DAY TWENTY SIX:
roasted pork tenderloin + fresh peppers + coleslaw mix + green onions + homemade apple cider vinegar and honey creamy coleslaw dressing
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Day 26 of The 365 Day Salad Project – Pork Tenderloin & Pepper Coleslaw
Posted: May 10, 2013 in 365 Day Salad Project, RecipesTags: clean eating, coleslaw, dinner ideas, healthy dinner ideas, lean meat, meal ideas, paleo, pork tenderloin, Salad, what to eat for dinner
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Day 25 of The 365 Day Salad Project – Chicken Fajita Salad
Posted: May 9, 2013 in 365 Day Salad Project, RecipesTags: Chicken, clean eating, clean salad, Cook, Fajita, Home, Lettuce, low carb dinner, low carb salad ideas, paleo salad, Salad
DAY TWENTY FIVE:
The Chicken Fajita Salad – the guys had chicken fajita’s tonight (chicken, colored peppers, zucchini, mushroom & onion seasoned with chili powder, garlic powder, oregano, couple tbsp’s salsa and chicken stock), so I put that mixture on a bed of coleslaw mix & the crunchy bunched up parts of iceberg lettuce, topped with chopped tomatoes, avocados and cilantro. Dressing was salsa and a few dollops of guacamole! Crunchy, filling, really fresh, recommend!
Day 24 of the 365 Day Salad Project…Salmon Bacon Mushroom Salad
Posted: May 8, 2013 in 365 Day Salad Project, RecipesTags: Bacon, Balsamic vinegar, clean eating, dinner ideas, low carb dinner, Olive oil, Salad, salad ideas, Salmon
DAY TWENTY FOUR:
Salmon + Bacon + fresh Mushrooms on a bed of red leaf & radicchio lettuce drizzled with a reduced balsamic & shallot dressing….very good except….always test your lettuce first, this radicchio was extremely, more than usual, crazy bitter! I wound up picking most of it out, little kid style
UPDATE! Request for dressing recipe:
Ingredients:
4 slices bacon
2 tbsp minced shallot
1/3 c balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp chicken broth
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Method:
Cook the bacon in the oven, 400 degrees, till crisp (or preferred “doneness”). Drain off oil, saving about 1 tbsp. Let bacon cool, chop, and set aside.
Warm a pan over medium heat with the reserved 1 tbsp of bacon drippings. Add the shallot and saute for 1-2 minutes, then raise the the heat to medium/high. Add the vinegar and deglaze the pan, stirrring to scrape up any browned bits. Add the chicken broth, reduce heat to low, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Whisk in the olive oil. Remove from heat. Cover to keep warm OR let cool to room temp., your choice. When the salmon is ready, place it on top of the salad greens and top with chopped bacon and finish with drizzled dressing.
Day 23 of the 365 Day Salad Project
Posted: May 7, 2013 in 365 Day Salad Project, RecipesTags: Avocado, clean dinner ideas, clean eating, Cooking, Cucumber, dinner ideas, fresh salad, Fruits and Vegetables, low carb, Olive oil, Salad, salad ideas, shrimp salad
DAY TWENTY THREE:
Another “leftover” or “remixed” salad, atop a bed of iceberg (I know! but it’s so good sometimes! I don’t hate on any lettuce 🙂 even the nutritionally-void ones :), chopped avocado, tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms and green onion….and then instead of a dressing, I used the leftover salad from last night, the shrimp, crab, corn, peas, peppers & dill salad. Very fresh and crunchy and light, really nice after this hot summery day.
roasted bell peppers stuffed with capers & anchovies
Posted: May 6, 2013 in RecipesTags: Anchovy, antipasto, Bell pepper, Caper, clean eating, dinner ideas, Italy, low carb, Olive oil, roasted peppers
Even though you can find every recipe you could ever dream of or wish for online, I still love cookbooks. Real, paper, food stained, dog-eared cook books that you can sit and flip through and be inspired by. I love to pull our a big stack and leaf through, planning out my week of cooking or just reading and learning or dreaming up things to make one day…Richard bought me this particular book for Christmas a few years ago, Easy Mediterranean, Simple Recipes from Sunny Shores, by Ryland, Peters & Small….this book has so many wonderful recipes, and I find myself reaching for this cookbook a lot. Delicious, simple, rustic….and this particular recipe that I’m sharing today is one of my favorites…it’s flavours are really bold, the contrast between the salty anchovies and capers and sweet roasted peppers is absolutely delicious….this is a perfect dish to serve at a party because it’s best at room temperature.
bell peppers stuffed with capers
“Bell peppers are ubiquitous ingredients in Italian antipasti and respond well to broiling and roasting which develops the natural sugars. With salty anchovies and sharp pickled capers, they really come into their own in this elegant dish from southern Italy.”
ingredients:
4 colored peppers, quartered lengthwise and seeded
16 canned anchovies
16 capers
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
freshly ground pepper
method:
Arrange the pepper quarters on a large roasting pan or cookie sheet.
Cut the anchovies in half. Divide the anchovies and capers onto the peppers. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with oregano and pepper.
Roast, uncovered, 375 degrees for 20-30 minutes or so (cooking times may vary), until wrinkled, aromatic, and beginning to blacken a little at the edges.
Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature, sprinkled with black pepper.
365 Day Salad Project – 22 Days of Salad in Review!
Posted: May 6, 2013 in 365 Day Salad Project, RecipesTags: Antipasto Salad, Avocado, chicken salad, clean eating, corn salad, dinner ideas, French fries, Health, healthy french fries, healthy meal ideas, low carb, Olive oil, roasted vegetables, Salad, salad ideas, shrimp salad, Spinach, steak salad, Taco salad, Tomato
So everyone you know took part in the 365 Day Project a while back, chronicling their lives on facebook or instagram with a daily picture of their kids or their pet or themselves….well, here is my take on that idea….
Enter the 365 Day Salad Project!
How this came about was, my husband always jokes that I can take any meal and make it into a salad….and, well, it’s kind of true. I am the a person who likes to eat, a lot, so at dinner time, when I like to really fill up, I have taken to putting whatever it is we are eating as a family, on a bed of spinach or greens. It satisfies my need to eat what my family is having, to get my daily fill of healthy fresh veggies, avoid eating a boat load of starchy carbs late in the day and most importantly, lol, to feel like I’m eating a large volume of food! Here they are, not always fancy, sometimes a little odd, sometimes AMAZING, my 365 Day Salad Project!
I’ve been at it for a few weeks on my facebook page, Iron Heart Personal Training, so here is a few weeks in review for you!
DAY ONE: THE PORK ‘N BEANS
…So I’m not usually a big bean fan, but my little Mr Westin wanted “beans from a can” lol, so I cracked one open…and so it was up to him and I to eat them (because the rest of the family would rather eat eyeballs than beans), so while the rest of the family had coleslaw and pork on a bun, I had mine on a bed of spinach, layered on some coleslaw, topped with roast pork slices and finished with the baked beans. pretty good!
DAY TWO:
classic spinach, mushroom, strawberry salad topped with avocado, red onion, roasted chicken breast and my homemade basalmic dressing. simple but so good!
DAY THREE:
“Buffalo chicken wing night” salad! well, kinda…sliced chicken breast (skin on/bone in chicken that had been roasted with sage/tumeric/garlic powder/salt/pepper) drizzled with none other than the uber classy red hot, celery, carrots, tomato, blue cheese, roasted garlic dressing on top of romaine. Recommend, lol! yeah, it was YUMMY…
DAY FOUR:
Taco Salad! I love taco night around here. It’s one of the very few meals that I prepare that will make all five of us happy, in our own way, without having to really modify anything while cooking/prepping it. So while the boys enjoyed their taco creations, I like to make mine into, you guessed it, a salad 🙂 On a bed of iceberg lettuce (gasp! I know I know no nutritional value, better choic…es available, but ya know, you can’t beat that cool crunch that goes so well with taco toppings!), mangos, avocados, red onion, tomatoes, mushrooms, cukes, orange peppers, jalapenos, then finished with ground taco meat (this was beef but obviously turkey or.chicken would be even better). The dressing I usually like with this is a cilantro lime but when I took the cilantro bag out of the crisper….it dripped! Bleh! 
So, I immersion blender-ed some salsa, lime juice, salt and evoo…ole! The perfect dressing was born 🙂 Or just salsa will do as a dressing too!
So, I immersion blender-ed some salsa, lime juice, salt and evoo…ole! The perfect dressing was born 🙂 Or just salsa will do as a dressing too!
DAY FIVE:
Well, I am ‘off duty’ in the dinner making dep’t tonight, both big guys aren’t here for dinner, little guys wanted pizza, soooo (fist pump!!!!!) I’m on my own! Yeah! Okay so , let me first off say, it is really important to eat what you really love, even if it doesn’t make sense….So I am having my fav, roasted green beans (French fries!), a simple salad of that great mix of baby chard, spinach… and baby Bok Choy that I have tossed some chopped tomatoes and avocado onto. Drizzled with my balsamic dressing. And, at press time, lol, I have not yet decided on my protein, hmmmmm, spicy seafood snack or smoked oysters?! Decisions decisions, so classy, hey?! So that’s it for tonight, sometimes it’s impressive, sometimes, it’s not! 😉
DAY SIX:
Lemon garlic roast chicken + roasted portobellos, peppers, onions & garlic + asparagus + diced fresh tomatoes + goat feta + creamy red wine vinegar dressing on a bed of baby spinach & chard = yum 🙂
DAY SEVEN:
The Antipasto Salad! We had a dinner party tonight, appies, cold cuts & cheeses to make sandwiches, etc, so I had a salad of baby greens topped with tomato avocado salad (which you will see again very soon as it’s in heavy rotation around here!), prawns, roasted red peppers, mixed olives, ham and a few slices of peppercorn salami. I also had a few coconut prawns & tortilla chips with fresh salsa that didn’t make it to the plate! 🙂
DAY EIGHT:
Pan roasted eggplant, garlic, onions & shrimp on baby spinach….I made it super spicy, extra extra chili flakes then drizzled with my balsamic dressing. Fast, easy, good. 🙂
DAY NINE:
We’re in full on cold battle mode around here, so I made some homemade chicken noodle soup for dinner tonight. I made the stock from the roasted chicken we had the other night, so the broth was really rich with roasted garlic, turmeric and sage.. To make the meal both kid/man/and me friendly, I cook the noodles separate and the boys add the noodles to their own bowl at serving time. For salad, kept things really simple, and just roasted a head of cauliflower and some beautiful little rosebud beets which I piled onto that baby spinach &chard mix and topped with a creamy red wine dressing & tonnes of hot chili flakes!
DAY TEN:
Rib eye steak & shrimp on baby kale, baby spinach, carrots, cucumber & red pepper, drizzled with a ginger tamari apple cider dressing…(and then post-photo-op, I tossed the forgotten but crucial shredded fresh thai basil, mint & cilantro! ;)…felt very…substantial.
DAY ELEVEN:
Welllll….sometimes you have a SALAD…sometimes you drop the L and just have a SAAD, lol! Richard was in charge of dinner tonight so yes, the pesto chicken with salami (yes, salami! man version of prosciutto?! so classy!) was tasty, but since he was having it on pasta with sauce, my salad was a serious afterthought, haha, soooo I plunked that chicken on top of the leftover spinach/kale/carrot/cuke/pepper salad from yesterday, dug to the far reaches of the fridge and found some creamy dressing, and called it dinner 🙂 It was good, but I like my salad to have a distinct theme, so it wasn’t great 😉
DAY TWELVE:
Blackened Cajun Pork Tenderloin on last summer’s homemade salsa (with fresh pineapple chunks & cilantro & red onion mixed in), Braised Apple Fennel Red Cabbage, and just a lil salad (haha! oh so full!) of asparagus, mushrooms, tomato and avocado on romaine, with that same old creamy red wine dressing!
DAY THIRTEEN:
Bean Sprout Egg Foo Young, red bell peppers, carrots, snow peas, mushrooms, avocado, tomato and sea weed on romaine with a ginger garlic tamari vinaigrette 🙂 Yeah!
DAY FOURTEEN:
Tomato avocado salad (tomatoes, avocados, green onion & my homemade balsamic dressing) on top of a bed of romaine with some garlic roasted chicken breast….
DAY FIFTEEN:
Kind of a spring-y fresh salad, iceberg (I know! I know! but sometimes it’s all about the cool crunch, right?!) lettuce, asparagus, roasted peppers, mangoes, creamy vinaigrette….
DAY SIXTEEN:
Noooo, not officially a salad….well, not a salad at all, lol, but some days are just like that….nursing a sick belly today, all I can manage is this, comfort food for me, some roasted green bean french fries and yam fries…with lots of red hot to dip in….and since the thought of any other food, especially meat or fish, makes me ill at even the thought, lol, I plan to whip up my other fav, a gingerbread smoothie and hope to goodness I feel better tomorrow!
DAY SEVENTEEN:
Cauliflower Tabbouleh ~ food processer-ed until couscous size cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, cukes, green onion, mint & parsley with a garlic, lemon, evoo dressing + marinated fast fry steak topped with cilantro & basil. All these delicious fresh herbs have me really looking forward to warm enough weather to get my deck herb garden going!
DAY EIGHTEEN:
Roasted Turkey + Cranberry Pumpkin Seed Coleslaw + Candied Spiced Carrot Fries…..Thanksgiving…in May?! Well, I certainly have a lot to be thankful for, so it felt like the right thing to do 🙂 But no, really, no special occasion here today, turkey dinner actually is no biggie, it’s just like doing a roast chicken, but takes a little longer and you wind up having turkey meat ready to be recreated into another meal or two…or three! It feels so efficient, which makes me very happy 🙂
DAY NINETEEN:
Turkey Caesar Salad + Pan Roasted Mushrooms….and yes, on green leaf lettuce not romaine…’cause nothing was worth attempting even the quickest trip into the grocery store tonight with these two little fellas!!!!
DAY TWENTY:
The Leftover Salad, Cauliflower Tabbouleh + Roasted Chicken Breast + Caesar Salad Dressing….a little random, yes, but some days you just want to keep it simple and not let good things in the fridge go to waste! It worked 😉
DAY TWENTY ONE:
Lunchtime turkey salsa guacamole salad! The guys had turkey wraps, but I would rather eat my wrap fried in coconut oil ’till crispy like a chip! lol! So that’s what I did 🙂
DAY TWENTY TWO:
Shrimp, Crab, Cuke, Colored Peppers, Corn, Pea and Avocado Salad with a Dill Apple Cider Vinegar/EVOO dressing on a bed of baby spinach 🙂 Ohhhh it was GOOD! Very fresh and perfect end to this hot summery day!
And there it is! The past 22 days of salads ~ keep checking in for the latest, greatest, and maybe sometimes, not so great, salad of the day!
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