It's Culinary Rescue Time! Here are some more ideas to help your PCP meals. (Thanks Amy, for getting the creative ideas flowing!)
Bored with plain milk? Add it to tea! Celestial Seasonings offers a wide variety of Chai Spice teas. Just make a cup of tea, add some milk to it, and a little bit of honey. It makes a very refreshing beverage!
Yogurt and fruit are just naturals together, but what to you do when you're given vegetables to go with your plain yogurt? That's easy. Make a veggie dip! Mix some of your favorite spices into the plain yogurt and serve it with a bunch of raw veggies. Here's a recipe to get you started:
1 cup yogurt
1/2 Tbsp minced dry onion
1/2 Tbsp parsley
1/2 Tbsp dill weed
1/8 tsp minced garlic
Blend all ingredients together. Keep refrigerated until ready to use.
Plain hard boiled egg whites can be pretty bland. Liven your lunch a bit by making some pseudo-egg salad sandwiches! Just take your hard-boiled eggs whites and chop them into small pieces. (An egg slicer does this quite well.) Take a bit of mustard and mix it all together. Spread the mixture between two slices of bread.
If you don't like wasting food by throwing away all of those egg yolks, here is a product that could be helpful: Egg Beaters 100% Whites. Just 3 tablespoons equals the egg white from 1 large egg. The best part of all: it only has one ingredient—egg whites! No chemicals, no additives, no preservatives, no nothing! Just pour into a skillet, cook, and enjoy!
Marinades and rubs are great to turn plain chicken and fish into something exotic. The trick is that you will want to make these yourself in order to keep them on level with PCP.
Marinade:
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
1 clove garlic, crushed
3 tablespoons fresh or dried rosemary leaves
Ground pepper to taste
Mix all the ingredients together. Add meat and marinate for several hours or overnight.
Rub:
1 Tbsp garlic powder
1 Tbsp onion powder
1 Tbsp thyme
1 Tbsp rosemary
1 Tbsp grated lemon or orange peel
1 Tbsp black pepper
Mix together. This makes a great seasoning for fish or chicken. For a little more zing, rub a thin layer or Dijon mustard on the meat before sprinkling the seasoning on and rubbing in.
That's about it for now. As always, play around with the ingredients until you find something that tickles your palate. Remember: Spices are your PCP friends!
You can actually drink the egg whites? Weird. Have been incorporating garlic and onion powder into my cooking and want to get some chai. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOops! Clarification would be good, wouldn't it. I've corrected the entry so it states you need to cook the egg whites -- like if you were making scrambled eggs.
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