Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner...

scrambled eggs with fruit on the side

A typical breakfast seems to be either eggs, or oatmeal- we are falling into a pattern.

For lunch today we were craving peanut butter and jelly. So, here is my improvise:

chop almonds in the food processor

stream in olive oil

To make Almond Butter-

Put almonds in food processor and chop- stream in olive oil until smooth (mine turned out a little runny).

I added a very more almonds in the end, so there would be a little more texture- chunkyness.

I also added a pack of stevia, and some kosher salt

almond butter

mix almond butter with ricotta cheese

sliced strawberries

smoosh them up

spread the almond mixture on rice cake, top with strawberries

Tah Dah! PBJ- in a way...

Enjoy!

Morning eggs

eggs (mostly egg whites), muffins, yogurt, strawberry sauce

a full fridge, dinner is made for the next few days

dinner 2-16-11

cooking down the pinto beans

Rinse the Roasters, stuff with celery, put it in the roaster,  surround with onions
cooking down the giblets- this is actually for tomorrow's dinner. Tonight was ribs.

blending the smoothie

beautiful smoothies with cinnamon

mashed cauliflower with bacon

green beans

dinner!

my plate- That's a piece of chees on the cauliflowr. Tonight was the first night for a little cheese. We aren't into phase 2 yet, but Dr. said we could add cheese-might help our daught to eat a little more, she's losing too much weight. Can you tell I took a half a garlic! yum!

dessert- apple muffins with topping choices
frozen smoothie, vanilla pudding, cooked down berries, strawberry sauce, blueberries, whip cream, pecans, walnuts

writing up the recipes with my 2 fave guys on the TV. Fred and Gene. Love them!

Frozen berry smoothie

@ 2 C. greek yogurt
equal amount of ice
juice of 2 lemons
@1 C. frozen strawberries
@1 C. whipping cream
@ 1/2 C. water
8 - 10 drops stevia
cinnamon maybe 1 1/2 T ??

(later I added to this recipe- 1 more dropper full of stevia, 2 more handfulls of berries, more rice milk)

turned out pretty good, maybe a little sour- could use more stevia and whipping cream maybe
we each drank a cup, and I froze the rest in a bowl
Do you think it will scoop like ice cream later?
If it does, I will serve it with whip cream and strawberry sauce- sounds pretty good I think...

It's later.... the answer is no. It froze so solid- like a brick! We nuked it a little to soften it so we could eat it. It's a little on the sour pucker up side. I think next time it needs a little less lemon and a little more stevia. I wonder if more whipping cream would make it freeze a little softer.