The Lavish life, Salmon & fauxtatoes, pictures inside!

The Lavish life, Salmon & fauxtatoes, pictures inside!

atlantic salmon fauxtatoes mashed cauliflower recipe Weight Loss

Today I ate like a king, well I am not sure how a king eats but it was a very good day with very good very healthy meals and I found a new item to add to my body fueling arsenal. Today was our "bulk shopping day" and that usually means that we get a nice piece of fresh fish for dinner, today was no different. Let me start with breakfast first as this will be a meal related post, I woke up late and had a bowl of corn chex cereal with 1% milk, bamn! the breakfast portion of this post has concluded, like a king you say? Ok, that was around 9am and we set out to get our shopping done and 1:00 pm came around and we had still not eaten lunch, yes yes, I know that's not a good idea! AND you said you ate like a king Mister Meatball! welp wify had bought some "honey wheat pretzels" so I grabbed a few 7 or 8 of em and it stopped the grumbling from the gut region, "hey now you said Very good, very healthy meals!?" yes yes we are getting there, while in the market I picked out a couple cucumbers and some nice ripe tomatoes and off to find some pita bread I went, while looking around I see something that says "Joseph's flax oat bran and whole wheat flower lavish bread" on it, 100 calories per whole piece and 3g of fiber to boot so into the cart it went. After getting home it was time to get a proper meal type food into my stomach and earlier in the day I remembered that someone on a forum mentioned cucumber sandwiches but made on wheat pita bread.

Here is where the good food comes into play and its such a simple little wrap for so little calories that I have to say that I wish I had come across the idea sooner! I skinned a whole cucumber and sliced it up diagonally with one of the tomatoes and that's pretty much all that goes into these besides the dressing, salt and pepper. I spread a tiny amount of Newmans own light honey mustard dressing across one end of the lavish bread and laid the cucumbers and tomato on top of it, then added salt and pepper rolled the veggies once into the bread. I added a tiny smear of Miracle whip between that and the end of the bread, rolled it all the way up and ate my new favorite lunch item. Each wrap was roughly 150 calories and that was counting high! two was more than filling and I have to admit that I ate too much and one would really have been enough but like I said they were awesomeness wrapped in lavish bread. 1 whole cucumber and maybe 2/3 of a medium tomato was used to make 3 wraps, wify really liked them as well and we will be making them again for sure, now onto dinner.

Dinner as I mentioned was fresh fish, we had grilled salmon fillets with mashed cauliflower and green beans and to say that I enjoyed this meal does not begin to say how good it was. I bought 1.5 pounds of fresh Atlantic salmon fillets and decided to cook it out on the grill, and the only prep was a light garlic rub, some black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil and onto the grill they went, here is a look at them as they cooked to a perfect 135 degrees.

This is a shot as I turned them over after the non skinned side cooked for about 5 minutes.

and right as they were done and brought inside.

The mashed cauliflower was absolutely amazing and it was also a very simple recipe that I sort of just winged and made up as I went using my mashed potato recipe. I boiled 2.5 pounds of fresh cauliflower for about 7 minutes until it was soft but not falling apart, drained it and dumped it back into the pot where I mashed it up with a mixer after mixing in about a tablespoon of minced garlic, 1.5 tablespoons of Smart balance spread, less than 1/4 cup of 1% milk and some black pepper. Once that was as mixed as it was going to get I put about 2/3 of that into a food processor and blended it into a smooth mix and poured it back into the still lumpy mixed portion so that there would be some texture to it, fold in a bit of Parmesan cheese and into a casserole dish it goes. I then shook a bit of parm cheese over the top of the whole thing and into a 400 degree oven it went for about 7 minutes, I then stuck it under the broiler for a minute or two to brown the top and that's it! the fauxtatoes were done! Here is a look at my plate seconds before I dug in and cleaned my entire plate.

8oz grilled salmon steak, 1 cup green beans, slightly more than a cup of mashed fauxtatoes ala cauliflower, about 600 calories and quite filling.

If this had been served to me in a restaurant I would have given the chef my compliments, it was honestly that good! so as a king I was fed today as far as I am concerned and a couple more high quality low calorie options get added to my eating arsenal. That will conclude another post and I hope you got your H2O in today! I have had a gallon of green tea and about a quart of water so far myself and will have about another 1/2 gallon of water before I retire for the evening, keep on keepin on and remember there ARE options to fatty high calorie foods out there that will allow us to eat heartily and until we are full. Thanks for following along and check in tomorrow for the next episode of as the fat guy turns.

As Ever
Me

Home on a Saturday night

Home on a Saturday night

atlantic salmon intermission salmon steak

Its around 10:30 pm and I thought I would pop on and post a little intermission, we had salmon steaks for dinner tonight, on a whim we decided that it was a good day for Salmon! dinner was composed of Salmon steaks following the recipe that I posted previously, corn on the cob and baked sweet potatoes. Man this dinner can never get old as far as I am concerned. the salmon was pretty thick and took 18 minutes again to cook perfectly. Here is a picture of how it turned out.

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The day turned out to be as boring as I had anticipated it to be with it being gloomy and all. it has not rained as of right now so maybe it will hold off and not rain at all, who am I kidding this is New England I wouldn't be surprised if it started snowing in an hour! anyways, thats my intermission for the evening. hope you all had a nicer Saturday than I did, because I know your dinner wasn't as good :) lol

As Ever
Me

Salmon recipe

Salmon recipe

atlantic salmon meal recipe salmon steak

I was going to post this up here at a later time but I decided to post it up tonight because of Andeely's comment asking for the specifics of how I made some Atlantic Salmon steaks. This dish is a very healthy and tasty dish which is fairly low on calories. this meal does not take long to cook and can be an any time meal because of that, I wouldn't call this an elegant recipe by any means but it is extremely yummy and easy to make. total time to prep and cook it is approximately 22 min.

What you will need.

Salmon steaks
Butter or the equivalent (I used smart balance buttery spread with Omega-3)
Black pepper
Goya Adobo
Ritz crackers
Olive oil

See I told you simple! I got the idea to try this because of a green bean casserole recipe my wife makes that uses the crackers, I love the flavor and the texture of Salmon so I think putting too much extra flavor onto it would ruin it somewhat, the crackers worked out great.

What to do.

1. Put a small amount of Olive oil into the bottom of a shallow baking pan, just enough so the fish does not stick, I used a glass Pyrex pan 9x15 maybe (guessing at the size) place your rinsed off salmon steaks in to the dish skin on (it will basically fall off once its cooked and it helps hold the fish together while cooking) , we had 3 steaks approximately 1/2 pound each

2. Take a tiny amount of the butter and put it on each steak, season the top of the steak with the Adobo and pepper, I actually went really light with the adobo and sorta heavy with the pepper (I love black pepper) take 6 ritz crackers and break them up very fine and sprinkle them evenly onto the tops of the steaks and add a little more butter, use 1 large pat (less than 1 tbsp) on each steak total. sprinkle some more pepper onto the cracker topped steaks and slide them into a preheated 450 degree oven for 12-18 minutes. the time depends on the thickness of your steaks ours took 18 minutes and were just about perfect, they should flake easily when done. I would recommend checking them often after the 10 minute mark if you have thinner steaks.

3. When they flake easily, the meat is not opaque any more and the cracker topping starts to brown the steaks are done! remove them from the oven, place them onto a plate and remove the skin, it will just peel off very easily. serve it with your favorite veggie and maybe some rice and sit back and enjoy your Salmon steak dinner that took less than 30 mins total to prepare.

6oz Atlantic salmon steak 240 calories
2 Whole wheat ritz crackers 28 calories
1 Tbsp smart balance omega spread 50 calories

Total of 318 calories for a 6 oz steak, which was a very large portion, my wife ate a 4oz piece and was satisfied, so the calorie count can be adjusted by how large or small of a piece you take. if you decide to make this I hope you enjoy it, like I said its not an elegant recipe but it gets the job done and tastes very good.

As Ever
Me