White Chicken Chili

Up & At Em!!!!

I have been up since 6am. Crazyness. Rogue wasn't feeling so hot so I had to get up with him and figured I would be productive and go to the store for more cooking supplies bright and early. I made some pumpkin bars yesterday with a crust like bottom. UM YUM! So there is a gagillion just sitting in the fridge so I took some to my favorite coffee girl and made a box to go for Mike. I'll have Scott take the rest to the gym later so I am not tempted to eat them. Feeding people delicious healthy treats makes me happy.

I have received a few comments from members at the gym that they love reading my blog and trying out my recipes. I seriously appreciate you all SOOO much more then you know for following and trusting me with my kitchen skills to give these a try! Someone mentioned almond butter cookies instead of peanut butter cookies. I'm experimenting today! :)

I need to organize my closets/dresser. Its killing me, pure chaos! I need to get all my tops hung color coordinated or something. I always have a tough time deciding if I like it color coordinated or tanks/short sleeve/long sleeve. Then there's dresses, pants oh and workout clothes. I have an entire dresser dedicated to workout clothes. I prefer to wear that kinda stuff over anything else. Love me some comfy cozy lulu's!

So I made this chili for SOA night this week. It was a hit! Easy peasy!

 

White Chicken Chili

 

2 lbs chicken thighs, diced into 1 inch cubes

1 red pepper, chopped

1 green pepper, chopped

1 yellow onion, chopped

1-2 jalapenos, seeded and minced

1 clove of garlic, minced

1 cup chicken broth

1/2 cup canned coconut milk

1 (4 oz) can green chiles

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon sage

1/2 teaspoon oregano

1/4 teaspoon cumin

1/4 teaspoon white pepper

 

It's slow cooker season people! It might as well find a permanent position on our counter top. So get out your slow cooker and put all your prepared ingredients in for 4-6 hours. I did mine on low cause I knew I was going to be gone forever. Any who, stir occasionally and eat up!

 

 

 

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

 

 

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Pumpkin Nut Muffins

Winter pansies are planted, I love fall. Pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING is around us. All the squash and cute pumpkins. Have you seen the pink pumpkins?! They look all prehistoric. I love the cool crisp air in the mornings and evenings. LOVE IT!

Today is laundry day here in the Lookabaugh household. I have been slacking so I have to do like 4 loads. Ughhh. Then I am going to experiment with another pumpkin recipe. And I am NOT going to eat it. I already promised myself. I need to step it up on the paleo challenge cause I know I haven't made any gains other then weight. Ha!

Rogue is being such a pest today. He's all up in my business. Like on my laptop. Killing me. It's not his fault his legs are 3 feet long, I get it, they probably have that annoying RLS. I get it all the time. Restless leg syndrome sucks...have you ever experienced it? I hope not.

I decided I want a puffy vest. Not super puffy, like the flat puffy ones. You know what I mean.

Any who I gotta run and get some things done around here! Hope y'all have a great day! :)

Pumpkin Nut Muffins

1 ½ cups almond flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 ½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, plus more for sprinkling on tops of muffins
1/8 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
3 tablespoons maple syrup
¾ cup canned pumpkin
1 small ripe banana, mashed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup chopped walnuts
coconut crystals to sprinkle on top

Preheat oven to 350F

 Line muffin pan with paper liners or use coconut oil to grease pan.
In a large bowl whisk together almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. 
In a small bowl whisk together eggs, pumpkin, banana, and vanilla extract. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix to combine. Stir in pecans and walnuts until well incorporated.
Scoop batter into prepared muffin pan cups filling ¾ full. Sprinkle the tops of the muffins with coconut crystals and pumpkin pie spice.

 

Bake muffins for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden.

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Mini Meatloaf Balls with Bacon

I have been sore for a good 72 hours. My hamstrings are wound up so tight it hurts to sit on the toilet because the pressure of the seat feels like a roller. Yes, I have been rolling them out and stretching galore. Still sore though. We did Diane on Saturday. I guess she showed me whose boss!

I am proud of myself because I have gotten back onto a workout reggi. Though I am scaling pretty much everything to nurse my hip flexor issue I am still doing 3-4 days a week. Go me. Not so "go me" on the paleo challenge. I had a breakdown Sunday and ended up drinking some wine. And I ate a banana dipped in dark chocolate and coconut flakes. YIKES. I love to eat. So I still feel pudgy from this Sunday mishap. But in order to keep my sanity I HAD to drink that wine. I may or may not have drank the entire thing.

So this is why, reason #1 I was tired and wanted to take a nap day Sunday but that didn't happen. #2 I had to clean the house because it looked like a bomb went off. I guess I can't leave the house for more then 12 hours without coming home to a catastrophe. Dishes, dog toys, clothes and more. So luckily for Scott he was not home because I went all crazy white girl on this house. Took me about an hour. Swept, mopped, vacuumed, dishes, dusting, toilets, the whole 9 yards. #3 We had a BBQ to attend Sunday evening at 5:30, that time was coming FAST and I hadn't showered so kindly they let us move it to 6:30. I ran to Safeway to get some celery, bell pepper and chorizo. I was making a hash thing. I had forgotten the celery so let the people behind me cut it front so I could go grab the celery real quick. Bad idea. They were on the wick program and had to go return and exchange like 4 different items. I lost it. I actually said out loud to this chick " I guess I shouldn't have let you guys cut in front of me, this is definitely teaching me patience." She should/could have punched me in the face. So short story long I was there for at least 10-15 minutes. Every time I thought about going to a different line I thought, oh their probably almost done. Nope. So then its my turn and my stuff had gotten moved forward since it was ahead of them to begin with. Well some retard took it all back! So then I had to go and get all new groceries!! Christ. When I got home I was all emotional and stressed. It was redic.

So needless to say I made Scott stop on the way to the BBQ and get a bottle of wine cause I was a little on edge. The BBQ was super fun, we laughed, ate delicious food and were merry!

So these little nuggets are delicious and sooo simple! I make them a lot for Scott when I am in a hurry or not going to be around for dinner.

Mini Meatloaf Balls with Bacon

1 lb ground beef

1/2 lb ground pork (sweet or spicy, I usually do a little of both)

1 sweet yellow onion, finely chopped

1lb uncured bacon

1/4 cup almond meal

2 eggs

1 cup broccoli slaw

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion powder

salt and pepper to taste

 

Preheat oven to 350F

 

Time to get your meatloaf gut ingredients going. So take 1/2 of the 1lb of bacon and chop it up into bite size pieces. Put into a pan and begin to cook down. Once the fat has began to rise, add your chopped onions and broccoli slaw. While those ingredients cook together, get your ground beef and pork into a large bowl with all other ingredients. Get your hands out and start mixing and mushing that around.

 

 

Once the bacon is cooked through, the onions are slightly translucent, add them to the large bowl and incorporate that into mixture. I get out my cupcake pan and make a ball a little larger then a golf ball, but small then a lacrosse ball and put in pan. Once those are all done take the remaining bacon and slice into a couple inch slices. Place over the top of the mini balls and bake for 25-30 minutes.

 

 

Enjoy!!

 

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

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Lemon Macaroons

So that 12 minutes AMRAP....frick man. My lungs were burning, I had congestion afterwards. Scott said that means I got a good workout. Haha. I felt like I couldn't move. But being the AWESOME girlfriend that I am, I gave him a back massage with this new lavender massage oil I got. Lucky duck. It smelled so good. Lavender like instantly puts you in a relaxed state. MMM... I love it.

So day four of the challenge, feeling good, feeling mentally strong! Not craving any fruit or nuts yet. Even though when I was making chocolate banana bread the other day I took a bite. But it was paleo so that's not a cheat necessarily. A cheat on my extra criteria put upon myself. But not a cheat in the paleo world. Boom! Validated.

This weekend I get to have a sleepover with the kiddos. I am excited! Not sure what we are going to do yet, but it will be fun. And Scott and my Dad are going hunting. Wish them luck! I want a buck! Look at me, a rhyming machine.

Rogue took a dump in the house today, I know, what a surprise right? Geez, he's killing me! We went outside and went potty then he comes inside and goes again. Lame.

Cutest brothers

Our house smells like a Mexican fiesta right now and I love it. I am making the crock pot enchiladas for dinner tonight so Scott doesn't slice his finger off, I think he is finally healed from his last mishap. This morning I was cutting onions up and the knife went through my finger but no blood. Great right?!

Lemon Macaroons

1 1/2 cups almond flour
1 1/2 cups dried shredded unsweetened coconut
1/2 cup coconut flour
2 pinches of salt
1/2 cup raw honey
4 tbsp fresh lemon juice
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp lemon zest
1/4 cup coconut oil

Preheat oven to 300F

Mix all of your dry ingredients in a bowl, in a separate bowl mix wet ingredients. Now mix your wet into your dry ingredients until you get a flaky/dry/wet mixture. Get out your pizazz ice cream scooper (the small one with the spring) and make little balls and place on a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Bake for 5-7 minutes.

Remove let cool and enjoy!! :))

| Prep time 15 minutes | Cook time 5-7 minutes | Servings 20-24 |





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Yellow Chicken Curry

 

These dogs are loco. Scott and I try to relax in the evenings and watch a little TV or read books, and well, it hasn't been undisturbed since Rogue has came into our life. He is such a wild child! I am watching them play tug o war with a monkey right now. Rogue is starting to think he is tough, next thing you know Ollie puts him in check and Rogue takes off screaming to the corner or on the couch by me.

So if anyone is trying to get ahold of me and I am not responding via phone or text, my phone FINALLY took a poop. Its road kill. It wont charge so it's dead. Nuff said. Who needs a phone anyways?! So you can reach me through facebook or email :) Simplify my life for now? Sure why not.

Some cooking shows are so funny. Like awkward. Whatevs. I get to workout today. CrossFit GP has been on a AMRAP overload lately. Monday's was a 7 min AMRAP, guess what today's is? 12 minutes...and its going to be a LONG 12 minutes. Its....

3 Push Press(135/95) from the ground
5 lateral over the bar burpees
7 box jumps(24/20)

I'll pace myself on this one. You should too. Cause 12 minutes is going to feel like an eternity! I REALLY want to go for a bike ride on my road bike!! But it gets dark at 7:00pm now. Lame. That's when  I get off work on the days I don't workout. So maybe Sunday? Oh!! I got an idea, bike ride to the BBQ at our friends house Sunday?! Sounds like a grand idea.

His "sexy" face

So I am a curry whore. I love curry. Can't get enough of it. Scott, not so much. So I made this for lunch the other day so I could eat it all myself. Ha!

Yellow Chicken Curry

2 tbsp curry powder
1 tbsp paprika
2 tsp sea salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thighs
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 yellow onion, sliced
3 carrots, chopped
4 celery stalks, chopped
1 c. full-fat canned coconut milk
1 c. chicken broth

In your slow cooker put your chicken thighs and all other ingredients over the top. I checked mine a few times and gave it a little stir. Let cook for 4 hours on high or 5-6 on low. and Vwwwaaaahhhlllah! You have delicious curry! Enjoy! :)

 

| Prep time 10 minutes | Cook time 4-6 hours | Servings 5-7 | Pin It Now!

Progenex Locha Mocha Protien Bites

 

I'm weighed, measured and ready to rock. And sore as shit. I woke up this morning and felt like I couldn't move my head. I thought I slept crazy (never happens) but then I realized a did a bunch of squat cleans yesterday. That'll do it. Man. Sore traps, and hammys.

I was so grumpy last night, its because I didn't eat any sugar or nuts all day. Codi detoxing from sugar = run, far, far away. I am sorry Scott, I ate a crabby patty and it took me a while to digest it. But I lovers you soooo much :))

So I have been wanting to experiment with some Progenex treats. I made these little balls of love and they are sooooo good! Especially fresh out of the oven when the chocolate is all gooey. MMM. What I would do for one right now. Thank goodness I ate 10 of them last week. Ha!

Progenex Locha Mocha Protein Bites

1/2 cup coconut flour
2 scoops Progenex Locha Mocha Recovery
2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp raw honey
3 tbsp shredded coconut
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 egg whites
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1/4 almond butter
1/4 cup coconut milk
1/4 - 1/2 cup enjoy life chocolate chips (depends on how much you love chocolate!)

Preheat your oven to 350F

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, mix the wet in another bowl. Combine the two and mix until well incorporated. Roll dough into one inch round balls and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 7-9 minutes, let cool and share with your friends, or eat them all yourself if you're selfish. You choose.

| Prep time 10 minutes | Bake time 9 minutes | Servings about 20 bites |
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Garlic Cauli Mashers

What a weekend! Today is the first day of the month, you know what that means...Paleo Challenge has begun! I am not looking forward to weighing myself today. I ate like poop all weekend. Oh well. I'm human, therefore I can make mistakes. Ha. So if you all want to do this challenge with me it started today! I can help you out with ideas for recipes and there are a gagillion different blogs around with great recipes as well!!

Rogue gets a bath today. It should be interesting on how he handles it. He smells. Ew. I'll keep you posted.

I worked for Jager this weekend at the Oktoberfest in Jacksonville, OR. It was pretty fun! Jenelle and myself told everyone we were twins cause people think that anyways. It was awesome. We were the Jager twins! We had to wear heels for three hours. That doesn't seem that bad, but seriously, my middle toe on my left foot is still numb. It was cool though, we had a ton of swag to hand out. I made people do work for them. Push ups, jumping jacks, singing, jokes, any sort of special talents were to be revealed. I'm not trying to be mean, but people need to work on their special skills! I wasn't very impressed.

See, we are twins minus I have a flat chest. haha.

So this side dish was paired with the ribs I made last week. They were so yummy! Savory and creamy. MMM...

Garlic Cauli Mashers

3 heads of cauliflower, stems removed and cut into sizable pieces
2 tbsp minced garlic
3 tbsp pasturized butter
salt & pepper to taste

Bring a stock pot of water to boil and add in your cauliflower florets. Boil until soft, 15-20 minutes. Let cool and put into your food processor until a super creamy, smooth consistancy is produced.

Put back in pot and mix in garlic, butter and salt & pepper. I put into a pyrex baking dish and baked for 25 minutes at 350F to reheat.

Seriously takes a lot like real mashed taters!!

| Prep time 5 minutes | Cook time 25-30 minutes | Serves 6-10 | Pin It Now!