High Five Fridays: Weekly Meal Plan (7.27.12), Olympics Edition!featured
It’s all about the Olympics this week!
(U.S.A. *** U.S.A. *** U.S.A.)
In preparation, Michael Phelps has been pounding 3 fried egg sandwiches, 3 chocolate chip pancakes, a 5-egg omelet, 3 slices of French toast, and a bowl of grits ever day – and that’s just breakfast. What have you been doing?
It’s time to PROTEIN-LOAD, my friends. You want to be a champion? You need FISH. You need SAUSAGE. You need STEAK, CHICKEN, and TOFU. You need the OLYMPIC RINGS OF PROTEIN. Rawr.
You can do it.
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Guacamole Remix: The Avo-Cobb-Ofeatured
A bowl of guacamole brings the party. That is a fact.
Luscious, creamy avocados, sweet tomato, a squirt of lime, and crunchy tortilla chips…all I need is a cold Corona, a gabfest with my girls, and that’s what I call a great night.
Speaking of avocados and estrogen-charged gabfests, the inspiration for this guacamole remix comes from a dinner I attended while at EVO a few weeks back. It was hosted by California Avocados, with special guests, Top Chef Masters Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger.
In true Top Chef form, Mary Sue and Susan turned the quick-fire on us, challenging us to come up with a winning guacamole recipe using the ingredients on hand…in 10 minutes.
There was tropical guac, Italian guac, 4-am-hangover-cure guac…the one that caught my fancy though, was a Cobb Salad take on guac. What a great idea! The concept and a great name have stuck in my brain since that night, so I decided to run with it. Presenting…
The Avo-Cobb-O.
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How to Pit and Peel an Avocadofeatured
I recently learned a *new trick* on how to pit and peel an avocado (like a boss).
It’s the easiest thing ever, and it has its benefits. Never again will you risk losing a finger with that old hack-at-the-pit method. And, never again will you scrape at half an avocado with a spoon.
Ready for your tutorial? It’s as easy as 1-2-3:
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High Five Fridays: Weekly Meal Plan (7.20.12)featured
“What is the meaning of life?” “The chicken or the egg?” “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”
There are a lot of perplexing questions in the world, but none keep me tossing and turning late at night as often as this dreaded question:
“WHAT’S FOR DINNER?”
With a little planning ahead though, you can always have an answer.
Ever since I started personal cooking, I’ve been forced to get my cooking schedule organized. I prepare weekly meals for my clients, so oftentimes the dishes I make for them are the dishes we’ll eat at home too.
Taking the guesswork out of what to make for the week has been a huge time saver, and now I only have to ponder that Question That Shall Not Be Named once a week instead of five.
So, that’s the inspiration behind this series, High Five Fridays! Every Friday, I’ll post 5 recipe ideas to help get your weekly meal plan together — four dinners and one treat.
Because you gotta treat yo self.
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