On Monday, President's Day (also my day off), I was planning on doing a lot of cooking, but I got slightly sidetracked with other domestic duties that day so 9:30 pm rolled around and I still hadn't made anything for dinner. I had a flank steak in the fridge so I decided to try a recipe that I had done previously, but to see if it would be any good without marinating the steak for 3 hours like the recipe instructed to. I made the Honey Garlic Chipotle Flank Steak again and as soon as I threw the marinade on, I put it in the oven to broil. In the meantime, I put some fresh spinach in a colander to steam and in less than 15 minutes my meal was done!
The steak tasted just like it did when I marinated it for hours and I realized after eating the spinach that it was probably my first time eating freshly cooked spinach all by itself. I've always been a fan of cooked spinach, but growing up we would always buy the frozen rectangular blocks of spinach and cook those. Now I can safely say that fresh spinach is definitely the way to go! You just have to cook a lot more of it than you think you'll need because it shrivels down a lot.
The next day for lunch, I used some leftover flank steak to top my salad and it was delicious! The steak just melts in your mouth...YUM!!
Overall, I got 3 meals out of a pound of flank steak, so I was pretty happy about that!
Yesterday was when I got crazy with the cooking! I got home a little before 6:00 pm and started work on my second batch of Fall Off the Bone Chicken Soup. I left the potatoes out of the recipe, but instead added broccoli (like last time) and then added water chestnuts! I wanted to try something new and add a little crispiness to the soup, so the water chestnuts took care of that for me.
As the soup was cooking, I started marinating a new recipe: Paleo Lemon Basil Chicken. The recipe only called for the chicken to marinate 20-30 minutes and then only bake for 30, so it wasn't the most time consuming recipe ever. The chicken turned out well and it had a little kick to it from the red pepper flakes, but I think I've figured out that I like chicken on the grill better than baked. Maybe next time I'll just throw them on the grill instead. And due to my renewed love of cooked spinach, I cooked even more of it to accompany my dinner for the second night in a row.
Well, I better get back to work now, but I just wanted to let you all know that I've stayed true to the diet and this weekend will mark 6 weeks being on the diet. I've lost a total of 14 lbs so far, but I can definitely tell that my clothes are getting more baggy as time goes by! There might be a mini shopping spree in my future! ;)
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