1/6/2013 1 Comment New year, new me.Okay, so I have not been pulling my weight around here lately. Life has gotten in the way. There will probably be more about that later. Anyway, when Angel was here at Christmas, we committed to each other that we would be working out "together" while we watch "Biggest Loser". The season premier is tonight. So in preparation, I did some house-cleaning this morning and moved the recumbent bike into the room where the TV is. She is going to put her rowing machine in front of her TV. I figure that I will take water breaks during the commercials during the first hour and then do a half-hour of core work, then cool down the last 30 minutes, since the show is running until 10 p.m. I don't want to be too ramped up at bedtime. This morning while chatting with Angel online, she linked a chickpea omelette for me, so I tried it. It was pretty good, but I think I can improve upon it, especially given my experiments making farinata last night. I am also on a 3-week elimination diet right now. Perhaps you have seen the Virgin Diet lately on TV? I have eliminated gluten, soy, peanuts, dairy, eggs, corn and sugar/artificial sweeteners from my diet. Then in a couple more weeks, I will test each one to see if I have any obvious food sensitivities. Nutritionist JJ Virgin claims that if you are eating food that you have a sensitivity to, it actually causes you to hold onto excess weight and causes inflammation in your body. So, as of day 5, I had lost 3.3 pounds. I have not weighed since then, and today is day 6. The hardest thing to give up has been gluten and learning to drink my coffee without sweetener. I just add a little coconut milk. It's okay; other than that, I had already mostly eliminated eggs and dairy. Corn is hard only from the standpoint that I LOVE polenta. But it doesn't mean that I can never have it again, just not for a couple of months, unless I seem to have a sensitivity to it. We'll see. Life has finally settled down a bit, so I hope to be able to blog here more often. Don't forget to tune in to NBC tonight...and if you want, you can work out with Angel and I while we all watch The Biggest Loser! Happy New Year! What the heck? A food picture...kale chips. Really, why did I wait so long to try these? Yum!
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1/4/2013 0 Comments Enchiladas!I need to take a picture, perhaps, but wanted to write down what I did, as I will definitely make these again. I simply layered oven crisped corn tortillas with black beans and sweet potato mixture and enchilada sauce (I had two packets in my cabinet that each made a cup--one red, one green. I made one end red and one green in the casserole).
2 cups cooked black beans mixed with: 1 14 ounce can diced, no salt tomatoes 1/2 diced onion 2 cloves minced garlic handful of chopped cilantro minced chipotle in adobo salt and pepper diced, seeded jalapeno juice of one lime chili powder In another bowl: three baked sweet potatoes mashed 2 cloves minced garlic chopped green onion another minced chile in adobo salt and pepper 12 crisped corn tortillas 2 cups enchilada sauce of your choice Layer beans first, drizzle with sauce. Tortillas, spread on potato mixture drizzle with sauce. Tortillas, then beans and last of the sauce. I had some leftover cornbread so I crumbled some (not a lot) on top to give it texture and sub for the cheese. 425 degrees for 30 minutes and you've got dinner. Renee got me some goodies from the Santa Fe school of cooking, and I found that the green chile dip mix works great with a block of silken tofu in for the dairy/mayo. I just whirred up the block of tofu with a peeled lime in the vitamix, then stirred in two Tablespoons of the dip mix--it makes a great sour cream replacement. |
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