Healthy

10
Apr
2014

Banana & Coffee Protein Smoothie: Licuado de Proteina con Banana y Café

categories: Breakfast, Brunch, Coffee, Drink, Healthy, Smoothie

Have I told you that I’m getting married…in 10 days??

Have I also told you that I’m not your typical bride??

Like, the kind of bride that doesn’t have decorations yet kinda bride.

So needless to say, I haven’t really been a morning person lately…

Usually I am just fine with green tea or a smoothie in the morning but these last few days

that stuff is just not cutting it.

I had to upgrade my morning stimulant to get me going on this whole wedding thing

& since crack is whack & I like keeping my teeth, I decided to upgrade to coffee.

The problem: I don’t like the taste of coffee…like, at all.

So I decided to disguise my coffee in a delicious & healthy fruit-filled concoction that draws on my Latin & American roots…

And so was born the Banana & Coffee Protein Smoothie

a.k.a. Licuado de Proteina con Café y Banana!

(keep reading to find out what a “licuado” is!)

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03
Apr
2014

Panko Crusted Mustard-Glazed Chicken Breasts

categories: Chicken, Healthy, Low Calorie, Low Carb, Low Fat

Other than put mustard on my sandwiches, I can’t say I have much use for it.

I kind of just gloss it over when I’m ransacking my fridge for stuff to make dinner out of

& dismiss it as something “I kinda only like on sandwiches”.

I swear one bottle lasts me a year…& yes, that is still safe to eat.

Google said so.

It wasn’t until I ate at a restaurant out of town that I realized the awesomeness of mustard on chicken.

The chicken I ordered was lightly breaded & pan fried until slightly crunchy.

It was swimming in an intensely decadent fatty-fat-delicious mustard cream sauce & topped with what looked like melted butter.

So yeah, it was trouble.

But it was my cheat day so I told myself it was OK…

800+ calories later, it was so NOT OK.

But I don’t want you to miss out on having some mustard chicken goodness for yourself so I took all the flavor while cutting out some of the guilt to make this original 800 calorie dish into a new low fat 200 calorie meal!

You’re welcome 🙂

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27
Mar
2014

Tart Cherry-Berry Kale Smoothie

categories: Breakfast, Brunch, Drink, Healthy, Smoothie

You know when you buy something really expensive & you’re riddled with guilt so you try to use it as much as possible to justify the expense?

Yeah, that’s pretty much what my recent “smoothie-revolution” was born out of.It’s also probably why you may just see me wearing my new orange heel$$ to the supermarket.

I had spent all of this money on a VitaMix & I figured I shouldn’t just make dough & chop nuts in it. Do you even know how many loaves of bread I’d have to make for this little beauty to pay for itself?

So I decided to get on this smoothie bandwagon & what do you know?
It’s totally paying off!

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31
Jan
2014

Green Apple Cucumber Tuna Salad

categories: Healthy, Low Carb, Lunch, No Cook, Salad, Seafood

There are some things that people swear are good.

For instance:

Birds.

Tapenade.

Downtown Abbey.

Crocs.

Tuna…

Some of them kind of gross me out.
Some of them scare me.
And one in particular puts me into a deep coma when I try to watch it.
I leave the mystery of which one is which to you.

However, I am not one of those people who say, “I don’t like ______”, then never try it again.
(Except for birds…that fear is straight up diagnosable.)

So when a friend brought out a big bowl of tuna salad,
I politely put on my best fake smile & told myself to just eat it & hold my breath so I wouldn’t taste it too much…
Yeah, like a 5 year old.
Don’t judge me.

So I took a bite of this so called “amazing” tuna salad…
then I chewed it a little…

then I took a breath.

And I am SO GLAD that I did.

It was friggin’ delicious!!

I mean, who knew canned fish could taste like springtime in your mouth!

This recipe has tart green apples & sweet dill relish that adds equal amounts of sweet & sour, fresh & crunchy cucumbers & celery, a light dose of yogurt for creaminess & a hit of lemon juice to brighten all of the flavors up!

Ok, so I know it sounds like a weird combo, but trust me.

This tuna salad is probably one of my favorite meals now & if it can convert a canned fish hater like me, I think it’ll be a hit with you, too!

Not only is it good, but if you omit the crackers/bread, it makes for a nice little protein packed, low carb lunch!

P.S. You can put it in a sandwich or eat it with crackers. I like eating it with saltines because they are my favorite cracker & apparently somewhere deep inside of me there is an 80 year old woman just drying to get out.

Enjoy!

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23
Jan
2014

Baked Banana Nut Oatmeal

categories: Breakfast, Brunch, Healthy

So every morning I wake up I have this battle in my head about what’s for breakfast?

If it were up to me, I’d only have green tea.

Straight.

No Frills.

Yeah. I know.

I can be pretty hardcore in the mornings.

But according to everything I read & my super concerned fiancé,

I’m supposed to eat something before noon.

Pfft. Fine.

Cut to me standing in front of my pantry for about an hour looking at all of the things that have been forgotten & potentially may go bad in another day or two,

& pondering if eating chips at 7 am qualifies as breakfast & whether I will ever be into the 5 gallon protein shake powder I bought last year…

Then after about 20 minutes of that, I usually promise myself I will finally stop wasting food when there are starving children in ________ & try to figure out what to do with todays’ saddest-almost-dangerous-food in my kitchen.

The winner today: Ripe Bananas

So of course I just had to make:

This is a really easy one-bowl recipe that uses a lot of what you may already have in your kitchen. It’s pretty healthy for you if you use Splenda brown sugar vs regular brown sugar & 1% milk instead of whole milk.

It tastes a little like a cross between banana bread & an oatmeal bar. It’s warm & extra delicious with a little extra milk (or cream if your motto is calorie shmalorie) & even more bananas & walnuts sprinkled on top.

I’ve even heard of some making it the night before & eating it cold…

I don’t know why but do whatever tickles your pickle.

It’s your world.

I just live in it.

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Category: Healthy