What’s for Dinner?

Today was a Rest Day and thank goodness it was needed! I started it off with a good breakfast of bacon and an egg covered with tomatoes, carrots and onions. I worked for a few hours then was lucky enough to get to lay by the pool for a few hours with some friends from the gym. Work for a few more hours then came home to make a delicious meal for two of my favorite ladies.

The menu for this evening was turkey burgers smothered with homemade pineapple salsa, fried green tomatoes and zucchini, strawberries, raspberries and dark chocolate.

Turkey Burgers

1lbs ground turkey
1-2 table spoons fresh grated organic ginger ( I like a lot of ginger!)
½ an organic onion chopped up
4 organic mushrooms chopped up
½ an organic green bell pepper
salt and pepper to taste (go easy on the salt the ginger already gives a ton of flavor)
Mix all ingredients, make patties then grill or fry them (makes about 6)

Pineapple Salsa

There is a lot of chopping so recruit friends!
4 large organic tomatoes or 6 small ones
½ an organic onion diced
½ an organic green bell pepper diced
¼ an organic Jalapeño diced (the more you add the hotter it gets, I am a sissy)
2 cloves of organic garlic diced
handful of organic diced cilantro (add more to taste)
8 slices of FRESH (not canned!!!) pineapple diced
½ a lemon’s juice
½ a lime’s juice
salt and pepper to taste

Start boiling a pot of water – once boiling add tomatoes for 2 minutes, skin should start to peel off.
Take out of water, cut in ½ and let cool
Dice all veggies/fruit and put into bowl with lemon and lime juice . Add all spices
Once tomatoes have cooled pull skin off (it should come of very easily) and take out seeds and juices. You only want the meaty part of the tomato. Chop into small pieces and add to mix.

Once all ingredients are mix into the bowl chill and serve.
The longer you chill the better it gets but even 15 -20 minutes while your burgers are cooking is good.

What a great Friday and a delicious meal. Summer is the perfect time for a fruity salsa on everything! Cant wait to try the salsa tomorrow after it marinates in itself all night.

For a quick side story:
I asked my roomie if she needed anything from the market and she asked me to get some corn mean for the fried green tomatoes. I am walking down the market aisles scanning for the corn meal I realize that I am down an aisle that I have not visited in about 6 months. I finally find the corn meal and as I reach for it I stop and have a moment of reflection on my eating habits – Inner monolog “Boy it sure seems weird to be down this aisle. Everything down here is not a part of my life style any more. I understand the effects that things like corn meal have on my body and choose not to eat them any more. Does this mean I should stand my ground and not buy this for my roommate since I know it is not healthy for her. . . “ End of Inner monolog. In the end I bought the corn meal but it sure felt like i was buying a pack of cancer causing cigarettes. LOL I am paleo through and through. We ended up not even using the corn meal and instead used almond flour and eggs to coat or tomatoes and zucchini.

Should only be another week or so until I receive my new paleo cookbook from Mark’s Daily Apple. Cant wait to share some recipes!

Tomorrow is the Whole 9 nutritional workshop, volleyball picnic, and CFED Team WOD. It is going to be a Great day. . . I look forward to sharing my gained knowledge with you again tomorrow night.

Here’s to being healthy!