Yesterday I promised to post photos of my warm bacon & egg salad. Here they are:
This salad was so yummy! I had it for my first meal. That's my bag of freshly ground flax seed too.
Here’s the recipe:
For serving 4:
2 romaine hearts, coarsely torn
4 eggs (hard boiled)
2 tbsp of sunflower oil (I used canola becuase I didn’t have sunflower oil)
2 thick slices of bread (I used sourdough) crusts removed, and bread cubed
1 &1/3 cupd of crumbled smoked bacon (I used no nitrite bacon)
12 cherry tomatoes (I used grape tomatoes), halved
Dressing:
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp of red wine vinegar
1 tsp dijon mustard
pepper
Easy Directions & Prep: Whisk dressing ingredients. Wash and dry romaine leaves. Cook eggs and cut into quarters. Heat sunfloweroil in large skillet, place bread in pan and brown on each side (turn frequently). Remove and set aside. Cook bacon and drain, crumble up into large pieces.
(For warm salad add tomatoes and dressing to the skillet for another minute. I didn’t do this step.) Gently toss bacon, tomatoes and dressing into the coarsely torn romaine lettuce. Add the quartered eggs sprinkle the bread (as croutons). Serve immediately. Here’s a closer look:
Those large brown pieces are freshly made croutons, not the bacon.
I got this recipe from a book I purchased at ALDI for only $4.99! Great pictures, very colorful. I’m getting ready to make a smoked salmon and arugula salad. Also from this new book that I love! The book is simply called “Salads” (It’s big).
That was some good news, unfortunately, here’s some unfortunate news. I found this on a vegetable/fruit box that used when I ran out of bags while at ALDI:
This reads "treated with O-phenylphenol or sorbic acid to inhibit mold growth and coated with paraffin and mineral oil and or carnuba wax." Isn't that what's in Turtle Wax for your car? Always SCRUB your fruits and vegetables!
Some of you may say you can buy organic. Not always an option if you have a family of 5 and want a red pepper dish at $4.99 a pepper. I got this whole beautiful book for the price of an organic red pepper! Buy organic when you can, if you can’t or don’t want to buy organic, start scrubbing and hope for the best. Even some of the ‘organic’ pesticides are now being put into question about their safety. So unless you want to live in your own biosphere and grow fruits and vegetables all day, you’ll have to eat some pesticides. I know it’s a shame. Fruits and vegetables have become more dangerous to eat than meat.
Here’s more great news. At my heaviest I wore these jeans (at 165lbs.) Now look at yesterday’s 2-pack ab photos:
It took a few shots to get the right one. I think my honey just liked snapping photos of my abs that I'm finding again!
This one is a little better. He HAD to take another one...
The last one, for now.
I will continue using my Minky Way principles. I feel great about shifting my heavy meals, at every meal I ask myself:
- Where’s the protein?
- Where’s the live food?
- Where’s the omega 3’s?
I got this concept from a book I love called the Gabriel Method.
You can read more about Jon Gabriel’s incredible transformation HERE.
I also strategically timed my meals to be at the best ‘fat-burning’ stage and I exercise
only 2 days a week. (NEVER on Mondays).
Just a reminder that The Minky Way Virtual Coaching will begin in June. More information at www.theminkyway.com
I utilize 2 books in this coaching. The ones that worked best for me.
First, Richard Morris’, “A Life Unburdened”. Second, Jon Gabriel’s, “The Gabriel Method”.
Please mark your calendar for Sunday, May 30, 2010 for my “Meet the TRX”. I will have TRX demonstrations and you can taste my yummy and nutritious whey protein shakes made with Montel’s Healthmaster machine.
(banana/walnut and spinach/orange/banana both are sweet without adding sugar)
“Meet the TRX” - Sunday, May 30th, 2010, 3-6pm
Informed Touch Therapeutic Massage & Wellness
136 Brighton Ave.
Deal, NJ 07723
Keep It Real…Food,
Minky
www.theminkyway.com/sq
minky@theminkyway.com
(732) 620-2193