I don't know about yall but most of the time when I look at a recipe if it has more than 5 ingredients my brain automatically shuts down. The recipe is either more in depth than I want or most likely I wont have the ingredients off hand that I need. Well... enter a nicely stocked pantry. I have been slowly building our pantry ingredients over the past couple months, besides you know: salt, pepper, EVOO, garlic salt. The marinade recipe that I found this weekend didn't have any exotic ingredients or anything but it does have things like parsley flakes {makes me appreciate asking for a stocked spice rack for Christmas} which we never use.
We had some small pork chops that needed to be cooked so I started looking up recipes on my All Recipes App. I found an easy recipe for a marinade and *gasp* I had all 10 ingredients!
Whatcha need:
3/4 cup of vegetable oil {I used EVOO}
1/3 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup vinegar {I used Apple Cider Vinegar}
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon prepared mustard
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
1 garlic clove, minced {I used 2}
Directions:
Combine all the ingredients in a large Ziploc bag or a glass bowl; add pork and turn to coat. Seal bag or cover the container. Refrigerate overnight. {I refrigerated for 4 hours. The porkchops came out delicious but Im sure they would have been even tastier the longer they marinated.} Drain and discard marinade. Cook pork how you would like. {We grilled them on our George Foreman Indoor/Outdoor Grill.}
There is some lifestyle changing, weight loss thangs going on over here at Pretty Riot. This week I put on my frilly pink apron and made my very first salad dressing following this recipe for Denise's Vinaigrette. My guy and I are trying to incorporate more raw food into our everyday diet. That includes smoothies in the morning, raw veggies for snacks, and big green salads for lunch or dinner. Enter my {almost} raw dressing.
Whatcha need:
3/4 c. Apple Cider Vinegar (or lemon juice or both) {I just used ACV}
1/4 - 1/2 c. olive oil or flax oil (either or both) {cold pressed OO to keep it raw}
3-6 cloves garlic (to taste)
2-3 Tbl tahini and or 1-2 Tbl mustard powder {I just used to tahini}
1/4 c. Nama Shoyu {could not find locally so I used Tamari}
1/4 c. Honey {raw honey to keep it raw, I used Agave}
Put all of the above in a blender and blend.
A Few Things**
Next time I might split between the vinegar and lemon juice to cut back a little on the assertiveness.
I feel tahini is an acquired taste so until you know the flavor I would just use 2 tablespoons. I will next time.
This dressing is strong on flavors, but that is exactly what I wanted to go along with all the veggies. Try it out and ENJOY!
Remember last week when I was talking about Meal Movement? And Crossfit- because apparently I am completely INSANE? Well, Crossfit is a far cry from becoming my reality. We can all chill on that thought. BUT Mike and I have begun a My Fit Foods diets. We decided against Meal Movement for a few reasons:
There wasn't an option to try it for a week, you had to buy a month's worth of food. AND because it was frozen. Surely, the taste must be decent but going with a different choice gave us more flexibility in the case that we didn't like it. So My Fit Foods it is.
Since we live in Galveston we have to drive to Houston to pick up our meals. They do not deliver and there is not a closer location. I know, a complete travesty. So once a week we will make the trip to pick up our weekly meals. We have lunch and dinner prepared for the next 6 days and to be honest I'm a little excited. (Well if we're being honest, right now I'm actually hungry but it is by no fault of My Fit Foods. As soon as I'm done writing this post, I will heat and eat my first lunch which is tilapia and veggies! Yum!) I can already hear the skinny jeans calling my name. Well in my mind The Skinny Jeans are calling me 'Kate Moss'. They will confuse me with her because of my slim and petite, way smoking hott figure that I'll be rockin' soon enough!
A friend and I used to say,"We're going to be fine a s wine by the summer time!" And since summer is half over, I will be fine as wine by the fall time, I hope. In the coming months we'll all be layering and wearing coats and if you're already a pudgy mess then putting winter clothes on top of all that can make you look bigger and it's uncomfortable. I know because I have lived it.
I know I won't get there (and by 'there' I mean totally sexy and hott) by only eating healthy, I will have to actually work off some of my extra...ness eventually. Slowly but surely, I'll get there. Optimistic me can SO feel and see the prize! Here's to getting my sexy back!
