Boiled dinner!

Jamie made the most wonderful boiled dinner tonight and I forgot to take a pic of it! But here is what's leftover... It looked a lot better plated, and it was delicious!

Boiled dinner is super easy and so so good! Just put it all in a pot, cover with water, boil, bring down to a simmer and boil for about 3 hours. Wait to add potatoes if you don't want them too mushy. Jamie made a lot, so he divided it into 2 pots.

Not so sure about corned beef on the candida diet???? and remember potatoes are in phase 2. carrots are starchy so don't overdo the starches! But it was a nice treat tonight. 

I put some apple cider vinegar and ground garlic and sea salt on my cabbage, Yum!

corned beef, potatoes, carrots

cabbage and onion in it's own juices- this might be soup tomorrow

Recipe Site: http://startcooking.com/

I looked up recipes for corned beef brisket and ran across this site. I love it! Check it out.
http://startcooking.com/
I think I will try to adapt this on to our diet somehow. It sounds so good. dry mustard, and stevia with apple cider vinegar in a mix of yogurt and sour cream, hmmmm... might make an interesting glaze.

found on http://startcooking.com/

Jessica

I have found a new way to serve corned beef that my whole family loves and you can eat just about any kind of side dish with it. We love to eat it this way in the summer with a baked potato or a pasta salad. You cook the corned beef the same as you would any other time. When it is nice and tender place it on a foil lined baking sheet. Mix together approx. 1 cup of brown sugar adding enough yellow or brown mustard to make it a moist glaze.Glaze the beef and put under the broiler until brown and bubbly, flip it over and do the other side the same.We also do it on our grill instead of using the broiler. I personally don't like mustard or anything sweet but this is something truely different.It isn't really sweet nor do you taste the mustard it changes into something very unique.My family and I are glad I took a chance on it and made it.It is our favorite way of eating corned beef.Also instead of cooking the cabbage with the beef we slice it into 1/2 inch slices and sautee it in butter on the side. I hope you enjoy this as much as our family does.

chicken salad- bunny food!

Phase 2! We can add melon to breakfast. These eggs were delicious. Jamie mixed in leftover fajita  meat, delicious!

Mixing up some chicken salad- using sour cream,  greek yogurt, and olive oil rather than mayo

chopping up the lettuces with my cool new lettuce knife

Beautiful salad- bunny food.
The radish salad in the middle was really good.
I chopped radishes, onion together and stirred in olive oil, apple cider vinegar, stevia, sea salt, garlic.

view of one plate

we are drinking a lot of lemon water and herbal tea! I mean a LOT!

going green...

Tonight Grandma hosted her Club at her end of the house. We made the potato soup, rueben sandwiches, and green mint shakes- NOT on the Candida Diet! but we modified the soup so we could have some.  

***NOTE: Potatoes are Phase 2, If you are in Phase 1 leave out the potatoes! We are pretty happy to be adding some food items from phase 2- potatoes, cheese, etc. We are still being very careful! Mainly- no sugar! We are mostly eating MEVY (meat, eggs, vegetables, greek yogurt).

carrots, celery, onion, garlic
chopped in the food processor
cooked until tender in a little olive oil
then simmered in chicken broth

potatoes boiled separately

add potatoes to pot
For Candida Diet- add rice milk to the soup

I cook my bacon in the oven when I am going to do a lot of it.
This bacon is to crumble on top of the soup.

Beautifully set green and gold table

Everyone gets a treat! Grandma made these for her Club friends.
This is not for the Candida Diet people! but aren't they cute!

dishes ready for soup and shakes

Wonderful ladies enjoying a St. Patrick celebration dinner.
Potato soup, rueben sandwiches, green mint shakes, salads, coffee

We couldn't have shakes or sandwiches- but we can always have strawberries, with pecans, and mint whipped cream.

preparing the broccolli and cauliflower - we love them steamed

marinading the chicken with oil, vinegar, kosher salt, ground pepper

bake the chicken with homemade veggie dip, topped with brown rice flour and flaxmeal 

baked chicken with pesto, steamed veggies, mac n cheese, carrot bread- that's what's for dinner

assortment of pre-dinner dips. rosemary and garlic in greek yogurt, carrot dip, pesto. Today I went to Whole Foods and picked up some hand dipped  ricotta cheese, creamy cream cheese from Zingermans- really good with the pesto... Tried them all on the mini muffins, carrots, celery, apple wedgies, and flaxseed crackers. It's fun to try all the different flavors.

Dinner! Meatballs, rice, leeks, acorn squash, carrot bread, apple custard, Yum!

Breads, custard, simple dinner

1 C almond butter, 1 C ricotta cheese, 1 C oat flour, 1 egg, 1 t baking powder

little bitty spoonfuls of batter for mini muffins

after they bake- testing doneness with the toothpick

Almond Butter Mini Muffins, ready for snacking- they go fast!

 Slight Revisions to the carrot bread... see labels for recipe

ginger with the nutmeg and cinnamon, oat flour instead of rice flour,
added whipping cream to make the batter not quite so thick

Baked in a cake pan, topped with shredded carrot, chopped walnuts,  cinnamon, 1 pkg stevia

 Apple Custard adapted from this recipe:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Custard/Detail.aspx

Ingredients

• 4 large eggs
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar (I used Stevia)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can NESTLE® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk (I used whipping cream)
• 1 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ground nutmeg

Apple wedgies in with custard

pouring in the custard

Apple Custard in a water bath

Sliced apples with 2 dips
Almond Butter (see labels for recipe)
Carrot Dip- Shredded carrots blended into 1/2 C ricotta cheese and 1/2 C sour cream, and a bit of nutmeg

Simple dinner- Guacamole salad- Assorted lettuce and spinach, chopped celery, alfalfa sprouts, chopped tomatoes, guacamole dressing (see labels for recipe)