Week 11.........

I've noticed that the majority of our class blog about health and diet. I always keep calories in mind when I cook. Most of the time I don’t try and hold back on ingredients, I just try to eat appropriate serving sizes.

I have decided to pay closer attention to calories. So, I downloaded a great app, MyFitnessPal. You can track everything you eat and track your calories each day. I thought it would be too much of a hassle, but it’s really not! It only takes a few minutes each day.

I found a website/blog for healthy eating. It’s skinnytaste.com. I cooked two of their recipes today (see pic below), zucchini tots and Salisbury steak. I used ground turkey mixed with 88/12 ground beef for the steak. The recipes on that website are like healthy versions of “comfort” food. They use little or no oil to cook with and lean cuts of meat. I highly recommend it!

I cooked Turkish food this week, too. I made lula kebab with garlic and lemon yogurt sauce. I have been to Turkey three times and have had this dish many times. I have to say, this is the first time I cooked it myself and it came out great!

The other pics below are of baked Frank's hot sauce chicken fingers with bacon jalapeno's and asparagus; and the bottom one is my first turkey burger with grilled tomato (it was surprisingly good). 

I’m still working on my food calendar. By the time we have our presentation I should have a good plan to present to everyone.