Rainy Monday, so I cook!

The rain today has really sucked! I'm off today, nothing but trails to ride, parks to run, dogs to walk, but nope, I'm stuck inside. Oh well, aside from the usual chores, I spent my day doing one of my favorite things! Chefn' it up!

First, I had the "usual" for breakfast. Sweet potato, bacon and eggs, along with a bottle of water and all of my vitamins, I was ready to go!

I've been trying to come up with something to do with all of these avocados I buy when they are too cheap to resist, so my latest 'thing' are smoothies. I had to figure out how to get that avocado into a smoothie!

Here's what I came up with today. It sounds so weird, but OMG it's delicious and so good for you. I got the idea for the recipe from Martha Stewart, but she was making 4 servings, and she used greek yogurt.  Here's my adapted recipe:

Avocado Smoothie
1 banana
1/2 cup fresh squeezed oj
1/2 avocado
1/2 cup almond milk
1 tsbp honey
1/2 cup ice

This made a full 20oz smoothie in my new Smoothie Maker.


I still had some ideas floating in my head after that, so I kept chefn'.


Next, I made a corn and black bean salad. I usually make this a lot during the summer. But tonite, I planned on making salmon cakes for dinner, so I needed something to go with it. This is super simple, but it's a light and fresh and can be eaten as a side dish or with chips as a salsa. This is not paleo, but it is gluten free and delicious!


Corn Salad/Salsa
1 bag of frozen corn, 'roast' the corn in a pan with a light dusting of olive oil to keep it from sticking. Cook it until it looks roasted, be careful not to burn it!

Drain and rinse one can of black beans and add that to the corn after it has cooled off.  Next comes all the flavors:

1/2 red onion - diced

One plastic clamshell of grape tomatoes, cut them in half

 

A handful of cilantro, chop up the leaves, omit the stems 

 

One  Small Jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely diced 

once all of that is done, add fresh lime juice, salt and pepper to taste and this is what you get!

It's better when it's chilled and even better the next day.

 

 

Dinner tonight was homemade salmon cakes. While I was making them, I realized I had salmon fillet for dinner last night. Oh well, two nights of salmon is fine by me!

 

 

Like most of my recipes, I made this up and it is scrumptious

 

Salmon Cakes

1 can of salmon

1/2 diced yellow onion

1/2 diced green pepper

1/4 gluten free bread crumbs

1 egg

1 tbsp fresh dill

salt & pepper

 

Combine it all and 'fry' it in a shallow pan, using a super small amount of oil, just so they won't stick, cook to brown on each side

 

Siracha Aoli to top cakes

Equal parts Mayonnaise & Siracha

1 tbsp fresh dill chopped

1tbsp fresh lemon juice

 

Tweak this sauce to your taste, I like to have a little kick to mine

 

I paired my salmon cakes with fresh avocado (the other half from my smoothie earlier). And I was too full to eat my corn salad. But I have a good idea for tomorrow's special 'date night' meal and the corn salad should be a perfect pair.

 

Not too shabby for today.