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acpgee · January 29

Another simple tapas dinner. This looks elaborate but only takes 30 minutes to put together. A small spanish tortilla is started by frying a thinly sliced smalll onion and large baking potato with olive oil until potato is soft. The potato/onion mixture is stirred into 3 or 4 beaten eggs which is meant to rest 15 minutes before frying 2 minutes each side in a small nonstick pan. In the meantime prep feta and halved cherry tomato scattered with dry oregano and drizzled with olive oil. This needs to be roasted for 8 minutes in the air fryer to smear on toast. There is time enough leftover to make a green salad and slice up a little serrano ham and salami.

takinitalloff · January 30

On a typical day I have a couple "real meals" and the rest is what I would call "modular snacks" or gap fillers: smaller meals made up of easily portioned components that are specifically chosen to hit my macro/nutrition goals. Here are two examples:

1. Chicken breast cooked sous vide with herbs, white wine, and olive oil; half a Cara Cara orange; roasted hazelnuts.

2. Canned Albacore tuna with raw carrot and mayo.

acpgee · January 30

Goegraphical mash up dinner. Spaghetti aglio olio followed by beef tataki salad.

100_Rabbits · January 30

This thing turned out to be a monster lol. It has... roasted chicken, brussel sprouts and sweet potato 'croutons', on spinach, broccoli, carrot, pepper jack cheese, a boiled egg, olives and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.

JamesMason9223 · January 30

Had a busy weekend, made Cherry Cheese Danishes:

and
Tarragon Potato Gnocchi in a Roasted Carrot sauce with Zucchini, Bacon and Pumpkin Seeds

(yes that looks like a lot of bacon because it's also all the meat i was eating for the day, which amounted to only 3 strips.)

acpgee · January 31

Omelet and cucumber maki to start followed by udon and kakiage with yaki yasai of button mushroom.

widgit808 · February 1

100_Rabbits wrote: »

This thing turned out to be a monster lol. It has... roasted chicken, brussel sprouts and sweet potato 'croutons', on spinach, broccoli, carrot, pepper jack cheese, a boiled egg, olives and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.

@100_Rabbits looks great. 100% my kinda meal!

SafariGalNYC · February 1

100_Rabbits wrote: »

This thing turned out to be a monster lol. It has... roasted chicken, brussel sprouts and sweet potato 'croutons', on spinach, broccoli, carrot, pepper jack cheese, a boiled egg, olives and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting.

Thats beautiful!

JamesMason9223 · February 1

Soy Glazed Refried Chicken with Kaffir Rice, and French Beans and Carrots

acpgee · February 1

Beef hor fun and braised pak choi.

Veta2018 · February 2

I made Cranberry chicken salad. I had to cut the amount of cranberries in 1/2 to keep under my goal of 30g sugar for today. I also was out of pecans so I used pistachios instead.

acpgee · February 2

Udon with dashi, kakiage and futomaki.

SafariGalNYC · February 3

Lazy Friday dinner.

Tuna salad on mixed greens.

100_Rabbits · February 3

Sweet and sour tofu "nuggets" and spicy green bean and mushroom stir fry.

SafariGalNYC · February 4

Breakfast-
Protein smoothie for the fam with blueberries, collagen peptides, purple kale, Jerusalem artichoke and rainbow chard.
Shot of turmeric.

Dinner- shrimp with avocado, mixed greens, cucumber, broccoli microgreens and feta.

I made an avocado vinaigrette for the first time. Avocado, balsamic, apple cider vinegar, evoo, thyme, rosemary, parsley, sea salt. Blended together. Came out great!

takinitalloff · February 4

@SafariGalNYC Yum! You've made me hungry. One fun thing I learned last year is that I can add avocado instead of oil to my salads. Of course if I still need more fat for the day I also add both, hehe. Your shrimp salad looks amazing. OK I'm off to the fridge now haha

MachOne4 · February 4

acpgee wrote: »

Another simple tapas dinner. This looks elaborate but only takes 30 minutes to put together. A small spanish tortilla is started by frying a thinly sliced smalll onion and large baking potato with olive oil until potato is soft. The potato/onion mixture is stirred into 3 or 4 beaten eggs which is meant to rest 15 minutes before frying 2 minutes each side in a small nonstick pan. In the meantime prep feta and halved cherry tomato scattered with dry oregano and drizzled with olive oil. This needs to be roasted for 8 minutes in the air fryer to smear on toast. There is time enough leftover to make a green salad and slice up a little serrano ham and salami.

I LOVE Spanish Omlete. SO simple to make and incredibly tatsy and satisfying.

SafariGalNYC · February 4

takinitalloff wrote: »

@SafariGalNYC Yum! You've made me hungry. One fun thing I learned last year is that I can add avocado instead of oil to my salads. Of course if I still need more fat for the day I also add both, hehe. Your shrimp salad looks amazing. OK I'm off to the fridge now haha

Amazing calorie save!
I’m going to try this!! Thanks @takinitalloff

takinitalloff · February 4

@SafariGalNYC Let me know what you think! By the way I don’t turn the avocado into “dressing” — I simply add the avocado pieces to the salad, and toss lightly.

janicemlove · February 4

Had a little more time today than usual so got to play in the kitchen. For lunch I made pasta w a roasted honey it squash sauce (added silken tofu to thicken and add protein), with roasted broccoli and feta on top.

Made some sweet potato soup for lunches, it’s been cold and wet here so I’ve been craving soup for a while. Also made some banana chocolate chip muffins.

acpgee · February 4

Cheese souffle, green salad, charcuterie.

acpgee · February 5

Leftovers management. Egg fried rice made from leftovers from Saturday's dinner party. Coca cola chicken (=cheat's teriyaki) I batch cooked with a girlfriend two weekends ago that I pulled out of the freezer. Vietnamese cahn soup made with spinach.

Veta2018 · February 6

I made Stuffed Cabbage Rolls with Italian sausage, brown rice, onion, tomato,and seasonings for dinner. Then, I made Coleslaw with the leftover cabbage.

takinitalloff · February 6

@Veta2018 Yum, cabbage rolls! You're giving me ideas for my menu of upcoming meals

Your coleslaw looks yummy too.

acpgee · February 6

Salt beef cooked sous vide a month ago and pulled out of the freezer. Sauerkraut from a store bought jar, roast carrots and daikon, roast potato, mayonnaise spiked with nduja.

takinitalloff · February 7

Sichuan dry-fried green beans and tofu from Michael Natkin's book Herbivoracious. I omitted the sugar and salt (there's enough salt in the soy sauce & Szechuan preserved vegetable), and used 5 Tbsp avocado oil instead of 6 Tbsp vegetable oil. A quick, easy, and very tasty meal.

takinitalloff · February 7

Sweet potato hummus, inspired by a comment someone made in the Ultimate Accountability Challenge, my "happy home" here on MFP... shout-out to my fellow UAC'ers who hang out in this thread

And to anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about, come visit us and join if you like!

I used this recipe but left out the cayenne pepper, so my hummus was NOT spicy. No judgment, but I personally am not a fan of making all things spicy.

Here's my first portion -- sadly flattened by the lid of the container it was in... food prep is about convenience first, and beauty maybe 12th or so

Also, for some reason this hummus doesn't photograph well -- it's much more vividly orange in real life. I ate it with red bell pepper and sugar snap peas. I would not do the sugar snap peas again, but the bell pepper was a good addition. Going to try carrots & bell peppers next. I'm tickled pink that someone thought of combining hummus with sweet potatoes, two of my favorite things!

takinitalloff · February 7

A quick salad: romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, English cucumber, sugar snap peas, walnuts, a little bit of olive oil, and some more of that chicken breast cooked sous vide in wine, herbs, salt & olive oil. I warmed up the chicken breast in the microwave before adding it to the salad. I've been eating a lot of wintery stews lately and I got a little tired of all that brown sameness

takinitalloff · February 7

Here's the kind of thing I snack on while watching a movie at the end of the day: chilled Honeycrisp apple and peanut butter. (I keep my apples and peanut butter in the fridge.) All weighed/measured, and tracked in my food log, before eating. The best of both worlds: I can eat healthy, lose weight, and still eat "mindlessly" if I want

takinitalloff · February 7

Carbonade Flamande -- one of the aforementioned brown stews... this is real comfort food for dark, cold winter days or (rainy fall nights). I eat this with the bright Belgian endive/apple/walnut salad that the recipe writer suggests. I've made this dish a few times now, and it always comes out perfect. It's great for food preppers too, just be sure to make a fresh batch of salad every couple days because the salad loses its appeal when you store it too long.

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