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Hey 👋
So I've been out of the swing of cooking for a long time and have noticed I'm A) getting sick of eating the same foods on repeate and B ) spending way too much money on eating out and foods and drinks that aren't particularly good for me.
I definitely want to get back into eating from home and want to try new recipes and make it fun by doing it with others.
Please join by sharing recipes and sharing what you're currently making, and encouraging healthy, home cooked food.
https://www.recipetineats.com/chicken-pad-thai/
I'm cooked a couple of things last week and am going to cook this 👆 tomorrow to get the thread started.
It isn't particularly nutritious, so I'm going to add some broccoli and mushrooms to add a boost of vitamins and colour 🥦🍄🍜
Can't wait to tuck in 😋
@Sasher
Hi Sash!
My favorite recipe. Delicious, simple, easy, and fast. Ingredients must be best quality available.
Pasta with shrimp, sun-dried tomatoes and olive oil.
Use top-quality extra-virgin olive oil and best-quality dry pasta, like Barilla. Form: fusilli or spaghetti are the ones I like the most for this dish.
Chop the sun-dried tomatoes. Might be immersed in olive oils for a few hours before mixing (this is optional).
Cook the peeled shrimp by briefly boiling or sauteing. If shrimp are grey until they turn pink, if already pink (pre-cooked), very briefly just for heating.
Cook the pasta following package instructions in salty water.
Mix pasta with minced sun-dried tomatoes and shrimp.
Season with salt to your taste. Pour the olive oil.
Presto!
Aprox quantities for 2 servings:
Half cup sun-dried tomatoes
A dozen mid-size peeled shrimp
200 grams of dry pasta
Olive oil to your taste. Some people like to put a lot, I like it almost dry.
@HealingTalk hi, nice to see you :)
@Sasher
Hi Sash!
Just sun-dried tomatoes and olive oil is good enough.
Sun-dried tomatoes have a very intense taste.
But you are right, salmon could be a good replacement.
And for veggies, broccoli goes great with this.
Broccoli goes very well with pasta in general, even alone.
I use to cook broccoli with pasta in the same water, what makes it very simple and fast.
In general, I love Mediterranean food. It's about having good-quality ingredients, recipes are easy (most of them), fast, tasty and healthy.
I love Thai food too, as long as it's not too spicy ("hot").
This is a wonderful thread you have created!
It's always a pleasure crossing roads with you around here!
@HealingTalk thanks. Me too. One of my favourite cuisines. I'm used to mediterranean food from my dad's side 😋 am also trying to add more nutrition to my diet. So adding broccoli is ideal 😊
@Sasher
Broccoli is super-food!
Also cauliflower (broccoli cousin) goes surprisingly well with pasta.
Preferably in a creamy sauce like Béchamel or with a light creamy cheese like Mascarpone.
@HealingTalk ah, I have a son at home and this is the sort of food that I currently eat. I'll usually boil some mixed veg and ravioli, chop up some veggie hotdogs and have with a mascarpone sauce. The ravioli, mascarpone and veggie hotdogs are all shop bought and processed. But because I eat this so much already I'm trying to steer away from these sorts of meals.
@Sasher
Get it!
No big changes!
Just some new healthy recipes to do at home.
These from the BBC might be some examples:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/easy-healthy-recipes
@Sasher
Making it healthy and nutritious is an important goal for you.
I forgot to say that for me, a way to ensure meals are healthy is to include in every lunch and dinner a bowl of salad made of a mix of leaves (lettuce, endives, escarole, radicchio, watercress, spinach, etc.) and raw vegetables like tomato, carrot (grated or julienne), cucumber, etc.
And a fruit as dessert. Some are particularly nutritious like kiwis, blackberries or mangoes, but any fruit will do.
This requires some discipline, as it might be laborious to prepare salads with many ingredients, and as leaves don't last much, you have to buy them relatively often in small quantities.
But once you become habituated to daily salads and fruit, hooked by their freshness, invigorating feeling, and the sense that "This was so healthy, will make me feel great!", going often to the grocery or supermarket and then preparing your salads, might become very enjoyable habits. Being mindful at every step of its value and purpose makes it even more enjoyable, I think.
@HealingTalk your diet sounds extremely nutritious.
I'm not planning a radical overhaul. My current goal is to simply get into a routine of cooking healthy food at home again and to have fun trying out new recipes.
@Sasher
Understood!
No creamy sauces for Sash!
I also avoid ravioli or other "paste ripiene" except, from time to time, for some made by a very high quality (and expensive) pastificio artigianale.
In another post here, I suggest what I consider a key to healthy meals: salads and fruit.
I hope you like it!
Ready cut bagged salad greens are just fine. You can add grape tomatoes and whatever else you want-- you can add some kale ( remove stem from leaf, roll leaf up and cut into slices as thin as you can make them) which is so outrageously healthy. Kale keeps better than most lettuces which makes it handier.
I do meditteranean diet mostly. I love the air fryer..salmon from frozen in 7 minutes.
@HealingTalk
thank you for sharing, sounds delish 😋 and best of all easy peasy 😁.
will try sometime 🙏🏻.
Great idea @Sasher. Looking forward to seeing some new recipe ideas!
@Jon7Cups please share yours also! 🙏
Ok @Sasher how about this one? Its a great one for the autumn.
https://showmetheyummy.com/roasted-fall-vegetable-pasta-recipe/
"Roasted fall vegetable pasta"
@Jon7Cups this looks yum. Have you tried this recipe yourself?
@Sasher yes I love it. In general, I like roasting vegetables and then using them as an ingredient in a dish. Even works for sandwiches!
@Jon7Cups @HealingTalk sorry has there been a misunderstanding?
My hope for this thread is that slowly over time people just share healthy recipes they're enjoying so anyone can refer to the thread to pick them up as they go along.
@Sasher no not all. Thats why we're here I thought too!
Oooohhh, maybe you wonderful people might be able to help turn everyday staple, not exactly healthy recipes, into something a little more healthy.
I don’t know, you all are wonderful and I look forward to trying so many new recipes!
@Sasher
Hey,
One of my favourite comfort food is honey with crackers and tea.
The tea has a bit of vanilla milk, any tea bag that goes well depending on the situation, rose water, cinnamon, honey, and hot water.
You can set these out however you like depending on your taste and works really well for me when I’m stressed or stimulating.
I hope you enjoy it!
@ArdenBellumVitae Ahh reminds me of my grandad, he'd always have crackers and honey. The tea sounds lovely. Thanks for sharing
@Sasher No problem. Tea and crackers is really good along with some cheese
@Sasher
Invented one of my favorite recipes when a vegan friend came over to visit and I was desperate what to cook:
- I had one cauliflower
- ccoked some onions in. oil
- added curry powder until it smells good
- added cauliflower (in pieces)
- filled up with vegetable broth
- and one can of coconut milk,
- added some other indinan spice mixes I had in my cupboard (sorry to not be more specific, those where generic German brands), also good is adding some precooked curry cans I tried later, like Tikka Marsha or something
- and cooked until cauliflower was done
- served it with rice
I find it so delicious that after my vegan friend left, I cooked it quite often myself.
At the moment it is my favorite comfort food along with potato mash, Nürmberger Rostbratwürsten and gravy; dumplings and cream mushrooms (both very German things, but a favorite here in autum season); Hokkaido pumpkin soup with coconut milk and ginger (spicy), fish and chips (with vinegar ;-) ); Käsespätzle (the German version of Mac and cheese with a lot of onions and delicious mountain cheese); Matjes in yogurt sauce with onions, pickles and potatoes; Pears, beans and bacon (both two northern German recipes); and if nothing other goes there is always a noodle dish waiting to be made from vegetables in the fridge. Noodles are also delicious "Agile Olio" (only Olive oil, garlic and chili), carbonara (the true one without cream with bacon, eggs parmesan), "puttanesca" (tomato sauce and olives) and with pesto (I do prefer the one I make myself).
If any of my ideas appeal to you, just shout - I'll try my best to remember my recipes ;-)
@BeCreative1967 OMG Roasted Cauliflower with Tsasiki is of my comfort food rn lol... Yay!
Just got home from my travels and want to start cooking again soon.
I have a really nice beans on toast recipe somewhere that I'll post at some point. (Some comfort food)
I've just been browsing the Web for something this morning.. Will definitely try this one https://damndelicious.net/2016/03/30/10-minute-healthy-cauliflower-rice/ as it only takes 10 minutes
And might try this one or something similar some time soon https://www.lavenderandmacarons.com/garbanzo-beans-and-kale-stew/#recipe as I'm craving chickpeas.
Have a great day everyone 🤍
