First of all, I loved Julie and Julia

Second of all, I love food.  Who am I kidding, if you know me then you know that already.

Okay but lets get one thing straight first.  I didnt turn off the movie like most of America and decide that it would be a great idea to start a food blog.  For one, Im not that good of a cook and for two, who the hell really wants to read about what I eat? But since Ive been on a health food kick lately (yes, go me!), I decided to show off by posting some of the delicious eats Ive come up with. 

Bon Apetite :)

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Whole wheat pizza dough with artichoke hearts, black olives, sauteed onion, feta, and tomatillo peppers.  I bought the pizza dough from Trader Joes and put Ektor to work on making it into a pizza shape.  He did an amazing job! This pizza was soo good!


This picture is pre-baked

Directions:
sautee half onion with tomatillo peppers in 1T butter until translucent
spread your favorite spaghetti sauce on uncooked dough, top with feta and parmasean cheese, and then add the onion/tomatillo mixture.  finish by adding black olives and artichoke hearts.  bake at 350 for about 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown.

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Salmon burger with steamed green beans, kobocha squash, and cottage cheese. 



Not a lot to this one.  I buy the salmon burgers from costco and they are sooo good! high in protein and really delicious, not fishy like some of the others Ive tried.  You just bake them for about 20 min on each side and thats it.  The kobocha squash is one of the most flavorable squashes Ive tried.  When cooked, the skin gets really soft which is nice because then you dont have to peel it first.  I rubbed it with olive oil and seasoned it with salt and pepper and then baked it at 350 for about 25min or until the meat was tender.  The green beans were steamed with dill and garlic salt...so good!

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Super Charge Me Cookies! (vegan, or could be)



these bad boys are awesome for a post workout snack.  They pack about 250 calories so you dont want to go crazy with them, but they last for about a week and are so good!


Ingrediants:
1c oats
2/3c flour (i used whole wheat)
1/4t sea salt
1/2t cinnamin
1/8c unsweetened coconut
1/3c nuts (i used sliced almonds cause that is what I had in my cupboard)
4T karob chips.  I used white chocolate, the only non vegan thing in this recipe. 
1t baking powder
1/3c ground flax seed
1/2c maple syrup, the real stuff
1.5t real vanilla extract
3T almond butter
2T canola oil


throw it all in a bowl, or stand mixer if you as lucky as me (yes, im bragging) and mix it altogether.  I mean you could follow that mix the dry and then mix the wet nonsense but I dont have time for that shit. Bake it until it looks edible.

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Wasabi-Ginger Ahi tuna steak with kale/quinoa stirfry.



Whoa, protein overload! I marinated the fish in a soy sauce with wasabi and fresh ginger for a few hours at 4C.  I then grilled it using my awesome George Forman Grill (shoot out to Grandpa S for the awesome wedding gift!).  For the stir fry, I heated up 1/2c dry quinoa until a it started to smell real "nutty" but not burnt.  I then added 1/2c water and let it cook covered for about 15 min.  After it was fluffed up, I added 2c chopped up kale and carrots to the mixture, drizzled on some olive oil, and sauteed it altogether.  The wonderful thing about quinoa besides being super nutritious, is that it sticks to whatever you cook it in.  This is great because quinoa itself doenst have a lot of flavor.

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Spaghetti Squash



This is probably one of my favorite things to cook! All you do is cut and clean a spaghetti squash, rub it down with olive oil, and bake at 350 for about 20 min or until the meat is tender.  Once it is, pull it out of the over and allow it to cool to room temp.  Once it is cool enough for you to handle easily, take a fork and pull the meat out.  It will come out looking like spaghetti noodles.  1C of this stuff is only like 40calories and is amazing served under some delicious marinara sauce with a fresh salad. yum!