Happy Friday!
It’s almost dinner time and I’m finally posting! Whoops!
Brian and I are trying to get a little healthier here in 2013. We aren’t following an actual diet plan yet, but we’ve been absorbing all kinds of interesting information about nutrition, diets, weight loss, and overall health, and we’re taking steps to eat better.
So my kitchen currently looks like this:
Full of vegetables and fruits! (Well, this picture is mostly fruits. But there are tons of veggies in the fridge, which is a real change from what my fridge is normally full of!)
The other night, we had some delicious pseudo-caprese salad for dinner. I halved grape tomatoes and threw them in a container with some chopped fresh basil, chopped flat-leaf spinach, and minced garlic, then drizzled everything with olive oil and let it sit over night. The next day we ate it with fresh mozzarella. Doesn’t it look good?
It really tasted as good as it looks. And I was very happy that Brian, who’s usually a meat-eater, found it satisfying as well as yummy for dinner.
Tonight, I’m roasting some red peppers in an attempt to make roasted red pepper soup – with a recipe that I found over at Joyful Abode.
Over the weekend, I’m also hoping to try the creamy tomato soup recipe in my America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook.
(I also found a recipe for a creamless creamy version by ATC!)
And sometime soon I want to try Pioneer Woman’s perfect potato soup. Sounds so yummy!
These recipes aren’t exactly fat free :) but they’re loaded with veggies and are made with fresh (or at least not overly processed) ingredients, which is what we’re going for, at least for now.
What are you cooking up this weekend?
Update: The roasted red pepper soup is fantastic!! Definitely check it out!
(And for those of you who don’t do dairy, once it was all blended up, it was totally great without the cream!)
I am so proud of you...for learning about nutrition and for being a kitchen diva.
ReplyDeleteThanks Momma! I certainly am a diva about cleaning up! I hate to do it! :)
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