Buddy System Burritos

If you find that you have been staying in hotels and getting food on the run you may want to grab a buddy and try cooking in for a night. Here is a simple no-cook-only-assemble recipe. It will do your body worlds of good. Maybe you are in a hotel and there are limited amenities. Let's assume you have nothing but a table. Grab "Buddy" after work and make a run to the store. If your co-worker Mr. Buddy becomes suspicious just make something up like..."I gotta make a run for cigs, wanna come for the ride my friend?" Go right to the super market. "What?! Don't they sell good things in bulk like beer and stuff?"

Here's your grocery list:

-Can o' BEANS of your choice: Black, re- fried, whatev.... this is good protein.
-pre-washed LETTUCE or spinach (again, make sure it's dark and leafy for omega 3's and folic acid)
-Hass AVOCATO, a good source of the right fats (the smaller of the two) the big Florida ones have less taste
-fresh BASIL, if you can find it, for a little flavor
-TOMATO has vitamin C believe it or not! (try to be organic with all of the ingredients so as not to add preservatives, bug spray, and toxins to your already overworked and stressed systems)
- one pack of large TORTILLA wraps
- shredded CHEESE of your choice, monteray jack, pepper jack, or cheddar is good. Try to find cultured cheese, it will be in the health food section and it will say so on the package. Cultured cheese has the enzymes and active organisms to help your body properly digest.
-BROWN RICE. If you don't have a kitchen, go to your local Chinese food restaurant and order a pint of rice o' your choice to go. Supposedly brown has more nutrients....but it's up to you.
-SALSA or HOT SAUCE

Tools:
-plates, (bowls or cups for piles of ingredients), knife, and napkins.

Right OH!

Now you and Mr. Buddy will set up the ingredients for assembly and invite over a guest or two for a Buddy System Burrito Drill.

Make little piles of the ingredients. Put a small amount of each ingredient in a line in the center of your tortilla which is flat on a plate. Fold a small piece over one end of the line and then roll the hole thing. Voila! Pick er up and chow er down baby!

Please share your experiences and alterations on the recipe by posting your comments and opinions right here on my blog.

Love, Myra

hotel chow

Sometimes buying your own food from the supermarket is better than eating out if you are trying to save money and also avoiding bad sugars, oils, and flour.

Spur O' the Moment Spuds

OK. So, you've got a couple of potatoes that have been rolling around in the bottom bin of your crisper or "rotter" for days now but heck they are still firm to the touch and you need something to go with your meal that will help pack on the winter fat! So let's get frickin started.

Rinse potatoes. Dry potatoes. Put on hardhat. Get a big french knife. Or any knife that you think will do.... Leatherman? OK cut in half the long way and now holding the halves together, cut several inch wide pieces perpendicular to your first cut (the long way)...refer to diagram. Good. Whatever, just get them into chunks...I don't care how you do it. Just don't drink and cut.

Now, put the cut potatoes in one of those broccoli steamer things that looks like a spaceship with holes and put that in a pot and add about 1 to 2 inches of water. Cover and turn the heat on high. You are steaming potatoes. If you don't have a broccoli spaceship then you can improvise or just boil the dang things. When the water in the bottom of the pot is boiling, turn the heat to low and let steam for about 10 to 15 minutes or until you run out of patience. It doesn't matter because you will be frying them next anyway. You want them to be not quite done. So, you can poke them with a fork but they are still slightly crunchy.

Now get out a frying pan. Add some olive oil, draw a quick circle in the bottom of the pan with the oil that is just a little smaller than the circumference of the pan. Add a pat of butter. Put the steamed potatoes in. Heat goes to medium high. Mix everything around with a metal spatula (pick up potatoes with spatula kind of like a fork lift and flip over gently a few times) so nothing sticks and the potatoes are coated evenly in the oily lovins. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and if you have fresh or dried rosemary...crunch or chop and add. Sprinkle with paprika. How much paprika? Just add as much color as you want. Maybe you want a dusting and maybe you want a deep sunset over Red Rocks Nevada. You'll find out how it comes out when you try it. Be fearless. It's up to you babe.

They are done when you poke with a fork and they are soft but not falling apart. You'll figure it out! Nice. You are one cool cat. Just remember to add a chicken entree and a green veggie on the side if you want to impress a certain someone. Maybe upgrade from that bud light you've been sportin' too.

Love, Myra

Missing Link Lemon Drink

C'mon, you know you've got style! So make a drink fit for the missing link.

This one is so easy! Get a lemon.

(Narrator) Wait, first...are you thirsty? Need some electrolytes?

(the missing link guys) Man, what's electrolytes got to do wit it?! 

(N) Now chill my brothas! Read it and weap. Suckas! 

Lemon Facts:

Rich in vitamin C

Diuretic

Anti-parasitic

Anti-microbial

Acidic

Electrolytes

Why is lemon juice good for you? Don't know, but it sure does taste good! Go find out for yourself weather or not it is a health tonic. Lemon juice is often used to marinate meat because it kills worms...mmm..now you want some! 

OK cut your lemon in half (the short way, like you are cutting someone at the belt line) and hold half in the palm of one hand. Now take a simple kitchen fork and plunge it into the lemon with your other hand. Squeeze the lemon around the fork and swish it back and forth. Do that to both sides into a glass or a cup. Let the seeds go in. Don't be all fussy! They mostly stay on the bottom any way. 

Now put some honey in a small pot (as much as you want your drink to be sweetened) and heat it up a little. Add the honey to your lemon squeezins and stir. Now add water and/or ice!

Done. Gulp, Gulp, Gulp! AHHHH.

For instructions on how to make a lemon battery (naturally occurring electrolytes react with zinc or something) go to this website: www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-lemon-battery.htm

Have fun! 

Love, Myra

 

Wingnut Lunch Soup

Take the carcass of any poultry you may have baked last night or the night before and throw it into some chicken broth or vegetable broth. Add whatever carb you made the night before too...could be pasta, rice, or some other starch like a potato. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. For a creamier taste add something creamy..like cream. MMM yum. Good job. That should have taken you about 5 minutes in a small or medium sauce pot, heated to boiling.

You just made Wingnut Lunch you goof! Go get em!

Love, Myra

OK, now I hope you chose good quality foods. You could slap this together with a precooked chicken and a box of organic chicken broth. Hopefully you went to your local organic CSA for the veggies. If not, you are still doing pretty good with nutrition. However, if your bird of choice was allowed to roam free on the range it is getting better nutrients from grass and bugs, and believe it, this is the food chain you want to end up in your gullet. Go find out why and read some stuff on the internet about omega 3's and grass fed meats. www.westonaprice.org/knowyourfats/skinny.html

Here's a trick:

Instead of throwing veggie remains into the compost, take out the onions, carrots, celery, kale (anything you would use to make a veggie broth and put it in a freezer bag. When you get a big pile and a day off, throw it in a pot and cook down all day, taking out the solid parts as they soften and start to break apart. Voila! Veggie broth.

OK, same for bone broth which is wicked good for you! Save the carcasses and read about the benefits of bone broth! Sally Fallon and the Weston Price Foundation is an excellent source.

http://www.westonprice.org/farming/splendor.html