FOOD POST!
Jul. 8th, 2010 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lierdumoaToday I cooked a lot. Mainly because I did not leave the house. Aaaaaah, the life of an unemployed student.
Breakfast was a whole grain English muffin with added fiber (apparently that's the new cool thing food companies are doing, adding oat fiber to breads and pastas). I topped 1/2 of the English muffin with locally made peanut butter, raw honey and chia seeds. I used the other half of the muffin to finish off my last batch of homemade pesto. I spread the pesto onto the muffin with a butter knife, then sprinkled on this overpriced sprouted nut mix and topped it with one egg, fried over medium.
The nut mix was an impulse buy. I thought it would be good for snacking, but it turns out it tastes so salty I can only really eat it as a garnish. I suppose that will prevent me from eating it all too quickly.
For lunch I chopped and boiled some broccolini that was about to go bad (fun fact: apparently adding a dash of salt to the water helps prevent nutrients from leeching out of your vegetables) for just 3 minutes, to soften it up. I then added the broccolini to a bowl of congee (rice pudding) with roast duck (leftovers from the chinese takeout I bought the other day).
I started jonesing for something sweet, so I made vegan fudge out of raw honey, extra virgin coconut oil, raw chocolate powder, raw maca powder, cumin and cayenne pepper. I am now out of coconut oil, though I still have enough of the other ingredients for a few more batches.
I ate a little bit of the fudge along with fresh rasberries and blueberries and small glass of red wine.
For dinner, I made a new batch of pesto out of baby spinach, fresh parsley, fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil, fresh garlic and powdered cayenne and white pepper. Yay for my mini-blender. I then ate (some of) the pesto with whole grain organic pasta, canned oysters, and a sprinkling of the previously mentioned overpriced nut mix.
Gooooood times.
Breakfast was a whole grain English muffin with added fiber (apparently that's the new cool thing food companies are doing, adding oat fiber to breads and pastas). I topped 1/2 of the English muffin with locally made peanut butter, raw honey and chia seeds. I used the other half of the muffin to finish off my last batch of homemade pesto. I spread the pesto onto the muffin with a butter knife, then sprinkled on this overpriced sprouted nut mix and topped it with one egg, fried over medium.
The nut mix was an impulse buy. I thought it would be good for snacking, but it turns out it tastes so salty I can only really eat it as a garnish. I suppose that will prevent me from eating it all too quickly.
For lunch I chopped and boiled some broccolini that was about to go bad (fun fact: apparently adding a dash of salt to the water helps prevent nutrients from leeching out of your vegetables) for just 3 minutes, to soften it up. I then added the broccolini to a bowl of congee (rice pudding) with roast duck (leftovers from the chinese takeout I bought the other day).
I started jonesing for something sweet, so I made vegan fudge out of raw honey, extra virgin coconut oil, raw chocolate powder, raw maca powder, cumin and cayenne pepper. I am now out of coconut oil, though I still have enough of the other ingredients for a few more batches.
I ate a little bit of the fudge along with fresh rasberries and blueberries and small glass of red wine.
For dinner, I made a new batch of pesto out of baby spinach, fresh parsley, fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil, fresh garlic and powdered cayenne and white pepper. Yay for my mini-blender. I then ate (some of) the pesto with whole grain organic pasta, canned oysters, and a sprinkling of the previously mentioned overpriced nut mix.
Gooooood times.
