What did you eat today?

[GLC1968]

When I got home last night, I had zero desire to cook or eat, so my H ordered a pizza and I just snacked a bit before my Pilates class. I'll be making the sausage and cabbage 'noodles' tonight since the ground beef is already defrosted.

B: apple cinnamon hot mash, blueberry sausages, hot tea
L: chili on a bed of spinach
S: hard boiled egg and a clementine
D: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', mixed berries

The apple cinnamon hot mash is also called 'Jicama Oatmeal' but it's so far from being oatmeal that I don't like that name at all. It's good though!
http://blog.stuffimakemyhusband.com/...a-oatmeal.html

[Crankin]

B: chicken-veggie sausage, 6 inch whole wheat pita dipped in olive oil, blueberries, 1/4 avocado, and a small wedge of Machengo cheese, coffee
It's a rest day, but I am so stiff in my hips from yesterday's ski, I did 20 minutes of a light spin on the trainer, with 10 minutes of stretching
S: walnuts
L: frittata with one egg and egg whites, broccoli, half a sweet potato, an orange,
S: nuts, cranberries, chocolate bits
D: open faced sandwich on a slice of sourdough bread, fresh from the bakery. yes, I had white bread in my house chicken breast with a mayo/adobo sauce/apricot spread and lettuce with a side of cole slaw, 2 squares dark chocolate

[Catrin]

Yesterday:

B: eggs scrambled with veggies, bacon, coffee
1 hour hard group training session (back-squat day!)
S: boiled egg, 1/2 banana
L: carnitas, salad, slice banana "bread"
S: 1/2 banana and a few nuts
D: sardine salad made with home-made mayo, mustard and onion over salad greens

Today:

B: the usual + a bit of fresh pineapple
30 minute training session (featured single deadlifts today)
S: boiled egg, pineapple & cucumber
L: Italian sausage eggplant stratta, beets, and 1 slice banana "bread"
D: Probably the last of the eggplant stratta and a salad, need to set out something from the freezer to cook tomorrow night!

[GLC1968]

Catrin - what is the banana 'bread' that you are eating? Do you have a recipe? I've got about 1000 super ripe bananas in my freezer and I need to do something with them before they get together and form a plan to take over the whole house.

Wednesday
B: sausage, kale, onion frittata topped with avocado, melon, black coffee
L: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', clementines
S: hard boiled egg, apple
D: chili, mixed greens and tomato salad

[Catrin]

Catrin - what is the banana 'bread' that you are eating? Do you have a recipe? I've got about 1000 super ripe bananas in my freezer and I need to do something with them before they get together and form a plan to take over the whole house.

Here is the link to the recipe. I ordinarily just use a "muffin cup" recipe where I mash 1 banana, 1 egg, a bit of almond butter (and sometimes a bit of quality dark chocolate) into a tall coffee cup and microwave for 2 minutes. I do not normally use coconut "flour" for anything, but I had wanted to try it to see what it was like. It doesn't have much coconut flour and almond flour would also work. It makes a nice banana bread loaf that isn't TOO dense and has nice flavor.

The same guy has a "Lara bar" recipe that I want to try at some point.

[Catrin]

Here is a recipe for pumpkin pancakes (no "flour" of any kind). You can add a banana to the mix which really turned out well for me. It does increase the number of pancakes - but it is nice. I make this on the occasional weekend morning - especially if I've got something going on where I decide I need a few more carbs than normal for brekkie.

[GLC1968]

Interesting. I actually have the Civilized Caveman's ebook and haven't made anything from it. And that recipe would never have appealed to me (except that it uses 4 bananas!) but I'll try it based on your recommendation.

That pancake recipe is similar to the waffle recipe I use if you were to sub mashed sweet potato for the pumpkin. I hadn't thought of trying it in pancake form but that's a great idea!

Thanks!

[Catrin]

Interesting. I actually have the Civilized Caveman's ebook and haven't made anything from it. And that recipe would never have appealed to me (except that it uses 4 bananas!) but I'll try it based on your recommendation.

That pancake recipe is similar to the waffle recipe I use if you were to sub mashed sweet potato for the pumpkin. I hadn't thought of trying it in pancake form but that's a great idea!

Thanks!

The banana bread recipe would likely be even better with nuts -it just depends how much fat you want in it I mixed it in my blender which was fine. Nice and moist, the flavor is decent but I think I might tweak the spices if I make this again. It DOES fill that "dessert bread" kind of place.

I have his e-book as well and so far have only tried one thing out of it. I am finding that I prefer actual books when it comes to cookbooks, I suspect I would have tried more of the recipes by now if it were a physical book. I've printed a few recipes out for later use but haven't made them yet.

[GLC1968]

I am finding that I prefer actual books when it comes to cookbooks, I suspect I would have tried more of the recipes by now if it were a physical book.

I am the same way. I just received 'The Paleo Slow Cooker' cookbook and I brought it with me to work to read at lunch time. It looks beautiful and I cannot wait to dig into it!

[Crankin]

I agree. I bought the Mark Bittman vegetarian cookbook for my Kindle and I never use it. I really need to feel and see the pictures.
I printed out the banana bread recipe. I think I will use almond flour/butter because almonds and bananas sound like a good combo to me.
B: 4 oz. almond milk, half a Luna Bar before boot camp. Coffee, egg white frittata with chicken and broccoli, an orange after class
L: salad with lettuce, grape tomatoes, left over chicken legs, red quinoa, an apple
S: right after lunch I ate some dried cranberries and nuts, at 5:00 I ate the other half of the Luna Bar from this morning.
D: DH made a salad Nicoise recipe from the new Cooking Light. I am so full. I could have saved a bit of it; each ingredient alone was not more than I would eat, but together, even the veggies filled me up.

[Owlie]

I'd be terrified of getting anything on an electronic device, seeing as how nothing in my kitchen stays clean for more than 15 minutes.
Late B: Cereal, tea with sugar and half-and-half
S: More tea, a handful of walnuts and a cookie.
D: Piece of steak-and-ale pie, sugar snap peas with butter.
S: A few bites of the tabbouleh I made for lunch, an apple. I'll probably have a mug of hot chocolate later.

Edit: Scratch the apple. I'm having a bowl of pineapple chunks with shredded coconut.

[Catrin]

I am the same way. I just received 'The Paleo Slow Cooker' cookbook and I brought it with me to work to read at lunch time. It looks beautiful and I cannot wait to dig into it!

Let me know what you think of it! There are a couple of cookbooks I've been considering but I don't need an entire shelf of paleo cookbooks! The funny part is I've avoided cookbooks my entire adult life - preferring just to put things together. While that worked, I am finding that actually using cookbooks encourages me to use different spices and combinations that I wouldn't have considered on my own.

[GLC1968]

Let me know what you think of it! There are a couple of cookbooks I've been considering but I don't need an entire shelf of paleo cookbooks! The funny part is I've avoided cookbooks my entire adult life - preferring just to put things together. While that worked, I am finding that actually using cookbooks encourages me to use different spices and combinations that I wouldn't have considered on my own.

When it was just me, I preferred to make my own way in the kitchen. Now that I cook for me and my husband, I kind of like having someone else's recipe for new things. That way, if it's gross, it's not entirely my fault! Typically, I make a recipe as close to as written as possible the first time and then put my own twist on it for repeats. And I totally agree about the spices. I love trusting that unusual spice combinations in recipes from certain authors I can totally trust to work out even though they seem odd. I've found that with both Melissa Joulwan and with the woman from Everyday Paleo (I can't remember her name).

The Paleo Slow Cooker looks awesome. The writer is Armenian, so there are lots of recipes that really appeal to me (I'm Greek and they share a common palate). And I spent some time reading the back half of Practical Paleo and there are some recipes in there that I'm really excited to try as well. What are your favorites from that one?

Yesterday's evening meal was quite a bit different than I had planned. My parents send my H and I a lobster dinner for two from Legal Seafood for our anniversary. So I ended up eating lobster with drawn butter, roasted veggies and Boston cream pie for desert. 10 year anniversaries only come around once in a lifetime if you are lucky, right? Oy. I did have the foresight to freeze both the crab cakes and the clam chowder that also came with it but there is no denying that I broke my Whole60 for an anniversary desert. And guess what? It was worth every. single. bite.

Today I am back on track:
B: sausage, kale and onion frittata topped with avocado, melon, black coffee
L: lobster, roasted veggies, blueberry sausage, apple
D: eating out but I'm going to order a tomato based meat or seafood sauce over zucchini noodles

[Crankin]

Happy Anniversary!

[spokewench]

B: 1 piece toast with butter, cereal with strawberries
L: 1/2 liverwurst sammy with swiss cheese on WG bread
D: rigatoni pasta with turkey hot italian sausage, onions, zucchini, edamame, basil, olive oil and parmesan cheese, 1 glass shiraz