Birthday Dinner

Because I like meals that are made up from little bits of things:

From top center: fig paste, salami, hummus, St. Andre, Manchego, four kinds of olives, deviled eggs, sliced baguette, devils on horseback (dates stuffed with blue cheese and wrapped in bacon), melon with prosciuto, Peppadew peppers stuffed with goat cheese, crackers.

A Few Leftovers

A couple of the past week's meals:

Beer Can Chicken

Burgers on the grill

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