Oven Baked Pork Ribs

Today has felt like hell. I am seriously being tested on my patience and it officially sucks. I am not ready for children. First thing this morning I let the dogs out to go potty and got them their breakfast in their bowls accordingly. Rogue comes in and poops ALL over the living room carpet. I almost took a picture because of the artwork he designed but then realized that was gross. So cleaned that up, the dogs ate, well more like Rogue ate his and Ollie's food, then headed to the store. I took Rogue with me because I am trying to train him to ride in the car. So we went to Dutch Bros and grabbed Scott and myself a coffee. Dropped that off and headed home. I'll go ahead and add that Rogue has been whining all morning for no reason. Get home and have to get him out of the car, as I am doing this he whips himself across my lap and my americano is now being worn on my WHITE lululemon jacket. Nice, you could say I was happy. NOT. So then we get in the house and he wants on the couch. His tactic for this is to climb up on the end table over the remotes and the remains of my coffee, that are now on the carpet. Awesome. So I threw a fit, got mad, grunted, ya know the whole works. Thankfully the windows were closed and I was the only one home cause it would have been embarrassing to have had a audience for that fit. So short story long, that was my morning.

I am better now. I took some deep breaths and had a photo shoot with the pups. Well two of them anyhow, cause they were cuddling and it was adorable.

 

 

I also made some chocolate protein balls with Progenex Loca Mocha flavor. Yep. I will post the recipe next week. They are yummers!

So I made these ribs for my mom's birthday the other night. They turned out AWESOME and super tender, fall off the bone kind of delicious. You know what I am talking about.

Oven Baked Pork Ribs

4 lbs pork short ribs
1 6oz can tomato paste
3 tbsp minced garlic
1 yellow onion diced
1/4 cup red wine
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tbsp chili powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
2 tbsp coconut aminos
1 tsp red chili flakes
1/4 cup raw honey
1 tbsp bacon grease

Preheat oven to 275F

Get out a large skillet and heat bacon fat to medium and sear the ribs on each side till light brown. Add to a large baking dish and lay flat, no overlay. In a medium saucepan put all remaining ingredients in and heat up stirring frequently to get the flavors to come out. Pour 3/4 of this sauce over ribs and put in oven to bake for 4 hours. Every 30 minutes or so flip ribs to get optimum tenderness. When your timer goes off take the ribs out of the oven and turn oven to broil. drain the fat and sauce and spread remaining sauce on top and broil the ribs for 10 minutes.

Let cool and eat up!

| Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 4 hrs 15 minutes | Servings 6-8 |

In large skillet heat bacon fat

Pin It Now!

Strawberry Peach Cobbler

this picture sucks, dangit

Dinner was a success! My non-paleo family even said that the cauliflower mashed potatoes I made were tasty. That's crazy! Even people that are paleo are hard to get to like them. I feel pretty accomplished after that meal last night. We had bacon wrapped dates for a starter, baked pork ribs, cauli mashers and green salad. For dessert we had strawberry peach cobbler and coconut ice cream.

I worked out yesterday, that was nice. My date showed up to so we had a super fun time :) Worked on the jerk. I was bummed because my hip flexor held me back from doing the split jerk style that I prefer. Then the wod was 5 rounds lunches with weight in the front rack position and double unders. I didn't do either. I tried to do the lunge and couldn't get back up....soooooo instead I did back squats and single unders. Can you say frustrated? Oh well. Tis life. I am thankful that I can do what I am doing.

So CrossFitGP is starting a paleo challenge started October 1st. A bunch of members are participating. I would do it but I am already strict paleo so I don't really see the point. I'm not going to win. But I am so here to help you all out that are doing it! If you need or are craving anything special and want a recipe suggestion just email me and I would be happy to help you out! Paleo is hard to get started on cause you have some pretty strong cravings for things like BREAD and PASTA, or DAIRY. Don't give in! There are a ton of paleo substitutes that will curb your cravings.

So this cobbler turned out delicious and I would think it would be yummy with any fruit combo! Blackberry, raspberry would be AMAZE. MMM....

Strawberry Peach Cobbler

2 cups strawberry's, chopped
4 peaches skinned and sliced
2 tbsp coconut crystals
1 tsp cinnamon

topping
1 1/2 cup almond flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1 egg
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp coconut oil

Slice and cut all your fruit. Evenly sprinkle coconut crystals and cinnamon over the fruit in a large bowl and put in fridge for an hour or so to let the sugars get all slimy and juicy. So good.

Preheat your oven to 350F. Place your fruit in a 8x8 baking dish. In a mixing bowl stir all your topping ingredients together. This mixture will be crumbly and clumpy. Over the top of the fruit with your hands, crumble this mixture randomly. Place in preheated oven and bake for 35-40 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool and eat this with some vanilla coconut ice cream. HEAVEN!

 

| Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 40 minutes | Serves 4-6 |

Pin It Now!

Apple Pie Bars

Let me just get something off of my chest. Other then CrossFit, I DON'T CARE ABOUT SPORTS (particularly professional baseball, basketball, hockey, football etc.). Unless I know something playing in the game, or am at the game live, or its kids playing (which is awesome to watch and hear about), I truly do not give a poo about it. When people talk to me about plays and this team doing that and that team doing this, I literally don't know what your talking about (you might as well be talking to a wall because I know nothing) nor do I care. I am sorry, maybe if I understood the games I would like it.

Rogue makes me laugh. I am sitting here trying to type this and he thinks my hands are a game or something. He keeps pawing at them, adorable. Some kids commercial came on with their high pitch voices and he started watching the TV too. Doing that huh? head tilt. Can you tell I am obsessed?! Okay sorry, I am a freak. Didn't mean to scare you guys. Sheesh.

the parents

 

Yesterday was my parents 30 year anniversary, and today is my mom's birthday. I wont disclose the age of the lovely lady because I don't want her to chase me with the hose later. But I will say shes getting close to 50 and looking great! No one ever believes me when I say shes my mom. I hope I am a sexy mom. Who am I kidding?! I crossfit, therefore I am sexy. Duh! Ha! Anyways... I am cooking dinner for my family tonight for mom's birthday. Not sure what to make yet. I need to go to the store and maybe I will get inspired.

I have a date today too. With my dearest friend Annie Hyde. At 4:30pm. Can't wait! I haven't worked out with her for EVER. Seriously like 2 months. So stupid. But we are ending that streak and getting beast mode today! Yeeeaaahhh!! Especially after watching the Reebok CrossFit Games last night on ESPN2. It was the women's chipper. So intense! Those ladies are amazing.

So I made these bars last week when I was sick cause I was craving something sweet. I shared one with my friends, the Dunkins, and yesterday when I was hanging out with the kids I made them a batch for their lunches. MMM. So good. I will say that they are much easier to make with a food processor and they hold up better that way too. But whatever way you make them, they taste heavenly.

Apple Pie Bars

Crust
12 medjool dates, pits removed
1/2 cup walnuts
1 cup almond butter
1/2 cup shredded coconut
2 tbsp raw honey
1 tsp cinnamon

Topping

3 apples, cored and thinly sliced

3 tablespoons coconut oil

1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped

1/4 cup raw honey

1 tsp cinnamon

pinch of salt

 

First you need to make your crust. Add all ingredients for the crust to a food processor. Turn on until it gets sticky an pliable. Put crust ingredients in an 8×8 glass baking dish or something close to that and press down evenly.

 

Now heat up a large pan add your coconut oil and your sliced apples. Cook for just a few minutes then add your walnuts, honey, cinnamon and salt. Once these are mixed together pour onto crust and put in fridge for about an hour until cold and firm.

 

 

Cut yourself a little square or rectangle and eat! Or slice and wrap individually for lunches. Whatevers clever.

 

These are amazing!!

 

 

Pin It Now!

Delicious Meatballs

So last night I went down to the gym, and did the wod. Skill was to work on your pull ups, conditioning was 3 rounds for time, 5 push press (55# for me). 10 wall balls (10#) and 15 box jumps (20 inches). Well the box jumps ended up being step ups because my hip was bothering me. But regardless, I cannot even believe how much stamina and strength I have lost in the past month. It is crazy people! Don't stop working out. Trust me.  I feel like a little weakling, well frankly I am. Ha! But on a good note, I felt super light headed afterwards and that means it kicked my ass. Go me! It always feels great to get a good sweat on.

Tonight is SOA. I officially love the show and look forward to it on Tuesdays. Wasn't hard to get me hooked! Have you ever watched those shows like Yard Crashers and Room Crashers? That's so cool. Its like BAM they come in and give your house a face lift. Although sometimes their designs are a little wack but how cool is that.

So I haven't listened to Dave Matthews since we saw him up at the Gorge. My parents got the new album and my mom let me borrow it. Its funny as soon as I started listening to it I was instantly brought back. His voice is magical. Love it. The song "Sweet" you should listen to it. Only if you like Dave though. I don't want any haters up on him. :))

Scott got me a new hat, so cute! It is Rogue Fitness, and that's our new pups name so I love it, of course!

So these little balls of meat turned out pretty darn tasty! I didn't know what to call them because there's alot of ingredients in them...well not a ton but you know. Just trust me, they are yummy.

Delicious Meatballs

1 lb ground beef
1/2 lb sweet Italian sausage
1/2 lb hot sausage
1 cup broccoli slaw
1 yellow onion, chopped
1 tbsp garlic, minced
2 tbsp basil
1/4  cup sun dried tomatoes, diced
1 egg
salt & pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 375F

In a big bowl combine all your ingredients with you paws. Mush and gush that meat together till its well blended. Take a large handful and mold it into the size you'd like, I did pretty large and got 8 balls. So once you balls are formed pop those in the oven for about 25-30 minutes.

I made a pesto-ish sauce and broiled it on top, its not perfected yet so I don't want to share it with you guys. Soon my friends, soon. But the meatballs just by themselves are delish! :)

Enjoy! :)

| Prep time 5-7 minutes | Cook time 30 minutes | Serves 4-6 |



Pin It Now!

Bacon Wrapped Dates stuffed with Water Chestnuts

so prettttty

 

Play, eat, poop, nap, pee, eat, sleep, poop, poop, water, play, whine, play, sleep.

Can you guess whose routine that is? No, its not mine. Ha! Rogue has a rough life. Well he sure thinks so. He switches positions like 25 times before he falls asleep. Frick! Just lay down! And not on my laptop! Yesterday Scott spent most of the day at home resting (he threw his back out) and that means he got to babysit the pup most of the day. I think about the end of the night he was puppy crazy. It happens. I don't blame him. But now he knows how I feel everyday. I think all I say is Rogue, No! Ha.

Fall is here and I am so excited! The crisp cool mornings are my favorite! I turned the A/C off and have had the windows open all weekend. Love it. This weekend was pretty uneventful. Saturday was our monthly paleo potluck for CrossFitGP. It was at Kurt and Barb's beach house. MAN! I could literally sit on the back patio and read a book for the rest of my life there. Just kidding, that is crazy talk, but it sounded good. The view was amazing, the house was beautiful! And the food was above and beyond, like usual! Good times :)

this was only 1/4 of the spread!

 Sunday was a lazy day for sure. I went to lunch with my momma and sat by the river. It was super nice to hangout and chit chat with her for a bit, then came home, took a nap, watched a movie and relaxed. My life is boring lately. Ew. Time to step it up guys! Sorry!

So I made these little bites of heaven for the pot luck on Saturday. They were a hit! Sweet, salty, ewy guey and crunchy all on a little toothpick! Now that's impressive.

Bacon Wrapped Dates stuffed with Water Chestnuts

24 Medjool dates, pits removed
2 cans whole water chestnuts, rinsed
1 pkg uncured bacon
4 tbsp coconut aminos
2 tbsp raw honey

Preheat your oven to 350F

First off, take you water chestnuts and start soaking them in your coconut aminos. Set aside and start removing your pits from your dates. Once your all done with that put one water chestnut inside each date. Take your bacon and cut each piece in half and wrap the date up tightly in bacon. Poke with a toothpick and place on baking sheet. I covered mine in foil for easy cleanup. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes. Drizzle your raw honey over the bacon wrapped dates and put in oven on broil for 5-7 minutes. Remove, let cool (don't skimp on the cooling, I know someone who didn't wait and there mouth hates them) and enjoy!

| Prep time 10 minutes | Cook time 30 minutes | Servings 8-10 | Pin It Now!

Slow Cooker Chicken Enchiladas

Its pretty much the weekend and you know what that means? I literally spent the ENTIRE week on my ass. No joke. On the couch, on the bed, on the chair. Lots of TV and lots of movies. Rough life. Sucked really. Good news, I am on the up and up. Throat is slowly feeling a lot better and I have more energy. I know this because I have been doing a lot of cleaning. Yay! Fun stuff. Scott is so lucky to have a girlfriend that is OCD and cleans everything. Ha. Its probably more annoying then anything. But whatevs.

Since we are talking about Scott, I just wanted to let you all know that he has been kicking ass at the gym! CrossFitGP is doing their job and Scott is hitting some awesome PR's! I am so excited for him :) Gooooooo Scott! You strong man you!

Rogue is sleeping on me right now and he yawned and I got a huge wiff of puppy breath. So cute. Love it!

So tomorrow is the monthly CrossFitGP Paleo Potluck. This month is extra special thought because its going to be at the coast! WHHHAA!!? Fun right? Heck yes, Barb and Kurt have a house on the Oregon Coast and I want to go! Hold back? Brand new puppy that isn't fully crate trained for more then 2 hours...next holdup, he cant be in public cause he doesn't have all his shots. Plan..? Take the crate, keep him in the back of the car and check on him every hour or so to go potty. GENIUS! :)

I made this delicious dinner last night and it was super easy peasy and comforting. Fall is approaching. I can't wait. I love the cool days. Today is kind of chilly and cloudy, I wish it'd rain or something. That'd be awesome. Anyway, you should make this.

Slow Cooker Chicken Enchiladas

2lbs chicken thighs
1 yellow onion diced
1 green bell pepper diced
1 yellow bell pepper diced
1 4 oz can diced green chiles
1 4 oz can diced jalapenos
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes no salt added
1 8 oz can tomato sauce
3 tsp minced garlic
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp chili powder
1 tbsp oregano
salt & pepper to taste

cilantro
red onion minced
avocado

It's slow cooker time!

In your slow cooker put all your ingredients in and put on high for 6-8 hours. Stirring occasionally to mix the flavors around.

6-8 hours later....put some in a bowl and garnish with minced red onion, cilantro and avo! Eat up! It's delicious, and hot. Be careful!

| Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 6-8 hours | Servings 6-8 | Pin It Now!

Baked Breaded Chicken

 

Day 2 of antibiotics down the hatch. Man. Still feeling icky. I woke up in a full sweat this morning. Like bad, I got up and looked in the mirror and my whole chest was beaded up almost as if I had done a wod. Ha! Gross. So I am just sitting here drinking some Throat Coat tea. Seriously the yummiest tea EVER. It has marshmallow root in it. I think that's why is so delicious. MMMM.

Yesterday Rogue had his puppy check up. The vet told me that we are in for it. That these dogs are a handful. I think we know that though. But maybe it will get worse. Either way I love this little guy to the max.

So my life is boring lately and I don't have any awesome funny mishaps to share with you. I apologize. I have been couch ridden since Sunday. I did go grocery shopping yesterday though and felt like I had ran a marathon afterwards. My energy levels are LOOOWWW. Clearly pushing around a cart full of groceries shouldn't be difficult. I have been watching a lot of movies though. Last night we watched The Lincoln Lawyer. Scott had never seen it, I think its a good movie. I also rented the new Alice in Wonderland. Can't wait to watch that!

So I work today for one of my favorite families and I am going to throw some food in the crock pot beforehand since Scott now has to be monitored in the kitchen. The last 3 times he has been left to cook for us he has sliced open his finger. I really don't want him to loose a whole finger so if I can avoid that happening I am going to. Plus slow cooker dinners are soooo yummy! And make the house smell AMAZING!

So I baked this chicken and served it with some sauteed asparagus and onions. It was delicious!

Baked Breaded Chicken

3-4 chicken breasts
2 eggs
10-12 almonds (minced in food processor until flourish)
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup shredded coconut
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp Bragg's dried herb seasoning

Preheat your oven to 350F

In a bowl mix together all spices with coconut flour, minced almonds and shredded coconut. In a separate bowl crack eggs and whip them.

 

 

Take chicken breast and coat in the egg, then completely cover in the flour mixture and place on a rack on baking sheet and cook for 35-40 minutes until cooked through.

Enjoy!

| Prep time 5 minutes | Cook time 40 minutes | Servings 3-4 |

Pin It Now!

I'm Alive!

No I do not have a recipe. No I didn't die. I am still alive and kicking. Sorry if it seems that I have fallen off of the face of the earth. Life has been crazy!

We have had our new baby Rogue for almost a week now. He is a MONSTER. I love him when he is sleepy. Such a sweetheart. When he is awake, he is a straight up crazy pup. Running around biting anything he can. But he is so stinking cute. I cant even explain. He is sleeping right now as a write this, if he was awake he would be trying to use my laptop as a chew toy. No joke. Something I learned this weekend, it is NOT an ounce of fun or easy at all to take care of a puppy while you feel like poop.

love those baby blues

I have been in bed for the past three days. Finally went to the doctor yesterday, and guess what I have?! Strep Throat. Yay for me. Booo. Good news, I am on antibiotics and should be feeling better in no time! Thank goodness. I have been a worthless specimen for the past three days. Scott, I am sorry your laundry hasn't been getting done! I haven't had the energy to do anything. He has been super sweet and taking great care of me. I love him. He pr-ed on his back squat last night! A whopping 300#. That's double his body weight. He has been making some huge gains lately in the box. I am so proud of him! Such an athlete.

So Rogue has his puppy check today. How exciting! And after only watching 2 episodes of SOA I am totally addicted. It really is a great show. I don't know how I have lived my life not watching it ever. Crazy. Guess what else! My hairdresser/good friend, Melissa, tried out CF Monday night. Guess what else else? She loved it. DUH! Everyone that tries it loves it. Cause its awesome. Right?!

Cant wait to get my booty back on my road bike and go for a ride. Maybe tomorrow after work? Good idea if I don't say so myself. I am watching the cooking channel right now. This chick, don't know her, she just made fried fish tacos, fried chirros, and tamales. Sweet baby Jesus. Heart attack anyone? I learned so much from the Everyday Paleo workshop that I attended on Saturday. Jason Seib really went into depth about the science behind paleo. How our bodies work and how its beneficial to us. If you want to learn more they do a lot of live podcasts and whatnot. Check them out!

K people, stay tuned! I am going to have an awesome recipe up for you tomorrow! Promise :) Have a beautiful day! Pin It Now!

Better Butter Chicken

 

So today's recipe is not an original. It is from Sarah Fargaso who wrote Everyday Paleo and has a site with a ton of her delicious recipes! I made it because 1 - its delicious and 2 - Sarah is coming to Grants Pass this Saturday for a paleo workshop. If you would like to learn more about paleo eating and its benefits for you I would highly recommend coming to this. People are coming from all over for this so you can too! Click here to register for the event. Its THIS SATURDAY at the CrossfitGP gym.

Yesterday I worked out again. YAY! I went to the morning class with Scott and had a great time. Of course I took it easy, don't worry moms out there. :) I did 8# wall balls and step ups instead of box jumps, you know since box jumps are major hip flexor workers. So it was 1 minute of work/ 30 seconds rest for a total of 3 rounds. Plus snatch work. Kurt was the coach and he did an awesome job. You know what sucks? That I cant hardly walk. It's not because of my hip flexor, its because I haven't worked out in 3 weeks and my quads are on fire every move I make.

So Scott got us road bikes. How cool is that! Now we can cross train by putting some mileage on the pavement and together! I love that we do so much active fun things together. Its awesome. He's awesome. We went for a ride last night with our friends Sean & Amy and it was super fun. I LOVE my bike! Its pretty comfy for a road bike too ha! Scott is one sexy man in his get up.

 

Soooooo good news, we get our baby Rogue tomorrow!! YAY! I am going to make the trek up to Portland and get him cause I can't wait until next week. AHHH! So super exciting. Don't worry. There will be a photo mania going on. It will be like "oh look he just stuck his tongue out!" "how cute he just fell over" "oh look hes pooping!" hahahha. Oh man.

This is our only photo of him at 3.5 weeks

 

Okay so like I said earlier, this recipe is from Everyday Paleo. Try it out, its delicious! AND come to the workshop!! :))

Better Butter Chicken

 

2 1/2 lbs boneless chicken thighs

1 red onion diced

3 tbsp coconut oil

6 oz can tomato paste

½ can coconut milk

½ tbsp crushed garlic

½ tsp cardamom powder

½ tsp coriander powder

1 tsp fenugreek powder

1 tsp chili powder

1 tsp sea salt

4 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)

 

Cut the chicken thighs into bite size pieces and set aside. In a large skillet or soup pot, heat the coconut oil over medium heat and add the diced onion and saute until translucent. Turn your heat down to low and to the onion and oil mixture, add the crushed garlic, cardamom, coriander, fenugreek, and chili powder and stir well to make a paste. Add the tomato paste to the onions and spices and stir, this mixture will be very thick. Turn your heat back up to medium and add the coconut milk and salt. Use a whisk to blend the tomato paste spice mixture and coconut milk together into a thick sauce. Bring the sauce to a simmer and add the chicken. Return the sauce and chicken to a simmer, turn down to medium low, cover and cook for approximately 15 minutes or until the chicken is done all the way through – make sure you stir occasionally during the cooking process. After the chicken is cooked, add the ghee and mix into the sauce until melted. Serve the chicken over steamed red chard or any other green of your choice.

 

 

Pin It Now!

Fish Taco Salad

Scott's requested birthday dinner :)

 

What an awesome weekend we had! Man! Everyone did so great in the Warrior Dash. Check out the photos on our gyms FB page if you'd like! http://www.facebook.com/crossfitgp They are pretty great. Just a bunch of muddy people with "Don't mess with me" faces going on. So then we went to dinner downtown Portland at El Gaucho. Of course everyone went and showered first cause they were covered in poo. So dinner was fabulous, I did not eat completely paleo, but when in Rome right? That's right! ;) Then we went to The Departure and had some drinks and chatted the night away. Good times, really.

Love this man, dont you love his shirt?!

So yesterday was Scott's 33rd birthday. My old man! Ha! Just kidding. We didn't do anything special. Mainly just relaxed around the house and made dinner. I made him some REAL oatmeal cookies, organic of course.

OH WAIT! Yesterday I went to the gym. My first WOD in 3 weeks! Thank you Jesus! Such a fun wod for my first one back too. Clearly I kept it light, and when I say light, I mean LIGHT. 25# baby! This was the wod...

Barbell Tabata
Do 4 rounds of 20s work, 10s rest of each of the following movements. Prescribed weights are 115/95. Record total number of reps for each movement.
Power Snatch
Push Jerk
Front Squat
Back Squat
Hang Squat Clean
This should equate to 10 total minutes, 2 minutes or 4 cycles of each exercise.

So I just really focused on keeping my form tight and not hurting my hip. And I think I did a pretty good job. My squat felt retarded though. Not sure why, maybe cause I only had 25# going on. I don't know.  But the thing is, it felt AMAZING to workout again and get my booty back in there.

So I asked Scott what he wanted for his birthday dinner and he wanted fish taco salad. This is one of my favorite recipes, and frankly I am really confused as to why its not on my blog already. Past is the past, here it is now.

Fish Taco Salad

Fish

1 lb cod or tilapia
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp cumin
1/4 red chili flakes
salt & pepper to taste

In a frying pan put about a tbsp of olive oil and bring to a medium heat. Cut your fish into bite size cubes. Add your fish and spices and cook for about 8-10 minutes until it start to flake. Careful, its fragile.

Salad

1/2 head green cabbage sliced thinly
1 head of romaine chopped thinly
1 red onion thinly sliced
1/2 cucumber sliced
1 mango chopped

Combine all the salad ingredients and toss in a bowl for consumption.

Avo Cilantro Cream

2 avocados
2 limes, juice only
1 head of cilantro, stems removed
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 cumin
dash of red chili peppers
salt & pepper to taste

In your food processor combine all ingredients till you get a smooth cream. If its too thick add a little bit of olive oil. This is your topping and its amazing!

Finally, put some salad on your plate. Top that with some fish, then add a dollop of the avocado cream. If you want to get extra crazy add some fresh pico de gallo salsa. Wahhhbammm! This is like a fish version of Chipolte but better. No joke.

| Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 10 minutes | Serves 4 | Pin It Now!

Stuffed Bell Peppers

Friday has arrived!!

Warrior Dash is tomorrow. I love CrossFit events. They rock. Speaking of CrossFit events, did you people know that they are re-airing the Reebok CrossFit Games?!!!!!!!!!??

I seriously think going to this event was what made me want to really give CrossFit my all. I said I would never complain again about a wod, and I really don't think that I have. Crossfit has truly changed my entire outlook on life and made such a positive impact mentally and physically. The relationships that I have built within the CrossFit Community are some of the best I have ever had my entire life. They are all genuine people that legitimately care about fitness and health, and not just their own but their peers as well. I love it.

Gonna be so fun to watch it. Its going to bring back some awesome memories. Scott and I had such a blasty blast down there watching the strongest people in the world just battle it out, give it their every last drop of energy to these workouts. Man. Just a bunch of bad asses really. You better watch it.

Check out this link for the schedule and get your DVR set up or whatever its called. Do it. You will not regret it!

Lets do some recaps...

Just trying to stay cool, I have never sweated so much in my entire life by just sitting. My shorts were wet! Ew.

I love Daniel Tyminski's flares of neon!

Chris Spealler just jumping like a boss!

Daniel, Neal and Lucas. Three amazing athletes!

 

Little miss Camille LeBlanc-Bazinet , She's awesome!

This was a team event, these were super crazy fun to watch! Everyone just going balls to the wall and working together to get work done!
  

WHEW! So there is some of our recaps. Watching it is going to be like being there all over again. YAY! Can't wait.

So I am a ratard and made stuffed peppers and didn't take any photos. Spell check is telling me I spelt retard wrong, I know I did. I like saying RAtard instead. Anywho... Trust me you don't want photos of the leftovers cause they look like baby food. Sorry. So trust the fact that these are amazingly delicious. When are stuffed peppers not delicious? That's what I thought.

Stuffed Bell Peppers

4 green bell peppers (get ones with 4 nubs on the bottom. They stand up better)
1 lb ground turkey
1 head cauliflower
1 yellow onion diced
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 can organic diced tomatoes
1 can diced green chilies
1 tbsp cumin
1 tsp oregano
1 tbsp chili powder
1/2 tsp red chili flakes
salt & pepper to taste

Turn your oven on to broil.

In your frying pan cook onions and meat until done. About 10 minutes. Add your garlic, green chilies, diced tomatoes and all your spices (cumin, chili powder, red pepper flakes, oregano and S&P). In your food processor "rice" your cauliflower. Add this to the meat and cook on low for about 10-15 minutes to let the flavors make a delicious medley.

While your doing this your peppers should be in the oven roasting. Turn them every couple minutes to get a nice char, but don't burn them. You know like goldeny looking. So once the peppers are roasted to your liking take them out and cut the tops off. Hollow out all the seeds and stuff with your meat/cauli mixture.

Lastly, bake your stuffed peppers for about 25 minutes @ 350F to soften the peppers a little more. Let cool, and eat!

| Prep time 10 minutes | Cook time 30 minutes | Serves 4-6 |

Pin It Now!

Tilapia with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce and Veggies

Coconut milk creamer is fabulous. Even better, hazelnut flavored coconut milk creamer. Heck yes. And it only has 4 grams of sugar. I learned something last weekend. I never knew that milk had sugar in it. Ha! What in the heck. So even though I had been doing no sugar or nuts, apparently I still had some sugar without knowing it. Not my fault. I had NO IDEA!

Have you ever cracked an egg and it be bloody? I have heard people talk about it and I always thought "thank goodness that hasn't happened to me". Well it happened yesterday. Ew. Needless to say I didn't eat eggs this morning. It may have tainted me. What causes a bloody egg anyways? Whatever it is, its gross and I don't want eggs anymore. I already have an issue towards white eggs. Man. My options are getting slim here.

So I am so proud to announce....We are getting a puppy!! I cant even see straight I am so excited!! People, meet Rogue. He is a 5 week old weimaraner. Absolutely adorable. He is going to such a handsome man. This is the only recent photo I have of him. I cant wait till she sends us more. I cant believe I talked Scott into getting another dog. It went from "hell no, don't ask again" to "Sure, I cant believe I am saying this". Heck yes!

Baby Rogue

This Saturday is the Warrior Dash up in Hillsboro. I didn't heal up so I am not running. Lame. But whatever. I am going to take some fantastic photos of all these dashers. Then we are going to go out and have a delicious dinner downtown Portland and get some cocktails to celebrate Scott's birthday! September has so many birthdays. People be getting frisky during the holiday season.

Today is a big day. I made a huge pot of soup for our friend Stuart who got his tonsils out and cant eat anything. He said he has pretty much ate Metamucil. Whatever that is. I'm sure it doesn't have the goods his body needs so I boiled carrots, onion, chicken, sweet potato, cauliflower, kale and garlic. Threw that in the food processor until it looked like baby poo and added some chicken broth and some spices and wwaaabahhhm! Delicious. I ate it for breakfast since I am egg traumatized. Tonight is the Slightly Stoopid concert at the Britt. Should be fun! And I am helping out Corrie for a few hours as well. Oh and making dinner for our friends! Sheesh.

I wanted to make something delicious for dinner last night so I tried fish. I don't know what it is about fish but I am always scared to cook it. Turned out fabulous, if I don't say so myself.

Tilapia with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce and Veggies

1lb tilapia

20 blanched almonds

1 bundle cilantro

1/2 7oz jar of roasted red peppers

6-8 garlic cloves

1 zucchini sliced

1 crooknet squash sliced

1 crown of broccoli chopped

1 red onion chopped

1 teaspoon paprika

2 teaspoons salt

2 teaspoons pepper

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

olive oil for frying

 

Start with seasoning your tilapia filets with paprika, salt & pepper. Set aside.

 

 

In a frying pan cook your garlic cloves till they get slightly soft and roasted looking. Put the garlic, red peppers, cilantro, almonds and a tbsp of olive oil into your handy dandy food processor and puree until you get a nice creamy texture going on. Set aside.

 

Take you sliced veggies and saute in frying pan with 1 tbsp olive oil. Add about 2/3 of your cream sauce and cook veggies for about ten minutes, stirring regularly.

 

In ANOTHER pan heat up 2 tbsp of olive oil and cook your fish 3 minutes per side.

 

On your place, put some veggies and top with fish then add a little more of the sauce. Vwwaaalllaah!

 

| Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 20 minutes | Servings 4 |

Pin It Now!