Beef Recall

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33585209/ns/health-food_safety/

 

Sweet Potato Fries

I love sweet potatoes and what a better way to eat them is as fries! Picked some up at Trader Joe’s a few days ago so I cooked some up tonight and had them with a salad!

Here is my salad (spinach, mushrooms, onions and sliced almonds)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sweet potato fries:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally I used some really great ketchup! It contains NO HFC (High Fructose Corn Syrup)! It is made my Muir Glen. YUM! Taste just like regular ketchup!

Chickpea Salad

Yesterday I made a chickpea sandwich for lunch (verses a tuna or chicken salad sandwich)… It was SO yummy! Chickpeas are a great source of protein as well as fiber! Majority of people today do not get enough fiber in their diets!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today instead of a chickpea sandwich, I decided to put the chickpeas on my spinach salad. Mighty tasty if you ask me!

Chickpea Sandwich

This is by far one of my favorite sandwiches. Instead of chicken salad it is a chickpea salad sandwich. YUM!

Whole Grain Quinoa Blend

This Whole Grain Quinoa Blend is awesome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I made some corn bread and broccoli to go with it and had a fantastic dinner!

 

How ‘Green’ is Your Diet

I found this ‘how green is your diet’ calculator. Pretty interesting:

http://www.cspinet.org/EatingGreen/calculator.html

Breakfast

This makes a great breakfast!

100% Whole Wheat Tortilla with cream cheese, basil and tomatoes!

Honey Cinnamon Almonds

After I finished the chocolate covered almonds, I remembered tasting some honey cinnamon almonds at the Farmer’s Market a while back. I attempted to recreate what I had. I dumped what few almonds I had left in a bowl and added some honey (from the farmers market) and some cinnamon and mixed it all together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I then baked them for a while and let the cool. They turned out pretty good, but could use some work (like more cinnamon ). They are no where near as good as the ones I had at the farmers market, but it was a good start. I will have to work on this more to prefect them!!

Chocolate Covered Almonds

With all these chocolate posts you’d think I like chocolate. In reality I am actually not a huge fan, I know I know… people give me a hard time all the time. I like baking regardless of what it is so sometimes that involves chocolate

Long story short, since I had left over melted grain sweetened chocolate chips from the banana I had to figure out what else I could cover since I didn’t want to waste it. I had some raw almonds so I dumped some in and they turned out pretty good!

Before:

 

 

 

 

 

 

After:

Chocolate Covered Banana

I had one banana left in the house and I didn’t know what to do with it. If a banana gets a speck of brown on it, it is usually too ripe for me to eat (I typically like my bananas when they still have a touch of green on them). Anyway I already have enough frozen bananas and so I decided to cover the banana with chocolate  

Here is what I used (a pot, Sunspire Carob Chips, and a banana):

 

 

 

 

 

 

I dumped some chips in the pot and had the stove on really low heat:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And as I waited for the chocolate to melt I cut my banana up:

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I have never melted carob before, but the longer the carob was heating the less cooperative it became…it was kind of rubbery so I ended up dumping in some grain sweetened chocolate chips which melted nicely!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the outcome:

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are more like banana blobs, but the sure do taste good!