Alfredo, Brat, Broc

Super easy go to nummy weeknight dinner, fry up some brats (5) in oil, drain the oil but keep the mess in the pan, heat and chop up broccoli, chop up the brats, dump it all back in the pan, add alfredo, simmer, serve.

I love the color the alfredo comes out to with the brat fry, its like epic gravy only tastier, rich flavor, texture, feels like an extra effort treat when its really almost as easy as nuking a frozen dinner (and good luck finding one of those that doesnt have crap added to it you cant eat.)

happy cookin,

may-20-2015

PS, just realizing i've hit the one year mark since I started blogging about being 50lbs in, i'd love to be dishing advice about how i managed to break that 50lb wall and go further but I havent, however, I never let up on the plan, its a lifestyle and I kept at that even when i got slack and slackier, now i'm finally nosing down a bit again, trying to be 'better' and I think this is a good time to chime in again, I think this is really the point at which living a lifestyle pays off, i'm motivated again, my stress level is low enough that i can manage to try harder etc... but where am i compared to the same spot on previous attempts?

previously when i'd lost 50lbs i went 'off' for a wedding, stayed off for a bbq the next month and never went back on, by this time on that plan I was back up 70lbs to a new high! yay! (sarchasm) this time? I weighed 296 last time i checked, I got a whole year of smaller clothes, less sore knees and back, more activities with my wife and son, fewer embarrassing places i didn't fit, i didnt reach my goal, I didnt get to go skiing but as i 'start anew' its not anew, i'm starting from where i left off, i'm 82lbs to freedom, not 130. the old me would be disappointed if i lost another 40lbs and plateaued again, the new me thinks of all the more stuff i could do at 256 that i cant now and wants to not only get there but also way more than anything stay there. when keeping the ground you've mustered trumps how fast you lose, your future self will thank you, so thanks 2014 dave, i still love this new body you built :)

Hot grilled asian chicken caesar salad. YUM!

 First, do your standard, chop up some romaine, toss some parmesan add some newman's own caesar dressing then park it.

You want to make that ahead of time because there's somethin better than even that epic deal of the same name and freshness that you can get at wegmans or the like, cold chicken even on salad is just, well, meh.

Particularly because its generally not seasoned in a way that you'd eat it on its own.  This is, I grill these hot for 20min, 10ish on each side, adding a lot of soy sauce and asian seasoning (costco's name, lemon pepper garlic-y ginger-y action). a lot of the soy sauce boils off, drips down in the grill and steams, this really give the chicken an extra lightly smoked flavor that just rocks it.

When you are done fressing on this you'll have had a better meal than most 4-5 star restaurants could have made you, 100% on the 'diet' and really cheap.

Happy Living!!

Old werld snack

wish i'd have thought to take a pic but i'm sure you can imagine.

I was feeling fried and out of it and just generally tired unmotivated 3pm typical action.

top it off, one about my favorite things someone at the office did up some home made super spicy hummus! omg!

so i stroll in and see the sinfulness of it, check the nutri on the various what you can scrape your hummus up with and they are all bad (that makes me think of that line from true lies).

so sad faced i made my billionth cup of americano action and strolled off to the biffy

but then i had this romantic mediterranean fantasy, i'm on a ship, my viking locks wafting in the wind, its olden times and i need sustenance for the rest of my journey, thats when it hit me, i had better eat something, i'm really fucking losing it! :)

so i went back to the kitchen and took a ramekin and tossed 5 grapes in it, then smothered them in 2tbsps of this epic hummus.

ate it with a spoon right there.

figured ok fine, i cheated but i didnt have wheat or any other processed crap so i tried.

back to my dex and did some googling, turns out  I had all of like 6 grams of carbs and from pretty healthy unprocessed sources and it was REALLY satisfying like i'd just snarfed a fat cheesecake.

so much flavor

all the wins.

Happy Living!

and just for the fun of it (testing) some cool video:

the best Salad you have ever experienced in your M* F*in life, yo.

This is the real deal man, we're talkin guilt free epic nomification.

thaw the chicken! (google that for a beyond funny possibly true story from nasa that was -ultimately- validated by mythbusters)

hammer the crap out of it til its flat willy

fry in olive oil with a ton of nomic seasoning on it, soy sauce, lemon pepper, asian seasoning  you name it just hit it hard til its goooood.
pull it, slice it nice and even keep the pieces together so they are nice and cozy.

prep the salad:
spring mix
olives
avocado slices
Jicama -- track that shit down, its not cheap but this is your crunchy better than croutons guilt free omfg!

drizzle that ranch dressing
lay a couple more leaves on top of that

drop the chicken, one breast worth of slices each

nosh with your eyes rolled back in ecstasy guilt free and tasty like you can't even buy anywheres.

happy living!!!

Ultra comfort food: Roast beef stew with cauliflower alfredo nomification

Doesn't that just look GOOOOOD? cant wait to dive in.

so, line the bottom with chopped whole thinger of celery. and like an inch or 2 of water, then throw the roast on that pile, salt, pepper, curry, garlic mostly just on the meat to give it a nice crust.

2 hours on high, then 4-5 on low

nuke 2 bags of cauliflower for 10min, maybe 12 while thats going...

Pull the roast, slicey dicey choppy to your liking.  scoup out most but not all of the celery.  toss the beef happiness back in, dump in 2 jars of alfedo, i like to rinse them with water for recycling anyway in this case just a touch more cant hurt so put that in shake it up and dump it in too.

dump in cauliflower (oh yea i added some water and olive oil to that befor nuking, butter would be good too)

simmer! simmer classs! well not really put it on high and let er rip til everything gets tender.

fressssss!

happy living!!!

Asian spice crusted chicken alfredo veggie psychological money mastery happy thing.

Another simple dinner, keepin it different with little touches, whole chicken breast fried in olive oil with an asian ginger/lemon pepperish seasoning lots of it til it got sort of crusted then some A1 there splashed underneath.

veggie alfredo action on the side.

you'll notice i do that a lot, same old veggie mix, same old alfredo sauce, sometimes mixed with a tinge of this or that and it might sound boring but its best to look at it this way, this is the part of the meal that is replacing the carby starchy action, this is your bread/pasta/mashed potato etc... same old boring base you have with most meals only this tastes much much better and can easily be mixed with some of your entries for a change up (like i like to chop up the brats and mix them in sometimes while keeping them all decorative and whole others) biggie is that not only does this replace that carb action as the side dish belly filler it also replaces that really easy part of the meal weeknight cooking can scarcely ask much of you in the fancy entre dept, rackin your noggin over the side dish just aint happinin so here's your solution.

chicken came out of one of those huge bags from costco, i'd say this is probably something like a $3 meal again not ramen cheap and man do i know that its not easy doin 3 when you've got $2 key is to not beat yourself up.

Not just because "be nice to yourself" all stuart smalley action but because what happens is you give up, and when you do finally get 12 extra cents to rub together on payday you reward your lengthy sacrifice with a trip to taco bell where natch the spouse and the kids want some too and suddenly you have a carload of unhealthy food and sure you 'only' dropped $20 on that but..... thats a bag of frozen chicken that will last you to next payday.

that bag will quickly look like boring drudgery waiting to happen in comparison to that fast food meal but just look at the punum on this meal right here! this bitch was the noms and like on a tuesday night, i can barely get something as good as this for $25 a plate going out god forbid i get a drink or appetizer or...

so big factor is to no just throw feed down your chow hole, do it up, take a sec, add some spice, make it pretty on the plate like a boss, you'll feel spoiled, you'll pass up taco bell and go to biggie mart and stock up on more nom foundations and you'll feel great about yourself which is the very first step to...

happy living!

Calories are lies.

This is my breakfast today.

watch your gag reflex, thanks to the lies that you've been told for decades this might make you gag and think i have a death wish.

that right there is 1000 calories and the coffee is only 2 of them thanks to naughty bad for you artificial sweetener.

8 yes EIGHT eggs, massive avocado and little hot sauce on the eggs, and that white stuff? sour cream? that would be nice but far better is mayo, yeap thats 2 giant glops of pure mayonnaise.

yes yes by all means check with your doctor first, get some intel, they are good at finding stuff and giving you data, however, how to alter your data via what you do and eat? well they only have more of the bad info we all do, you'll find that the more seasoned ones take less and less stock in the party line and the insane food pyramid.

Eating like this, my results have been nearly 60lbs of weight loss, way lower blood pressure, even more athletic heart rate and i haven't even started with any exercise at all.

what would make this breakfast bad for me would be a simple piece of toast adding that, not the mayo, would be foolish

check this article out about the calorie bs.

happy living!!