#light dinner

It’s been incredibly hot in this neck of the woods, so our dinners are for the most part light and easy to prepare. This frittata was inspired by a recipe from Elle a la Table. Delicious, even if the cucumber sauce seemed a bit unusual to be paired with it. They worked well together, much to my delight. ZUCCHINI FRITTATA WITH CUCUMBER-YOGURT SAUCE(inspired by Elle a la Table) 5 eggs1 shallot,…

We’ve decided to try and eat less meat. And we’re kicking off this new journey with a Thai-inspired tofu lettuce wrap. Pretty delicious.

Do You Prefer Light Dinner? Nutritionist Explains Why It’s Not Healthy

We are suggested to keep the dinner light. Nutritionist Bhuvan Rastogi, who often enlightens his Instagram followers about the daily diet and busts nutrition myths, has now shared why foods that make us feel full should be preferred to those that are light on stomach. We are suggested to keep the dinner light. This is because light food is easy to digest and it is a preferred choice for…

Spice Up Green!

Ingredients: Lolo roso, cherry tomatoes, basil with carrot-ginger dressing and honey-lemon coconut shrimp.

SUMMER FRUIT & SPINACH SALAD

Low cal goulash - 292 cal (4 servings)

- 10 gr olive oil (90)

- 2 small onions, diced (91 gr; 33 cal)

- 7 gr mild sweet paprika powder (25)

- 2 gr fennel seed (7)

- 2 gr cumin seed (9)

- 4 gr nigella seed (14; I used fennel, cumin, and nigella because they are substitutes for caraway, which I don't have. If you do, just sub with half a tbsp of caraway)

- 317 gr pork tenderloin, cubed (330)

- 400 gr can of tomato cubes (92)

- 1 tablet of beef bouillon (34)

- 424 gr potatoes, peeled and halved (365; 600 gr unpeeled)

- 216 gr carrots, peeled and chopped (71; 300 gr unpeeled)

- 1 orange bell pepper, diced (115 gr; 32 cal)

- 1 yellow bell pepper, diced (124 gr; 29 cal)

- 1 whole bunch of celery, tops and bottom removed, stalks chopped (275 gr; 39 cal)

In a massive pan, heat the oil and add the onions. Once onions are glassy, add spices. Once spices are fragrant, add meat and let brown for a couple minutes, then add bouillon and make sure that all the brown bits have lifted from the bottom of the pan. Add can of tomatoes and all the veggies. Add water until veggies are almost all underwater, so they'll cook properly. Once the goulash starts boiling, turn heat to low and let simmer for 1.5-2 hours. Enjoy!

This recipe makes for 4 good sized servings, or 3 massive ones. I had to use the largest pan I own because this was more than I anticipated.

Tonight’s dinner was simple salmon cakes with a watercress salad and a leftover cornbread slice. I used two salmon fillets to make 3 small patties but tailor to your preference. I removed the skin off the salmon. 

Serves 2

You will need: 2 salmon fillets, skin off 1 tbsp of spiced flour mixture (recipe in Fried Chicken Tacos 07/05) 1 tsp corn starch 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp ground ginger 1 tsp ground garlic 1 tsp oyster sauce

Chop up the salmon fillets finely till it is a mince almost but not completely mushed up. 

Put this in a bowl and add the flour mixture as well as the rest of the ingredients.

Mix this altogether by hand and make little patties. Wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge to set for around 20 minutes. 

Fry these in a tsp of oil, a few minutes each side. 

I served the patties with a mix of mayo and sriracha.

For the watercress salad dressing I mixed 1 tsp each of: soy sauce, lemon juice, honey, sriracha and pepper together.

I got word of the ACLU giving activist training in Seattle and signed up early enough to make the in-person sessions, versus the remote/online training.  Trainings happen ever other week and run into November.  Most are at the Library in one of the meeting rooms on the insane red floor.

The evening included light dinner (I went with roast turkey for the sandwich and the vegan Ding Dong for dessert), a visioning exercise with a table of people, and a raffle in which I won a pass for two to see OFFICIAL SECRETS, starring Kiera Knightly, which is about British agent Katherine Gun and her 2003 whistle-blowing at the NSA.  Two older activists (a couple who seemed to be closer to my parents’ ages) who sat at my table said they saw the movie at SIFF this summer and it was really good.