Crumble...

Made this today too

sorta made my little guy happy :)

Make Lentil Burgers or Veggie Burgers Tuna Burgers OR Chicken Burgers ...Ditch the bun use the Burger as your BUN! After All ...We all want Less BUNS

Want to Have a Carb Free Meal....But craving a Burger ...Solution Break Up with Your Buns!

Lentil Burger

Lentil Burger

Tuna Burger

Tuna Burger

Chicken Burger

Use up That Zucchini !!! Bread (Hollyhock Recipe)

Out there you will see A LOT of Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cake this time of year.  This Bread is still pretty sweet but without the Chocolate chips it seems to pair nicely with a bowl of savory soup on a rainy day.

Zucchini Bread:

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 Cups Brown Sugar
• 3/4 Cup Sunflower Oil
• 3 Eggs Beaten
• 1 1/2 tsp melted butter
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 Cups Grated Zucchini
• 1 1/2 Cups unbleached White Flour
• 1 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
• 2 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp ground Cloves
• 1 Cup roasted Chopped Walnuts (I used Almonds and hazelnuts)

ALSO fans of sesame seeds???  line your oiled loaf pan with a thin layer of sesame seeds looks pretty tastes great and helps the loaf slip out of the pan!

Pre heat Oven to 350

In a large bowl combine Sugar, oil, eggs, butter, vanilla beat with wire whisk.  Mix in grated zucchini.

In a separate bowl combine all the remaining dry ingredients and mix well.  Gently stir the dry mixture into the wet.  Pour the batter into a well oiled loaf pan and bake for 1 Hour, until firm and a toothpick comes out of the center clean.  Cool for 15 mins before removing from pan.

Clean Manicotti Post Workout Meal: Always a hit and perfect to Freeze.

Manicotti is fun to make ...I think.

You can buy oven ready noodles that you don't have to pre boil

but I really like these much better.

Filling Ingredients:

• 1 Large Onion, Chopped
• 2 Cloves Garlic, minced
• 4 Medium Carrots, grated
• 1 Small Pkg of Lean Ground Turkey 
• Mushrooms, chopped
• 1 Pkg of Frozen Spinach, thawed (make sure to squeeze ALL of the water that you can out!)

YOU WILL ALSO need 1 - 2 Large Cans of Tomato sauce 

Cook Turkey in a Large skillet till completely cooked.  Put aside to cool in Large Bowl.

In separate Large Skillet saute onions and garlic till translucent, add carrots, mushrooms, and spinach and saute. 

Add Cooked Veggie skillet to turkey and mix together.  Allow to cool a bit.  Add Your Cottage cheese and combine. 

Prepare a Large baking pan pouring just enough Tomato sauce in bottom to cover.

Now Stuff the manicotti shells and line up in pan.  When pan is full pour sauce over noodles just to cover ...If you opt to use the oven ready noodles make sure that you cover all the noodles in sauce so that they will cook properly...but caution ....this takes up much more sauce, resulting in more calories.

Cover With Tin Foil and bake @ 350 for an hour or so or until you can see that the filling is bubbling nicely....take the foil off about 10 minutes before the hour is completeto make the top a bit more crisp.

AND always make too much ...package it up and freeze

your sweetheart will thank you later!

Baked Falafel & Beet Dill Soup, Garnished with Greek Yogurt Sprouted Mung Beans & Toasted Sesame Seeds:

This is a Brandi Recipe my sisters are both Glorious cooks...
THis is a recipe she might even be making lately since our Quadra Island Gardens are overflowing with beets.  My mom and I had this for lunch on my day off this week.

BEET Dill Soup:

Ingredients:

• 2 TBSP Olive Oil
• 1 1/2 Pounds of Raw Beets cut into 1" Chunks
• 1 Large Onion 
• 1 Tbsp Butter
• 1 Pinch Salt
• 3 Large Garlic Cloves
• 1 Tsp toasted Caraway seeds
• 1/8 tsp cayanne pepper (be careful with this one ..I would recommend using half of this much and it will still be very hot
• 3 Cups chicken or veggie Broth 
• 2 TBsp Fresh dill 
• 1 1/2 Cups Milk (optional)
• s&p to taist

Method:

Saute Onions & Garlic, add remaining ingredients excepts Milk

 allow to simmer on your stove

add Milk at the end 

Pure if desired  

Interval Timer & Body Rock TV

http://www.beach-fitness.com/tabata


http://www.bodyrock.tv/


The Two above links are totally inspiring to me.  Most of the time in my crazy life right now I cannot attend the gym.  This makes me so so SO super grouchy!!!
My poor kid!!!
I feel terrible about myself
after battling with it in my head for much too long I realized I had to figure out how to train at home with no equipment and almost no floor space
impossible ????
Nope!
I know I am not alone...but suffer no more my friends
YOU ARE YOUR OWN GYM
all you need is you
after all ...it is YOU vs YOU
nothing is stopping you
go to Body rock tv
choose a workout
watch it
write it down
the interval timer  (see other link to beach fitness) can be adjusted to whatever you need
walking lunges
push ups
burpies
they are all waiting for you
you just need a plan
then your gym is anywhere you are
check it out

I started out with the above site as inspiration but decided I wanted more information I ordered a few books on the topic and feel i found a real hit.
http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Your-Own-Gym/dp/0971407614

This book by Mark Lauren is really amazing.  His approach to exercise is serious but remains basic.... His techniques are responsible for training strongest military personal...but still basic and adaptable enough to be preformed by a gal in her boot room with only the time allotted  by a single Sponge Bob episode ....I find his workouts easy to tackle I can choose a body part I would like to train...flip through the pages, select a couple of exercises and just go for it ...
This book in my opinion is a worthy investment for anyone

BreakFast Of Champions:

Basic Easy Breakfast......you COULD eat a bowl of Cereal, Orange Juice, Coffee with Cream and Sugar....
The problems with this meal:  Too Low in Protein, No Vegetables (yes even Breakfast should include Veggies!) No Good Carbs, No fish oils or good fats.....AND two calorie containing Drinks...trust me you do not want to waste your calories slurping a drink

This meal below Pared with a morning ritual of supplements including a multi Vitamin, two fish oil caps, and Greens +  is a complete meal that will keep you going