I haven't posted regularly for so long that I forgot how.
I work for the next three days and have to get my meals together. Because it's a 12 hour day with a 1 1/2 hour drive each way, I eat breakfast on the way, and eat both lunch and supper at the hospital. That's a lot of meals.
I've been drinking a cranberry and banana smoothie in the morning. I add a vitamin-protein powder that helps keep me satisfied until lunch time. Drinking a smoothie in the morning really works for me because I don't get sluggish like a full meal will often do to me. My schedule has made me particularly aware of how my eating affects my immediate post-meal energy levels. My A1C was good on my last labs, but all three of my sisters are/were type 2 diabetics, and I don't want to go down that road.
I have been absolutely loving all things soup. I heading out right now to get a few missing ingredients for a type of avgolemono -- made with lots of veggies. I've got to get going on that because I'm picking up Luke in a few hours!
Avgolemno type soup:
Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a pot and add onion, carrot, celery -- amounts depend on how much soup you want. I'm going to use 1 medium onion, 2 large carrots, and 1 large rib of celery. Saute this until it's softened, maybe 5 minutes.
Add a clove of two of squished garlic and some salt and pepper and saute for another minute.
Add a 4 cup carton, or four cups of your own vegetable or chicken broth, and a cup of water. Put the lid on the pot and bring to a boil. Add 3/4 cup of orzo or rice to the boiling broth and simmer covered until the orzo and rice are just tender. Take off heat.
Whisk together 2 large egg yolks and about 6 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice (2 lemons). Dip a cup of broth out of the pot and *slowly* whisk the hot broth into the egg mixture. Immediately add your now tempered egg mixture to the pot of soup -- again, in a slow drizzle -- and stir well as you add the egg mix.
This next part is what makes this soup not avgolemno -- add two or three big handfuls of baby spinach and bring the soup up to a gentle simmer until the spinach is wilted.
Sometimes shredded chicken to this but I'm not in the mood today.
Done!
I work for the next three days and have to get my meals together. Because it's a 12 hour day with a 1 1/2 hour drive each way, I eat breakfast on the way, and eat both lunch and supper at the hospital. That's a lot of meals.
I've been drinking a cranberry and banana smoothie in the morning. I add a vitamin-protein powder that helps keep me satisfied until lunch time. Drinking a smoothie in the morning really works for me because I don't get sluggish like a full meal will often do to me. My schedule has made me particularly aware of how my eating affects my immediate post-meal energy levels. My A1C was good on my last labs, but all three of my sisters are/were type 2 diabetics, and I don't want to go down that road.
I have been absolutely loving all things soup. I heading out right now to get a few missing ingredients for a type of avgolemono -- made with lots of veggies. I've got to get going on that because I'm picking up Luke in a few hours!
Avgolemno type soup:
Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a pot and add onion, carrot, celery -- amounts depend on how much soup you want. I'm going to use 1 medium onion, 2 large carrots, and 1 large rib of celery. Saute this until it's softened, maybe 5 minutes.
Add a clove of two of squished garlic and some salt and pepper and saute for another minute.
Add a 4 cup carton, or four cups of your own vegetable or chicken broth, and a cup of water. Put the lid on the pot and bring to a boil. Add 3/4 cup of orzo or rice to the boiling broth and simmer covered until the orzo and rice are just tender. Take off heat.
Whisk together 2 large egg yolks and about 6 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice (2 lemons). Dip a cup of broth out of the pot and *slowly* whisk the hot broth into the egg mixture. Immediately add your now tempered egg mixture to the pot of soup -- again, in a slow drizzle -- and stir well as you add the egg mix.
This next part is what makes this soup not avgolemno -- add two or three big handfuls of baby spinach and bring the soup up to a gentle simmer until the spinach is wilted.
Sometimes shredded chicken to this but I'm not in the mood today.
Done!