I love to start the week off on a good note by prepping my food, and today I prepped like it was my job so I just wanted to share the few things I did today. I'm definitely not this organized every Sunday but I have a pretty crazy work schedule this week and if I don't have good, healthy food ready I know I will make lots of super unhealthy decisions this week! First off I started with some food I already had at home and built some of my meal prep around that. I had some amazing home grown chickens from my parents neighbor/friend Mary Jo that I've been wanting to cook, plus some fun Trader Joe's spice rub, and veggies that needed to be cooked so that was meal # one. Here are the steps I followed: 1) Coated the chicken in olive oil and the spice rub, let it marinade for a few hours 2) Placed quartered red skin potatoes and carrots in the bottom of a foil lined pan and tossed with olive oil and salt & pepper 3) Placed chicken on top of veggies 4) Baked at 375 degrees for a little over an hour until the chicken was fully cooked and veggies roasted and voila! Perfect meal of meat & veggies which should last me a few lunch or dinner meals. I still had potatoes left and some good quality cheddar sausage from Whole Foods so I made up a few breakfast bowls by chopping the potatoes into small squares and sautéing them and the sausage in ghee and then adding a fried dippy egg on top. Lastly I prepped a few other random ingredients to have ready to eat/transform later and the week and to snack on:
1) Cut up lemons and made a pitcher of lemon water 2) Washed figs that will be used in smoothies and to snack on 3) Chopped up and riced a whole cauliflower for future use - I ended up getting 4 bags of 2 cups of the "rice" that I'm freezing 4) Washed cherry tomatoes from the farmer's market to snack on all week 5) Hard boiled eggs to make egg salad.
I have not cooked as much in the kitchen the past few weeks, but trying to get back into the meal prepping habit and do more cooking so I wanted to share some of my recent eats, including one very delicious brunch out with some friends (pictured above an amazing egg, prosciutto, and risotto cake with tomato sauce from Ghibellina in DC). I also ordered another Blue Apron box, which I have mentioned before on the blog! I was hoping to use these meals as a jumping off point of getting back to experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen. This box was so delicious, you can't really go wrong with burgers on pretzel buns plus I haven't had a salmon dish from them with unique flavors that I haven't liked. I'm definitely going to keep these boxes on rotation whenever I feel like I'm in a food slump!
Just this past month I heard of another similar company and decided to try out Plated. It works pretty much the same way. A few things I do like better about Plated was the number of choices each week of meals and they have them online a few weeks in advance so that's nice to see for planning ahead. The week I signed up was a "game day food" theme for the Super Bowl so it wasn't as gourmet as my Blue Apron boxes but the meals were still super yummy. Lastly Plated is a little more costly and the meals range in price per plate but you can order as many recipes a week as you want, not just a one size fits all box. I can't wait to buy another box sometime soon!
Summer has flown by like normal, can't believe it's already labor day, so here's a few snapshots of my summer! |
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