C Boost Green Smoothie

We have seen an influx of people with colds and flu in the store lately so I decided to add a boost of vitamin C to my green drink today via an orange and a kiwi! Since today has been particularly hectic, I didn't take pictures of the process. Teething baby = frazzled mom!

1 small Apple cored

1 Orange peeled

1 Kiwi peeled

1/2 C Wheatgrass 

2 C Kale

1/2 inch fresh Ginger

1 shot of liquid multivitamin (optional)

1 1/2 C water

Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth.

I used an Organic liquid multivitamin that I was sampled by Genesis today. I love it so much we are going to be selling it in the store!

Hey you kids get off my lawn!

Happy New Year! I'm getting a late start on posting this year because the word around our house for 2014 is routine. We are trying to find our groove and get baby into a bed time routine (we need sleep), get ourselves into a routine at home and in the store to live a more organized life this year, and maybe feel a little less crazy! A big component of our morning routine this year will be green smoothies. My mom got us a Ninja Ultima Blender for Christmas and it is awesome! We had wanted a Vitamix for years but could never justify the price. The Ninja Ultima does everything the Vitamix does except make soup, which I have no use for unless I was to have my jaw wired shut.

Since I have been lacking in sleep I wanted to start off with a simple energizing drink. Wheatgrass is a great natural energizer as well as a great detoxifier and many other great properties listed here.

Many people don't like the taste of wheat grass and the shots can be pricey so I combine it with apple to make it a tasty way to start the day. I also believe scary looking juice should have fun names so I call this one....

Hey you kids get off my Lawn!

1 medium Apple, cut into slices an core removed

1/2 C Fresh Cut Wheat Grass

1/2 to 1 C Bottled Water (depending on desired thickness, due to the amount of fiber you will end up with more of an applesauce with less water)

Put everything in the blender, start it out on low speed then crank it up. Blend for about 2 minutes or until you no longer see chunks.

I left mine pretty thick. 

Baked Chicken Parm

Sometimes you just want comfort food, but you don't want to sabotage your healthy diet.  

Baked Chicken Parm

Serves 4

2 pieces sprouted grain bread or gluten free bread

1 oz chunck of Parmesan Cheese

2 tsp Italian seasoning

1lb Chicken Breast pounded until 1/4 inch thick

1 Egg beaten

1 small Zucchini sliced into rounds

3 C Baby Spinach

1 jar Pasta Sauce

2 C Penne Pasta (rice or wheat)

1 C shredded Raw Monterey Jack Cheese  

Butter it Up Spray

Preheat oven to 350. Put bread, Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning in blender and pulse until it forms coarse crumbs. Pour crumbs onto plate. Beat one egg in medium bowl, set aside. Dip chicken pieces that have been pounded flat

into egg then breadcrumb mixture,

then lay onto a baking sheet either lined in parchment paper or a silicone baking mat to prevent it from sticking. Lightly spray top of chicken with butter it up spray.

Put chicken in the oven for 10 minutes, flip and cook additional 5 to 10 minutes.

While chicken cooks, sautee zucchini until crisp tender, then add spinach to wilt. Cook your pasta according to package directions and heat the sauce.

Serve Chicken over vegetables with a drizzle of sauce and a sprinkle of cheese with a side of pasta.

The Daily Green

This is my favorite green smoothie for newbies. It has a good dose of greens from Kale and Dandelion greens, which are great for the liver, but also has pear, carrot and apple for sweetness and ginger for zing!

2 Carrots

2 leaves Kale

Handful of Dandelion Greens

1 Pear

1 large or 2 small Apples

1/2 inch peice of Ginger

2 C Water

Cut apples into large chunks to remove core.

Repeat with pear.

Cut ends off carrots, then cut in half.

I just wash the greens and throw them in whole. Cut off a 1/2 peice of ginger. It should be about this big.

Put everything in the blender,

and let'er rip!

It makes about 40 oz of smoothie so divide it up over the course of the day,

or share with someone you love!

Why Healthy Gourmet on the GO!

I'm sick of seeing the same blurb about why I'm doing this blog every time I post on Facebook, so I'm taking it down and posting it here.

Healthy Gourmet on the go has been created to share our passion for great tasting healthy food that doesn't take hours to prepare. It is our mission to show the world that healthy food can be quick, easy and most importantly delicious. BJ & I run our store, take care of our baby boy and still find time to cook healthy meals every night...and if we can do it, so can you. This is really only part of the story, the part I could fit into 200 characters.

 Three years ago I thought it would be fun to start a blog and post my recipes. I was always telling friends or customers about what we had for dinner and they would ask me for the recipe. So I thought what a great idea it would be to start a blog. I came up with a name, posted a recipe and forgot about it for three years! I was always too busy to take pictures of our meal or too busy to post the recipes. I was typing the recipes up anyway, a habit I got into after driving BJ crazy with a million little slips of paper lying around the house with ingredients and amounts written down without instructions or titles. "What do you think this was" I'd ask.

So for some strange reason  I decided that now that we had a baby, and even less time, I would once again try to blog. 

That's pretty much why now, but not why I wanted to do this initially. I love to cook. It's relaxing for me and I love taking something ordinary and turning it into something great. I have been know to make pizza from scratch, and by scratch I mean make the dough out of flour, water, yeast and oil. Make fresh mozzarella cheese (from real milk) and sauce from tomatoes in our garden just for fun. I own over 150 cookbooks I like to draw inspiration from. I live for food. So that's where the gourmet comes in. Healthy is a different story.

People may see some of my recipes and say, that's not healthy! It's not paleo, low fat, sugar free, low carb or Dr. OZ approved. My take on Healthy is eating real food. I try to make our meals from in season, local if possible, fresh, honest food that is minimally processed. Are cookies "healthy" not if you eat them everyday, but mine will be healthier than buying something off the shelf that's full of artificial ingredients and preservatives.

And we are on the Go constantly! We run our store, hold free cooking classes, volunteer and now have a BABY! We don't sleep, literally! So when someone tells me they don't have time to eat healthy I know that its not a matter of time, it's just not a priority for them, but it is for us. We haven;t been through a drive through in over 5 years because eating healthy keeps us going.

So here it is, what we eat and our version of healthy. Recipes and I will be sprinkling in some of my  "wisdom" in as well. If you have questions along the way please ask, it's the only way we both can learn.

Thanks for reading

&

Happy Eating!

Christine