Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruit. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Saturday Shopping + Enchiladas

It was a late night the night before, so we decided upon breakfast away from home as a treat. We went to Zeeland Street Market, a local neighborhood joint that serves breakfast and lunch. I would describe the menu as eclectic southern home cooking, part comfort and part healthy.
We both got BESTs- bacon, egg, sprout, tomato sandwiches on wheat toast. My sandwich was awesome, except it had mayonnaise on it, and it was the sweet stuff. Next time I'll order no mayo for sure, since I'm not a big fan of Miracle Whip. They're not stingy with the sprouts, unlike some restaurants.
It hit the spot. We ate our sandwiches while driving, which I hate, but we drove to my favorite coffee shop and got drinks, so all was forgiven. I forgot to take a picture of my drink, but here's an old one:
After drinking this I was geared up to do my shopping for the day. I hit up Target, Albertson's, and Fresh Pickins.
Fruit from FP: California Valencia oranges, Bartlett Pears (cheap!!!), unwaxed apples, and limes (for drinkies)
Veggies: broccoli, carrots, grape tomatoes, large onion, avocado (stone fruit really), beets.
and the prize - - - - - an Acorn Squash Fun stuff from Target and Albertson's included: Pomegranate fruit strips, Food Should Taste Good The Works! chips, Kashi bars, nice jam (on sale), cheese, and Clif bars.Then for a late lunch, I ate some leftover stirfry, but added frozen green beans.I'm trying to put a dent in the freezer and cabinet while buying more crap every week!
After the stirfry I ate one of the Kashi bars. I see a lot of the pumpkin pie ones in blogland, but decided to try the dark chocolate coconut. Pretty good!
Also - I scoured all of the stores looking for the Celestial Seasonings Holidays teas to no avail. I guess it's just not cold enough here for Holiday drinks.

Juicin'
We made some juice as a snack, and because both of us are fighting a virus. This juice was supposed to be for breakfast, but we skipped out and ate bacon instead. :)
The ingredients included several Texas navel oranges, 2 carrots, a red delicious and a granny smith apple from the corner store, a grapefruit, and a quickly deteriorating pear.It was gooooood.
For dinner I made a childhood favorite: my mother's famous chicken enchiladas. I have a copy of the sacred recipe preserved.
Ingredients:
Chicken breasts
8 oz sour cream
grated cheese
can of green chilies
condensed cream of chicken soup
flour tortillas

Directions:
Cook chicken, cut in pieces. Mix together on low heat sour cream, cheese, chilies, and soup to make sauce. Soften tortillas in skillet. Spread a little bit of the sauce on the bottom of casserole dish. Place chicken in tortillas, spread sauce inside, roll up, put in pan, cover with remaining sauce. Sprinkle cheese on top. Cover with aluminum foil, cook at 350 for 20 minutes.

Notes:
Oh enchiladas, how I love thee! I use four small chicken breasts, but feel free to use any chicken bits (or whatever) you have. The sour cream this time was light, but I would like to try greek yogurt or cottage cheese. As for the cheese - as easy as possible, a bag of preshredded "mexican blend" cheese. (What am I, Rachel Ray?) The green chilies is up to the cook, and I prefer to use as many as possible (i.e. the BIG can). Cream of whatever soup will work. And lastly, tortillas: I prefer the small fajita/soft taco size as they fit in my pan nicely, but this time I picked up 2 packs of large tortillas just in case we made burritos. I used 9 or 10 tortillas,
I made some alterations this time. I added black beans, wild rice, black olive, and red bell pepper. Also, I usually just mix all of my ingredients together and use as a filling because it's easy.
Tonight I topped it with a green taco sauce (tomatilla based) and a little cheese. Still very rich and delicious.Yum Yum Gimme Some!
Unfortunately Mr. Greens had to work all evening. I've been cleaning, but I think I'm ready to retire with a good book and maybe a treat. Or two!Has anyone had these?
When I was looking at the Kashi bars these little things popped out at me as a must try. They are 80 calories a bar, and quite good if you have self control. I don't know if I do!

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Feeling the Octoberfest

Today I took my coffee to go, with a slice of zucchini bread on the side.

I did my usual grocery shopping, and guess what? I stayed under budget this week! I was talking with my mother about this. I've noticed that even if I don't need groceries, I still spend the same amount of money every week, on just random stuff or on "stocking up". I've stocked up so much that we don't have room for much more.
We have room for dairy, bread, and produce though!
Veggies:
White and yellow corn
Grape tomatoesCarrotsAn onionand Celery, Broccoli, and 2 artichokesFruit:
Bananas CantaloupeGrapefruit pearsand freshly picked, non-waxed, local Gala applesPrettyThere were also 3 limes.
Other:
Swiss cheeselentils
And from Albertson's I only bought 4 things, one of which was alcohol. I'm excited to try both of these:I also bought my boyfriend a surprise. He loves Boddington.
My eyes are feeling less dry today. I drank a ton of water yesterday and used drops. This has happened to me before, but I don't know what it means. I let myself wear mascara today :).

Saturday, September 26, 2009

To Market To Market to buy a Fat Fig

This morning I woke up a little cranky and dry mouthed.
My boyfriend made me coffee and breakfast though, so that was quite cheering. Breakfast in bed was grits and a soft boiled egg.
Propped up by the ol' foot. Our curious cat will sniff anything you put in front of her nose. You can't tell, but she's really craning her neck.
After I ate, I decided it was time to go do my Saturday grocery shopping.

Vegetables: 2 potatoes, 4 ears of corn, 2 red bell pepper, garlic, 3 small squash, zucchini, 2 turnip, 2 carrot, and 3 sweet potato.
Also: 2 small yellow onions, green onions, brussels sprouts, boston lettuce, and 2 avocado.
Fruit: Cantaloupe, bananas, and grapefruit.The total for today was 21.12.I went to another store to get dry goods, bread, milk, eggs, and so forth. The only interesting thing I got there were some dried banana chips, yogurt covered raisins, and 2 bags of almonds.Yes, definitely lots of snacks. I love those Smokehouse almonds. My father used to eat those (or was it Emerald brand?) all the time, but he would nibble on one almond for hours.

Speaking of snacks, later I ate a grapefruit. It was from last week and was a little more sour than bitter. I was going to eat that apple too, but I lost interest.
Dinner:
Salmon burgers, sweet potato fries, and roasted turnip.
The turnip: it was sprayed with olive oil, and sprinkled with salt and pepper, then wrap in tin foil and place in the oven for about an hour. While that was going on, I made a few sweet potato fries. The best method I've found is to spray the baking sheet or tin foil with olive oil. I also lightly mist the top of the potatoes too. Then shake on my secret spices.The salmon burgers turned out pretty well. We ate them plain with an avocado on Orowheat thins. Also had a couple of olives and pickles on the side. Next time I'll use a Chipotle mayo or something to give it a little zing. Mine:His:
He also ate a tuna burger and I tried a bite. It was tasty!


Tomorrow we should be going to a concert with my parents, and we're planning on taking a bicycle ride.