We Are Well Fed

Man, salsa can be a really healthy snack, and I had no idea how easy it was to make. I mixed and matched a couple of recipes from online, got supplies at the store, and went at it. Here's what I came up with.

- 2 Medium/Large Tomatoes, Diced
- 1/2 Vidalia Onion, Diced
- Fresh Cilantro, Minced [I used about a handful and a half, but this a "to taste" kind of thing]
- 2 Cloves Garlic, Minced
- Chipotle Chilis*, Diced [Recipes all said 2, I probably used 6 or 7 - this is also a personal preference thing]
- Salt, pepper, red pepper flakes to taste

*The store I went to did not have fresh chipotles, so I had to settle for a little can of La Costeña chipotles in adobo sauce. Yes, I had to cheat, but using the sauce with the chipotles added a lot of kick and dark coloration that made the dish really pop.

If you can mix and blend all these ingredients by hand, you get all my respect. I am lazy, and threw all of this into a blender. Be careful with the speeds you use - the salsa can go from "chunky" to "soupy" really quickly. I am blender-ignorant and did not know this and ended up with a finely pureéd salsa. Not a bad thing, but a little texture is a good thing. Once you get the consistency you're looking for, taste test, and modify ingredients accordingly until you're happy with the flavor - making salsa is not a precise art! I recommend fresh lime juice as well, but I was dumb and forgot to grab one for this particular concoction.

So I'm low on cash, but even lower on food.

I want food that is good for me, not junk food.
I want food that is enough to last me for a while.
I want food that is versitile, but not extremely difficult to make.

any suggestions?

Single dudes can't live off of Galaxy burgers and Mojo's cheesesteaks alone, but we still deserve to eat well.

I had some eggs [Egg-Land's Best Cage Free] I needed to get rid of, so I pulled some random stuff out of my fridge to make an omelet for myself.

First I prepped my veggies.

- 2 cross sections of red bell pepper and 1 healthy slice of red onion, diced
- 2 generous handfuls of arugula, minced [this wilts when cooked, so it'll look like too much at first]

Cracked 3 eggs into bowl, mixed, added about 1.5 cups of skim milk, ground black pepper, and the bell pepper and onion. Poured into a skillet on med-high, flipped, browned, added arugula and grated pecorino on top, and folded.

Unfortunately, I'm technologically backwards, so I couldn't snap a picture, but it was very colorful.

Next time, I need to use oil in the pan, 'cause the sucker really broke up towards the end, but it was still really good.

This bento utilizes a recipe I found on Discovery's National Body Challenge website. It was pretty amazing.


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Yesterday I baked two kinds of cookies: Almond Buttons and Coconut-Lime Thai Snowballs. Yum!



Tonight, I'll be baking Espresso Bean Chocolate cookies, Cashew butter cookies, and Brittany butter cookies.


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Bento #5... Today I'm playing it pretty simple.




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Bento #4...

Last night I found some large Halloween cookie cutters are the grocery so...



Halloween Bento!


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Well, today I went on just a bit of a bento rampage! I checked out the Korean department store a block from us and then headed over to H Mart and Great Wall groceries. I ended up buying several bento boxes for rather cheap. I made a bento dinner (pretty much just to show off the box...) in one of my new pretty bentos!





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