Wednesday, September 9, 2015

What's Cookin' Wednesday!

Here's the deal with how we eat around here. It's sort of like Paleo with dessert. You see, we eat healthy (mostly) breakfast, lunch & dinner and then have some sort of sweet sometime in the evening after little munchkin is in bed. We did a Whole30 (that's a post for another time) twice, and really,  really missed this part of our day. I guess some people relax over coffee or wine after dinner, and for us it's sweets. This week I'm sharing a Paleo dinner, and an apple pie!

Let's be healthy first. We love Mexican food, and it's easy to do this and avoid the processed grains by using romaine lettuce as wraps. The receipe is simple:

Olive oil
3 Sweet Bell Peppers (I used yellow, orange, and red, but it doesn't matter)
1 onion (I'd prefer Vadalia, but all Costco had was regular white ones)
1 pound ground beef or turkey or even chicken breast
Salt, chili pepper, and/or red pepper to taste
Romaine lettuce for wraps

Put the olive oil in a big skillet. Slice the peppers and onion into strips and saute them until they start to get soft. In a seperate pan, cook the meat thoroughly. Once cooked, add it to the skillet and add a dash of the seasonings. Go easy at first! You can always add more if it's not zingy enough. Cook until the veggies are the texture you like. Fish one out with a fork and taste it to make sure.

Wash the romaine leaves, leaving them whole as you take them off. Dry completely, then fill with the hot yummy meat and veggies. It will look something like this and it will be delicious.


My husband and 5 year old ate it right up. I told my 5 year old a while ago that wraps are caterpillar food and now she is excited to eat like a caterpillar whenever she sees them. :)

This second food adventure this week was for a Labor Day cookout with my parents. We visited an apple orchard on Saturday and I couldn't wait to bake my first official apple dessert of this Fall! I used Grandma Ople's Famous Apple Pie recipe. I tried to follow it perfectly, but accidentally put the flour and sugars in all at the same time. It still came out great! I used Martha Stewart's recipe for pie crust, which I've used a bunch before.  



As you can see, my kitchen is all about the yin and yang of the cooking universe. 

Let me know if you like to keep things balanced too. And if you try one of these recipes I'd love to hear about it!!

Linking up at Buns in my Oven!

1 comment:

  1. Paleo with dessert!! Love it! And I was thinking of baking a pie later this week, so great timing too!

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