What We Ate + Weekly Organic Meal

I used to post organic meals, and I figured now was a good time to bring them back.

I used I would say 90% organic ingredients for all meals, so from time to time there might be an ingredient that isn't organic.

 From this week you can probably tell we are big fans of Italian food in this house. Could be from my Italian grandparents? When I was pregnant I had to eat macaroni with butter, parmesan cheese and pepper almost Every day. For some odd reason Jasper has developed the love of this simple dish as well. We like to throw in some organic cherry tomatoes as well or sometimes fried zuccini- SO delish. Added in some buttered croissants with cheese.

 Pizza. With Veggies and pepperoni Enough said.

Lately Jasper and I have been making fresh fruit smoothies almost every morning. It's SUCH a great way to start off the day! But Wed. morning we got busy and I never made us our smoothies so Jasper asked for it for lunch. NO problem!  Along with the blueberry/banana/raspberry smoothie we also had apple sauce, carrots, cucumber slices, warm pita, hummus and pita chips.

Anyone have some simple, healthy, easy lunch tips?

And now for the Weekly Organic Meal

I saw a recipe similar to this a while ago, and threw this together Wednesday night. And trust me. It was Orgasmic. Everyone needs to go and  TRY THIS.

Ingredients
Pasta
Garlic
Cherry Tomatoes
Asparagus
Borsin Cheese
Parmesan Cheese

Boil pasta
Towards the end add in the asparagus for about 2 min.

While Pasta is boiling- throw in chopped up garlic in some oil and saute it.

After pasta and asparagus is done, drain and put into garlic. Keep on heat for a few minutes mixing the garlic, pasta, and asparagus. Add in borsin, parmesan and tomatoes. Keep stirring for a minute on heat.

After I had plated the food I decided to throw some more borsin cheese on because it's SO FREAKIN GOOD!

Eat!

Needless to say Everyone asked for seconds of this.

I have this weird thing..

Where I can NOT touch raw chicken. Will Not do it. If it weren't for Drew cutting the fat off of my chicken we would never ever eat chicken in this household. So my amazing husband will always buy me a HUGE bag of chicken, cut off all the gross fatty pieces, and then freeze it in individual baggies so when I'm ready to make something involving chicken all I have to do is defrost a baggie or two and dump it in the pan, or oven dish (where I am able to touch it using a spatula)

A couple of days ago I wanted to use our crock pot which I think has been used once in two years and has been sitting there collecting dust. I'm not huge on following recipes, so I just threw in some chicken breasts, cut up potatoes, italian salad dressing some spices and cheese because really, cheese makes everything better, and 7 hrs later had an amazing chicken and potato meal. Seriously delish.

But the dilemma  came when I realized that the chicken Drew had cut up for me the night before wasn't in small enough pieces. Solution: Dump the chicken in the crock pot (being careful that NO chicken touches fingers) clean some scissors, use said scissors to cut chicken without having to actually lay a finger on the chicken. And then wash those scissors again. Brilliant right?

1. What are your 'weird things' because everyone has them right? and 2. Anyone have any crockpot recipes to share? I loved doing this and need more ideas!!


*All the ingredients used mines the spices were organic.

Weekly Organic Meal:Twice Baked Potatoes

I LOVE potatoes. So much. And I'm always looking for different ways to make it. Sunday evening I made these Delicious, organic, twice baked potatoes.

Ingredients

Organic large potatoes (doesn't really matter what kind, as long as they are BIG)

organic sour cream

organic butter

organic chopped up chives

cayenne pepper

salt *pepper

organic shredded cheese

Bake the potatoes in the oven until you can easily put a fork through- usually about an hour, more if they are bigger potatoes

Once you take them out cut them in half and scoop out all the insides into a large bowl. Leave the skin- so they are like little bowls.

In the bowl add all the ingredients(except for the cheese) together and mix. I taste a lot during this process so I can get it just how I like it.

 Once it tastes delicious- and it will- use a spoon to add the potato mixture back into your skin bowls (sounds kind of creepy) fill it to the top and set back into the oven for about 8 min. to warm up the potatoes. Add shredded cheese to the top of the potatoes then put in oven on the broil setting. This gets the cheese a little bit crispy. Leave in for 3-4 min. Take out and EAT!

I usually serve this with a bunch of stir fried veggies, or a grilled chicken breast. But this time I served with a side salad and it worked really great also. They also make great left overs for the next day so I always make more than I know we will eat. 

Weekly Organic Meal: Waffles

I think breakfast is super important (though I'm such a hypocrite and rarely eat breakfast) but I do make sure Jasper get's a good breakfast. We keep it simple and don't have a Ton of variety to breakfasts- he will either have yoghurt with fresh fruit, eggs and toast or waffles. I was buying those DELICIOUS frozen Eggo waffles- but on the quest to go organic those had to go. Sad face. So when I was looking at the frozen waffles at Whole Foods I saw that they were $4.99 for 6 waffles! I think that is CRAZY for frozen waffles! So I found a 10 grain organic waffle/pancake mixture for $4.99 and decided to make my own.

Last Thursday I whipped up a batch of it. I think all I did was add (organic) eggs and water to the mixture, bust out the waffle iron(kind forgot we even had one) and voila I had I think 13-14 waffles for J! I used Maybe 1/6 of the bag- so for $4.99 (plus cost of eggs) I can make Jasper almost 100 waffles!! Yay for me! And these ones are even healthier! I froze the 12 waffles we obviously didn't use in individual baggies and stored them in a big freezer safe container in our freezer. And this morning when Jasper asked for waffles I was able to reach in my freezer, grab a waffle baggie and pop it in the toaster! Jasper likes his waffles with some powdered sugar and chopped up fresh fruit.

Weekly Organic Meal: Chicken, Thai inspired meal.

Since we have decided to go organic I have decided I'm going to TRY to come up with one, delicious, healthy ORGANIC meal every week. If anyone has any suggestions for yummy, healthy meals I'd love to hear them! I'm especially trying to make meals that can be used well for leftovers as well since eating all organic is quite expensive- but if it can be used as left overs instead of tossing it like we used to do then we might not spend way more money every week than before eating organic.

Sunday night I made a yummy Chicken dish that was loved by everyone! I don't have a recipe, but its something similar to an amazing dish my friend Sofie made when we visited them in Sweden last winter. We don't have the same ingredients here as there so its definitely different, but still so good!

Ingredients: (all organic)
Noodle sticks (or rice noodles)
a container of sour cream
most of a small container of whipping cream
chicken (chopped into pieces about the size of my pinkie)
soy sauce
cashews
a little bit of salt and pepper

1.Sautee the chicken in a little veg. oil
2.In a pan bring the sour cream and whipping cream to a boil
3. Add in soy sauce- I can't tell you how much because I do everything to taste, but it should turn kind of a tan color (then add in a little salt)
4. When chicken is done, add into the pan with creams and add cashews
5.Boil rice noodles- for about 4 minutues

Add sauce to the noodles and voila you've got a delicious, organic meal!

We had it for lunch yesterday and I think it was even better after it had been sitting in the sauce over night- Drew also took it to lunch and was disapointed there wasn't any leftovers today to take with as well.

Next time I think I will use slightly bigger noodles though, that is the only thing I would do differently.



The pictures don't do the meal justed- its MUCH better than it looks.