I have no ability to use salt. Seriously. I under salt just about everything I cook. Thank goodness for Tony! I constantly bring him things to taste, and the first words out of his mouth is “it needs more salt!” I think Tony thinks I’ve burned every tastebud in my mouth for all the hot stuff I eat! This mornings breakfast was no exception!
- 1 corn tortilla
- 1/2 cup egg whites
- handful baby spinach
- 1/2 ounce cheese ends
- fresh sliced jalapenos! 😀
- tablespoon lime salsa (Paul Newman’s –so good!)
- fruit salad with raspberries and kiwi
My store had kiwis for 10 for $1! You’ll be seeing these a lot this week!
Since I went to the Japanese grocery store yesterday, I picked up some bean sprouts and baby bok choy – I’ve had regular bok choy, but never really liked it – but I LOVED the baby bok choy! I had leftover crab from my mom’s birthday dinner, so lunch was crab stir fry:
- 1.5 ounce baby bok choy
- 3 ounces bean sprouts
- 1.5 ounce red pepper
- 1.5 ounce zucchini
- 1 package of Yaki-Soba Noodles (150 calories for the whole package!)
- 3 ounces cooked king crab
- 3 ounces broccoli
- 2 tablespoons House of Tsang Szechuan sauce
This was so filling and good! But I wished I would have added more sliced fresh jalapeno to this dish! 😀
I thought I would get a cup of coffee around 3:00 and decided a Cafe Mocha ala Biz was in order!
- 1/3 packet of sugar free cocoa mix
- coffee
- 2 tablespoons whipped cream
- sprinkle of Nestle ice cream topping (left over from an office birthday celebration)
Hit the spot!
I picked up some really cheap bone in chicken breasts over the weekend, so decided I would make buttermilk fried chicken. I seriously under salted the buttermilk marinade (but if it were for me I would have added WAY more cayenne 😀 ) and under salted the flour mixture – but the buttermilk made it extremely juicy and tender. Hannah hates how raw chicken looks! Luckily she had pizza after work! 😀
My plate: 5 ounce fried chicken breast, 1 cup “skinny” mashed potatoes (potatoes mixed with chicken broth, no butter) and green beans.
Stats for the Day:
- 1219 calories
- 37 fat
- 143 carb
- 24 fiber
- 82 protein
- 27% of calories from fat
- 45 minute walk at lunch (in brisk 50 degree weather!)
My friend Natalie has a great project starting this week – Project Feed Me! Click on this link here to see what it’s all about, or click on the Project Feed Me logo on the right side of my blog. Basically, you are recommended food items to give to your local food pantry – only two cans a week! This week is chili! The basis is that if you get a lot of people to give a little, everyone wins! Especially in this economy, you never know if the person who lives next door to you has trouble putting food on the table. Hope you’ll join me in this effort! 😀
Great news – soon I am going to have a great GIVEAWAY thanks to the generous people at Yoplait for their new Fiber One Yogurt – 50 people will get a free four pack of this new yogurt, and the rest will get $1.25 coupons! Stay tuned!
Biggest Loser is on!! Can’t wait to see what crazy things Tracey is going to do tonight! 😀
salt is overrated if you ask me. I barely use it in my cooking. But it gets hard to eat out when it seems like everything is drowining in salt.
Wow, fried chicken. You can’t turn down fried chicken. No way. Salt makes all the difference in food. The female half of this Duo is addicted to it.
Wow your cooking looks amazing!
I am totally the opposite of you. I love salt and probably over salt my food. Oddly enough, I only ever crave sweet food, not salty – guess I take care of that craving in my normal eating.
Haha, I am the absolute opposite! I oversalt everything, which I love but my husband thinks I overdo it.
I actually have a memory – one of my earliest memories – being 5 years old, in the car with my mom on the way to see the Nutcracker play and complaining that my sippy cup of milk was salty. She laughed it off, and then I told her that it was salt because I had put salt in it!!!! lol!!!!
10 kiwis for a dollar?? I’m happy to see 4 for a $1 a round here. I would totally be hoarding kiwis and making kiwi everything at that price! 😉
Thanks for the tofu tips. I never thought about muffins. I can’t believe your store had kiwis 10 for $1. Those are my fave and I just had to throw some out since I went out of town and just found them in the back of the fridge, yuck!
I’m sorry….. did I read that wrong…. Did you write 10 kiwis for ONE DOLLAR?!?!? OMG I would but 50 and freeze and dry them!! What a great bargain!!!
Your fresh jalapenos looks really really good on that wrap!!! I’m going to have to buy some!
Oh and as for the salt thing…. I hardly EVER add salt. If my hubby wants salt added he can do it himself on his plate.
Can’t wait to hear what you thought of BL and Tracey last night!!!! I loved last night’s episode!!!
-A
Your eyes do not deceive! Awesome deal! 😀
I’ve never even seen baby bok choy before!
The chicken looks awesome….if it was boneless! ha!
lol, i have the opposite problem with salt, i put way too much on! the food looks wonderful, i love the sound of that chicken!
That Cafe Mocha looks absolutely delicious!
Love the noodle dish! And the look of raw chicken gives me the heebie jeebies, too!
Ha, I undersalt everything too! Nick is always adding more salt to his dish 🙂
You are amazing. I think all that spice gives you extra energy!
Love the mocha ala Biz. Bizzy (Biz for short) is a childhood friend’s nickname.
Great shots today!
I love your version of a cafe mocha! That sounds fantastic right about now!!
We have our hot sauce to tantalize our taste buds 😉 Salt wouldn’t come through with our heavy handed Tabasco use!
Project Feed Me sounds good. I’m the exact opposite on the salt. Way too much on everything. Getting better. Now i can actually taste my food.
good times good times
I think you would make a fantastic professional chef – I can always add my own salt. 😉
Yum! Your meals always look great, and I bet they taste wonderful, too. Going easy on the salt isn’t such a bad thing.
And wow, that sounds like a great giveaway!
Mmmm…mashed potatoes! A friend of mine tried making “faux tatoes” with cauliflower, didn’t like them, but did like a combo of half potato, half cauliflower. I’ve been meaning to try that sometime….
oh and I forgot to say holy cow to the giveaway!! I saw the commercial for that yogurt and wanted to try it! Maybe I’ll win some, or at least a coupon! Cool!! 🙂
Breakfast looks sooo good! I love the fresh fruit! Now you’ve put me in the mood for kiwi! That’s a great price, too.
I want some cafe a la Biz! mmm
And yum for the chicken! We have a fryer, but have never even opened the box (wedding gift from J’s marriage 10 yrs ago). I’m not sure how to use it or what to do w/ the oil! Do you empty it and clean it ea. time and discard the oil, or is it ok to use for multiple uses??
wow, a fifty winner giveaway?! Good deal.
The coffee is just jumping out at me , I love it.
The egg white tortilla looks fabulous. It may not be such a bad thing that you don’t use a lot of salt. I’ve been really paying more attention to my salt intake and it seriously lingers EVERYWHERE! Most people get double the amount they need. Yikes.
No way!! I think you can be a professional cook. You can under-salt my dishes any day. Off to catch TBL too.