Healthy Food

The last time I wrote on this blog was New Year's Day. I know. Pathetic. I don't know where the time went. It seems like yesterday was the first day of the semester and now we're almost into finals. But anyways.

In my last blog I mentioned possibly doing something with this blog involving food. I'm going to attempt to do that from now on. I'm not sure how often I'll post but I'm hoping a couple times a week at least.

On to my food adventures.

Wednesday:

I was inspired to make chicken salad and sweet potato fries. I found both of the recipes online quite easily. When I was at the grocery store, I only needed a couple extra things. For the chicken salad: walnuts, dried cranberries, celery and onions. For the sweet potato fries: sweet potatoes. I kind of simplified the recipes to ease the affect on my wallet.

When I got back home, lo and behold, I had forgotten the dried cranberries. It was too late to go back so I had to do without. Basically the salad consisted of chopping vegetables up, cooking the chicken and mixing mayo and white vinegar together for the sauce. One problem I did run into was toasting the walnuts. I somehow managed to burn them but they were still salvageable so it was okay.

The salad turned out good and I accompanied it with sweet potato fries. The only thing about these was having to peel the sweet potatoes. It wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I chopped them, covered them in oil, salt, pepper and cinnamon. After a half hour in the oven, they turned out really well. They tasted like Thanksgiving and I regretted not having pumpkin pie to go along with them. Oh well. I was happy with the finished product so it's okay.

Thursday:

Not as exciting.

I made sloppy joes and spaghetti (sauce from a jar with ground beef). The only actual cooking skill that was needed for this meal wa s chopping onions for the sloppy joes. The sloppy joes that I make include beef, onion, ketchup and mustard. Nothing else. I know it sounds to simple, but try it. It's amazing. Then, I made spaghetti with meat sauce for today's lunch and early dinner (I usually eat dinner twice).

Friday:

So today was yet another grocery day. This is what happens when I get ideas for recipes: I shop a lot. More money out of my pocket that I don't have much of (thanks to having to pay my taxes). So I bought the stuff I needed for (hopefully) all of the week's meals including today's meal: shrimp scampi. I bought shrimp. That's it. That's all I needed for shrimp scampi.

Basically to make the shrimp scampi, you melt butter in olive oil with chopped garlic. Then, you cook the shrimp in that sauce. The linguine (spaghetti) is cooking while this is going on. Then, you add parsley, crushed red pepper, lemon juice (white wine vinegar) and I added a little parmegan for good measure along with the cooked spaghetti. Voila! Shrimp scampi. It was amazing. It was so refreshing to eat something besides: spaghetti, chicken quesadillas, or chicken alfredo. That's one of the reasons I'm doing this blog. I'm hoping to get a little variety in my cooking. It's gotten to be a bit boring eating the same thing week after week.

All right. I'll keep you updated any and all meals. Til next time.

Salud!