eggs – Page 5 – Fervent Foodie

Power of the Purse

June 22, 2010 No Comments

Today I had the pleasure of attending the Power of the Purse Luncheon sponsored by the United Way of Summit County. This luncheon celebrates the impact women have on giving in our area. We had a terrific speaker named Jessica Clements. Jessica was hit by a roadside bomb while serving for the US Army in Iraq. She was given a 2% chance to live due to the massive brain trama she suffered. Despite these terrible odds, Jessica was miraculously able to recover. She spoke on the importance of persevering, challenging yourself, and giving back. What an amazing and inspiring speaker!

Breakfast #1

Last night, I cooked up two of my lil eggins with the 1/2 of a link of Jennie-O’s hot turkey sausage I had leftover from the Jambalaya! (I apparently can’t type that word without using an “!” after it 🙂 )

The eggins consisted of 3 egg whites, S&P, Franks Red Hot, Red Pepper Flakes. I baked them up in a 350 degree oven for 27 minutes. I also had the other half of the english muffin that was leftover from yesterday’s egg love.

Despite looking slightly creepy, the sausage/egg combo was so yummy! 🙂

Stats on eggins & 1/2 english muffin: 193 calories, 18g carbs, 6g fat, 23g protein, 4g fiber

Breakfast #2

Chobani Blueberry greek yogurt with 1/2 a serving of Bear Naked Maple Granola

As much as I L-O-V-E greek yogurt, I am seriously looking forward to making up some overnight oats tonight. There are just so deliciously cold and creamy! And addicting!

Stats on yogurt + granola: 205 calories, 31g carbs, 2g fat, 16g protein, 2g fiber

Lunch

Good news / bad news on lunch.

Bad news = I didn’t make anything fun for lunch because of the luncheon, nor did i get any pics of what I ate! Bummer!

Good news = I jotted down a few inspirational quotes from the speaker at the luncheon:

Don’t give up the first time you do something and it turns out terrible.

Every day strive to be the best “me” you can be

I especially liked: Live for today. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow may never come.

I’m trying a couple new recipes tonight! Pumped! (as always 😉 )

What I ate

Starting the week off on the right foot

June 21, 2010 6 Comments

Happy Monday 😀

This morning I decided to start my week off on the right foot with a 2.5 mile power walking session. This was a follow up to Day#1 of my interval running/walking plan, which I started yesterday. My knee only bothered me slightly during the running intervals yesterday, so I ended up swapping the 5th running interval for a cool-down walk. I definitely want to err on the side of caution as I start building myself back up to running.

I thought walking today would be good to help keep things loose. I’m also making sure to not sit in the same position for too long while I’m working so that my knee doesn’t lock up. I’m determined to get my knee back into running shape!

What I ate

Early bird catches the corn dog

June 19, 2010 1 Comment

It’s Saturday, and you know what that means. Yard work!

You’d think for as much time as I devote to my yard, it’d be in pristine shape…. Oh what a pain in the ass homeownership is the joys of home ownership 🙂

There is one specific area of the yard that I leave completely untouched. You can see I have quite the crop of poison ivy growing:

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — area of infestation

I hit up the Home Depot this morning to pick up some spray to (hopefully) help with my poison ivy. Did you know Home Depot opens at 6am??? I leaned this little nugget of information when I called them at 7am to see when they opened. 6am? Those customers must be hard-core home improvers.

Before I got to work in the back yard, I cooked up my favorite egg breakfast: 1 dippy egg & 3 egg white scramble with S&P, Red Pepper Flakes, and Frank’s Red Hot. I always add a splash of liquid (usually skim milk or water) to the egg whites to help them stay fluffy. Also, toasted up a Thomas’ multi grain english muffin on the side.

Stats on breakfast: 218 calories, 28g carbs, 6g fat, 22g protien, 8g fiber

After chowing down, I headed to the yard.

Until last summer, I was one of those people who thought I wasn’t allergic to poison ivy. Well, that is until I accidently weed wacked some of it. I really didn’t know what poison ivy even looked like, so I was unaware of the horrible mistake I had made and basically let myself marinate in the poison ivy juices all day while I worked away in the yard. This resulted in what I will call a immobilizing infestation of poison ivy all over my legs. Since then I will not go near the stuff.

Today, I put on pants and long sleeves (despite temps in the mid 80’s) just so that I could approach the “infested area.” My luck, I’ll get poison ivy on the only part that was left exposed: my face 🙁 I’m sure I’ll have nightmares about that tonight!

I’ll have to post some before and after shots once I get it all finished (which will be never sometime soon).

After all the yard work, I was starving!

Sometimes I just get cravings for weird foods. Case in point, today I had a sudden craving for a corn dog! I can’t remember the last time I had one, but something triggered the corn dog eating machine deep inside me. So, I decided to try and make a healthified version of a corn dog. Even typing “healthified corn dog” makes me scoff. How ridiculous sounding is that?

I had some frozen Jennie-O turkey sausages in the freezer and also some Joseph’s Lavash bread, so I pulled them out to defrost before hitting up the yard early this morning.

I cooked up 2 turkey sausages – 1 for the “corn dog” and 1 for a healthified jambalaya recipe I’m going to try later in the week. Once cooked, I wrapped 1 turkey sausage in 1/2 a Joseph’s Low-Carb lavash bread, stuck in on a skewer, and threw it back on the grill.

Ridiculous, I know…

Once the lavash was crispy, I pulled it off the grill and served it up with a big squirt of mustard.

Ok – so it’s not exactly a corn dog, but eating it off a stick sure made it seem like one and it definitely hit the spot 🙂 I’m a BIG fan of Jennie-O’s hot turkey sausage.

Corn dog stats: 210 calories, 7g carbs, 12g fat, 22g protien, 3g fiber

BTW – yesterday while volunteering I had a Smores Luna Bar – and I wasn’t a big fan. It wasn’t bad tasting — just didn’t remind me of a smore AT ALL. Definitely the least favorite of all the flavors I have tried to date. I also had a few bites of a Chocolate Cherry Bear Naked Grain-ola Bar. It was OK – but again, I wasn’t super impressed. Apparently I was hard to please yesterday…

What did hit the spot, however, was the Gioniono’s pizza we had for dinner:

Still trying to decide what to cook up for dinner tonight… Suffering from foodie’s block.

Recipes, What I ate

Just trust me on this one…

June 17, 2010 No Comments

Breakfast #1

I think we all know I adore eggs for breakfast. No arguments here. Bad news is I sometimes can’t find the time in the morning to whip them up. I’ve been wanting to try cooking eggs in the oven for a while, so last night I decided to give it a go. I mixed up my typical scrambled egg mixture: 1 egg, 3 egg whites, S&P, Red Pepper Flakes (RPF?), and some Frank’s Red Hot. I poured the mixture into two miniature ramekins, and popped in a 350 degree oven for 26 minutes.

They look like little egg muffins! Little eggins! 🙂

This morning, I decided to turn the lil eggins into a wrap. So I pulled a Mama Lupe’s low carb tortilla out of the freezer, heated that puppy up, and topped it all off with some ketchup.

That looks like an eggin massacre…

Portable and delicious!

These eggins are just so cute! What I really like about this cooking method is you could make a whole muffin tin full of lil eggins! If you had friends over for brunch, everyone could toss in their mixins of choice! Love this idea! Who’s ready for a brunch party? 😀

Breakfast #2

Recently, it was brought to my attention that peanut butter may make an amazing mixin for greek yogurt. Today my friends, I put this to the test.

I mixed up 1 Dannon vanilla greek yogurt, 1 tbsp JIF peanut butter, and 1/2 a serving of crushed Emerald’s cocoa roasted almonds.

The result?

Friggin’ deliciousness! This reminded me of a peanut butter cheese cake for some reason. Some crushed up nilla wafers on top would have been fabulous. Let’s just say I licked the container clean, and it’s not exactly easy to reach the bottom of a yogurt container with your tongue. But I made it happen. 🙂

…

……..

……………………..

Lunch

Alright… Here’s where the just-trust-me factor comes in.

Let me preface what’s about to go down on my blog with the following: I wanted to try something new for lunch today.

Repeat it with me: I wanted to try something new for lunch today.

I’m going walking with my sister after work, and knew I was packing a chicken sandwich for dinner. Soooo, I was leaning toward the other white meat AKA tuna fish for lunch (NOT a fan of pork, and therefore it is NOT the other white meat in my life). You may recall that I have a long jaded relationship with fish (case in point: my fight with fish). Tuna happens to be the only fish I have found to date that I actually enjoy.

So Tuna it was.

I subsequently noticed I had some cottage cheese in the fridge that was nearing the end of its useful life.

I decided to google tuna + cottage cheese + recipe just to see what might turn up.

I clicked on the very first link: Tuna Salad Sandwich Recipe

Internal debating ensued.

Do I really want to try tuna fish mixed with cottage cheese? Could it possibly be good? I was hesitant, but I decided to give it a go.

Into the bowl:

1 5 ounce canned solid white albacore tuna, drained
1/4 cup fat free cottage cheese
salt, pepper, dried parsley, celery seed, dried dill
small squirt spicy brown mustard
1/2 tsp lemon juice

At this very moment, you are probably disgusted thoroughly intrigued by this concoction.

I added some chopped up tomato, red onion, and banana peppers right before serving. In an effort to keep my carb-tooth (located directly next to the sweet tooth) under wraps, I served the tuna salad up in a red pepper instead of your typical sandwich:

Me and the tuna pepper:

Up close:

I know those cottage cheese chunks look a little funky, but rest assured my friends, it was down right tasty!

Stats on the tuna pepper: 218 calories, 18g carbs, 2g fat, 36g protein, 4g fiber

What I ate

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

June 13, 2010 1 Comment

Whenever I think of the word “Sunday” in my head, I automatically hear “Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!” (think football/race announcer guy Jan Gabriel).

When I woke up this Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY! 😉 my body was begging for three things: Coffee. Eggs. Ham.

So after throwing some coffee on, I got to work on a 4 egg white scramble with leftover deli ham from the jewelry party I had last week.

I also had some potatoes on the side. That’s one of the best things about being at the BF’s — he keeps a GIANT container of pre-baked potatoes in his fridge. 😀

Once the eggs were pretty much done scrambling, I threw the ham and potatoes into the pan to heat up. And breakfast was served!

After breakfast, I hunkered down and finally posted the clothes I’ve been wanting to sell on ebay. I’m really glad to have that done with! All that ebaying made me hungry, so I decided to give the barley breakfast bowl a go.

My barley bowl consisted of 1/2 a serving of barley (cooked up last night and stuck in the fridge), 1 Chobani vanilla greek yogurt, and some blackberries and raspberries.

I loved the barley in the yogurt! It was pretty filling too.

I must be honest though, and this may be blasphemy, but I actually prefer dannon’s vanilla greek yogurt to Chobani! I took a minute to compare the stats:

Chobani Vanilla Greek Yogurt — 120 calories, 13g carbs, 16g protein, 13g sugar
Dannon Vanilla Greek Yogurt — 110 calories, 17g carbs, 12g protein, 16g sugar

Chobani has less carbs, more protein, and less sugar — so I’m hoping it grows on me!

On the agenda today:

Hit up the elliptical (Friday went well)
Finish light tent
Dinner with friends 😀