Healthy Eats-Along 2012

[craftylittlemonkey]

Oh man, those look delish! I don't have a non-stick pan, do you think I could bake them instead? I'm going to give it a try and see, I'll just do one patty to test it out. We've got a friend coming to visit for a week with her little baby (she's burned out and needs some help to get refocused and re-balanced) and I plan on totally spoiling them with amazing vegetarian food. This looks like a perfect dish, we've got perfectly ripe avos right now too, yay!
I'm going to make rice paper cold rolls too, we did those last week and they were SO amazing. Has anybody here tried those? There are a ton of recipes online and it's super easy. Make a nice peanut sauce to go with.

[alwaysinmyroom]

What a yummy endorsement!
 
CLM--do you like seaweed?  I love making rice paper seaweed rolls...

[craftylittlemonkey]

We love seaweed! I have some kelp my boy eats as a snack, lol. Lots of nori sheets in the cupboards too, I'm going to soak some sunflower and pumpkin seeds for pate (veggie, rice free "sushi" nori rolls). YUM!

[MareMare]

Those quinoa patties look great! Thanks for sharing the pics!

CLM--like salad rolls or fresh rolls? I finally tracked down some rice paper rolls but haven't used them yet. Would you mind sharing your recipe, pretty please

[craftylittlemonkey]

I just throw stuff together, really. You can use glass noodles or bean sprouts or both or even alfalfa sprouts and any julienned veggies like cukes, carrot, green onion (include this, the flavour of a even the thinnest strip is Amazing), daikon radish, zucchini, peppers, avocado, even tomatoes (you can grate the hard veggies instead of taking all kinds of time to julienne them). The addition of fresh basil or mint leaves puts these over the top.
As for the sauce, you can use plain soy sauce or soy mixed with sesame oil or make a peanut sauce. There are so many recipes for that last one but peanut butter, chili paste, garlic, rice vinegar, soy sauce and fresh ginger if you like is a good mix. Fresh ground peanuts as a garnish with chopped cilantro or parsley is excellent to finish.

I have had them with cold plain tofu, grilled tofu, deep fried tofu, and even shrimp. I imagine they'd be good with chicken if you eat that or even with firm fish. Cold rolls are like wraps, you really can put anything at all into them.

[Jinjeet Phoenix]

Wow! Those Patties look good.

[MareMare]

Thanks CLM! I need to make some stat!

Randomly stumbled onto another veggie burger/pattie recipe. Coconut curry chickpea patties
http://www.asmallloss.com/2012/02/coconut-curry-chickpea-patties.html

[MareMare]

Here's a treat I've been working on:

http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=403402.0

[hgddm]

I did terribly today I ate a frozen Tombstone pizza and felt so dirty afterward...

Tomorrow I'm going to eat some of my bananas and strawberries, and make some fresh salsa to make up for the evil pizza. I'm also planning to get some nice healthy light sushi for dinner.

[Miss Whitney]

I did ok on my goals for last week - I'd grade my efforts a C. I did REALLY well with my eating goals, but not so good with my exercise and water goals. But, I was a little over a pound lighter when I weighed myself this morning... so... keep on keeping on.

My goals for this week are the same as last:
- Eat breakfast at home every day
- Take my lunch to work every day
- Eat dinner at home 4 days a week
- Drink one bottle of water a day
- Walk 2 miles a day.

Recipes:

This is one of my favorite breakfast smoothies: Almond milk, almond butter, banana, chocolate protein powder, ice - Blend, Drink, Yum!

This week I am making a quinoa salad with blood oranges I got in my produce box, maybe with a meyer lemon vinaigrette - Ingredients: cooked quinoa, blood oranges (supremed AKA cut out of their pith), feta cheese, spinach (cut into ribbons), and parsley. Mix everything in a bowl, drizzle with olive oil, an acid (vinegar, citrus, etc), salt and pepper or mix with a premade dressing. I hope it's yummy!