Well! It's been over a year since I've posted on here, but I feel inspired to get back into it and post more often. I'll be posting mainly healthy recipes, with the odd indulgence. I want to use this blog to help keep track of healthy meal options. One important area I need to work on is eating more veggies. As the experts say:
So on to my dinner tonight! What I've been taught is that a plate of food should consist of 50% veggies, 25% grains, and 25% protein. of course that's just a rough plan, and realistically dinners don't end up looking like pie charts.
I started out with a craving for potatoes and cauliflower. Baked potatoes and Baked Breaded Cauliflower. I decided I should probably have something green too, so I settled on a spinach salad. Here's what I came up with before cooking:
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I know white potatoes aren't the healthiest choice, but I want my dinner to be nutritious AND satisfying. I ended up only using three. Anyways. You might be wondering where the protein is. Well I later added cooked quinoa to the salad, and there is egg in the cauliflower breading.
So on to cooking! I won't go through all the steps of each component. You can google a thousand recipes for grilled potatoes and spinach salad. I'll just tell you about the cauliflower, because that was really the centerpiece.
Baked Breaded Cauliflower:
Section roughly 1 cup of cauliflower into bite sized pieces, as pictured above
Beat 1 egg
Mix together approx. 1/2 cup bread crumbs, a pinch each of paprika, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper, and approx 2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese.
Dip the cauliflower sections first into the egg and then the breadcrumbs.
Lay on a foil lined baking dish and bake at 350F for 25 minutes.
I made what I'm calling a roasted red pepper marinara sauce to add more flavour and more veggies to the dish. It was only four ingredients: red pepper, olive oil, salt, and oregano.
Roasted Red Pepper Marinara:
Char 1 red pepper in a 400F oven (around 10 mins) and cover with plastic wrap in a bowl. Leave for another 20 mins or so and the skin should come off SUPER easy.
Yank out the stem and seeds, and then pulse in a blender or food processor with a splash of olive oil, some oregano, and salt (to taste I suppose- I didn't measure)
In the end, here was my dinner:
I'm not the person who is going to look up the nutrition information and calorie content. But here's what I know:
- I ate at 4 different kinds of veggies in all different colours at this meal- probably totalling 3-4 full servings
- I used very little of the 'bad stuff'- salt, oil, cheese, wheat, white potatoes
- I had a satisfying and delicious dinner
Til next time!
