Sunday. Day of cooking. Also day of rest. And laundry.
breakfast
JM and I had the other half of the mushroom, spinach, red pepper, ground chicken frittata from last night. I also had 1/2 a banana with a lick of almond butter. And tea. Later in the morning I had a mandarin orange.
I had a bit of a lazy morning. JM is coming down with something and so we just relaxed in front of the fire and watched a couple of short documentaries. I was trying to gather up the courage to get cooking! But first I wanted to get the few "to do" items off my list: ironing, paperwork and a couple of emails.
Once I got in the kitchen, here's what I made:
Moroccan meatballs - same as last week from the Well Fed cookbook
Mashed Garlic Cauliflower - same as last week!
Roasted vegetables - same as last week!
Chez Panisse Braised Cabbage - same as last week!
Butternut Squash Casserole - NEW! From my Well Fed cookbook.
Kale Chips - NEW! From Nom Nom Paleo but I can't find kale in France so I just used curly green cabbage. I worked out great!
Apple Chips - NEW! From this website that I found via Just Eat Real Food on Facebook.
Ok, so I know that there were a lot of repeats, but I enjoyed last week so much that I thought I'd give it another go. Plus, I think it's good to get familiar with recipes so that they get under your skin, so to speak, and then you can build up your repertoire bit by bit. The meatballs were made with different meat this week. When we were at the market yesterday buying our local eggs, I saw that the vendor had some ground poultry sausage meat. I asked him what was added to it and he said just salt, pepper and parsley. Since he's a local producer and grower, I figured this must be quality stuff. And it was!
lunch
Lunch was on the late side after I cooked all of the above (except the apple chips) and so we had a mixed plate, with all of what I made: meatballs, mashed cauliflower, roasted veg, cabbage and butternut casserole. Oh, and we had some kale chips as an appetizer! I mixed up a little berry compote with some coconut cream and threw a couple of pecan pieces on top and that was dessert. It is the weekend after all!
supper
After all that cooking, I had a little rest and then cleaned up a little. JM has been coming down with something over the last few days, so I thought a little bone broth with some onions might be a good idea. I heated up half the bone broth I made last week and had frozen, with two chopped onions. After that we had exactly what we had for lunch. I also had a mandarin orange and a couple of apple chips, but the supper was quite filling and I probably didn't need dessert!
Ok, I'm going to 'fess up here. When I first started the Whole30, I also wanted to organize my exercise at the same time. Since the end of the first week, my exercise has totally been non-existant but I know that I can bring it back in, with time. It feels good to be getting my cooking and eating established and I'm looking forward to exercising to complete the picture.
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Sunday, 27 January 2013
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Whole30 day 17
Sunday, blissful cooking day, Sunday!
breakfast
1/2 sweet potato hash
2 fried eggs
some coconut cream with the berry compote I made yesterday. Mmmm, that was good.
tea
(in my defence, the sweet potato in question needed to be used because it had some squishy rotting parts, so I cut those off and used up the rest)
I dealt with paperwork, did the ironing, changed the sheets and vacuumed our second floor in the morning and then I got ready to cook. I started out by making a curry with the pork that I bought yesterday. It was the Rogan Josh recipe from the Well Fed recipe book, but I made it with pork instead of the lamb that it called for. I let that simmer while I made a few other things:
- braised cabbage (like last week, but with green and red cabbage mixed together)
- Nom Nom Paleo's pineapple salsa
And then I got hungry and made lunch.
lunch
veggie mango smoked salmon sushi (no rice, of course)
This recipe also came from the Well Fed cookbook and I added a little black radish, some homemade mayo and some toasted sesame seeds to mix it up a little. They didn't come out as pretty as in the photo in the book, but they were tasty.
I then continued on my cooking spree and did what Well Fed suggested doing: Prepping veggies and meat for the week. That way when you get home, but don't know what to have/make, you just pull out the already partially cooked veggies, throw in the cooked meat, add whatever spices are calling your name, heat it all up and eat up. I made some ground beef with onion and garlic as well as some broccoli. All you do for the veg is wash and stir fry/steam them in the water that's remains on the veg after the washing. All that said and done, I think I made quite a bit of food for leftovers this week, so I don't suspect that we will be scratching our heads too much on what to have.
supper
The pork Rogan Josh of course, along with some spinach that I sauteed and the braised cabbage. We also used the pineapple salsa for contrast and had a mixed green salad. I did have dessert... fried apples with coconut cream, a few pecan pieces and a couple of raisins/cranberries.
All in all, a good weekend with lots of good food and a feeling of being prepared and in control for the week to come. I like that feeling.
breakfast
1/2 sweet potato hash
2 fried eggs
some coconut cream with the berry compote I made yesterday. Mmmm, that was good.
tea
(in my defence, the sweet potato in question needed to be used because it had some squishy rotting parts, so I cut those off and used up the rest)
I dealt with paperwork, did the ironing, changed the sheets and vacuumed our second floor in the morning and then I got ready to cook. I started out by making a curry with the pork that I bought yesterday. It was the Rogan Josh recipe from the Well Fed recipe book, but I made it with pork instead of the lamb that it called for. I let that simmer while I made a few other things:
- braised cabbage (like last week, but with green and red cabbage mixed together)
- Nom Nom Paleo's pineapple salsa
And then I got hungry and made lunch.
lunch
veggie mango smoked salmon sushi (no rice, of course)
This recipe also came from the Well Fed cookbook and I added a little black radish, some homemade mayo and some toasted sesame seeds to mix it up a little. They didn't come out as pretty as in the photo in the book, but they were tasty.
I then continued on my cooking spree and did what Well Fed suggested doing: Prepping veggies and meat for the week. That way when you get home, but don't know what to have/make, you just pull out the already partially cooked veggies, throw in the cooked meat, add whatever spices are calling your name, heat it all up and eat up. I made some ground beef with onion and garlic as well as some broccoli. All you do for the veg is wash and stir fry/steam them in the water that's remains on the veg after the washing. All that said and done, I think I made quite a bit of food for leftovers this week, so I don't suspect that we will be scratching our heads too much on what to have.
supper
The pork Rogan Josh of course, along with some spinach that I sauteed and the braised cabbage. We also used the pineapple salsa for contrast and had a mixed green salad. I did have dessert... fried apples with coconut cream, a few pecan pieces and a couple of raisins/cranberries.
All in all, a good weekend with lots of good food and a feeling of being prepared and in control for the week to come. I like that feeling.
Whole 30 day 16
Happy Saturday! I had a great day. I started by sleeping until about 8:45, which is rare for me on a weekend day, but I felt well-rested and ready to get up.
breakfast
Since I still had some of that unfrozen pumpkin in the fridge, I made the pumpkin pancakes I made earlier this week, and topped them with a little applesauce. Even though there were eggs in the pancakes, I also had a hard-boiled egg that needed eating.
After breakfast, JM and I went into town to catch the last of the market and to hit up the supermarkets. I got some local eggs, a few bags of apples and we stocked up on things like coconut milk, veggies for the week and we bought some different meat options from the local butcher. I don't know the exact details of the meat's origins, but I do know it's local and good quality. That's about as close to "grass-fed organic" as I can find for the moment where I live.
lunch
When we got home, we heated up some of the frozen squash soup that we had made a couple of weeks ago (I love having things stocked in the freezer!) and JM made a salad with frisée and artisanal lardons. I'm not quite sure if the lardons fit the Whole30 guidelines, but I had it anyway. I indulged in some coffee, along with the coconut cream I whipped up into a whip topping with a little vanilla. Man that stuff is good!
After lunch I got cooooooookkkinnnggg. Oh boy, I was so excited. Here's the list of things I made:
- ghee
- bone broth (I asked the butcher for some bones and he gladly gave me some)
- mashed garlic cauliflower (I just boil cauliflower and garlic together and then drain it and mash it with some ghee and coconut milk)
- roasted vegetables (I used sweet potato, purple carrots and turnips, along with garlic)
- moroccan meatballs in a tomato sauce (yum!)
- a berry compote, using mixed berries and agar agar (and vanilla)
- a coconut lemon spinach ice cream that I made up. I'll fill you in on the details down below.
supper
Well, we dug into what I had made in the afternoon. Mashed garlic cauliflower, roasted veggies and moroccan meatballs. Oh yeah, and that ice cream.
The ice cream idea came a day before when I saw a post from Just Eat Real Food on Facebook for this mint chocolate chip ice cream recipe.
Doesn't that look tempting? Well, since it has chocolate (albeit homemade) and honey, it's not exactly Whole30 compliant. But I liked the idea of whirring up spinach to add a green colour to the ice cream! I had no peppermint extract, so I decided to take some coconut milk, add some lemon rind and a tiny bit of lemon juice and lemon extract and blend it up with some spinach. No sugar! The only mild sweetness came from the coconut milk. I poured it all into a metal cake tin and put it in the freezer and stirred it a couple of times over the course of 2 hours and then it was done. It was a refreshing treat, but since there's snow outside, it occurred to me that perhaps ice cream isn't what I'm craving most or wanting after a meal. I'm happier with warm or room temperature things. I also bought a hot water bottle yesterday, so I filled it up with hot water and warmed my self up after dessert!
breakfast
Since I still had some of that unfrozen pumpkin in the fridge, I made the pumpkin pancakes I made earlier this week, and topped them with a little applesauce. Even though there were eggs in the pancakes, I also had a hard-boiled egg that needed eating.
After breakfast, JM and I went into town to catch the last of the market and to hit up the supermarkets. I got some local eggs, a few bags of apples and we stocked up on things like coconut milk, veggies for the week and we bought some different meat options from the local butcher. I don't know the exact details of the meat's origins, but I do know it's local and good quality. That's about as close to "grass-fed organic" as I can find for the moment where I live.
lunch
When we got home, we heated up some of the frozen squash soup that we had made a couple of weeks ago (I love having things stocked in the freezer!) and JM made a salad with frisée and artisanal lardons. I'm not quite sure if the lardons fit the Whole30 guidelines, but I had it anyway. I indulged in some coffee, along with the coconut cream I whipped up into a whip topping with a little vanilla. Man that stuff is good!
After lunch I got cooooooookkkinnnggg. Oh boy, I was so excited. Here's the list of things I made:
- ghee
- bone broth (I asked the butcher for some bones and he gladly gave me some)
- mashed garlic cauliflower (I just boil cauliflower and garlic together and then drain it and mash it with some ghee and coconut milk)
- roasted vegetables (I used sweet potato, purple carrots and turnips, along with garlic)
- moroccan meatballs in a tomato sauce (yum!)
- a berry compote, using mixed berries and agar agar (and vanilla)
- a coconut lemon spinach ice cream that I made up. I'll fill you in on the details down below.
supper
Well, we dug into what I had made in the afternoon. Mashed garlic cauliflower, roasted veggies and moroccan meatballs. Oh yeah, and that ice cream.
The ice cream idea came a day before when I saw a post from Just Eat Real Food on Facebook for this mint chocolate chip ice cream recipe.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Whole30 day 10
Ok, I'm finally catching up to myself. Today is day 10 and I'm writing this on day 10.
breakfast
Well, I had a good sleep in and then when I got up I wanted to have a weekend treat again. I saw the rest of the leftover pumpkin in the fridge and decided to give the pancakes another try. I added a 1/2 mashed banana to give it some sweetness and consistency. I still ended up adding some almond powder and shaved coconut. I cooked them in coconut oil and had them with applesauce and coconut cream. Oh and coffee.
lunch
I decided that I wanted to make a huge amount of food today, so I got cooking after having a late breakfast. Just yesterday morning, I received a copy of Well fed that I had ordered off Amazon last week. I looked through it and chose a couple of recipes that I wanted to make today. I also had a couple of recipes that I had seen on Nom Nom Paleo. World's best braised cabbage and Chez Panisse Braised Red Cabbage. I also made some ghee, some hard-boiled eggs and my first-ever mayonnaise! Oh, and I planned out a little dessert for later with some apples that I chopped up and fried up in some coconut oil and cinnamon. During all that cooking, I ended eating a little lunch composed of the red braised cabbage, a boiled egg, a couple of pieces of dried ham and 1/2 an avocado. The mayonnaise was very tiring to make because I only have a whisk. After a couple of minutes of whisking I finally brought out the immersion blender, which I was afraid might not work (and make it all fall apart), but it worked!
supper
I broiled up the green braised cabbage (with carrots and onions) for 15 minutes in the oven and I heated up some of the best chicken ever. Dessert was those apple pieces that were cooked up in a frying pan, topped with a little - you guessed it - coconut cream.
breakfast
Well, I had a good sleep in and then when I got up I wanted to have a weekend treat again. I saw the rest of the leftover pumpkin in the fridge and decided to give the pancakes another try. I added a 1/2 mashed banana to give it some sweetness and consistency. I still ended up adding some almond powder and shaved coconut. I cooked them in coconut oil and had them with applesauce and coconut cream. Oh and coffee.
lunch
I decided that I wanted to make a huge amount of food today, so I got cooking after having a late breakfast. Just yesterday morning, I received a copy of Well fed that I had ordered off Amazon last week. I looked through it and chose a couple of recipes that I wanted to make today. I also had a couple of recipes that I had seen on Nom Nom Paleo. World's best braised cabbage and Chez Panisse Braised Red Cabbage. I also made some ghee, some hard-boiled eggs and my first-ever mayonnaise! Oh, and I planned out a little dessert for later with some apples that I chopped up and fried up in some coconut oil and cinnamon. During all that cooking, I ended eating a little lunch composed of the red braised cabbage, a boiled egg, a couple of pieces of dried ham and 1/2 an avocado. The mayonnaise was very tiring to make because I only have a whisk. After a couple of minutes of whisking I finally brought out the immersion blender, which I was afraid might not work (and make it all fall apart), but it worked!
supper
I broiled up the green braised cabbage (with carrots and onions) for 15 minutes in the oven and I heated up some of the best chicken ever. Dessert was those apple pieces that were cooked up in a frying pan, topped with a little - you guessed it - coconut cream.
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