June 2010 – Page 7 – Fervent Foodie

Eggplant makes me ralph

June 15, 2010 8 Comments

So I woke up this morning and was absolutely sick to my stomach. Ralphing was involved.

While laying on couch trying to fall back asleep, it dawned on me that my body was rejecting the eggplant I ate yesterday!!! Even typing the word makes me queasy. 🙁

For you purple veggie lovers out there, definitely give yesterday’s recipe a try. For all you sane people out there, such as myself, try the recipe again using lasagna noodles.

I don’t know about you, but when I’m feeling sick I crave processed carbohydrates. Pizza, mac and cheese, PB&J… mmmmmm……

So when I finally felt stable enough to try and eat something, I decided to make some healthified bisquick waffles. I mixed up the following:

1/3 cup bisquick
1/2 cup almond breeze unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1 egg white

I poured the batter onto my little waffle maker ($8 at Target, boo ya). The waffles seemed to take longer to crisp up than normal unhealthified waffles. I topped them off with 1/8 cup sugar free smucker’s syrup and some strawberries I had sliced up yesterday.

It was d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s. And it seems to be agreeing with my belly, so I’m heading into work shortly. Not sure what to do about lunch. Seriously contemplating a stop at Wendy’s….. Hopefully my brain wins this war over my belly!

Stats on the waffles: 216 calories, 35g carbs, 6g fat, 7g protein, 2g fiber

Recipes

Loved/Hated Dinner

June 14, 2010 3 Comments

I wanted to do something adventurous for dinner tonight — so I decided to make these stuffed eggplant rolls.

Now, this may not sound adventurous to you,but trust me, this is a very out of the ordinary dish for me.

Remember those meals your parents would cook when you were a kid that you absolutely hated? You know, THOSE meals where you were forced to sit at the table until you cleared you plate? Well, eggplant was one of those foods I just hated as a kid. (In addition to kidney beans and fish)

I think the last time my mom had me eat eggplant I was about 7 years old. I can vividly remember my hatred for the weird mushy yet spongy texture.

Anyway, back to the cookin. I followed shape’s recipe except I used some leftover classico sauce instead of their sauce and I didn’t have any pine nuts on hand, so those were omitted. I seasoned it up with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and oregano and served it up with a side of green beans.

There were good parts and bad parts to this dinner.

The good:

the ricotta <3 <3 <3
the spinach
the sauce
the seasonings
the green beans
the ice cold glass of water I drank while eating dinner
the fact that my entire dinner was under 200 calories

The bad:

the eggplant. 🙁

So sad! I was hoping my palate had matured enough since the ripe age of 7 that I would enjoy eggplant. Wrong. One of the eggplant rolls was sliced thinner than the others, and I found that particular roll to be quite tasty. If I closed my eyes, I could almost trick myself into thinking I was eating a lasagna noodle 😉

After dinner, I tried to make some healthy carrot cookies, and they were a big flat flop.

Sooooo I decided to make myself a nice shake for my late night snack 😀

Into the blender went:

1 cup ice
1/2 cup almond breeze unsweetened vanilla almond milk
1 tbsp chocolate pb2
1/4 of a serving IntraPro Double Chocolate Pure Whey Protein (leftover from my first ever protein shake)

Delish!

Stats on the shake: 76 calories, 5g carbs, 3g fat, 9g protein, 2g fiber

Here’s hoping tomorrow brings me better success in the kitchen 🙂

What I ate

(good) Case of the Monday’s

June 14, 2010 1 Comment

It’s Monday, and I am surprisingly cheery today! Even despite the gray and dreary weather we’ve got going on outside.

Maybe my good mood is due to the delicious Trader Joe’s coffee I had this morning on the way to work… That Trader Joe… Sure knows how to put a smile on my face 🙂

Almond butter sounded good this morning, so I went with a toasted Pepperidge Farm Deli Flat (that I had leftover from the turkey burgers) with Trader Joe’s crunchy almond butter and a little smear of Smucker’s Blackberry preserves (my favorite! love the seeds!).

Motivational poster I drew for the BF:

For breakfast #2 I went with a barley breakfast bowl again, which consisted of Stoneyfield Farms Greek Yogurt, Barley, and Red Raspberries:

I still have some leftover barley, so I think I’ll try and incorporate that into dinner somehow…

Today for lunch I had a very special treat 😀

Jarrod made me a GINORMOUS salad with romaine, grilled chicken, black beans, tomato, onion, cucumber, and carrots:

He has an uncanny ability for chopping things into perfect shapes 😉

As I’m eating my lovely salad, I realize that I haven’t really planned anything out for lunches this week. Do you ever fall into sack-lunch-doldrums? I know I do. I’ll have to do some brainstorming and see if I can spice things up this week.

What I ate

Leftovers makeover

June 13, 2010 2 Comments

I find most of my meal planning revolves around whatever leftovers I happen to have in the fridge. On a typical day I am cooking for one person, which leaves me with the option to eat the same things for several days on end or reincorporate the leftovers into new dishes.

For lunch today I wanted to use up some leftover chicken I had grilled up earlier in the week, and I had some leftover tomato sauce from the 10 cheese pizza I made Friday. So I decided to make a chicken parmesan inspired wrap, healthified of course. (AKA leftover chicken, leftover sauce , NO cheese, on a Joseph’s middle east bakery low carb pita–seasoned up with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and dried parsley)

Aren’t Jarrod’s dishes lovely? 😉

After lunch we finished up the light tent. Now we just need to get some lights!

For my afternoon snack I had apples and some chocolate PB2.

Chocolate PB2 = fabulous! I need to work this into some shake recipes…

Tonight we visited our friends Tim and Jaci at their newly purchased, exquisitely decorated townhouse. Tim prepared a feast complimented with onions galore.

Roasted potatoes with onions and green peppers, seasoned grilled asparagus, and jerk marinated chicken:

P.S. can’t wait to get my hair cut tomorrow!

Happy Sunday!

What I ate

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

June 13, 2010 1 Comment

Whenever I think of the word “Sunday” in my head, I automatically hear “Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!” (think football/race announcer guy Jan Gabriel).

When I woke up this Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY! 😉 my body was begging for three things: Coffee. Eggs. Ham.

So after throwing some coffee on, I got to work on a 4 egg white scramble with leftover deli ham from the jewelry party I had last week.

I also had some potatoes on the side. That’s one of the best things about being at the BF’s — he keeps a GIANT container of pre-baked potatoes in his fridge. 😀

Once the eggs were pretty much done scrambling, I threw the ham and potatoes into the pan to heat up. And breakfast was served!

After breakfast, I hunkered down and finally posted the clothes I’ve been wanting to sell on ebay. I’m really glad to have that done with! All that ebaying made me hungry, so I decided to give the barley breakfast bowl a go.

My barley bowl consisted of 1/2 a serving of barley (cooked up last night and stuck in the fridge), 1 Chobani vanilla greek yogurt, and some blackberries and raspberries.

I loved the barley in the yogurt! It was pretty filling too.

I must be honest though, and this may be blasphemy, but I actually prefer dannon’s vanilla greek yogurt to Chobani! I took a minute to compare the stats:

Chobani Vanilla Greek Yogurt — 120 calories, 13g carbs, 16g protein, 13g sugar
Dannon Vanilla Greek Yogurt — 110 calories, 17g carbs, 12g protein, 16g sugar

Chobani has less carbs, more protein, and less sugar — so I’m hoping it grows on me!

On the agenda today:

Hit up the elliptical (Friday went well)
Finish light tent
Dinner with friends 😀