Turkey Loaf

Made mini turkey loaves today. They turned out ok, I would make a few changes next time, but I'm happy overall with how they taste.

~1.38 lbs ground turkey

2.5 small apples, chopped small

1 cup tomato sauce

1 cup chicken broth

1/2 onion, chopped small

garlic to taste

spices to taste

Mix everything together, load into mini loaf pans. Bake at 375 F for 80-90 minutes. Freeze uneaten loaves for later use.

As you can see from the alst picture, they are crumblier than I was hoping. I also used too much tomato sauce for my taste, and maybe too much broth. Next time I might grate some other random veggies in (carrots might add nice texture). I also though of cranberries, since turkey/apple/cranberry is a nice combonation.

Broken Streak

I went to the gym, coach sent me home.

Well, I tried.

It's probably for the best, I'm sick as a dog. Bronchitis or soemthing of the like.

This weekend me and sister are making meatloaf, with apples in it instead of breadcrumbs or oatmeal. I think I'm going to try to make the Cocoa/Coconut protein snack balls that were on Mark's Daily Apple too...

It's beena rough week. I've got a nasty deep chesty cough and lots of congestion. Went to the gym tonight anyway, could barely even finish the scaled workout.

The first workout where I din't feel good physically/psychologically when it was done.

I am so weary.

Me and the sister might have a paleo cook-fest this weekend though.

Failed Weekend

I was out of town this whole weekend with my choir for a convention. All our food was provided, which was great financially (starving college student here), but a really epic fail as far as nutrition (and I never use that term). Olive Garden, burgers, pizza, and donuts for breakfast? ARG! I'm trying! I had some healthy snack food with me, which helped, but I can't really survive off snack food when I want a meal. And I don't have the self dicipline yet to turn down food that is actually being served to me.

By the end I felt like crap, physically and mentally.

But I had a good workout today, was able to really see some improvement in my front squat 5x max, so that was a positive.

Nerdy

You know it's intense when having your order of fish-oil supplements come in is like Christmas.

Mmmmm..... I'm excited.

I really know nothing about fashion

You probably wont hear a lot of, "psh, Christian Soriento's new spring collection that just came out of New York Fashion Week was much to drab, the houndstooth makes me think 1950s Avon lady."

Nope. Because I don't really follow fashion shows and designers in particular. (Slash, at all).

I'd like to clarify something. Generally, I look like this:

And generally I'm doing something along the lines of this:

So I don't take myself, or my clothing, very seriously. But I gotta say. I've been loving these:

These are not D&G's edgiest ads, as there are not 7 or 8 nearly-naked, oiled men. But I love the colors, having bold lips AND eyes, channeling Frieda (eyebrows much?) and your dad's secretary. The retro glasses and scarves. I for one and pretty stoked that stuff is coming back in.

Paleo Dutch Babies

When I was a kid my mom used to make Dutch Babies for our breakfast when my dad was gone (he didn't like them very much).

The original recipe was extremely simple:

Mix 3 eggs, 1 c flour, 1 c milk. Melt 2 Tbsp butter in a cast iton skillet, pour in the batter, and bake at 400 F for about 12-15 minutes.

(I happened to find a picture on my phone of one I made a while ago, original recipe)

This is my tweak:

3 free range eggs

1/2 c coconut flour

1/2 c almond flour

1/2 c coconut milk

1/2 c almond milk

Melted 2 Tbsp (or so, didn't realy measure) of coconut oil in a little round cake pan (don't have a cast iron skillet here at school, sad face). Bake same as above.

Results:

Too grainy. Could possibly be fixed with finer ground flours, but the ones I have are already pretty fine.

Somewhat flavorless. Could be fixed by using grassfed butter instead of coconut oil.

Also maybe one less egg?

Oh well. It looked pretty good.