Tilapia

So, I did not follow Eat for Health today. I bought tilapia with every intention of following the EfH recipe, but when I went to make the fish I could not find my EfH book!

I decided to fix the tilapia anyways. First I sprayed each piece of fish lightly with PAM. Then I dredged it in a combination of flour, whole wheat bread crumbs (I made some toast and put it in the food processor), and a mix of Cajun spices, salt and pepper. After each piece of tilapia was coated in the flour mixture, I pan fried them with a small bit of oil, 3-4 minutes each side. I placed each fish fillet in a 300 degree oven to keep warm as I made the next one. At the very end I combined some butter, garlic, parsley and fresh squeezed lemon juice on the stove and poured it over the fish. I made 4 tilapia filets so that we would have leftovers for tomorrow's lunch. We ate it with some brown rice and fruit on the side.

It was soooo yummy! Andrew declared that it was the best fish I have ever made. I'm not quite sure about that, but it was tasty. I'll have to buy some more fish now.

Elspeth's 2nd Birthday

Summer wanted a healthy cake for Elsie's birthday party. Before we went to the Olive Garden for the birthday dinner I baked the cakes in my fluted round tart pans. When the cakes were cool I filled them with a mousse whipped from a package of cheesecake Jello pudding mix, an envelope of Dreamwhip and 1 1/2 cups milk. After dinner Matt stopped at Costco to get the fruit sorbets and I went home and decorated the cakes with fresh fruit.

"Mommy, come and help me blow out the candle!"

Oops! The candle fell over!

No problem. The candle was still buring so Summer righted it and Elsie was able to blow it out (with a little help from Mommy and Daddy!)

Baked Beet and Brown Rice Salad

Today is September 1st. That seems like a good day to start back on the Eat to Live program. This last month has been full of company and trips with lots of junk food and eating out. I've gained some weight and just don't feel that great. There definitely need to be some changes. I don't think I'll go through all the recipes in the "Eat for Health" book like I had thought before. I'll instead use healthy recipes from lots of different sources.

Today I was looking through our fridge to figure out what to throw away and what needed to be used after my trip to take Andrew back to BYU. I found some beets that needed to be used. I had used the tops for a green smoothie 2 weeks ago and had forgot about the actual beets.

The recipe for this salad comes from "Veginomicon". I've wanted to try it for several years. It was very good. The beautiful pink color from the beets and the pine nuts and thin sliced scallions on the top added extra pizzazz. Mark said that he doesn't really like beets that well, but he liked this salad. He said it was the most delicious beet dish he'd ever had. Definitely a keeper.

We also had green beans from our garden and a green salad that featured cucumbers and cherry tomatoes from the garden. We also had some leftover vegetarian chili.