Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Cucumber mint soup

This weeks menu has included another cluster of vegetables and some fruit.
Breakfast has included mixed berries in balsamic vinegar over chilled oatmeal. More berries than oatmeal.
Lunch has been grilled chicken breast with buffalo sauce tossed with black beans and tomato, broccoli, onion over iceberg lettuce. It has been fairly tasty even if the buffalo chicken isn't as sloppy as wings. This has been the first chicken I have cooked in quite some time. I have been relying on the restaurants during business travel for my meat protein the passed few weeks. But since I will be home for two weeks I decided to add it back into the mix.
The afternoon snack is a salad of chopped zucchini and marinaded artichoke. The artichokes add sufficient flavor for the whole salad and lots of fiber etc....
Dinner has been roasted brussel sprouts and cauliflower with dry ranch dressing mix. Pretty tasty. Would have never thought to use that. Amazing what some googling of web sites leads you to for food ideas. This was accompanied with the cucumber mint soup. I didn't actually follow the recipe. I was supposed to peel and seed the cucumbers before purée ing I skipped that step so there is a little more girth to it. And then my fresh mint was over fresh and bad so I used dill instead. That added a bit more bite to the mix. Perhaps a bit too much.
But it has been a filling week of food.
Now how to eat smart tomorrow night at dinner.

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