4 Ingredient Recipe that is MMM..mmm.. good!

Okay, so I stole the mmmm mmm good from campbells (which is not in this recipe), BUT, it will give you that warm fully tummy feeling that heartily deserves the MMMMMMMMMmmmm.

Only 4 ingredients and I bet you already have 3 of them. I was hesistant to try, but with less ingredients than mac & cheese, it was worth a shot. And... survey says, DELISH! (ps. I got this recipe from Mommy Needs A Time Out- check out her blog sometime.)

Enjoy.

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds Brussels sprouts

3 tablespoons good olive oil

3/4 teaspoon kosher salt

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Cut off the brown ends of the Brussels sprouts and pull off any yellow outer leaves then, cut in half long-ways.

Mix them in a bowl with the olive oil, salt and pepper.

Pour them on a sheet pan and roast for 30 to 35 minutes, until crisp on the outside and tender on the inside. Shake the pan from time to time to brown the sprouts evenly.

Finished Product (brussel sprouts and coconut milk- a nice light dinner... if i had chicken it would have been perfect)

Enjoy!

em -the little sister

Epiphany in a Grocery Cart

I had an epiphany.

Waiting in line at trader joes (and there's always a line at trader joes) to purchase my groceries for the week, when it hit me. Maybe it was the bright lights, the neon orange cart, or the fact that I was going to fall asleep waiting to check out, that my cart started to look like a veritable adults shopping cart. What the...?! Someone had switched carts on me! Where's the old lady that switched out all my mac and cheese for bell peppers?! My licorice sticks for frozen fruit? Where's that tortuous "finish your greens" woman who chops vegetables for fun? She stole MY CART! OH... THE TRAGEDY, THE PAIN, THE... Oh wait... is that a chocolate hazelnut bar? Phew! It is my cart! BLESSED LORD, when did I become a "eat your tomatoes" girl with a hankering for dark chocolate bars?

And it was in this moment I realized how much my eating habits had changed. I adopted a more primal eating lifestyle in October '09 as part of a yoga bootcamp. (Will discuss in more detail in next blog). As someone who's favorite food was Saltine crackers and Mac & Cheese this was a challenge. But yesterday at Trader Joes, I realized that the hard work (aka eating things that have natural color) had become effortless.

And I gotta tell ya... It feels GOOD. So to all you out there working hard, changing your eating habits, working out, and getting healthy... KEEP IT UP. It took 4 months for my epiphany, and it is SO SWEET.

PS. my cart is nothing compared to these folks groceries - my heroes.

Happy Tuesday! Em (the little sister)