Collard Greens and Chicken

Brandon and I have picked on my mom for years about her love of Collard Greens. I always thought it sounded so gross and we refused to try my mom's from Jimmy's Bar and Grill in Bridgeville. We used to meet there for breakfast when Brandon and I went to Salisbury University. Who knew this classic soul food actually tasted good. Brandon liked them more than I did but we both enjoyed them and would make them again.
Tonight's dinner was herb grilled chicken, sauteed carrots and sauteed collard greens.

Collard Greens

Ingredients:

Sea Salt
Garlic Powder
Chef Salt (I use The Stone Broke Chef but any spices and herbs will do, you could try Lawry's season salt)
1-2 TBS Butter
1 group of fresh Collard Greens

Process:

1. Heat butter in a sauce pan over medium to low heat.
2. Cut off the leaves of the Collards and cut into bite size pieces.
3. Place Collards in the sauce pan and allow them to heat and wilt.
4. Occasionally mix the collards.
5. Once they have been cooked to a wilt, add sat, garlic, pepper, Chef Salt.
6. Cook to your liking, I like them with a little crisp but Brandon likes them cooked all the way through.
7. Keep warm and enjoy!

Horrible phone pictures but this was a delicious meal!

4 Year Anniversary Weekend

Hard to believe this was 4 years ago! 

          This weekend we took off for Rehoboth Beach, DE and stayed at Brandon's grandmothers place. We did a lot of laying around on the beach, walking around the shops and boardwalk, paddleboarding and eating! It was a great way to have some alone time away from our busy lives to reflect on the past 4 amazing years. 

We have been through a lot (mostly good) and we are looking forward to many more wonderful years together. 

           One of the changes has obviously been our diet and our healthier lifestyle changes. While we were sitting and chatting over a basket of nachos at Arenas, I told him that it was crazy that this is our "cheat" food. This led to a long conversation about what we would have eaten compared to what we eat now. Here is our list:

Pre Primal                         Primal

Day 1-                                                             Day 1- 

App:                                                  Meal:Nachos and water                       

Beer, Nacho's                                       (cheat)

Meal:

Turkey Club w/ more chips

Fish Taco's w/ more chips

Dessert:

Brownie fudge sundae 

Day 2- 

Breakfast:                                        Breakfast: Apple and 

Fractured Prune Donuts( 4)         banana, a litte trailmix

Lunch:                                              Lunch:

Grotto Pizza and Sodas                 Italian sub Salad and water

Dinner:                                            Dinner:

Shrimp and Beer                            Shrimp and unsweet. tea

Nachos                                              Crab cake on cobb salad

Fried seafood                                   Fish tacos (cheat)

Dessert:                                             Dessert: Coffee

Candy Kitchen

Gummy worms

Licorice

Chocolate covered oreos             

Day 3-

Breakfast:                                        Breakfast: 

Wawa Breakfast sandwich            Western Omelet with 

Starbucks frappe                             ham, peppers, onion and 

                                                           homefries (cheat)

                                                           Bacon and cheese omelet

                                                           with cantaloupe

                                                           Water and Coffee

Lunch:                                              Lunch:

Hardees burgers and fries            apples and tralmix

Dinner:                                             Dinner:

Take out when we got home.        Chicken and Green beans

                                                           Dessert:

                                                           Dark Chocolate bar!

         What a difference in our eating habits. I can't even imagine being able to eat all that food that we use to eat. Just after this weekend I feel a little icky and I am going on a 21 day sugar detox (just back to basic paleo) No dairy or chocolate or honey for me. I am hoping to get myself into gear in time for OBX vacation in a few weeks. 

          This was a fun game to play! Look at your daily foods, weekend eating and especially your vacation meals. Try to play this with your family and congratulate yourself on your improvements. 

     June 2, 2008

                                                                    

June 2, 2012

                                                                                                                      

Some Rehoboth Beach photos!