In light of my commitment to serve healthier food, and to ingest as many servings of fruits and vegetables a day into our family, I thought I'd share the beautiful salad I made us for dinner last night :) The meal consisted of spinach, carrots, orange peppers, grilled chicken breast (cut on top of the salad), slice granny smith apples (also placed on top of the salad--delicious!), tomatoes, raw broccoli and feta cheese. Sweet Potato french fries and corn on the cobb were the side dishes. I think Chuck was skeptical..."is this all that is for dinner?" to which I responded, "trust me honey, I promise you will be full after you eat all this!" I was right, he was completely satisfied. I grilled one chicken breast for the two of us which was the perfect amount to top our salad, and I swapped our regular lettuce for spinach, which prompted a "uh what's this?" from my husband. "Spinach honey, it's so much healthier." "Spinach comes raw?? This is good! We can substitute this any day! I just thought it came cooked or creamed!" (For the record, I won't eat it cooked or creamed either!) Here's to a summer of veggies and lots of trips to the local produce stand!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Delicious!
In light of my commitment to serve healthier food, and to ingest as many servings of fruits and vegetables a day into our family, I thought I'd share the beautiful salad I made us for dinner last night :) The meal consisted of spinach, carrots, orange peppers, grilled chicken breast (cut on top of the salad), slice granny smith apples (also placed on top of the salad--delicious!), tomatoes, raw broccoli and feta cheese. Sweet Potato french fries and corn on the cobb were the side dishes. I think Chuck was skeptical..."is this all that is for dinner?" to which I responded, "trust me honey, I promise you will be full after you eat all this!" I was right, he was completely satisfied. I grilled one chicken breast for the two of us which was the perfect amount to top our salad, and I swapped our regular lettuce for spinach, which prompted a "uh what's this?" from my husband. "Spinach honey, it's so much healthier." "Spinach comes raw?? This is good! We can substitute this any day! I just thought it came cooked or creamed!" (For the record, I won't eat it cooked or creamed either!) Here's to a summer of veggies and lots of trips to the local produce stand!
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I don't know if you've had a chance to read "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." If you haven't, I think you'd really enjoy it! There's also a website (http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/) that has a lot of great recipes. Two other handy cook books are "The Art of Simple Food" by Alice Waters and "The Hippy Gourmet" by by Bruce Brennan and James Ehrlich. Happy cooking!
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