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Sunday Dinner-ish post: Legume Love
I ate very very badly this week, by my standards, so today it was time for fruits and veggies, yes indeed.
For lunch I chopped two zucchinis and one tomato, tossed in extra-virgin olive oil with salt, oregano, and granulated garlic, and baked at 450 until they were almost done. Then I threw in a handful of raw pine nuts for a little protein and let them toast a bit.
For dinner, a quick salad that really came to life with help from good ingredients. I got a bottle of good-quality olive oil last week, and a can of Eden chickpeas, which in my mind are the best canned chickpeas going.
Salad:
1 Romaine heart, washed and torn into small pieces
Half a can of chickpeas
2-3 oz. feta cheese
Juice of a lemon
Drizzling of good olive oil
Sprinking of salt
I also tossed in some avocado I had leftover from something else. It wasn't even necessary. Great salad. I really tasted the fruitiness of that olive oil... I think I might just replicate the salad for dinner tomorrow.
I actually considered spending some of my tax stimulus whatever money on $70 worth of Eden canned beans. I was getting all a-flutter at the thought of being so stocked up on delicious beans. But then I kind of came to my senses. I'll wait for a sale at Publix. Sigh.
I have been frequently craving beans lately. It doesn't help that I recently read the average American only eats 6.5 pounds of beans annually. How...minimal! I love beans, from the rich-but-delicate cannelini, perfectly paired with dark greens and chicken broth in a soup, chickpeas tossed into a salad or fragrant with Indian spices in chana masala, black beans or pintos paired with sweet potatoes, cheddar cheese and cumin, black-eyed peas cooked up Southern-style with some good organic bacon (I would say ham hock...but try finding a naturally raised ham hock around here...)...
I also ate 2 peaches and half a pineapple! And I bought a jump rope at Target and I have been jumping away...I am so much more inclined to exercise when I can do something simple and playful.
For lunch I chopped two zucchinis and one tomato, tossed in extra-virgin olive oil with salt, oregano, and granulated garlic, and baked at 450 until they were almost done. Then I threw in a handful of raw pine nuts for a little protein and let them toast a bit.
For dinner, a quick salad that really came to life with help from good ingredients. I got a bottle of good-quality olive oil last week, and a can of Eden chickpeas, which in my mind are the best canned chickpeas going.
Salad:
1 Romaine heart, washed and torn into small pieces
Half a can of chickpeas
2-3 oz. feta cheese
Juice of a lemon
Drizzling of good olive oil
Sprinking of salt
I also tossed in some avocado I had leftover from something else. It wasn't even necessary. Great salad. I really tasted the fruitiness of that olive oil... I think I might just replicate the salad for dinner tomorrow.
I actually considered spending some of my tax stimulus whatever money on $70 worth of Eden canned beans. I was getting all a-flutter at the thought of being so stocked up on delicious beans. But then I kind of came to my senses. I'll wait for a sale at Publix. Sigh.
I have been frequently craving beans lately. It doesn't help that I recently read the average American only eats 6.5 pounds of beans annually. How...minimal! I love beans, from the rich-but-delicate cannelini, perfectly paired with dark greens and chicken broth in a soup, chickpeas tossed into a salad or fragrant with Indian spices in chana masala, black beans or pintos paired with sweet potatoes, cheddar cheese and cumin, black-eyed peas cooked up Southern-style with some good organic bacon (I would say ham hock...but try finding a naturally raised ham hock around here...)...
I also ate 2 peaches and half a pineapple! And I bought a jump rope at Target and I have been jumping away...I am so much more inclined to exercise when I can do something simple and playful.