So this cooking new things is pretty fun! I have found some really good new recipes this past week! And totally failed on one... But overall this past week has been a success! I would love to post pretty pictures of all of my creations but unfortunately my phone went for a little swim on the winery trip this past weekend. Sad thing is that it wasn't even my fault, but oh well such is life. Thankfully one of my CrossFit friends let me borrow a phone for a bit! Anyways, without further ado...
October 6th: The St. Louis Cardinals are playing in October again! This of course calls for some game watching parties and therefor many of appetizers. Last Monday, my friends and I got together to watch the Cardinals defeat the Dodgers 3-1 on their way to winning the NLCS. I knew I would want to partake in eating the appetizers, so I decided to make something that was "friendly" to my diet. I decided on making spinach artichoke dip. It was super easy to make with frozen spinach, a can of artichoke hearts, some bacon, coconut milk, and garlic! I still haven't learned my lesson and made a huge amount (due to the recipe) but thankfully one of my friends helped me out in eating most of it! I ate it with some sweet potato chips, which aren't the best, but it was delicious none the less!
October 7th: O.M.G. I made some stuffed mushrooms on this lovely Tuesday and they were absolutely amazing! They were super easy to make and a definite repeat for the future. I "de-stalked" some mushrooms and then made the stuffing for them. The stuffing contained the mushroom stalks, left-over pulled pork, garlic, almond flour, cilantro, ginger, and pepper. I popped them in the over for 20 minutes at 350 degrees and they were good to go! I made about 10 of them and had leftovers for lunch the next day!
October 8th: Total and epic fail! I attempted to make spaghetti squash noodles with an alfredo sauce. Neither thing turned out to be a success. First problem, I don't think I had the right kind of squash. I am not sure if that makes a difference or not but what I got out of the squash was basically mashed squash. The sauce wasn't even close to setting up after many tries to fix it. Oh well I tried. I made some chicken to go with the mashed squash and put the two together which was alright. I am definitely going to try to make the spaghetti again but I think I will forget the sauce.
October 9th: Another delicious night! I made chicken fried cauliflower rice and it was surprisingly very good! It took a little more effort than I anticipated but it was definitely worth it. I had to pull out the food chopper to make rice from the cauliflower and then cut up a lot of veggies. It didn't call for a ton of veggies but I threw in mushrooms, peppers, garlic, and tomatoes. I simmered all of them in some seasonings and then added the cauliflower to steam. I made some chicken on the side in teriyaki sauce so I could get some protein in. I threw all of it together at the end and it was absolutely delicious! I was very skeptical after my fail the previous day but I didn't have any need to worry. I even had the roomie and a friend give it the "A+" seal.
October 10th: I am not sure why I didn't make anything on this day but I didn't. I do know that I ended up eating some delicious Ted Drewes frozen custard later that evening and it was amazing, like always!
October 11th: This was the day of the winery trip! I was super nervous about what I was going to be eating because everyone was bringing food. I brought some stuff that would be good for me to eat but luckily didn't really need to eat any of it. Everyone that came on the trip brought Paleo-like dishes and almost everything was healthy! We even had delicious protein paleo cookies that I may have eaten a few of!
October 12th: I realized I hadn't made my fifth thing of the week yet at about 4 p.m. Sunday night! I had bought all of the ingredients to make paloe pancakes on Friday morning but forgot to make them so that is what I made last night! I had a recipe from one of my friends that was relatively simple and easy to make. It did call for ground almonds though and the best I could do was chopped almonds so my batter was a little chunky. I threw some blueberries in the pancakes as well and this caused the batter to turn an interesting color... Making them on the stove took some effort. The batter was very thick and didn't seem to be cooking very well. The looked burnt from almost the beginning but I soon realized it was the blueberries that were making them look like that. The pancakes honestly looked horrible but turned out to be really, really good! I had a lot of left over batter so I will definitely be making them again!
Once again I apologize for no pictures! I actually took quite a few but when your phone goes for a swim they unfortunately disappear when it no longer turns on. Oh well I hope to have more pictures with the upcoming week!
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