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You may be wondering why and how I can eat bread. Well, this bread is full of COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES. The body has to work on those. No white flour. Many, many store bought bread have high fructose corn syrup in them. We don't eat high fructose corn syrup. So, yes, this bread has carbs. But they are good carbs. And it's the only bread I eat in a day! And that's saying something!!!! I use a bread machine to make this. I make a loaf every two days.
When I started this new lifestyle (it's not a diet....though many want to put it there) I knew that certain things had to be all laid out for me. No deviations. One thing was breakfast and the other was lunch. Dinner I would allow myself to play with, but breakfast and lunch had to be pretty uniform or I wouldn't be able to stick with it. I grew up on tea and a roll and butter for breakfast so giving up a nice Kaiser roll or bagel was going to be a problem. I developed this recipe using a basic sandwich bread recipe as an outline. We eat this every morning spread with peanut butter ( I use Simply JIF...the rest of the family eats JIF. It's true. Choosey mothers really do choose JIF. Read your labels!!!)
I sometimes refer to Dear Husband as Chuckie. It's a long story. And not very interesting to other people. He is sometimes Gary (also not his Christian name) and often Chuckie. And this recipe is a creation of mine that all three like.
It's quite simple and goes together quickly. The vegetables I used were what I had fresh and what we like. You may substitute your favorites without ruining the dish. All amounts are approximate.
This past week has been hazy, hot, and horrible but last night a huge storm came through and this morning was hot...but not hazy and horrible. The Farmer's Market has had to move it's physical space of late because of work being done on some overhead light rail tracks. I hate the new set up...and so do lots of other people. Parking is atrocious! Hopefully soon it will be back to normal. So many of the customers are complaining that they can't find their farmers and so many farmers are complaining that they are missing their regular customers. I, of course, travel with one of those old fashioned pull carts and I usually have one or both of my daughters helping, so that makes things easier.
But the vegetables are wonderful and plentiful and super fresh. All of the farmers are local and pick just a few hours before the market begins. I strongly urge all of you to seek out a vegetable stand or a farmer's market.
Begin with canned tomatoes that DO NOT HAVE HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. You'll be surprised at how many canned tomatoes contain HFCS. Italian Imported tomatoes do not. Organic tomatoes generally do not. But I have found the BEST CANNED TOMATO SAUCE right at my local Farmer's Market. A farmer friend sells canned JERSEY FRESH tomatoes for a farmer friend of his.
This is the easiest and tastiest dish to make. Dear Husband loves it and it is my go to dish when the day has been hectic. It's nice with some cooked vegetables and a big salad in the summer and it's comforting and warm with some soup and salad in the winter.
Of course, I went to the Farmer's Market! Rain or shine....when don't I? We're deep into summer and the market is full of zucchini, peppers, eggplant, and tomatoes....all sizes and colors. All delicious. All natural. All low carb. Melons are plentiful too. Low glycemic load on those. So this week older daughter and I went and bought the usual...lots of the usual. And then we treated ourselves to a pot of mini-sunflowers for the back deck!
In the middle of a New Jersey summer, this is the easiest salad!
So...what with all the rain we had in June and all the organic fruit and vegetables I buy, I've got fruit flies. And you know how quickly they can multiply
I surfed out into the friendly internet and found an solution to this annoying problem. Apple cider vinegar. Apparently the little fellas love it.
This morning turned out to be a beautiful cool morning here is Southern NJ. Yesterday was hot and humid, but last night's rain cleared that all out. So, up bright and early to get the best of the fresh!
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