef stew over left over sweet potato hash from breakfast
D: West African Chicken stew over roasted spaghetti squash
The West African chicken stew turned out well, even better than last time. The recipe calls for sunflower seed butter without sugar, and I couldn't find any. Last time I used some that did but I prefer to not use added sugar when possible. So I bought some raw sunflower seed kernals for < $2 and proceeded to attempt to make my own nutbutter. Apparently my food processor isn't powerful enough for that, after almost 30 minutes all I had was very, very fine sunflower...unsure what to call it - it is too fine to call meal but not quite fine enough for flour. Anyway, I used this, whatever it is, in my recipe and it worked out well. Since the volume didn't really decrease, I did add more to the stew than the 1/4 cup called for in the recipe.
Today:
B: cornflakes with dollop of dearie's homemade berry compote with mango and yogurt with milk, tea with milk
L: spinach & feta cheese Turkish borek at market, coffee
D: my homemade sundried tomato, basil and olive focaccia, then also had some of my homemade berry dessert focaccia (blackberry, blueberry and cranberry) with anise, ginger root honey and lemon. 3 cups of tea with milk. Had a large scoop of pear, merlot wine flavoured sorbet.
B: 2 waffles, topped with dried cranberries, walnuts, a little butter, blueberries, coffee
L: bowl of Greek yogurt, strawberries, pecans
6 mile hike, slogging through mushy ice (thank G-d for ice spikes)
S: small mocha latte with skim milk
D: one piece of eggplant ground pork strata (from Well Fed) easy to make; froze the rest. glass of red wine
B: 1 piece wg toast with butter, bowl of cereal with strawberries milk, coffee
L: leftover rice/zucchini, onions, mushrooms, cottage cheese concoction topped with marinara and mozzarella
a few pistachios, 1 beer (watching my broncos win!)
D: 1 chicken thigh baked in oven, augratin potatoes, salad with oranges and red onion, 1 glass red wine
Lara Bar before boot camp
B: coffee, 2 eggs, scrambled with zucchini and basil, an orange
L: chicken salad with cranberries/almonds, mixed with Greek yogurt, an apple
S: slice of spelt raisin bred with almond butter
D: chicken breas sauted with pesto, sweet potato, small salad with lettuce, artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, 2 squares dark chocolate, glass of red wine
B: 1 piece wg toast, butter, coffee
Snack: Package of peanut butter crackers b4 2 hours tennis
L: leftover rice,zucchini, mushrooms, cottage cheese, onions, concoction
D: 2 pieces of pizza, spinach salad with yellow bell pepper and avocado, vinaigrette, 1 glass red wine
Rest day. Good thing, as yesterday, I woke up with a pulled muscle in my head??? You know, when you can't turn your head. Not my neck. Anyway, I did go to boot camp yesterday, but the head was interfering with my sleep last night, so I treated myself this morning with with some MacKenzie techniques and a heating pad and it's better. Much better.
B: 4 slices of lox, rolled up with veggie light cream cheese on zucchini. An orange, coffee
L: salad with spinach, lettuce, artichoke hearts, hearts of palm, red pepper, and tuna. an apple.
S: 3 slices low salt ham with a dab of mayo
D: scrod baked with a crust of crushed pecans and pepper and a mixture of tomatoes, green chili, poblano, red pepper, onion, with slices of avocado. 2 squares dark chocolate
My weight is in the danger zone. I am seriously beside myself!
Crankin, glad you found something that helped your neck! I am curious which MacKenzie techniques you used. I pretty much always have neck stuff going on so am always looking for ways to deal with it.
Today:
B: eggs scrambled with spinach, 1 slice bacon, coffee
1 hour group training followed by a protein shake
L: bison/grass-fed angus/sweet potato chili over roasted spaghetti squash
D: last of the West African Chicken stew over more roasted spaghetti squash and spinach. 1/2 small banana
Good luck on figuring it out Crankin, that is always so frustrating to know that something is off.