Zesty Saturday Night
Posted By AmyD. on July 29, 2008
Saturday night we decided to go healthy. Mike made shrimp kebabs with shrimp, green bell peppers, red onion, peaches (yes, peaches – awesome!), and tomatoes. The bell pepper and peaches gave a sort of sweet and sour chicken feel to it without the gloopy, sugar-laden sauce.
Shrimp on the barbie!
What I really love about kebabs is that they provide instant weapons. If someone pisses you off at dinner you just impale them with a kebab. It’s just so damn easy! Kate likes to collect everyone’s kebab sticks and place them menacingly next to her plate. That’s right, even dinner is an act of survival around here.
On the side I made Wild Rice Salad one of Crys’ amazing recipes! I think next time I’ll substitute in some bulger wheat for extra fiber, but seriously – that recipe is soooo good and it is sooo pretty. Guaranteed to impress!
Also made Gazpacho. Gazpacho is a cold soup made of pureed vegetables. On the surface it doesn’t sound appealing. It’s actually pretty good. According to this article it’s excellent for your health. I used this recipe but if anyone has a better recipe for it – please pass it along to me!
Gazpacho!
I even got all gourmet and made Crystal’s Easy Breezy Everyday Pesto which is indeed easy and mind-blowing delicious! It’s excellent on shrimp too!
I don’t know that I’ll go all vegetarian (clearly not what with grilled shrimp and all) but I definitely am adding in healthier things and more veggies into my diet. I feel better… but then Mike made chili, actually, he made a fairly healthy version with tons of fresh veggies and lean ground sirloin, lots of yummy spices but not too spicy. It was awesome. But, after all the fiber and nutritious goodness that I had partaken in – well, uh-hem, it’s just not ladylike to go any further, so I won’t.
Let’s just say I am thrilled that my family is not one of those families (no offense to those who do! – geezus the PC qualifier extent to which one must go these days) who likes bathroom humor. We don’t go in for lots of gas jokes, passing gas and blaming it on the dog, things like that. It’s not our thing. Although, I understand that occasionally, when the girls aren’t around, that men who are clearly to old to get a giggle out of that sort of thing will boys will be boys.
So, I have to weigh the consequences of eating healthier and possibly subjecting my family to either my lower extremities exploding completely or mini explosions as I run up the stairs (why do stairs have to have that affect?) while attempting to cough at the same time (hello! One uterus, 3 births… does not compute) to cover the noise.
I’m going with healthier for now and I’m going to console myself with desperate belief that my family will not make “gas” jokes at my funeral, which will hopefully be something like 50 years or so from now. Which reminds me, Mike is so good at getting deals that we’ve decided our version of funeral planning will be that when one goes, the other will off him/herself so that the kids can get a two for one on the funeral costs. At that point, I’m going to suggest that they just bury us both in the same coffin to save all the hassle on afterlife conjugal visits.
Well, this sure turned into a happy post.
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your system acclimates. you probably haven’t been getting enough fiber in your diet and now that you suddenly are, or had a whole weekend with loads of fiber goodness, your body’s like WHAT? but the more you do it the less of an issue it will be.
thanks for the shout out! and i had rice again last night, but that newer recipe i just put up. (they’re both new, but the newEST). it’s more subtle but also quite good.
i’ve been thinking of doing a cleanse lately but apparently that calls for, gasp, restraint. as in, no food, or limited food, or food that one might never imagine to be food. we’ll see.
oh! you should also take probiotics. it helps the flora and fauna in your intestinal track. but something like papaya enzyme, too? this is good when our stomachs are adjusting to the food we’re eating. that’d probably REALLY help.
last comment, promise!
more recipe posts, please. you take nice pictures and i love reading about (and eating) food.
I don’t think there is a “good” recipe for gazpacho. I’ve tried it several times, and even though my Amy loves it, I find it completely unpalatable.
Crys is right. Your body just has to get used to it. It’s great to change your eating habits to be more healthy. It will hopefully ensure you do live those next 50 years!
Holy beautiful food.
And those plates?! I want those plates?!?!?!?!!!!
Um. Sorry. Were we supposed to be commenting on health?
THE PLATES!! THEY DISTRACT ME!!!
“What I really love about kebabs is that they provide instant weapons. If someone pisses you off at dinner you just impale them with a kebab. It’s just so damn easy!”
And that is why I love my old knitting needles. The huge aluminum ones that could stake a vampire at twenty paces.
I am going to have to try these out. But not tell Chris what they are until after he decides he likes it. Something about the sound of healthy that deters him. About the gas… it is what it is. And it is true about a change in eating habits that brings about this. Good or bad.
I’m on the save wave as Britt – I can’t get past that fablous plate!
I made chili this weekend to – very healthy, lots of beans and veggies, and very little lean meat. We ate the last of it last night as a topping to bake potatos… With sadly the same result in our house.
A root toot toot
and a root toot toot
rooty toot rooty toot
root toot toot.
Once your body gets used to more fiber the gassiness will pass. No pun intended.
Your system will adjust. Trust me.
I have been eating better (most of the time) for a year now. Barely any fast food, and cooking at home and taking left overs for lunch. LOTS of fruit and veggies.
It will all even out. So, no worries! Keep it up!
Wow. First of all, you crack me up. Only you would end a beautiful, healthy foods post with the line about you and Mike “offing” yourselves at the same time so the kids can save money on burial fees! :rotflmao:
Second, great food post. You make some good stuff. I’ll be right there….um…in about 3 days.
Third, thanks for the link to Crys’s food blog. I used to hit her “Midnight Therapy” blog all the time for hilarious watching, but I didn’t know she had a new one. I can’t wait to try the pesto. Yum! :thanks:
J.
Holy Cow, you eating Healty, uhm, WTF?
I mean that’s great. (Shaking my head in disbelief.)
Women – I didn’t even notice plates. :yawn:
I can’t think of anyone else that could take one post through healthy eating to proper gas passing to saving money at a burial. :greatone:
Beamer :rockon: