We love omelettes! We like inventing new kinds to eat as well! Okay, so to be honest we don't make omelettes like you picture them to be, with the egg wrapped around the meat, cheese, and veggies. We make them more like a stir-fry, which takes less time and is just as delicious!
Throw some kind of vegetable oil in the bottom of your skillet so your eggs don't stick! A general omelette that we like to make includes eggs, cheese, diced tomatoes, sliced up turkey lunch meat, and slices of a golden delicious apple.
I have seriously been blessed with an amazing husband. Andrew is so kind and usually makes breakfast for us. It really helps because I'm usually feeding our little baby Joseph, and even when I'm not it's still a super kind gesture. Anyway, one morning he surprised me by throwing in the golden delicious apple and I was less than excited to try it out. Now every time we make omelettes, I grab a golden delicious from the fridge because I love it so much!
Another good combination is instead of the golden delicious, adding spinach! It is really delicious. My neighbor Macy said that she usually just throws in whatever vegetables are in her fridge when she makes omelettes, including squash and zucchini. I know bell peppers and green onions are also common in omelettes. If you're feeling ambitious, you could even cook up some turkey bacon and cut it up for your meat, but I think the turkey lunch meat is delicious and simple. And what college student/busy mom doesn't like simple?
When we make our favorite omelette, we throw in vegetable oil, put some eggs in (usually about 6 eggs which makes 3 for each person) and let them cook for a little while. Then we add the tomatoes and lunch meat, and then the golden delicious apples, cook for a little longer, top with cheese and dish it onto the plates. The apples don't get very cooked that way, but it's good. We recently tried cooking the apples a little longer and that tastes great as well!
If you try this out, let me know what you think!
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Monday, October 3, 2016
Turkey Egg Muffins
Lunch meat is great in so many ways, and I really enjoy it in this recipe! It makes it simple to make and tasty to eat. Just grab some sliced turkey meat (circular is the best shape for this recipe), and place it in the bottom of a muffin tin (if you want smaller portions, a mini muffin pan works great). Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
In a separate bowl, crack some eggs and whisk. Add some cut up vegetables (tomatoes, green onions, bell peppers, asparagus, green beans, spinach, whatever floats your boat!) and some spices if you would like (salt and pepper are always good).
Then pour the egg-veggie batter into the muffin pan lined with turkey meats. Throw it in the oven, and out come easy breakfast/snack protein muffins! Try cooking them for about 15-20 minutes if you are using a normal muffin pan. If you're using a mini muffin pan try 8-12 minutes.
In a separate bowl, crack some eggs and whisk. Add some cut up vegetables (tomatoes, green onions, bell peppers, asparagus, green beans, spinach, whatever floats your boat!) and some spices if you would like (salt and pepper are always good).
Then pour the egg-veggie batter into the muffin pan lined with turkey meats. Throw it in the oven, and out come easy breakfast/snack protein muffins! Try cooking them for about 15-20 minutes if you are using a normal muffin pan. If you're using a mini muffin pan try 8-12 minutes.
Turkey Bacon and Eggs
I love the classic bacon and eggs breakfast, but didn't like how fatty I felt after eating tons of bacon (because sometimes I lose self control when there is steaming bacon in front of me). The first time I had turkey bacon after eating regular bacon it was kind of strange, but from the second time on it became a treat that my husband Andrew and I looked forward to!
We make this meal about three times a week, if not more! We cook up 2 eggs for each of us (we like ours over easy) and 2 or 3 pieces of turkey bacon per person. We enjoy eating it with frozen mixed vegetables that have been cooked on the stove in a bit of vegetable oil. We then put salt and pepper over everything, eat it up, and then we grab a piece of whole grain bread. We like to put applesauce on our bread, or sometimes peanut butter, and I sometimes enjoy eating it with sliced peaches on top (both fresh and canned).
We like this meal because it has protein, vegetables, whole grain, and either fruit or nuts. It is seriously so good!
Oh, another tip for the turkey bacon: we don't like to cook it to the point that it becomes crispy. For some reason it has a funny taste when it is crispy. We like it pretty floppy, but definitely not raw!
Let me know what you think if you try this out! Also if you try it in a different way, and how that went for you.
We make this meal about three times a week, if not more! We cook up 2 eggs for each of us (we like ours over easy) and 2 or 3 pieces of turkey bacon per person. We enjoy eating it with frozen mixed vegetables that have been cooked on the stove in a bit of vegetable oil. We then put salt and pepper over everything, eat it up, and then we grab a piece of whole grain bread. We like to put applesauce on our bread, or sometimes peanut butter, and I sometimes enjoy eating it with sliced peaches on top (both fresh and canned).
We like this meal because it has protein, vegetables, whole grain, and either fruit or nuts. It is seriously so good!
Oh, another tip for the turkey bacon: we don't like to cook it to the point that it becomes crispy. For some reason it has a funny taste when it is crispy. We like it pretty floppy, but definitely not raw!
Let me know what you think if you try this out! Also if you try it in a different way, and how that went for you.
Spicing up Oatmeal
Yesterday for breakfast my husband and I decided to have oatmeal, which we haven't done for a while. I had seen a recipe on Pinterest a few weeks ago where you take an apple, cut it into little pieces, and cook it on the stove top in apple juice. I decided to try it out, and I actually loved it and I'm totally doing it again! We each had different types of oatmeal with our apples, and they were both delicious.
I have tons of apple juice concentrate, so I used that to boil the apple slices in. I cut up each apple into eighths and then sliced the eighths into small chunks so they would cook fast and would spread throughout the oatmeal better.
We each had a 1/2 cup of oatmeal with one apple. I added the juice that I used to boil the apples in with the oatmeal to make it sweeter.
My husband added some cinnamon and nutmeg in his and boy was that yummy! He let me taste it. I added some peanut butter in mine and I liked it. I eat apples and peanut butter all of the time, so I thought I would give it a try in oatmeal form.
In the past we have also had bananas and peanut butter in our oatmeal and that's always good too. It's just nice to have some variety to oatmeal because we get bored of bananas and peanut butter. Another delicious way to have oatmeal is with peaches and a splash of cream!
If you're wanting to enjoy a little treat from the top of the pyramid, there are also some good options such as the classic brown sugar with pecans and raisins, strawberries with chocolate, and peaches and cream using whipped cream.
Oatmeal types:
We each had a 1/2 cup of oatmeal with one apple. I added the juice that I used to boil the apples in with the oatmeal to make it sweeter.
My husband added some cinnamon and nutmeg in his and boy was that yummy! He let me taste it. I added some peanut butter in mine and I liked it. I eat apples and peanut butter all of the time, so I thought I would give it a try in oatmeal form.
In the past we have also had bananas and peanut butter in our oatmeal and that's always good too. It's just nice to have some variety to oatmeal because we get bored of bananas and peanut butter. Another delicious way to have oatmeal is with peaches and a splash of cream!
If you're wanting to enjoy a little treat from the top of the pyramid, there are also some good options such as the classic brown sugar with pecans and raisins, strawberries with chocolate, and peaches and cream using whipped cream.
Oatmeal types:
- Apple, cinnamon, and nutmeg
- Apple and peanut butter
- Banana and peanut butter
- Peaches and cream
- Brown sugar with pecans and raisins
- Strawberries and chocolate
Have any of you found any successful oatmeal recipes that fit in the Harvard food pyramid diet?
Whole Wheat German Pancakes
One of my husband's favorite breakfast foods is German pancakes, and I really wanted to make some this weekend without breaking our new food lifestyle. I pulled up Pinterest and searched for whole wheat German pancakes and I found this recipe. It looked great, but we did make a few changes to it in order for it to better fit the diet.
We didn't make the syrup to go on it, and we didn't use butter. We used vegetable oil! It actually turned out pretty good. I am eager to make it again, and my husband liked it too, but he wasn't sure how excited other people would be to try it out. Here are some pictures
As you can see, it didn't poof up like normal German pancakes do, but it did have the same kind of light, chewy texture. It really did look quite funny inside the pan because the oil didn't blend in to the pancake like butter does, but I mean we enjoyed it still!
We grabbed some canned peaches to make it sweet, and just writing about it is making my mouth water. I do want to try this recipe again, but this time I might try making it with butter (I mean...it IS in the top category of the food chart...so it's still okay to eat occasionally!)
If you try this recipe, let me know how it goes! I'm curious to know if anyone enjoys it as much as we did using the oil method.
Whole Wheat German Pancakes (Harvard Pyramid Style)
2 Tablespoons oil (olive, canola, vegetable)
1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour
1/2 cup Milk
3 Eggs
Pinch of salt
- Preheat Oven to 450 degrees
- Coat the bottom of your pan with the oil
- Mix all ingredients in a bowl
- Pour the batter evenly around the whole pan
- Bake for 15-18 minutes
If you choose to use butter instead of oil, put two Tablespoons of butter into your pan and melt it in the oven before pouring your batter in the pan.
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