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 |

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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!

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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.

 

 

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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 |

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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 |

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Classic Chicken Stir Fry

yummy

I had a dream last night that I got bit by a black widow. What the heck does that mean?! It was so real too. It bit me by my ankle and its mouth was stuck in my leg. She couldn't let go. Then I smashed her and she had two legs still attached to her body that was still biting me. I didn't know what to do so I got ice and tried to freeze the venom in the spot it was at. Weird. That doesn't make sense. Anyways...

The weekend up at The Gorge was awesome. We had a great time! I am happy to be home though. Drinking for three days will do it to you. We managed to stay strict paleo the entire weekend and no cheats! Go us! Well minus the beer. But seriously, there were girls in bikinis walking around and gave us a free pass for beer all weekend. Free? Would you say no? I didn't think so. And if you stayed in the tent area, you could win a cruise. For free. No ties. I tried so hard and gave it my best effort each day and didn't win shit. Lame. So look at Scott with these ladies. After this day they put on shirts. You can clearly see why...

So Dave Matthews was great, it was super fun to spend time with the family and have Scott there with me too! My dad is one of the funniest people I know. My mom is awesome, she sure likes to have a good time. We can call her the social butterfly. On the last day we had a water balloon toss while we were tailgating. That was fun. Emily (my sister) didn't think it was fun when she got hosed. But that's the price you pay. Ha. Here's a couple more photos for your entertainment. One thing that was cool was that they had turkey legs. That was the ONLY paleo thing to eat there and frankly I was surprised that they had that. Its funny because most every event we have gone to this summer has been CrossFit. So there has been good food. Thank goodness we had an awesome menu while we were up there! Ate like kings and queens!

My lover chomping on a turkey leg

Hanging out in the sea of people!

 

Us with my parents

The flys are so annoying right now. Its getting cooler so they are getting slower and landing on everything and bugging the bageezers out of me. Thank goodness I can catch them in my hands. Sometimes. That's the key word here. But when I do, its like a super big deal. I get pretty stoked on it.

I don't have an exciting recipe for you guys today. We drove 10 hours and didn't get home till past 8:00pm and I wasn't feeling like be a chef master. So I figure you all know how to make stir fry. But you forgot that you love it, and so I inspired you to make it because its delicious and easy.

Classic Chicken Stir Fry

1 lb boneless skinless chicken breast, diced into bite size pieces

1 red onion, sliced

1 cup sliced carrots

1 cup sliced broccoli

1 cup sliced celery

2 tbsp coconut oil

4 garlic cloves, minced

1 can water chestnuts, sliced

 

4 tbsp coconut aminos

salt & pepper to taste

dash of crushed red peppers

 

In your pan start your chicken and cook until almost done, 5-7 minutes. Add your vegetables and garlic. Let saute for about 8 minutes and add coconut aminos, red pepper and salt & pepper. Cook until the vegetables are done to your desire. I prefer mine a little crunchy still.

 

Enjoy!

 

| Prep time 10 minutes | Cook time 20 minutes | Serves 4-5 |

 

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