Whole Foodie

Lunch at Whole Foods:

Reed's Light Extra Ginger Brew
Chicken and dumpling soup
Salads clockwise from top: Sesame tofu, orange ginger beets, curried chicken salad, lentil and quinoa tabouli, and cabbage crunch.

Out to Lunch: Seasons 52

Saturday's lunch was at the Palm Beach Gardens location of Seasons 52, a small restaurant chain which proclaims on its menu that no menu item is more than 475 calories. They put the nutrition information on their website, which makes it great for a calorie-counter like me. Each time I've been there, the food has been delicious. It doesn't taste like diet food, that's for sure.

Artichoke and goat cheese flatbread (370 calories):

This had a very thin crust, almost like a cracker, and in addition to the artichokes and cheese had roasted peppers, onions, and olives. I shared this with my husband as an appetizer.

Braised beef tacos (420 calories):

Braised beef in red mole sauce with pickled onions, cilantro, guacamole, and slaw on corn tortillas. If I had one criticism it would be that the tortillas were thick and stodgy, a little too heavy for the filling. I ate one whole taco and just the fillings out of the others. It had a great mix of flavors, sweet, savory, sour and herbal.

I'll definitely be going back.

Breakfast on the Beach

A perfectly fine way...

to start a perfectly fine day.

Cow Boot*

That's right, we had some delicious cow boot for dinner... wait, not cow boot.

Moo shu.

8 oz. pork tenderloin, marinated in teriyaki sauce
Baby corn
Broccoli slaw mix (shredded broccoli, cabbage and carrots)
Served with flour tortillas and hoisin sauce

4 servings, 300 calories per serving

*The 10-year-old in the house wants to make it known that he was the one who made the "cow boot" joke.

Ketchup, er, I mean catch-up post

A whirlwind week full of meetings and homework and school holidays - I had time to cook and take pictures, but only now have I been able to take time to blog about it.

Red beans and rice with chicken sausage:

Spicy chicken andouille-style sausage: 120 calories
3/4 cup red beans and rice: 200 calories

A post-workout breakfast:

Thomas's Triple Health muffin: 100 calories
1 slice 2% American cheese: 45 calories
1 slice ham (1 oz.): 30 calories
1/4 cup egg substitute: 30 calories

Teriyaki chicken:

4 oz. grilled marinated chicken breast: 200 calories
1/2 cup brown rice: 110 calories
1 cup Asian style slaw (slaw mix, seasoned rice vinegar, and Sriracha): 25 calories

Cuban-style panini:

2 oz. sourdough bread: 160 calories
2 oz. smoked turkey: 60 calories
2 oz. ham: 60 calories
1 oz. Swiss cheese:  80 calories
Mustard and pickles

Fancy flatbread

I love homemade pizza in all its forms, but maybe the most when I make a combination that's not likely to be available from the local joint.

4 oz. Publix prepared pizza dough
Caramelized onions, fig, and port spread
Blue cheese
Prosciutto

Brunch munch

1/2 cup shredded hash browns (Simply Potatoes): 70 calories
1 egg over easy: (70 calories)
1/8 cup shredded low-fat Mexican cheese: 35 calories