SUPER Salad

I'm chillin' at home today because school/Club was cancelled due to the VERY cold temperatures (-25, -45 degree wind chill!) Arlo and I have been relaxing. I had a boiled egg, sprouted grain bread with peanut butter, and a cup of red tea for breakfast. Then I did 20 minutes of yoga, took a bath, and read. For lunch I worked with what I had in the refrigerator. I ended up making a salad with spinach, red and green bell peppers, green beans, yellow squash, zuchini, tomatoes, onions, lentils, and feta cheese. I drizzed olive oil and basalmic vinegar on top, and seasoned with some salt and pepper. IT.WAS.GOOD.

Happy and Healthy Eating!

Lunch with Little

Jake and I are planning on doing our grocery shopping this evening so we didn't have much left in the refrigerator or pantry to cook up a lunch. Luckily, I always keep several bags of frzoen veggies in my freezer; I found a bag of stir-fry vegetables (broccoli, red pepper, carrots, onions, and mushrooms) and decided that was going to be the base of today's lunch. I also had a jar of Patak's Korma Curry (this is not a healthy sauce, so don't pile on too much) and some lentils. PERFECT! Lunch was stir-fry veggies with korma curry served over lentils. Delicious and healthy!

I boiled 1 1/2 cups of lentils for 20 minutes. In the meantime I sauteed the veggies and added the Korma Curry. I added the yummy veggie mixture over the lentils.

This meal is really healthy and provides quite a few SUPERfoods: Lentils, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, red peppers, and onions.

Lentil Soup and Mushroom, Onion, and Muenster Cheese Sandwiches

This meal was packed full of SUPER foods and really, really, really good. The Lentil Soup recipe came from 101cookbooks.com. I made cery few changes to the recipe and I was quite satisfied by the final results; a steaming bowl of soup with lots of lentils, kale, fire roasted tomatoes, and mushrooms. I added a bit of red pepper powder and cuming to spice it up a little bit.

The sandwich idea came from CuisineNie. (thanks to LJ for introducing me to such a fabulous blog).

I'm attempting to provide nutritional information for all of the SUPER foods listed on my website. From this point on, each SUPER food will be a clickable link that will take you to a nutrition fact page. Here's to happy and healthy eating!

Lentil Soup:

2 cups lentils, rinsed

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 large onion, chopped

1 teaspoon fine-grain sea salt

1 28-ounce can crushed tomatoes

2 cups water

3 cups of a big leafy green (chard, kale, etc), rinsed well, deveined, finely chopped

-Bring 6 cups of water to a boil in a large saucepan, add the lentils, and cook for about 20 minutes, or until tender. Drain and set aside.
-Meanwhile, heat the oil in a heavy soup pot over medium heat, then add the onion and salt and saute until tender, a couple minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, lentils, and water and continue cooking for a few more minutes, letting the soup come back up to a simmer. Stir in the chopped greens, and wait another minute. Serve with plain yogurt.

Mushroom, Onion, and Muenster Cheese Sandwiches:

1 onion, sliced

1 package baby bella mushrooms, sliced

4 slices muenster cheese

Spinach leaves

4 slices whole wheat bread

-Saute onions and mushrooms in olive oil. Toast bread. Place cheese, onion and mushroom mixture, and spinach on toasted bread.