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WhatIEat#29

 Family dinner- Breakfast for dinner!  Frittata and a french toast casserole/bread pudding, made with eggnog instead of milk. I was hoarding a quart of eggnog, but figured it was time to enjoy it before it went bad.🙄
 My hodge-podge breakfast of leftovers: roasted broccoli, soft boiled egg, pork roast, and one of my dutch pancakes with peamut butter and cinnamon.
 Snack of gluten free toast with peanut butter, coconut oil, and cinnamon.
 Brian & I, with my parents, out for Mexican. So good! I usually order chili verde (pork with greem sauce) and this one was one of the best I've had...sometimes it's too salty, or tastes like the meat has been in the sauce all day and you can't really taste the meat itself, but this was cooked perfectly soft and not over seasoned. Also, the salsa was amazing! I'm picky about salsa; I don't like chunks and not too spicy, please. This one was thin, midly spicy, and it had green onions in it, which I really liked.
 
 Frittata makes such a good snack.
 Date Night dinner😊 After we had dinner with my parents, we left our kids with them for a two night sleepover, so Brian and I got to go on a date. We walked around downtown shops, ate donuts (GF for me🍩) and then enjoyed a nice meal together. I had a hard time choosing what to eat, since they didn't have alot of gluten free options, so I got a burger wrapped in lettuce. Brian ordered some blackened shrimp tossed with potatoes and some Cajun or bay seasoning and garlic, which was very good. We had a table overlooking the water and a gorgeous sunset to watch.
 
 Sunday morning breakfast made by Not Me!😀 My favorite kind of food❤ Lol
Brian, my wonderful husband, makes the best crispy fried eggs- they get that lovely, brown, crackly outside, and the yolks are the best not-runny-but-not-cooked creamy consistency.🍳 Paired with half an avocado and some leftover roasted broccoli, it sure was a great syart to my day.
 Salad love🥑🥕🍗🍳 I love a good dinner salad. Like, if I'm gonna eat salad for a meal, I want to enjoy it and be full when I leave the table. I see alot of warnings in shape/beauty/health magazines to not order a salad at a restaurant because they often have a ton of calories and heavy dressing and dairy and everything.... Well, I'm eating to nourish my body first of all. And second, you can still have a loaded salad that you love to eat and not be unhealthy. Half a head of lettuce, half an avocado, some diced turkey breast, two soft boiled eggs and a pile of roasted broccoli, drizzled with my homemade honey mustard poppyseed dressing, this sald was swoon worthy and nourishing and not heavy. Play around with ingredients; add leftover roasted veg, make your own dressing mix up different types of greens, add protein.  You CAN make a delicious, healthy salad that you will love and feel satisfied after eating.  Oh also, add salt; pink Himalayan salt is my favorite.
 Skillet fried chicken thighs, so crisp and juicy my husband begs me to make these every day. He keeps saying "I don't  know what you do to these, but keep doing it!" Well...my secret, as I've told him is to leave them alone. In other words, patience and courage. You have to put the chicken thighs skin side down in a hot cast iron skillet, lightly greased, season with pink salt and a tiny bit of black pepper, and then let them fry til they are good and crispy...i usually just cover the pan with a paper towel and walk away for like 8-10 minutes? I'm guessing a little 'cause I haven't actually timed it, but it alot longer than you would think and if you're just standing there watching, you're probably gonna get too curious and flip them too early. Once you do flip them, season again with salt and pepper, and then I turn the burner down so they can finish cooking without overcooking =crisp and juicy.
Also, we had sweet potato "fries", broiled asparagus and green beans.☺


Chuckanut Bay gluten free chocolate cheescake...😍 I didn't share...


 Chipotle bowl (so yum!) for dinner between a cranio sacral appointment and a class at my local Co-op about reading blood tests and hair analysis results. 🤓
 Frittata with avocado to break my 18 hour fast. I haven't doing the fasting much lately since I don't  want to stress my adrenals and you have to be mindful of that sort of thing...but once in awhile, if don't feel like I need to have breakfast or I feel like that's what my body really wants, then I'll do a short fast. Fasting can be very healing,  a four day fast can actually rejuvenate stem cells, which can be a very helpful thing for people  with chronic illness or cancer or other issues. But it's not always safe for everyone and you should talk to someone who can help you do it safely.

Dinner- Baked chicken with carrots, butternut squash, brown rice and green beans.  I made a 9×13 casserole dish full and it was licked clean! It makes me so happy to feed my family nourishing, delicious food 💛 and this was so easy; avocado oil to coat a casserole dish, add a bog of frozen butternut squash, 5 chopped carrots,  hag a small bag of frozen, precooked brown rice, and four raw chicken thighs. Season with pink salt, pepper, and a dusting of poultry seasoning. Bake uncovered @425 for 30 min. stir it around a little and lay a sheet of foul across the top and bake another 30 min. Then I moved it all over to one side to make room for two cans of green beans and turned off the oven and let the beans warm through, about 8 minutes. One dish, minimal mess (thanks frozen veg!) and so tasty.

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