**Main recipe courtesy of www.closetcooking.com**
Shopping/ingredient list:
- 2 tilapia fillets (or however many you want)
- Pesto (2 tablespoons)
- Lemon (peel and juice)
- Garlic (4 cloves)
- Grape tomatoes (1 container)
- Olive oil (I like to use extra virgin olive oil)
- Salt and pepper
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 425°.
- Toss tomatoes with oil, garlic, salt, and pepper.
- Roast tomatoes in oven for 10-15 minutes.
- Mix lemon juice with pesto.
- Cut the rind into slices.
- Season fish with salt and pepper on both sides.
- Set the slices on top of the tomatoes and place the fish on top.
- Spread the pesto onto fish.
- Bake the fish for 10-15 minutes.
Serve with whatever sides you want, but I usually go for brown rice and steamed broccoli.
I have to admit. Eating paleo for a majority of the time isn't that bad.
You just have to plan. I think I have stumbled onto a few things that I
will keep in the rotation.
Breakfast:
A sweet potato frittata with veggies. This is so versatile. You just
change up the veggies, or even add meat, when you feel like a change. I
started with asparagus/onions/garlic/mushrooms. This week, peas and
mushrooms. I had this in my previous post about paleo eating, but it's
served me well for the last couple of weeks.
Snack:
Fruit and nuts. Again, versatile enough to where you can switch up the
fruit and nuts when you get bored. Before I leave for work, I pour in
coconut milk. A sweet little treat mid-morning. Would probably work well
as a dessert too. To give credit where it's due, I totally stole the
idea from the website LeanMachineNYC.
Lunch:
Sweet potato chowder with chicken, corn, and mushrooms. Boil the sweet
potatoes, throw into a crockpot with two cans of coconut milk and blend
until smooth. Throw in the chicken, mushrooms, onion, garlic, corn, and
any spices you want, and let her rip on low for 6-8 hours. It was sooo
good! It had a taste of coconut soup that you can get from Thai
restaurants, but so much heartier with everything else thrown in. A
great fall soup. And can I just say that the new immersion hand blender
that I just got is now one of my favorite kitchen tools.
All in all, for about a week and half worth of food, took me about 2
hours total from prep to closing the lid on the crockpot. Not bad.
I haven't been as great about preparing dinner as sometimes, I honestly
just don't have an appetite for dinner so I will munch on some nuts or
veggies. My attempt at zucchini spaghetti last week was a disaster
because I'm not talented enough to "julienne" with just a knife. I have
now bought myself a julienne peeler and will be attempting again to make
the zucchinis my bitches later this week.
Apologies for the crappy photo quality. The lighting in my kitchen isn't great.
Stay tuned to see what I come up with next week! I think I like doing
these posts better than the weekend in review collages. Let's face it,
I'm a boring old suburbanite that has no weekend life outside of sitting
on my behind catching up on the dvr, and food is just much more fun.
