Friday, June 26, 2015

Garden Breakfast



This is very simple to make, and bursts with flavor if you can find fresh vegetables. I use half the butter to fry the potato after I thinly slice it. The vegetables should be lightly dusted with a bit of salt and sauteed together until they are just sweating. If you overcook they turn mushy and brown and lose most of their nutrients. This is where all your flavor comes from as well. I usually cook my eggs in a half tablespoon because I LOVE butter and I hate cooking sprays. I like my eggs runny so just cook til the tops are slightly white if doing sunny side up, you can always cook eggs longer for harder yolks. Keep in mind though, runny yolks tend to carry more Omega 3's than hard cooked out yolks. I stack everything on top of each other, a light dusting of salt and a couple splashes of Chalulu on top.

If thinly sliced these take only a couple minutes to fry.
I like to stack so the peppers and onions go in the middle. 


Lightly sauteed.
Smells good too. 

Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1/2 cup of diced red peppers, green peppers, yellow peppers, red and yellow onions, 1 green onion diced, 1 medium white potato, 4 small mushrooms, dash of hot sauce.


Macro : Carbs 38g  
              Fat 23g
              Protein 23g

This breakfast is only 458 calories.  If you cut out the tablespoon of butter and just use cooking spray then it drops to 358 calories and only 12 grams of fat. Butter is very fatty but a tablespoon here and there isn't going to kill you. It also is high in saturated fat which is a necessary fat. Your body needs healthy fats to function normally. I used jumbo eggs in this recipe, so if you use small or medium then you can subtract about 40 calories as well. But for a breakfast this is well within calorie range.


Overview

I love to cook. I have loved food forever and cooking for at least 15 years, During school and after graduating with diplomas in nutrition and physical fitness, I took a hard look at my diet and food choices and decided changes should be made. Most of my recipes here will be for 1-2 people since I don't have a family, but easy to upgrade to a family meal. I will be including the macro percentages for those of us gym rats and diet obsessed health junkies. I will do the recipes as I like them, but also include slight changes you can do to make it even healthier. I agree with a healthy, organic diet, but some of us like things like butter and salt once in a while. Or even chocolate (maybe not even in moderation). I hope you like what you see and try and if you have suggestions for something you'd like to see made healthy, shoot me an email.