Healthy Yum

Since I'm trying to cut down on carbs, I was looking on the Trader Joe's website for healthy low carb alternatives. I saw that eggplant , bell peppers, and mushrooms were on sale and decided to make eggplant pizza.  

Ingredients:

Egg plant sliced into thick rounds (1/2-3/4 ")

egg

flour

tomato sauce

mozzarella cheese

peppers

mushrooms

I dipped the egg plant slices into egg and coated with flour.

Placed them on a pan and baked them for 15 minutes at 400 degrees.  

After that, put sauce and drizzle cheese on top of the egg plant slices.  

Add the shrooms and peppers on top and bake until the cheese melts.  

The eggplant was crispy and light..almost like bread.  

I can't wait to eat my lunch...eggplant and my mom fried tofu for me.  Last night I had to tutor and she offered me soda which I didn't drink :). But I also ate pringle chips and cookies. AND my mom bought 4 bags of potato chips!!  But she did buy greek yogurt that I'm loving.  

Cooking with Chris Part 2

Chris was craving chicken and rice from the cart on 53rd and 6th. but we hate going into the city.  Even though I live so close, it's always a hassle traveling. Thankfully, we found this awesome recipe to help us settle our cravings.  

The white sauce came out so good! And it was so easy to make too.  

The rice coated with cumin and tumeric powder

I bought a weird basmati rice blend from Trader Joe's.  I think next time I'm gonna stick to plain rice.  

I pulled a noob mistake and added way too little broth and added too much rice.  I never make rice on the stove top!! I was able to fix the mistake by adding more water and broth. 

Chicken thighs

Looks so good! 

  

I bought whole wheat pita bread for us from Trader Joe's. It wasn't that great .  I tried to be healthy but I guess you can't be healthy when it comes to chicken and rice. We had to add more mayo to the white sauce to make it tasty.  

What a success! We had a few snags like under cooking the rice and not browning the chicken enough but the meal came out almost exactly like the chicken you would get from the city.  I think the meal costs us around 20 dollars? It was kinda pricey because we didn't plan that well and didn't buy lettuce and chicken on sale.Iceberg lettuce was 2.50! Also, Chris didn't have turmeric powder but that was only a dollar something at his local farmer's market. Oh! And don't get the harrisa hot sauce! YUCK.  It tasted bitter and sour.  We used good old Siracha sauce instead.  

Bought a strawberry cheesecake slice from Whole Foods :) I ate almost the whole thing by myself cause Chris was too busy playing League of Legends haha.