Lionel and I are really trying to improve our eating habits. We picked up the book The World’s Healthiest Foods by George Mateljan as a guide and it’s FANTASTIC. He has done his research and has a lot of information on the biochemical properties of the food, and references nutrition journals. He’ll talk about ATP, reactive oxygen species, and enzymology, but in a way even someone not into the biosciences can understand. He selected foods that are not only nutrient dense (a lot of nutrients per calorie) but also affordable and available at many locations around the world. Each chapter tells you how to select and store the food, and great cooking methods which only take 5 to 7 minutes. Our cooking style was very similar to his to begin with, and we’ve kept some things he doesn’t recommend, heh, but the book has given us many useful ideas, especially when it comes to fresh produce and incorporating more vegetables into our diet.
In either case, I was so proud of the supper I made today that I had to blog about it :) I baked trout with fresh dill from our urban garden, butter, and lemon juice. I’ve done this a lot before but never with fresh herbs :) With that a made a chickpea salad with chickpeas, tomatoes, green onion, sunflower seeds, chopped pecans, and fresh cilantro and basil from the garden, seasoned with salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
To go with it I made a sweet tossed salad to balance the savoury chickpeas. I used romaine lettuce, cucumber, dried cranberries, and dried blueberries with raspberry vinaigrette. Woo! And to top it off as a snack that day we had edamame, which is steamed soy beans in the pods with salt, a really good chip substitute and delicious too!
Two days before this Lionel made an AMAZING pasta salad. He lightly steamed some fresh broccoli and mixed it with whole wheat bowtie pasta, tomatoes, boiled egg, fresh basil, dried oregano, olive oil, salt, and pepper. WOW. Best broccoli EVER!!!
I’m so excited to do some more cooking soon :)
