teacher by day - chef by night
Now you wait just one minute before you stop reading (actually – you need to start reading in order to start, but don’t stop before you even start… if that even makes any sense). These are not pancakes like you would eat for breakfast… think instead …
Yes – another GREEN recipe! Now that I am over being sick (and just have an occasional gross cough) Rich’s body decided he wanted to catch what I had. He is pushing through it (and not taking it easy like he tried to force me …
Installment #2 of GREEN recipes. I always read about detox smoothies and all sorts of other healthy-type-things, but am often too scared (or not enough dedication to “detox”) to try them. So when I found this Green Spinach Smoothie that included sweet flavors AND chocolate – I knew I had found something that was finally worth my time/ingredients to try!
I am current on about a week and a half for being sick (right now I feel like I am one cough away from losing the voice – maybe I should have listened more than a week ago and gone to the doctor, but at this point I am almost getting better – so no point in paying the co-pay!) After two snow days that were perfect for allowing my body some rest time we had a 2-hour delay… perfect time for a healthy breakfast! I whipped this up, shared with Rich and within a half hour we both used the bathroom (I’m not giving you details – but you get my point). SO – not only did this taste happy and healthy and thick and filling, but it also wiped some of that garbage out of my system. I think that Rich enjoyed the flavor – but never wants me to make it again since he didn’t like it cleaning him out!
Ingredients
How To
These muffins have a slightly sweet taste to them, but are dense and tasty enough to not be overly gross BUT not so “spinach-y” that you don’t want to enjoy them for breakfast. I’m telling you – the only way to truly enjoy these is to make them and try them yourself!
While wandering around on the internet the other night I cam across this interestingly titled “Spanakorizo” but then the blog was all about working out and healthy stuff (nothing against that – but I’m not there yet) – so I read on (and gawked at …
I love dips! I love dips that are healthy even more! Last week we were invited to a Turkish (Muslim) retreat for Ramadan (the retreat is in the area & as part of Ramadan they are to open their hearts & homes to neighbors – it was a very interesting, educational, & tasty evening. Check out this news report about the evening (see me getting my food there too).
Before heading over to the dinner my parents came over to hang out & help us try to take a good photo with the dogs (coming soon). I decided to do some appetizer and wanted to make a really healthy spinach dip. After some searching I decided to invent the following “dip”
To make the dip:
I just dumped all ingredients in the blender & blended until smooth.
We served this in a bread bowl (Rich makes a pretty good bread – and this was the other half of the dough from his amazing home-made pizza the night before, more on that another time!) with some fresh veggies for dipping. I served about 1/2 of it that night and the rest I had with lunch and some cut veggies at school and it didn’t last long! This makes a super healthy dip for veggies of spread on a sandwich. I also cannot wait to try this with fresh spinach & also as it gets cooler to try mixing some cheese in & broiling it to serve with bagel chips.
Healthy, Tasty, Hearty – good food combo!