Tasty Tuesdays

I just made one of my favorite mixtures of food tonight! Thanks to my cousin Caiti for giving me a rice cooker, I now don't have to eat crunchy rice! Yes, that's right...I'm really not that picky and I would eat crunchy rice. Who knows if anyone else will like this recipe, it's so simple you can modify it to fit your tastes. I have no clue what the carbs, protein and fat content in this is. If anyone wants to do the math let me know.

 

You can stuff your red pepper with as much or as little of the following.....

 

-Cut red bell pepper in half or core it

(I left mine raw but you can cook yours if you want)

-precooked brown rice

-precooked lentils(which were cooked in water and vegetable broth)

-Salsa(I used Organic Salsa de Casa)

 

Yup....that's it. I absolutely loved this! It was super easy to make! Try it and/or modify it if its too boring!

I'm Turning Green!

Yes....I am one of those people that are insanely obsessed with veggies. I prefer veggies over meat any day. One of the easiest ways for me to get my veggies in is by juicing. I borrowed my Mom's juicer about 3+ years ago and have been juicing ever since. You can juice any veggie or fruit and modify recipes to your taste. Don't bother buying juice from the store....it has no nutritional value! It's a joke! After about 30 minutes of making fresh juice, it starts to break down and loose its nutritional value. Over 8 hours it hardly has any beneficial properties to it. Imagine how long that packaged juice has been sitting on the store shelves? Not to mention how long it took to make the juice, package the juice, transport the juice to the store, etc. So try and consume your home brewed juice immediately! If you want to save it for a snack or lunch during the day, put it in an air tight glass jar(mason jar) and consume within 8 hours.

I use Jack La Lanne's Power Juice and one day would love to get a Breville Juicer. Below is one of my favorite juicing recipes...

-6 leaves of Dino Kale(aka Lacinato kale)

-1 Cucumber

-3 Stalks Celery

-3 Big Collard Green Leaves

-3 carrots OR Apple OR Pear (Depending on how sweet you want it)

-Lemon to taste

-1 inch section of Ginger

Place each item in juicer! If you do not want any froth or the smallest bit of pulp, strain it with a mesh strain tool. Drink! Beware of the green mustache that will appear if you don't drink it with a straw. Preferable a metal straw(plastic boo!)

Happy Juicing!

Yummy Kale

You might say I have a slight obsession to Kale. I juice it, eat it raw, bake it or saute it. I could eat it 24/7. Kale is packed with calcium, beta keratin, Vit C, Vit K and tons more. Also for a vegetable it has a higher content of protein than other vegetable's. 

I have modified this recipe so many times I can't really remember the exact contents when it first came into my life.  I will share my favorite way of making it. It's super duper easy. The great thing about this recipe is that by breaking down the Kale with your fingers, lemon, olive oil, etc it makes the taste of the Kale so much better. A lot of people are scared by Kale, it is not scary at all.  I promise you will become addicted to this after trying this recipe. Let me know what you think! 

What you need:

Dinosaur Kale(aka Lacinato Kale)

Fresh Lemon Juice

Red Bell Pepper

Handful of Currants

Handful of Sunflower Seeds

Handful of Flax Seeds

Lil Salt and Pepper

2ish tablespoons of Olive Oil

(You can add any other ingredient's you want: chicken, pine nuts, almonds, cucumber, etc)

Directions:

De-stem and cut Kale leaves into bit size pieces. Take your hands and rub lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper into the leaves.  Do this for 2-3 minutes.  You will start noticing the tough Kale break down and get a softer texture. Then add all the other ingredient's. Enjoy.



Dino Kale-Pic found here



Good luck cooking!

p.s.-I promise I will get better with my "measurments"