Lamb Stew - Spanish Style

I think this is actually a Cooking Light recipe, but I am not sure.  My mom sent it to me and said it was great, so I'm going to try it soon!

3 pounds lamb shoulder, (or leg of lamb)
1 teaspoon salt
Cooking spray
4 cups vertically sliced onion
1 tablespoon Arrowroot powder
1 cup dry white wine
6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1 cup sliced bottled piquillo or sliced bottled roasted red bell peppers Sprinkle lamb with salt. Heat a large Dutch oven coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add half of lamb, browning on all sides, and remove lamb from pan. Repeat procedure with remaining lamb.

Add onion to pan; sauté 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Stir in flour. Add lamb, wine, and garlic, stirring to combine. Cover, reduce heat, and cook 1 hour or until lamb is tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in the peppers; cover and cook 15 minutes or until lamb is tender, stirring occasionally.

Yield:  5 servings (serving size: 1 cup)
CALORIES 486 (42% from fat); FAT 22.8g (sat 8.7g,mono 9.2g,poly 2.1g); IRON 4mg; CHOLESTEROL 159mg; CALCIUM 68mg; CARBOHYDRATE 15.5g; SODIUM 673mg; PROTEIN 45.5g; FIBER 1.8g

Carne Guisada and Stud Bar

I must confess, I have missed several days of photos - lets face it, its boring.  Plus I was busy installing my new stud bar www.studbarpullup.com  

I want to have a least one solid unassisted kipping pull up by March 1, so I've got some work ahead of me...I am close! 

I've doing a lot of experimenting with paleo recipes, this is actually a Carne Guisada recipe that happens to be paleo...although it would be great with a Modelo!

Carne Guisada:

Ingredients

• 3 pounds chuck roast, cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
• 3 medium potatoes, unpeeled and diced(omit for paleo)
  
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 2 red bell peppers, cut into strips
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1/4 cup Arrowroot powder 
• 1/4 cup chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 cups beef  or chicken broth 

Combine all the ingredients except the broth and stir so the meat is coated with the Arrowroot powder, then add broth. You can do this on the stove or in a crock pot.  Serve with sliced avocado or guacamole and maybe some fresh jalepeno - enjoy!

Tuesday and Wednesday

Egg Salad with Bell Pepper - very good!





 
 Isn't this just beautiful? Spinach, Zuchinni, Carrots, Sausage.  A tiny bit of vinegar and oil. 

This is Wednesday lunch.  I only had 1 snack today, bell pepper and almond butter. 
Dinner was assorted veggies cooked with diced tomato and red wine reduction, plus some chicken. 

Monday, Monday.....

Mondays are no one's favorite, especially when its a Holiday for some and not others! BUT if you did prep on Sunday night, Monday morning can be that much better when you don't have to worry about what to take for lunch.  Check out the left over braised short ribs heated and served over spinach and bell pepper....NumNum (like my son says)

Dinner is chicken sausage and Kale sauteed with Red Onion, Mushroom, coconut milk and curry - Also NumNum!

The weekend...

Thanks to Cheray for the braised short ribs recipe!
Obviously I missed some...it was a busy weekend of attempting to get things done around the house. 

TGIF!

Happy Friday! (even though I am late with the post) I've decided not to photograph breakfast EVERY day b/c it's pretty much the same EVERY day.  2-3 Eggs, some nuts or almond butter and berries.  So...when it's different, or when I am not running late for work, I'll photo it ;). Today you see the usual snacks...lunch was zuchinni and rotisserie chicken. Dinner was actually out and that was easier than I thought, BUT its all about where you go.  We went to Vino Vino and I had a beet salad with arugula and some shrimp cooked in chili oil.  (I did not eat the bread that came with).

A Good Morning to Rest

This was a great day to sleep in, the legs were sore, it was a little rainy - enough said.
Breakfast - 2 eggs, 1 turkey bacon, almost half an apple (my son took part of it from me) and some almond butter. 

These snack photos are hard to see.
Snack 1: Central Mkt Roasted Deli turkey and Mrs. May's nut clusters.
Snack 2: Red and green bell pepper, almond butter and chicken sausage. (This is day 2 of replacing my afternoon fruit with a green or red veggie, I may still have an apple for my afternoon snack occasionally)

Lunch was leftover from last night....chicken stew, onion, hatch green chiles, zucchini.  Plus sliced Avocado.

I wasn't very hungy come dinner time (maybe it was all the almond butter I had today) so I had 2 eggs and some nuts.  Sipping a hot tea as I post. 

Keep up the clean eating!

Squat-tastic Wednesday Jan 13th

All day today I keep thinking that today is Thursday which means....tomorrow is Friday, but its not - bummer! So this morning I tried coconut milk in my coffee, if you are going hard core and need something creamy this will do the trick, its been a long long time since I have had non-dairy creamer in my coffee, but it kinda tasted like that only a better. There's no mistaking it for half and half, I'll say that, its worth trying. Today was a super clean eating day, I think. I was tired and hungry after that squat-tastic WOD today.
A few notes on this stuff, that lovely snack at the top left is 1/2 bell pepper, celery, cashew butter (super yum yum, 1st time I have had it) and some egg salad stuff I made. There is a tiny bit of Olive Oil Mayo in that....made it prior to the nutrition meeting and was not going to waste it. Lunch is left overs from last night, which is usually the case for me, so see yesterday for details. This pathetic looking snack has a funny story, I was so hungry after all those squats I started eating and then realized I didn't take a picture, so I stopped mid snack, there was 1/2 of chicken sausage and more bell pepper...LOL. The turkey bacon is nitrate free from Sprouts (theirs is less $$ than WF) and it's very good. You are probably wondering
"Where is Dinner?" I was home alone with my son tonight wearing many hats and didn't take a picture, but here's what I did. I call it Chicken Carne Guisada...cut up 3 large chicken breats into cubes, slice 1 medium onion, 1-2 cans of hatch green chiles, 1/4 c Arrowroot power, cumin and chili powder to taste - stir all that stuff together add 3 cups chicken broth (homemade or organic) let is simmer for a about an hour or more and then eat like a stew. Top with Avocado, cilantro etc....

Monday 1/11 and Tuesday 1/12

So I am still figuring out how to get the pictures in order....2 snacks and Tuesday night's dinner.
The snacks are pretty self explanatory, that weird looking thing is 1/2 a link of chicken sausage. Dinner - oven roasted turkey breast (350 degrees, 20 minutes per pound or until internal temp is 160 - YES I roasted it). The Cauliflower concoction is my new favorite. Cauliflower, Bell Pepper, Sweet Onion, Curry and Coconut Milk....salt to taste....LOVE IT!

I usually have berries with my eggs at breakfast and an apple or 1/2 an apple for my afternoon snack....I am going to try replacing the apple with celery, or peppers or cucumber...on days I have fruit at breakfast. Today at the nutrition meeting someone suggested putting coconut milk in your coffee. I will report on how that tastes tomorrow!

Here's a nugget of inspiration - today at work someone said to me...."you are bugging me" I looked puzzled and then she said "you are losing weight"....I know this person well and so I replied, "that's b/c I don't eat crap all day!"

I am Crossfit - Photo Food Log

On Monday - Day 3 of I AM CROSSFIT - my boss brings in a dark chocolate cake with milk chocolate icing and pecans on top. Talk about temptation. To take my mind off of that cake I sent Carey a picture of my lunch on Monday, next thing I knew I was photographing my snack. So What? So after the nutrition meeting on Tuesday I was inspired and I decided to commit to a photo food log during the 8 weeks of I AM CROSSFIT. Since this idea was just born I did miss photographing breakfast both days and lunch today. I plan to do this for as many meals and snacks as I can - if I stumble across a particularly good recipe, I'll share it.

Pictured here is lunch on Mon Jan 11th. Broccoli, Zucchini, a few Carrots and Chicken Cilantro Sausage from Sprouts.

First workout of 2010

"Angie"
Scaled due to the Christmas break (usually 100 of each)
50 Pullups
50 Push Ups
70 AB Mat sit ups
70 Squats
(time 14:53)

Veggie Stir Fry with Lamb Sausage
2 links lamb sausage (Whole Foods),broccoli, 1/2 green bell pepper, 1/2 onion, 2 green onion stalks, 2 tomatoes chopped, 2 cups chopped spinach. Saute with Olive Oil and Currie, Paprika, Tumeric and salt to taste.

My 17 month even ate some of it tonight.