Chicken Salad

Chicken Salad 

This salad is quick and easy.  Make sure to make your mayo, almost pickled cucumbers and boil your eggs on sunday so you don't have a lot of prep.

• 2 celery stalks
• 6-8 hard boiled eggs
• Chicken from your greek chicken (skin removed) or 2 chicken breasts
• 1 t dill 
• 1/2 mayo
• 2 T green onion 
• 3 baby cucumbers (pickle size)
• 1 T mustard 
• 2 T Raw sugar
• 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar OR regular vinegar
• 1/2 t sea salt.

How to make your almost pickled cucumbers:
chop your cucumbers into small pieces (the size of relish) a vitamix works great for this.  For the vitamix chop your cucumbers in half and then fill your vitamix half way with water. Pulse on 4 or 5 or until the cucumber is the size of relish and drain water with a strainer.  
Place cucumber in a plastic bag or some type of storage bowl.  Add the sea salt and let sit in the fridge for 15 minutes.  Add the vinegar and raw sugar into your bowl and toss the cucumbers in the vinegar, sugar mixture well.  Let sit for 30 more minutes before using.

Chicken Salad
Peel your boiled eggs and chop your boiled eggs, celery, chicken, and green onion into small pieces.

Combine boiled eggs, celery, chicken, green onion, mayo, almost pickled cucumbers, mustard, and dill.

Mix well and serve!

Real Mayonaise

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Here was our work out this am.

9/24 

Every 1 min for 10 mins do:
2 Power Snatches
1 Overhead Squat, 70% 1RM

Every 1 min for 5 mins: Hang Squat Clean
2 Hang Squat Cleans, 70% 1RM

Then:

Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 mins of:
5 Power Snatches, 95/65 lbs
6 Overhead Lunges, 95/65 lbs
5 Box Jumps, 24/20 in

Buyout

Ghd Parallel Isometric Holds 3×1 minute

If you are thinking about going to a gym check out crossfiti35 I would recommend this gym to anyone! Plus, it is where I go :)

Here is a recipe that I WISH I would have known about 2 years ago when I started eating paleo.

Every once in a while I CRAVE something "saucy" or "creamy".  Well, I had NO idea you could make mayo from just a few ingredients.  So, no further wait, here it is.


2 cups Light olive oil ** I use regular but I am sure light tastes better...
2 T apple cider vinegar
1/4 t cayenne pepper
1 T yellow mustard
1 t sea salt
2 egg yolks

Put your two egg yolks and your vinegar in a mixer.  Blend for just a few seconds and stop.

Slowly add in your olive oil on a low speed. Just make sure it emulsifies before adding more.  Slowly slowly slowly add your olive oil in.

If it seems to separate stop and let it emulsify before you add more but don't over mix.  This takes me about 5 minutes to add all of the olive oil.

 Once it starts to thicken you can add it a BIT faster.  

Once it has thickened and mixed all the way add in your cayenne, yellow mustard, and sea salt.
Mix well and there you go... home made mayo.

My mom tells me this is how my Grandma used to make mayo.  

There you go, REAL mayo!

Why do you need to make this mayo? For chicken salad, no potato salad, sriracha aioli etc. 

This is somethings I always have on hand. 

Greek Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Broccoli

Todays work out was awesome! I couldn't really walk normal after it but it was awesome!

Band Deadlift : 1 Rep Max

Russian Kettlebell Swings
10 x 10 with biggest bell possible

Then:

Complete as many rounds as possible in 10 mins of:
6 Pistols (Alternating Legs)s
6 Knees To Elbows
9 Kettlebell Swing (Russian)s, 32/24 kg

Here is the recipe for the Greek Chicken


Roasted sweet potatoes 

• 1-2 sweet potatoes
• Extra Virgin Olive oil- to taste
• Sea Salt -  to taste

EVOO - around 1/2 to 1 T (enough to coat your sweet potatoes).

The only thing you are going to add to your Greek chicken recipe is you are first going to spray the bottom of your roasting pan. Then, slice your sweet potatoes coated with olive oil, sea salt, and pepper ( to taste).

Place the sweet potatoes in the bottom of your roasting pan and place your roasting rack on top of the potatoes.

Then, place the chicken on the roasting rack and place on top of the pan with the potatoes. As the chicken cooks the drippings from the chicken will end up covering your sweet potato rounds. ** Follow the Greek Chicken recipe as follows from here on out. 

When you have 20 minutes left on your chicken chop your broccoli into small florets.  Coat with olive oil, sea salt, garlic, and pepper (to taste) and toss.  

Place on a separate baking pan and place in the oven with your chicken for 15 minutes or until the tops of your broccoli are browned. (see picture above). 

My husband is not a huge fan of sweet potatoes but he LOVES these roasted ones.  

MMM :) enough said! 

Don't forget to spread some yummy roasted garlic on your chicken after slicing!!! 

Please ask questions if needed!!! :) Leave a comment and tell me how it is!

I will leave you with this picture of me and my baby. 

Happy Monday Everyone!

Meal Plan 9-22

Meal Plan 9-22

Here is what I will be cooking for the week:

• M-Whole Greek Chicken with Roasted sweet potatoes and Broccoli 
• T-Chicken Salad
• W-Fish Tacos with Spicy Slaw 
• TH- Date night
• F-Pork loin with Roasted Asparagus 

Grocery List

*vinegar needs to be on that list too!!!

Happy Sunday Everyone! Brady and I were going to go for a bike ride and I was making this post and looked over at my husband and found him like this... 

I guess we aren't going on a bike ride! Everyone deserves a nap though!! I may join him!

I am going to post a recipe for Chicken soup. One thing I love about cooking is how loose you can be with your ingredients.  This recipe is what worked for me.  Feel free to tweak or change it to fit your taste buds.   Our friend had a cold this weekend so I took them chicken soup.  Chicken Soup is good because it is an anti inflammatory and also is so comforting and hydrating when you have a cold! 

Chicken Soup

• 4 chicken thighs 
• 1 chicken breast
• 6 cups water
• 3 bay leaves
• 1 t oregano
• 1 t basil (or 1 fresh basil leaf)
• 1 sprig rosemary
• 1 yellow onion
• 5 carrots
• 3 celery stalks
• Sea salt to taste

Chop your onion, carrots and celery. Combine all ingredients.  Let simmer (not boil) for 2 hours.  

Take out the chicken and rosemary and either chop or shred the chicken and discard the bones, skin, and rosemary. 

Add the chicken back in and continue to let simmer for 30 minutes.  Discard bay leaves and serve.  

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend :) 

Deals

I need to research this further but what?!!??!?!

Aldi, you surprise me every day.

Tomato Soup

So it has been stormy here in Kansas this evening so I thought I would post a recipe for tomato soup :)

Usually tomato soup is made with heavy cream but not this one! BUT it is still creamy and delicious and doesn't hurt my husbands stomach!

WOD

Back Squat (High Bar)
2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2

Squat Clean
6×2 at 70% 1RM

Then:

5 rounds for time of:
50 Double Unders
10 Sumo Deadlifts, 225/155 lbs
15 Kettlebell Swing (Russian)s, 32/24 kgs

**Both of these recipes come from Sarah Fargoso's book Everyday Paleo Family cookbook

Tomato Soup

1 yellow onion
1 t minced garlic
5 cups diced tomatoes (peel them first) OR 2 cans diced tomatoes (16 oz each)
1 (13.5 oz) can full-fat coconut milk
1 t sea salt (don't use if you are using canned tomatoes)
1 t black pepper
1 T coconut oil

Heat coconut oil in a soup pot over medium high heat.  Dice your onion and heat until onions start to caramelize.  Add your garlic and cook an additional minute.

Add the diced tomatoes and cook for 10 minutes stirring often.
Add the coconut milk, salt, and pepper, and heat until simmer.
Pour your mixture into a vitamix or blender and blend until smooth.

I know, not the most amazing picture but oh my goodness. SO good!!!

Eat it with this chicken and you will be in comfort heaven! 

Again sorry for the bad pictures but this was so good! 

Greek Chicken 

1 whole chicken

1 lemon cut in half

sea salt 

olive oil

dried parsley 

pepper 

1-2 garlic bulbs 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Remove giblets from your chicken.  Rinse and pat it dry with paper towels.  Put the lemon halves in the chicken cavity.  Lather your chicken with salt, pepper, and parsley. Place in a roasting pan (or if you don't have money to buy a roasting pan put it on a cookie sheet, with a rack on top ** see picture for reference). 

Bake for 30 minutes at 400 degrees.  Cut the tops off of your garlic and drizzle with olive oil.  Put on the rack with your chicken and bake for an additional 30-45 minutes or until internal temp reaches 190 degrees.  Remove from your oven and tent with foil for 10-15 minutes.  

Meal Plan 8-2

This past week was such an awesome week but I wasn't able to post a lot of what I did!
I got to spend an awesome weekend with the children I help with. They are so wonderful and we got to  do so many special things! We went to a sporting kc game and the kids got many things signed by the players and then off to the lake we went!

Brady is still on break so we have been biking and going to the lake and having so much fun!

Here are a few pictures-

Sporting Kc Game

The kids were so fortunate and got to walk on the field with the players for the national anthem! How awesome is that?!

This is my husband jumping my rope wake boarding.  He is a stud.

The kids, Brady, and I tubing!


This is the meal plan for the week (yes I know it is Wednesday).  I am sure everyone will understand since it was a Holiday Weekend right!? :)

Meatloaf w/ Broccoli and mashed Cauliflower

Pork Tenderloin w/ Roasted sweet potatoes and Asparagus

Seafood chowder-- I know, I have had this on here for the last few weeks but I still haven't needed to make it with all the other food I have prepared! 

Slow cooker Short Ribs w/ roasted zucchini, asparagus, onion, and mushrooms.

Have a wonderful day! Happy Wednesday!