So I went to Atlanta after being gone for 5 years!!! It was nice to see my friends, my house etc etc! but I really came for 3 things..... pictured above!
So my gal pal Heather and I have gone garden crazy, I started a garden a few months ago and now I'm started to get veggies here and there but I still go out every morning with my coffee and water my garden and stare at the baby veggie trying to figure out when I should pick them... So I have the "ok" from my landlord to make my side yard a whole garden! I have big plans and I promise I will keep my blog followers (all 19 of you!) a breast of this adventure!
Mini Man comes to work with me almost everyday but I have to say lately he has been a butthole.... Or maybe we have been spending to much time together... he sleeps in the bed with us and he comes to work with me, I think the only time we are not together is when I work out. No wonder he is a jerk! spoiled with a side of spoiled!!
Me leaving the bike show, I was sure that when I attempted to kick my bike over that it would fall over on top of the and I would break my leg.... just because 10 or so guys were taking pictures of me. BUT my good ole gal started on the first kick!!
This was one of the best bike shows I've ever been to!! Not only was down the street from my house BUT, my pal Harpoon helped to run this awesome show! Here are a few of the bikes that I saw that were pretty cool.
Pan seared Mahi Mahi w/ butter bean mash
2 mahi mahi steaks
1 orange
rub for the fish
1/3 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp sweet paprika
pinch garlic salt
1 tbsp dryed cilrantro
as much as you want pepper
canned butter beans
salt and pepper
bacon bits
butter
A few hours before you cook the fish make the rub on a small plate, then rub that fish on both sides!! make sure all the rub sticks to the fish. put in it a bowl and squeeze a orange over the fish and marinate for a few hour in the frigde. (Do this before you go to work if you want the longer the better)
In a large skillet put a dash of olive oil heat til med/high drop in fish and cook 3 to 4 mins on each side depending on thickness fish should be brown on each side. Keep the rest of the marinate and after fish is on plate toss the rest of the marinate in the skillet, it will carmelzie in a about 2 mins, then pour over fish.
butter bean mash
drain butter beans, put in pan and heat on low, with a potato masher mash beans then add salt and pepper with as much butter has you want a pad or 2, than add bacon bits! (yes bacon bits) stir in!
add what ever GREEN veggie or salad (you always have to have something green, that’s is what my mom always said)
New app for my iphone and my hair looked kinda good today. (and my appointment no showed)
Ground Chicken
garlic salt
pepper
soy sauce
cilantro
teriyaki sauce
bread crumbs
egg beaters
Slider buns or yeast rolls
green beans
flour
egg beaters
pepper
lemon
salt
sauce to dip green beans in
sour cream
garlic salt
sweet paprika
This recipe is for 2
1/2 pound of ground chicken (I found that chicken is lower in calories and fat but it depends on the meat so check your lables and pick the healthest one)
Place chicken in bowl add soy and teriyaki sauce just a few splashes teaspoon of pepper and garlic salt, and as much cilantro as you want. 1/3 cup of bread crumbs and 1/3 of egg beaters. Give the meat a good massage to mix it all in, then place in fridge for 1/2 hour or so, you dont have to but it hold the sliders together better. Now it depends on how big your buns are, take your meat mixture and make balls about 1/2 the size of your buns (that sounds awesome “buns and balls”) after you have formed your balls, get a med/lg skillet and add a splash of olive oil, heat to med then add your balls, press down with spatula to desired thickness, cook 3 to 4 mins on each side. Toast buns and add pickle, and fixins!
Green Beans
Boil water add green beans cook for 3 mins. Drain, put in a bowl coat beans with egg beaters add l1/2 a lemon’s juice and teaspoon of pepper, dust beans with flour and toss. In a large skillet warm olive oil on med/lg wait til oil is hot and add green bean, cook for 5 mins every so often move beans around until the batter is golden brown. (Ricki says they are better than tater tots hmmmm not sure about that one!
teriyaki garlic sauce
low sodium soy sauce
sesame seeds
extra firm tofu
2 cups of snap peas
Quarter head cabbage
2 cups of mushrooms
frozen peas or corn
egg substitute
1 1/2 cups of brown rice cooked
-Cut tofu in short ways quarter inch slices
-Marinade teriyaki and soy sauce, make sure all slices are covered in both, then shake sesame seeds. (marinade for at least one hour but the longer the better)
pre-heat oven to 400 cook for 15 mins
When tofu is baking
Pre-heat wok or large pan, on med/high, add olive oil about 2 tbsp
First put in mushroom for about 2 mins, then add teriyaki and soy sauce about 3 tbsps each add with snap peas and cabbage and sautee for about 6 mins or so or until softish but not to soft, add brown rice to wok and toss with veggies add egg subitute and peas then toss again.
Take tofu out of oven and let cool for 2 or 3 mins, then slice into smaller sections
put rice and veggie mixture on plate or bowl put the tofu on top.
Cold leftover steak
broccoli
What ever bread you have (We had whole wheat hotdog bun)
Garlic Salt
Steak sauce
Cheese
Tater Tots
Cut the steak very thin, preheat skillet to med, add a tbsp of olive oil, throw steak in for about 4 or 5 min just to heat up add garlic salt and pepper. After Steak is warm, put steak in hot dog bun and add broccoli than top it off with cheese. Pop in the boriler for 4 to 6 mins until the cheese is melted.
Heat up tater tots
Ricki loves tater tots..
I ate my weight in nachos last night.... I ran 7 miles this morning, I don't know how many miles I should have run, I think that 7 was not enough... It might be worth it... I think nachos are the most perfect food.
