Daily meals

spetember 2nd, 2012

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Preparation:15 minutes.
Baking 1 hour

Preheat the oven to 300 F°.
Mince a garlic clove. Slice a zucchini. Cut a tomato into four pieces. Pour olive oil into a baking dish. Add the vegetables and sun-dried olives.
Mix the chicken pieces in another dish with olive oil, the garlic, basil, herbs de Provence.
Add the mix above the vegetable and bake half an hour.
Remove from oven.
wet the vegetable with water.Add chicken and vegetable bouillon concentrate. Bake another half an hour.
If the chicken is not brown enough, broil 5 minutes.

Add vegetable lasagna on a plate. Reheat in a microwave oven.
Add salad, Feta cheese, olive oil, vinegar.
Add the baked vegetable, add the chicken.
Serve...

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As often, it is when you have things left in the fridge that you don't want to lose that you are the most creative.
I had this time a big piece of cabbage I have bought to make an Thaï recipe with a wok. What could I do with this piece of cabbage that was drying in the fridge days after days ?

I don't remember exactly how, but I thought to the choucroute... except I had no ham, saussage, etc.
No problem, the choucroute in fact goes very well with the fish. I could even say, it goes better with fish than with ham or saussage because the choucroute is cooked with white wine that goes better with fish than with meat...

I decided then to make a meal with a piece of Haddock I had also in the freezer and the cabbage as a choucroute.

1. It was really good
2. I was so proud to have made my own choucroute (first time of my life, I always have bought it in can). It is actually VERY easy to make.

I can't prevent myself to display two pictures of the choucroute making (did you know it is cooked with a cinnamon stick?) ...

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I like to bake chicken with peppers. Halfway baking, I always add bouillon and thanks to the peppers, the baking juice tastes like magic.
Add cream or yogurt to this juice and you will have a delicious sauce...

I accompanied the chicken with a beet tartar that is, as the beef tartar, very spicy, because I added red chili powder and as for a real beef tartar, Worcestershire sauce.
The two recipes went well together, giving a spicy meal..

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2 slices of smoked salmon
1 avocado
3 tbsp of cottage cheese.

the titillating part of the dish comes from the condiments:

• Red onions, lemon juice, capers, for the salmon
• Minced chives upon the cottage cheese (a reminder of the french "cervelle de canuts"...)
• Yogurt sauce for the arugula and the avocado.
  In a blender combine greek yogurt + water + chives + lemon juice + Xeres vinager + french mustard (no oil!)

Simple, easy to make, tasty, and, last but non least, healthy!

Meals plan

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Breakfast	Muesly	Muesly	Muesly	Muesly	Muesly	Oatmeal Apricot Greek Yogurt	Muesly
Lunch	Greek yogurt + fruits	smoked salmon avocados yogurt chives sauce cottage + chives salad	vegetable Mousssaka Salad	baked tarragon wallnut haddock cabagge choucroute	eggplant bread mint yogurt sauce mint tabouli arugula	vegetable Moussaka salad	baked chicken cauliflower gratin
Dinner	Baked vegetable millefeuille avocados salad	coconut eggplant bread mint sauce	3 peppers Thaï chicken yogurt sauce beet tartar salad	thaï chicken eggplants, spinaches, shallots coconut yogurt sauce	baked salmon avocado sauce avocado salad	red beet tartare, warm tofu cheese crouton cucumber	Grilled zucchini with feta, sesame oil and asparagus sprouts salad
Weight	78.0 kg	77.9 kg	78.2 kg	78.8 kg	78.7 kg	78.6 kg	78.4 kg
Fat %		18.3	17.4	16.9	16.9	15.8	14.9
Energy	Low	Great	Good	Good	Good	Good	Great
Workouts	Yoga Body building	Yoga BR-TV - May challenge week 3 day 1 fit test	Yoga BR-TV - May challenge week 3 day 3 Body burn	Yoga Body building	Yoga	Yoga Body building

Recipes

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The condiments of this beets recipe, french shallots, tarragon and lemon, the way of cooking them, first oven baked, then quickly sautéed just before beeing served, will make this vegetable taste differently!

preparation time: 10 minutes
total time: 10 minutes to 1.5 hour (if you buy raw beets)


Ingredients

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2 plates	spinach salad (you can also use arugula)
3	beets
1	french shallot (minced)
15	tarragon leaves
1 tbsp	olive iol
1/4	lemon juice

Directions

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1. wrap the individual beets in aluminum foil, place them in a 350˚F oven and cook them 1 hour and 15 minutes


























2. Remove beets from oven.
3. Unwrap aluminum foil.













4. Remove completely skin of beets.












5. cut the beets into slices then into allumette
6. mix the beets with the minced shallot, lemon juice and olive oil
7. cook the mix in a high heat pan a few seconds
8. add the cooked mix above the spinach
9. add the tarragon leaves and serve

oven baked haddock with pancetta, tarragon and wallnuts

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I don't remember exactly when it was, but the first time I was proposed fish with diced bacon in a restaurant, I was shocked. I didn't use to mix fish and meat in a meal. But I decided to give it a chance, and it was delicious. Since then, I often put some bacon while baking fish. Just a little to enhance the flavor, it is more a condiment than a serving in the dish.
I use some other condiments in this dish, tarragon, wallnut, lemon and fish fumet. One could also add cream or yogurt to make a sauce...

preparation time: 10 minutes
total time: 20 minutes to 45 minutes


Ingredients

150 g	Haddock
1 tbsp	olive oil
5 - 10	diced bacon or pancetta pieces
15	tarragon leaves
4	wallnuts (chopped)
1/4	lemon juice
1 tsp	fish fumet
1 tpsp	15% cooking cream (optional)

Directions

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1. preheat the oven to 350 F
2. in a baking dish, pour the olive oil and add 6 tarragon leaves
3. add the fish upon the tarragon leaves
4. add the remaining tarragon on the fish
5. add the bacon upon the fish (left picture)
6. add the chopped wallnut on the fish
7. bake 10 minutes (45 minutes if frozen)







8. remove the dish from the oven
9. pour 1/4 cup of water
10. add the fish fumet (left picture) and mix it with the water
11. add the lemon juice
12. put the dish back in oven
13. Bake 10 other minutes
14. remove the dish from the oven and turn off the oven
15. Place the fish on a plate and put the plate into the oven, door open
16. Pour the cream in the dish
17. place the baking dish over a stove burner or hot-plate to reduce the sauce
18. remove the plate from the oven and pour the sauce on the fish.

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Or the picky eater revenge...
When I was a child, and I guess all the children are always the same, I hated:

• Haddock
• Beet
• Spinach, even if my mother almost succeeded in making me like spinach (thanks Popeye...)

Today, I had a great meal eating all these ingredients. As always, everything is in the condiments and the way of cooking...

To make this meal, I used two different recipes one of my creation for the fish, another one for the beets (from my little brown and green veggies secret book).
the common point of these two recipes is that they both use tarragon, so they perfectly go together...

Smoked salmon & tomato salad

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July 20th, 2012

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Tonight, a quick healthy salad:
Smoked salmon, tomatoes, Feta cheese...

the titillating part of the dish comes from the condiments : red onions, lemon juice, capers, and cream. Simple, easy to make, tasty, and, last but non least, healthy!

Cold veggie lasagna with cheese salad

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July 20th, 2012

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Today, for lunch a Feta, Parmigiano, arugula, red pepper, basil, sun-dried olives salad accompanied with a piece of the carbs free vegetarian lasagna I cooked yesterday. Great moment under the sun :-)
this is my recipe of the carbs free vegetable lasagna (no meat, no carbs, only veggies!).

Recipes

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This recipe is a great way to have several servings of vegetable, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, carrots, celery, eggplant eating a delicious dish that tastes like lasagna but without meat nor carbs!

Ingredients

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preparation time: 30 minutes
total time: 1.5 hour

3	cups homemade tomato sauce
1	eggplant
3	zucchini
10	basil leaves
1	mozzarella di bufala
1	onion, sliced
1	garlic clove, minced

Directions

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1.Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. in a baking dish add a tbsp of olive oil
3. add the sliced onion (you can also add a minced garlic cloves if you like)










4. Add a layer of eggplant(left picture)












5. Add a layer of tomatoe sauce (left picture)














6. add some basil leaves













7. Add a layer of zucchini













8. add another layer of tomatoes plus basil leaves, zucchini for decoration, and mozarella

9. bake 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Homemade tomato sauce

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Tomatoes are better for you than you have thought. They contain lycopene, a very powerful antioxidant. Cooked tomatoes are preferable and can provide over six times the lycopene than eating fresh tomatoes. The cooking breaks down the cell walls of the tomato making it easier to absorb the lycopene.

Antioxidants are important at protecting your cells and providing immune system support. Every day we are bombarded by free radicals from the air you breathe, the food you eat, the water you drink and the fast paced lifestyle. Free radicals can damage your cells and increase the aging process. The healthier your cells become the younger you will look and feel.

Tomatoes also contain the antioxidant glutathione, which helps boost immune function. By consuming ten tablespoons of tomato sauce each week men may decrease their risk of prostate cancer by 40 percent. It is strongly recommended for reducing cholesterol plaque helping to prevent clots and blockages. In addition tomato sauce can help prevent macular degeneration and cataracts, and help maintain mental function as we age.

examiner.com (2010, march 28). The health benefits of tomato sauce [site article]. Retrieved from http://www.examiner.com/article/the-health-benefits-of-tomato-sauce

Ingredients

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preparation time: 30 minutes
total time: 1.5 hour

2	chunked tomatoes can
1	branch of celeri (optional, not visible)
1	carot (optional, not visible)
1 tbsp	provence herbs
10	basil leaves
4	laurel leaves
1	oinion, sliced
2	garlic clove, minced
3 tbsp	red wine
2 tbsp	olive oil
2 tbsp	vegetable bouillon concentrate
2 tbsp	beef bouillon concentrate

Directions

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1. in a pan add a tbsp of olive oil
2. add the sliced oinion and one of the minced garlic cloves
3. cook until the garlic becomes golden brown (left picture)










4. add the wine (left picture)
















5. add the celery and the carrot slices
6. add the chunked tomatoes and water by rinsing the can and pouring the water into the pan

7. add the spices, provence herbs, laurel, basil
8. add the vegetable and the beef bouillons
9. let the sauce reduce for about an hour

Coconut eggplant bread, mint sauce

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You want to eat healthy and cook amazing recipes? You want to eat clean and be able in the same time to surprise your hosts when you receive?
This is for you!

I had this idea, first, because I found a recipe of coconut eggplant caviar in my veggies book. But in the same time, I was planning to make a low carbs eggplant bread using yogurt and no flour.
Suddenly the two ideas merged and I saw the coconut eggplant bread. I had also realized recently that coconut is quite genuine fat so that it can be used in a low carbs diet!



And to be fully exotic, why not to accompany all this with a yogurt mint sauce... et voilà :-)
I pushed the idea as far as adding chopped coconut onto the eggplant bread...

Broiled lamb ribs with thyme, vegetable lasagna

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Today, I had a delicious moment eating this broiled meat with thyme accompanied with a carbs free vegetable lasagna.
this is my recipe of the carbs free vegetable lasagna (no meat, no carbs, only veggies!).

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This is a story of a bad idea. Not for the salmon, neither for the cottage cheese, the yogurt sauce and the chives used both in the yogurt sauce and upon the cottage.
No, the bad idea was for the curious green sandcastle you can see on the picture.

I found the idea in the veggies secrets book. The idea was to beat cream and to fold it with mashed avocados. This was much too fat and hardly eatable. I have 4 other left in my fridge. I will use them to make sauce when I cook salmon or other fishes...

Baked vegetable and Feta millefeuille

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July 19th, 2012

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I notice that a lot of the recipes already posted take time to be made. So, I am planning to post a set of recipes really easy to make.

This one for example.
15 minutes of preparation, cooking, one hour,
all the ingredients in the pious tier of the michi's ladder...

I will post the complete directions very soon...

Cajun Chicken recipe

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Can you believe it ? Except the chicken that belongs to tier 2, all the other ingredients of this meal are in the first tier of the michi's ladder

Ingredients:

150 g	skinless chicken pieces
3	peppers, yellow, orange, red
1 cup	soybean sprouts (not visible in the picture)
1/2 cup	yogurt (non fat, no sugar)
1	lemon
1/2	onion, sliced
1	garlic clove, minced (not visible)
1 tbsp	Cajun seasoning
2 tbsp	peanut oil
2 tbsp	vegetable bouillon concentrate (not visible)
1 tbsp	sesam oil (optional, not visible)

Total Time: 45 min.

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
2. in a baking dish pour 1 tpsn of peanut oil
3. Add the onion
4. Add the peppers
5. in another dish pour the other tbsp of peanut oil
6. add the chicken, a tbsp of Cajun seasoning and Rub all over the chicken.
7. Add the chicken to the first baking dish on the peppers
8. Bake 10 minutes

9. remove the baking dish from oven
10. Add enough water to cover the peppers but not to wet the chicken
11. Pour 1 tbsp of vegetable bouillon concentrate
(left picture)

12. Put the dish back in oven
13. Bake 10 other minutes
14. broil 5 minutes


15. remove the baking dish from oven
16. place the peppers and the chicken on a ceramic plate
17. turn off the oven
18. put the plate in the oven, door open
19. put the yogurt in the baking dish
20. pour the juice of half a lemon
21. place the baking dish over a stove burner or hot-plate to reduce the yogurt/lemon sauce (left picture)

22. pour a tbsp of seame oil in a pan or a wok and bring it to high heat
23. add the garlic and cook until the garlic becomes golden brown
24. add the soybean sprout and broil them 5 minutes
25. add soy sauce and cook 2-3 minutes (optional)
26. add 1/4 cup of water and a tbsp of vegetable bouillon concentrate
27. cook 5 minutes.
28. remove the plate from the oven
29. add the cooked soybean sprouts
30. pour the yogurt/lemon sauce on the soybean sprout and the chicken

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Amazing !
These brownies are composed mainly of fat. So if you eat them alone as a snack with a sugar free beverage, you shouldn't get fatter...

Ingredients:

250 g	unsweetened chocolate or with a high cocoa percentage
50 g	butter
3	eggs
1/2 cup	pecan nuts

Total Time: 45 min.

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C)
2.  break the pecan nuts into small pieces and broil them
3. Put the chocolate and butter in a small pan, place it over a bigger pan of simmering water (au bain marie) and allow to melt.
4. separate the whites and yolks. beat the egg whites.
5. melt the yolks with the chocolate, then gently fold the beaten egg white.
6. add the broiled pecan nuts
7. grease a pan and pour in it
8. bake 15 minutes

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This is a variant of the Cajun chicken I have made with a wok, but I definitively prefer oven cooking...
So, here is the oven recipe...

Vegetable tian and Feta cheese

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If you have cooked a tian and want to prepare a very quick meal.
Just add Feta cheese, olive oil on the Feta, a few leaves of basil, a few sun-dried olives. That's it...
this is my tian recipe