Michel,
Lets chat about those recipes I mentioned two days ago.
When you were a kid did you ever own one of those reversible jackets?
You know the ones which you could wear both ways.
They were cool because variety is the spice of life.
Now what would these have to do with recipes?
Well I would like to introduce you to the idea of the expandable recipe.
It's like the Swiss army knife of recipes.
So what is it?
It's a recipe with a base that stays the same but...
you can change a variety of things with it to make it into a new meal....or ten new meals.
So what does this do?
Firstly it's easy to prepare.
It's also easy to plan for.
It's convenient.
But most importantly, you don't go stir crazy eating the same meal again and again - its always a little different.
I've attached an example of one of my favorite expandable meals.
It's called pesto chicken.
I've had a ton of ladies steal this recipe off me, mainly because they thought that it was an easy way to get their husbands and boyfriends to eat vegetables.
Something about healthy vegetables being a way to a man's heart....no? that can't be right?
At the base of the recipe there are three components:
1. The protein
2. The vegetables
3. The pesto
Now the protein in the recipe is chicken, you can easily swap this out for some tender beef, gammon (slice the fat off) or even fish(try it with some pink Norwegian salmon).
The vegetables you start with are cherry tomatoes, broccoli and asparagus but you don't have to stick with these.
Last night I made it with hand picked red pepper, green beans and broccoli, but it doesn't stop there.
Try sliced zucchini's, fresh carrots, squashes...it really doesn't matter
Lastly is the pesto, the normal pesto I use is basil pesto but there are a ton of different types to pick from, last night we used a sun dried tomato pesto.
Delicious.
So one meal becomes an unlimited variety of meals.
I'll try to add a few more recipes over the next few days.
Enjoy
Greg Mac
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