Everyone is a critic

The "pâté" was actually really good with the goat cheese and crackers. Nice little combo. Celery sticks though, thank goodness they are crunchy because raw celery offers nothing. Cooked celery on the other hand, can really change up a recipe, like chicken noodle soup or thanksgiving stuffing, I need to make a note to cook something with that in the near future.

I got off the hook last night for making dinner. Justin made it : ) only thing I added was how long to broil fish. He got a recipe from the P90X book and made some variations to it because not everyone is going to have fresh herbs laying around, unless you are like my mom and grows them out back, but we do not. The recipe was for a pesto sauce, what’s in pesto you ask? Well it mainly consists of pine nuts, lots of fresh basil, white wine, little bit lemon juice, and garlic. We had about half of that, so he combined almonds, dried basil (note: dried herbs tend to be stronger than fresh herbs so they say for every tbls of fresh is the same as 1 tsp of dry, taste may be a little different which is why its always best to use fresh but not everyone has a garden), white wine, lemon juice and garlic. He put all that in the food processor and waaala, a sauce for the fish. He broiled the fish for about 11 minutes, they were pretty thick so it took a little longer. While those cooked he took the leftover veggies from last night and added one more red and green pepper in order to get our serving of veggies. To cook these he added some white wine vinegar to the pan…an excellent healthy subsistute to olive oil. But who has white wine vinegar right?? Well Lexie and I were making a crazy dish one night and one of the recipes called for the vinegar, have I used it since? No, but now that I know it’s a healthy alternative; it went straight to the front of the cabinet. I also believe that vinegar will help with our recovery. The reason I believe this is because in college during preseason my teammate and I would take 2 shots of vingar the night in between the fitness test and the beep test, we believed this helped with our recovery and it seemed to work because we passed but who really knows. Anywho, the vinegar gave the veggies a nice bite to it with the tanginess of the vinegar and the sweetness of the wine. If you do not have white wine vinegar cook with regular wine or go back to vegetable stock. Anything liquid is a better substitute for olive oil.

I must say he did an excellent job; the sauce over our fish went very well because tilapia being a bland white fish the sauce really added something to it. I gave it two thumbs up.

Today will be a test, I am going out to lunch for one of my coworker’s bday and to order something but also keep it within my diet is going to be tricky…

I have not yet come to terms that this is going to be a lifestyle change but I know it will be. I was at the dog park yesterday and overheard 2 people talking about what they cooked for dinner last night. It’s not eavesdropping if I happen to be throwing the ball in the same area that they were standing. They were talking about cooking with olive oil to make a 3 cheese macaroni and cheese topped with bacon along side fried chicken. If you do not know me, I have a deep fryer in my kitchen, call it my southern roots, but yes I have one and yes I love fried food, specifically French fries. Before I heard this convo I really didn’t put into terms what I am getting myself into. All I know is I hope this blog keeps me motivated to continue to eat healthy, if not I know how a bag of potatoes and 3 cups of oil can work wonders…