Sunday, August 30, 2015

Eggplant Couscous

1 Package of Trader Joe's couscous (and 1.75 cups of broth to make the couscous)
2 cans of Trader Joe's Grecian Style Eggplant with Tomatoes and Onions
.5 cup parmesan cheese
Basil as garnish

Put about 2 tablespoons of oil into the pan and brown couscous
Add broth and bring to a boil.
Turn off stove and let sit for about 12 minutes.
Add in both cans of eggplant
Add parmesan cheese
Add basil and serve.








Thursday, August 13, 2015

Mint Mustard Green Beans

Ingredients:
400g green beans, trimmed
1 tablespoon butter
zest and juice 1 lemon
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
3 tbsp chopped mint
**also really good addition to this recipe is pine nuts or candied walnuts**

  1. Bring a medium saucepan of water to the boil. 
  2. Add the green beans and cook for 5-6 mins until tender. Drain well and refresh under cold water. Set aside.
  3. When ready to serve, melt the butter in the saucepan and add the lemon zest and juice, mustard, a good pinch of salt and plenty of ground black pepper. 
  4. Add the green beans and toss well until evenly coated.
  5. Tip into a serving dish, scatter over the fresh mint and serve.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Mocha Iced Coffee Popsicles

2 parts coffee
1 part ice cubes
1 part sweetened condensed milk
1 chocolate square per popsicle (11g)

put everything in blender and blend till smooth
(works best and will have fewest ice crystals if all ingredients are as cold as possible)
pour into popsicle molds and let sit for a few hours

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Roasted Corn Salsa

Pico from here: http://musings-justjuicing.blogspot.com/2015/08/pico.html
and double everything in the recipe except for amount of tomatoes

Add one bag of defrosted roasted corn

Add a handful of basil, roughly chopped

Add salt


pico

half container of cherry tomatoes
one medium onion
one jalapeno, seeded
5 sprigs of cilantro
1 teaspoon of garlic powder (I prefer to use 2 garlic cloves if I have them)
6 tablespoons lime juice (1/4 cup)
1 teaspoon salt (or to taste)

blend on lowest setting in blender/food processor