Healthy Asian cooking

Tonight's dinner.

 This is what my family ate. Pork tenderloin with veggies and noodles. All cooked in Asian 5 spice, soy sauce (or Bragg's) and ginger. Topped with sesame seeds and chopped green onions.

This is what I ate. Same as above without the noodles. I bought pre-chopped broccoli and carrots and cooked those with more carrots and peppers. The sliced broccoli made it feel like I was eating noodles, but without the carbs.

Yummy.

Healthy healthy

These are not very exciting posts but seriously, my dinner tonight was delicious, simple and healthy. Love it.

Tonight was frittata (I promise it's there, under all the yummy goodness). I made a bell pepper and mennonite sausage frittata. I used three full eggs and two egg whites, sausage ( I prefer mennonite sausage - it's lower in fat and so delicious when it's fried up), 3 colour bell pepper and a tiny bit of shredded cheese. It took all of 10 minutes to make. I served it with diced avocados and cilantro on top. YUM.

And of course, I served it with a salad because we can never have enough vegetables.

Eating well

For June, Kelsey and I have pledged to lose weight and get healthy (we have some specific goals). I've been doing this since January but have hit a plateau so I need to step it up. As a result, our dinners are not terribly fascinating, but there are still delicious so I thought I would share tonight's healthy dinner:

-Grilled veggies (done on the barbecue)
-salad (always and delicious)
-barbecued chicken with an avocado and tomato salsa on top (avocado, tomato, lemon juice and cilantro)
-my boys also had homemade tzatzki and whole wheat pita (I am abstaining from carbs at dinner)

Delicious, healthy, low calorie and low carb. Perfect.

Why do I enjoy making bags so much!?

Probably cause they're fast and satisfying.

Apple Tree
Jordan's teacher might get this one.

Brown Cord Sac

What next?

Barbecue and Corn

 Another dinner worthy of sharing.

I marinated prawns in lime juice, cilantro and peanuts then barbecued them.

I also roasted veggies again (apparently I'm in love with roasted veggies).

Warning: fried food ahead.

I made corn fritters. So yummy. 3 cups frozen corn, 2 eggs, about 1/3 cup of flour, 1/4 cup of cornmeal, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar and salt and pepper. Dropped into some hot oil and perfection.

I always follow directions the first time I make something but next time I'm going to try to cook these without the oil (either bake them or just in a non-stick).

I served it all together with some homemade chipotle mayo for some added spice.

A Birthday Blanket

It was my mother in law's birthday recently. Along with a kid made stepping stone for the garden, I made her this rag blanket. I took the kids to Fabricland with me (I know, crazy...) so they could help pick out some of the fabrics. Can you tell? Some of the patches are from the receiving blankets that she made for my kids. All of my babies have been wrapped in them. The receiving blankets are still big enough to use for another baby! When I'm done swaddling all my little ones, I'll make myself a similar blanket and even incorporate some of their t-shirts. Rag blankets are the best. Super cozy and warm.

Spring Dinner

 Tonight's dinner was roasted veggies - done in a basket on the barbecue. Just lightly tossed in olive oil before roasting them.

Delicious.

 Fresh from the oven foccacia bread. I used this recipe but substituted half the flour with whole wheat flour.

Again, delicious.

I served it all together with some chicken and salad (the chicken was left over, reheated and tossed in barbecue sauce then served on top of the salad).

Perfection and everyone loved it.