Zucchini Pizza

ANOTHER zucchini recipe!
This time its Zucchini Pizza!😳
My pizza is Buffalo Chicken, but you use whatever toppings you’d like!

And please note, I’m Dairy Free, but you could easily throw whatever cheese you’d like on top, as well!😃

Ingredients Your Strong Bod Needs:
-1 Large Zucchini, sliced into 1/4″ rounds
-Olive Oil
-Pizza sauce (or I used Trader Joes Marinara, as its the only one I like and can find without sugar added in…i hate when tomato sauce has added sugar!)
-Toppings of your choice (I used chicken breast, red hot, yellow peppers, red onion, and turkey bacon)

What Your Strong Bod Will Do:
1. Lightly dust zucchini rounds w olive oil.
2. Broil for 3-4 mins on each side.
3. Top with sauce and toppings of your choice.
4. Broil an additional 3-4 mins.
5. That’s it! Now you eat & enjoy👌

Summer Squash Spaghetti

I finally got a Julienne Peeler and its making me love squash-pasta EVEN MORE!!!
Thought that wasn’t possible? Think again, friends!

I decided to switch it up here from my normal zucchini pasta (or Zasta, as we’ve decided it should be called lol), and made some summer squash spaghetti!
This is FILLED with fresh veggies and you feel Great after eating it!
Here it goes:

Ingredients your strong bod needs:-Summer Squash (About 1/2 of a squash peeled for one serving)
-1/2 yellow pepper, diced
-1/4 red onion, diced
-1/2 cup mushrooms
-1/2 cup tomatoes, processed in a food processor
-Spices (I used parsley and oregano)
-Chicken Breast (Or omit if you want this vegetarian)

Things your strong bod needs to do:
1. Sautee pepper, onion, and mushrooms on stovetop.
2. Add summer squash spaghetti strands. Cook for 2 minutes on medium heat.
3. Add tomato “sauce” and spices.
4. Combine until heated.
5. Top with chicken breast, and sprinkle with added spices, if you’d like.
6. ENJOY!

Zucchini Pasta w Veggies and Green Sauce

Saturday is one of my favorite days of the week!
Why?!
I get to start my day with a Fabulous group of women and instruct them in Pilates. And then my friend and I have been going to the Public Market together following the gym.

I get so inspired by the smells, colors, textures, sounds at the market, that I need to go home and make something yummy with some of my finds!
I’ve been craving zucchini pasta lately, and decided a veggie-filled zucchini pasta dish would be necessary.

So here it is!

Ingredients your Strong Bod needs for the Veggies:
-1 Red Onion, Diced
-1 Cup Mushrooms, Sliced
-1 Cup Snow Peas
-1 Cup Bean Sprouts
-1 Cup Broccoli
-1 Summer Squash
-1 Zucchini Squash
-Spices, to taste (I used fresh ground pepper, thyme, and parsely throughout the cooking process)
-Green Sauce (Recipe below)

Directions your Strong Bod needs to follow:
1. Sautee the onions, mushrooms, snow peas, broccoli, and bean sprouts on medium-high heat for about 7 minutes, or until almost completely cooked through.

2. Reduce from heat and set aside, while you prep the zucchini and summer squash.

3. Using a vegetable peeler, peel strips of the squash onto a plate or cutting board. When both squash are peeled, stopping just before you get to the seeds, place in a warm pan over medium-high heat for 3-5 minutes, depending on how cooked through you want the “pasta.”
**Note: This could be a raw dish, as well. The squash strips taste awesome without being cooked, too**

4. Add veggies and coat with green sauce. Heat all back up together.

5. Plate it up and enjoy! Stay strong, friends!

Green Sauce Ingredients:
-1 Cup Spinach
-1/2 Cup Chicken (or veggie, if you want this to be vegetarian) Broth, Low Sodium is even better
-1/2 Cup Chi-chi Beans
-1/2 Ripe Avocado

Green Sauce Directions (So complicated 😉 )
1. Place in a blender and…wait for it…Blend!

Chocolateology Shakeology Superfood Protein Pancakeology

I had no idea what to make for breakfast today. As I lay in bed trying to decide before getting up, of course while browsing Instagram (my guilty pleasure in life), I saw some pics of protein pancakes.
Absolutely inspired (and salvating) to eat some pancakes, I jumped (ok…maybe crawled lol) out of bed to get goin on some of my own.

This makes 4 filling pancakes (I ate maybe 1 and a half before I couldn’t stuff my face any more). Perfect fuel for my leg workout before teaching Pilates this morning👍 Remember Food is Fuel. Your body needs it to Move!

What your strong self needs to make these:
-1/2 cup oats (you choose the kind, I went w some I have from Trader Joes)
-1 whole egg
-1 egg white
-1/4 cup applesauce
-1/4 cup water (or almond milk would be cool, too)
-1 teaspoon vanilla
-1 teaspoon baking powder
-1 scoop Shakeology (or a diff protein powder, I suppose)

Topping Suggestions:
-1 teaspoon peanut butter
-1 teaspoon all-fruit jelly
-honey
-maple syrup
-fruit
-nut butter
-whatever else you like!

What your strong self needs to do:
1. Place all of the ingredients (except the toppings of your choice😉) in a blender.
2. Blend it up!
3. On a heated pan or griddle, pour out pancakes, flip when ready. Cook through.
4. Top w your choice of yummy gooey toppings.
5. Eat them pancakes up!

Let me know what you think below👇

Spiced Up Scrambled Eggs

Eeeeek! Haven’t posted on here in toooo long!

Thinking about getting back into Blogging (not that I ever got good at it, but yeah…)

What kinds of things would you like to see? Please share & comment below!👇

Nutrition?
Recipes?
Workouts?
Workout Tips?
Healthy Motivation?
Beachbody?
Recovery Support?
Anything else?

Wellll regardless, here’s a tasty new recipe for ya!

Saturday is not a day off from fitness for this girl! And I needed something easy, nutritious, and tasty before heading to the gym. I go hard w my own workout and then teach Pilates every Saturday, so this breakfast needs to fuel me well for a few hrs at least. (Then I usually make a stop for some coffee before hittin up the public market)
SO with only carrots and peppers for my veggies in my fridge (remember today is public market day ;D ) I went w the peppers, found some frozen broccoli hiding in my freezer and used the last of my eggs!

Here’s what this chick made for breakfast:

Ingredients:
1/2 red pepper (diced)
3/4 cup broccoli (mine was frozen, soaked shortly in some hot water, then good to go)
3 egg whites
1 whole egg
Splashes of hot sauce
1-2 T of hummus (whatever flavor you choose)

What ya need to do:

1. Sautéed the red pepper, add broccoli after 5 or so mins.
2. Once broccoli is warmed, add your eggs.
3. Cook that stuff up, plate it, splash with hot sauce & a dollop of hummus.
4. Eat that fuel up!

Paleo-ish Buffalo Chicken

I LOVE hot sauce & buffalo chicken.
Here’s a tasty, satisfying dairy-free, gluten-free, Paleo-ish buffalo chicken recipe I threw together!

Ingredients:
4-5 Chicken breast tenders
1 egg white
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 cup hot sauce (I used Franks’s)
Garlic powder, to taste

Directions:
1. Bake chicken breast at 350 until cooked through.
2. While chicken is almost cooked through, combine egg white, coconut milk, hot sauce, & garlic powder in a small bowl.
3. When chicken is cooked, dice/shred the chicken up into smaller pieces.
4. Add sauce mixture to chicken.
5. Bake at 325 for approximately 15 minutes.
6. Enjoy! 🙂

Paleo-ish Buffalo Chicken

I LOVE hot sauce & buffalo chicken.
Here’s a tasty, satisfying dairy-free, gluten-free, Paleo-ish buffalo chicken recipe I threw together!

Ingredients:
4-5 Chicken breast tenders
1 egg white
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1/2 cup hot sauce (I used Franks’s)
Garlic powder, to taste

Directions:
1. Bake chicken breast at 350 until cooked through.
2. While chicken is almost cooked through, combine egg white, coconut milk, hot sauce, & garlic powder in a small bowl.
3. When chicken is cooked, dice/shred the chicken up into smaller pieces.
4. Add sauce mixture to chicken.
5. Bake at 325 for approximately 15 minutes.
6. Enjoy! 🙂

Paleo Shepherds Pie

This was so TASTY!

Please note: I season with Mrs. Dash along the way as I cook, so no seasonings are listed in the recipe, but I just kind of eye ball it while I’m cooking. 🙂
You won’t even be able to tell that this was made with cauliflower mash, instead of mashed potatoes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

• Olive Oil (Just to lightly coat pan)
• 1/2 diced onion
• 1 cup diced carrots
• 1 cup diced celery
• 1 lb. lean ground beef
• 1 can diced tomatoes (rinsed)
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 3/4 cup peas
• 3/4 head of cauliflower
• 1/2 cup chicken broth
• 1/3 cup unsweetened coconut milk

Directions:

1. Heat oil in a pan on stovetop.
2. Add onion, and saute.
3. Add carrots and celery to pot, until soft.
4. Add ground beef, cook a few minutes until browned.
5. Add peas, tomatoes, & chicken broth.
6. While that all cooks down, place cauliflower in a pot of boiling water.  Cook until soft.
7. Drain cauliflower & place in a blender with 1/2 cup chicken broth and 1/3 cup coconut milk. Blend until desired consistency is reached.
8. Place ground beef mixture in a baking dish.
9. Top with cauliflower mash.
10. Bake at 375 for 30 minutes.
11. ENJOY!

Paleo Thai “Pasta”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

• 1 Spaghetti Squash, Cooked
• 1/2 cup coleslaw mixed green & purple cabbage and carrots
• 1 cup broccoli, cooked
• Any additional veggies of your choice
• Sauce, recipe follows

Very Easy Directions:

1. Scoop out desired amount of spaghetti squash.

2. Add desired amount of coleslaw veggies & broccoli.

3. Top with desired amount of sauce.

Ingredients for sauce:

• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1/3 cup almond butter
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 Tablespoon apple cider vinegar
• Cayenne pepper, to taste
• A squirt of Sriracha, to taste

Directions: 

1. Combine all ingredients into a small saucepot on stove (medium heat) until you reach a gentle boil, while whisking the sauce continuously.

2. Lower the heat to low. Allow the sauce to simmer about 3 minutes.

3. Top your meal with the sauce!

Paleo Sweet & Sour Meatballs

 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 lb. lean ground turkey
• 1/2 lb. lean ground beef
• 1 egg
• 1/3 onion, diced fine
• 1/2 red bell pepper, diced fine
• 1/3 cup pineapple, diced fine

Directions:

1. Preheat over to 350 degrees.

2. Combine all ingredients well. I use my hands here, its just easier!

3. Make into ball shapes and place either on baking sheet, or I place in a muffin pan. Each meatball gets its own little space and cooks up nicely.

4. Bake until cooked through, approximately 30 minutes.

5. Enjoy!!! (In the photo, I combines my meatballs with pineapple chunks & mushrooms)