This is my attempt to keep a daily food and fitness diary. This isn't Pulitzer-winning writing; these are spontaneous, often hastily written rambles of what I eat, do and learn in my ongoing effort to feel awesome all the time. It may not always be pretty, but at least it's honest. You can find more stories and recipes at SmarterFitter.com.
My favourite use of Carl Legge's vegetarian haggis thus far: stuffed in a portobello mushroom and topped with the Backyard BBQ Sauce from Veganomicon. Pretty awesome.
Had this with sauteed leeks and curly kale (a favourite combo), avocado on the side, and a squeeze of lime juice. Oh, and lots of hot chillies.
More on the haggis: Vegetarian Haggis for Burns Night
This was the first Ottolenghi recipe I've made that I've found merely average. But maybe that's my own fault: I didn't know what "escabeche" was all about going into it. I saw saffron and garlic and shallots in the recipe, and though "mm that sounds good", but I seemed to glaze over the wine and vinegar bit that makes the resulting dish almost like a pickle. Very very vinegarry. I thought it needed some sweetness and spice, so had a bit of mango chilli sauce with it (really yummy stuff from the Wiltshire Chilli Farm).
In addition to mackerel, the salad also had carrot, kidney beans, olives and chillies (yes, I like chilli with my chilli sauce).
Adapted from this recipe: Mackerel escabeche salad
Icy cold banana whey protein smoothie (brrr). Cup of decaf to warm up afterwards.
I looove peanut butter and alfalfa sprouts on toast. As I've been sprouting mung beans lately, I thought I'd try the "recipe" with mung bean sprouts instead. It's not as good, yet not as bad as you might think. Still, the rest of my toast got the almond butter and marmalade treatment. And it was good.
It's also worth noting that it's stupid early for breakfast. But then again, I woke up stupid early. This may have consequences on various aspects of my day.
Sprouted mung bean curry recipe courtesy of veggiebelly: http://www.veggiebelly.com/2008/10/sprouted-mung-bean-curry.html
I enjoyed this dish but not sure I'd I'll be rushing to make it again. There are many sprouted mung bean recipes to experiment with. I'm especially looking forward to egg fu yung!
Gosh, this picture is really unappetising. The dish was... OK. Admittedly, the escabeche (an Ottolenghi recipe) was supposed to marinate overnight and I only gave it an hour. I also had never had escabeche before and didn't realise it would be so vinegarry. Not sure if that's what I was up for tonight. It will be interesting to see what I think of the dish after a night of marination.
Also had a glass of red wine, despite promises to self that I wouldn't. Oh well.
I challenged my Twitterers to come up with a breakfast recipe that involved cabbage. Someone suggested hash brown sweet potatoes with cabbage, paprika and poached egg. I didn't have any sweet potato so improvised with pumpkin. It was pretty stellar. The paprika was essential!
