I am so into soup...

The making for gazpacho, quite possibly the most refreshing summer meal invented.  I ripped out the recipe from Us magazine.  It was Bethenny Frankel's.  You can find it here.

The finished product along with oven-baked, almond flour coated chicken tenders and spicy broccoli over crispy polenta.  I took Penny Luxe's chicken recipe and de-gluten-ized it.  I also made my own BBQ sauce with honey and tomato paste.

Chili which cooked for 2.5-3 hours made with humanely raised, hormone-free flank steak from Trader Joe's.  It sounds awesome but it was a little too heavy for honey and I.  I will stick to my old recipes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't it look good with all the fixin's though?

 

Chicken stock that I finally made with everything I've been keeping in the freezer for a few months; heads and bottoms of celery, a few lingering carrots, 2 sprigs of parsley, 1/2 an onion quartered, 2 whole cloves of garlic, and carcasses (ugh, such an awful word) of 2 organic chickens we had consumed and saved the bones for.

Snackies

Ok so here is my fave snack on this crazy new diet.  I take a corn thin (its like a rice cake but made with corn and thinner), spread it with sunflower butter and add St Daflour fruit-sweetened jam.  Since I can only have cane sugar every 4 days, this is a nice snack to kinda satisfy my sweet tooth.  And I loooove PB and J.  In all forms!

For lunch I had my most favorite quinoa salad, and a bowl of leftover beef and cannelloni minestrone from the night before.  The soup was so good!  Its Giada's recipe and its so simple and tasty.  Good with some fresh shards of parmesano reggiano on top (I can eat the raw milk kind, just every 4 days).

Another lunch option is this one I had the other day; carrot leek soup with one of Trader Joe's Italian Country salads (minus the cheese)  actually come to think of it, minus the super garlicky vinaigrette it comes with.  Your breath/husband/girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/coworkers will thank you.  Instead use Briana's french style vinaigrette. Its yummy and clean.