Spanish Chicken Skillet

This was a very quick and tasty dish.

Ingredients:
2 tsp Smoked Paprika
1 tsp dried Thyme
¼ tsp Black Pepper
¼ tsp Cayenne Pepper
½ tsp Crushed Red Pepper
2 Cloves Garlic (minced) I forgot to add this, oops. It’s nowhere below in the directions
Sea Salt to taste – I left this out
1/8 cup Coconut Flour
4 medium size chicken breasts – I cut the chicken in to small cubes
2 Tb Olive Oil
1 Green Pepper, sliced into thin strips
1 Red Pepper, sliced into thin strips
1 Sweet Onion – I used a red onion
1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes, Undrained
½ cup chicken broth

Instructions:
1. Combine coconut flour, sea salt and all of the spices except red pepper
2. Use 2-3 Tb of this seasoned flour to coat chicken
3. Heat 1 Tb olive oil in a large skillet. Brown both sides of chicken
4. Remove chicken from pan
5. Add remaining oil, onions and peppers to the skillet and cook until tender
6. Stir in tomatoes, broth, remaining seasoned flour and red pepper flakes
7. Return chicken to skillet, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.

Served in a bowl over Fresh spinach

Recipe from: Weightlifting, CrossFit, Paleo and Randomness

Muffin Meatloaf

Recipe from Leah Goldstein’s Blog.

This is a way to keep the meals different and interesting. Just simple changes.

This picture doesn’t make it too appetizing but it tasted pretty well and was super easy to make.

Ingredients:
2 lbs of ground meat (I used one package of Jeanie-O’s taco seasoned turkey and one package of the Italian seasoning turkey)
½ cup of Diced Onions, Bell peppers and celery (the meat packaging was a little more than a lb each so I added a little more on these)
Olive Oil
Seasoning of choice (I used pepper, tony chachere’s and Italian seasoning or something {I have no idea what seasonings are good for what, so I normally just pick one})

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350
Sauté the veggies in the olive oil for about 10 min to soften then up.
Mix Veggies, meat and seasoning of choice together and then scoop into muffin pan.
Bake for 25-35 minutes.

As you can sort of see in my picture, I made a little foil tray to catch any run off grease. I also recommend not letting the muffins cool in the muffin pan, get them out of the grease they are sitting in. (lesson learned)

I served with mashed cauliflower

Update on Crosstopher

He had a rought night. I took him home from the Vet yesterday and he slept pretty good for about 3 hours. I was pretty excited. And then he woke up and then the flipping and flopping started were he couldn’t get comfortable.He would seen to rest a little if he leaned up against me. So there was no getting up to get me something to drink or to go to the bathroom until he moved. I didn’t want to disturb him.

Time for bed came and he rested maybe an hour or so and then it was on. From about 11pm to 3:30am I don’t think he sat still for then 10sec at a time. Trying to lay down, trying to sit down, trying to sleep sitting up leaning to one side and mostly dragging his butt around. This made him start to whine quite a bit.

Finally at 3am it was time to give him some more meds (this one was every 8 hours) So I gave him this shot of liquid in his mouth. That also took some wrestling with him. In no time I saw him sitting still and he just fell over. He was resting. Everytime he sat still I took that opportunity to try to sleep. I didn’t know how long it would last. It lasted for about 2 hours and then he was back up and whining.

He did go to the bathroom (1 and 2) this morning so thats good. I got him to eat a small amount of food last ngiht, but he wasn’t having any of it this morning or water. I have been giving him his meds in Kong stuffing and he was loving that. This morning he is over that.

So back to the Vet he went today. He is going to stay over night and see if they can keep him more comfortable. Him dragging his wound around isnt helping him heal. So they will probably do a better job of keeping him confined then what I do. I tend to try not to be the bad guy. Which might not be helping him in the long run. Its going to be sad at home tonight without him. But I hope this makes things heal a little faster.

Respect for Mothers

I have a new found respect for mothers of babies. I have a one year old maltipoo, named Cross who has been sick for 2 days. And it is tough and mentally exhausting.

He got an infection New Year’s Day. We spent about 6 or 7 hours at the Emergency Vet Clinic Saturday. Saturday night he was a little reatless, couldn’t get comfortable. Sunday he took long naps. Sunday night, he didn’t sleep at all. Which means I didn’t get much sleep either. I can hear him moving around, hitting that cone up against the wall, the bed and himself. It’s just a sad site. He would try to sleep sitting up. I guess that’s how he was the most comfortable. He would sit up against the wall and just stare at the wall. Every now and then he would just look at me with those sad puppy eyes and look like he saying “ are you going to do anything”. I felt helpless and so sad. He is back at his vet first thing this morning. They have given him some pain pills and some fluids, since he isnt eating or drinking he has gotten dehydrated.

I hope my baby gets well soon. I’m ready for him to make me chase him in order to get him to go outside. I want to see this smile on his face again and baking in the sunlight.

Green Chili Turkey Burgers

Recipe from Just.like.mom.never.made

These are so delicious. Mine did not stay together very well, but taste great all the same.

I got a new George Foreman grill for Christmas (removable grill plates for easy cleaning) so I thought I would give a test drive. Being that it was the first time to use it. I should have sprayed the grill to help with the non-stick. That might of helped keep my patties together.

2 (4oz) cans diced green chilis – I used one 7 oz can. I considered that close enough
1 pound ground turkey – I used a 1.25lb package of Italian seasoned turkey meat
1 cup Cilantro, finely chopped
½ cup onion, finely chopped
2 teaspoons Cumin
1 teaspoon Chili Powder
1 teaspoon Celtic Sea Salt – I don’t like added salt so I left this out

Mix everything together and then form into patties. I got 5 patties

I topped mine with spicy guacamole and a handful of spinach and served with a side of mashed cauliflower.

Very easy and very tasty.. Just what I needed to remind myself the Paleo food can be tasty and get myself back on track

Slacker

WOD Announcment. Stop reading if you don’t want to know today’s WOD.

I really need to be better at this. I know most of everyone is bad at keeping these blogs up. I think of things all day, that I should post and then i think to myself. that isnt interesting noone wants to read about that. so I don’t do anything.

Well be prepared to be bored somedays. I plan to post more. I always have random thoughts going through my head, so might as well let others know. Plus I follow a lot of other blogs that I find very interesting. So I will share links to the post as well.

Today’s WOD
7 deadlifts (175#)
14 Box Jumps
21 Double Unders
12min AMRAP

I do believe the month long food/treat binge is catching up. I wasn’t moving too fast this morning. About a month ago, I popped/tweaked my back doing deadlifts, so I have been laying off the heavy deadlifts. It is feeling better now, but I haven’t done any strength work for deadlifts, so I don’t want to start with heavy deadlifts in a WOD. So I did today’s WOD at 135#. And surprisingly (in a bad way) that felt really heavy. Back felt fine. I do find myself thinking about it every single lift. Its like I’m waiting to fell something wrong. Thank goodness I’m not though.

Not doing a WOD as RX’d messes with my mind. I get bummed. So knowing that I was 40# off the RX’d weight, I felt like a loser. Which in turned made me not care so much about the WOD all together. Box Jumps – I did all as jumps (no steups) but there was no speed involved and then the double unders. I was taking longer breaks then needed when I would mess up.

CrossFit – always a mental battle just as much as a physical one.

Not your Starbucks, but its close and cheaper

On this Paleo Challenge the one thing I miss most is my Starbucks Lattes. All around fav is Skinny Vanilla Latte but during the Fall and Winter I love the Pumpkin Spice Latte and the Peppermint Latte. To me that brings in the season. It made me smile the other day when I saw someone carrying a Starbucks cup and it was the Christmas design. The Season is upon us.

This is a Paleo-ish substitute for the Pumpkin Spice Latte. It isn't quite as good as Starbucks, but it will cure the craving. I did use Protein powder, so if you are doing strict Paleo, this might not help you.

Coffee
2T Pumpkin (Libby's 100% Pumpkin, Not the pie filling)
1 scoop Vanilla Protein Powder (I used a vanilla bean powder that was low in calories 50)
cinnamon to taste
Nutmeg to taste

The only thing that really bugs me about this is it is kind of gritty. I'm a big texture person, so this kind of gets to me when my coffee is gritty. It might be the nutmeg that makes it gritty. But all in all. I would have this again.

I got this recipe from Showout Megan Parsons