Chicken Sausage Garlic Parmesan Pasta

I wasn't sure what to make....hmmm, what to do what to do?????

My oldest spoke up and said Alfredo!!

And I remembered I had something similar posted on my cupboard from Damn Delicious....One Pot Garlic Parmeasan Pasta! The Fish Fam always loves this dish, which I have changed up a little bit....

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 med. onion
• 5-6 shitake mushrooms
• 1 package chicken sausage
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1 cup rice/coconut milk, or more, as needed
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves

1. Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add onions, garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1-2 minutes, then add chicken sausage.
2. Stir in chicken broth, milk, butter and fettuccine; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
3. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until pasta is cooked through, about 18-20 minutes. Stir in Parmesan. If the mixture is too thick, add more milk as needed until desired consistency is reached.
4. Serve immediately, garnished with parsley, if desired.

* I doubled the recipe.. 

This pasta dish smelled so so good. 

Yummmmm!!!

Quinoa Pancakes and Eggs

This kind of breakfast makes my family happy! 

I ground my own quinoa flour in my vitamix dry-grains container, then found a recipe online (with no other grains), added chocolate chips, and served it with chicken sausage and eggs.

Enjoying Breakfast :)

My breakfast's are much different than a year ago, which mostly consisted of some kind of oatmeal, fruit, and fresh juice. I've found out that my body needs a different type of fuel to last. I'm a protein type and therefore need more protein and fats to slow down how fast sugars breakdown and metabolize into energy. Before I was eating too many carbs, healthy carbs, but in the end my energy was so low and I didn't quite know why because I was eating really healthy foods. Now that I've added more healthy meats and fats and taken out grains, I've felt better, but still have more to go to feeling my most energetic self.

For breakfast I usually have some kind of mix of eggs, meat, veggie, and a shake filled with really good and healthy proteins and fats. The above pic is two boiled eggs w/ uncured ham, real salt, and pepper. The shake is 1/2 avocado, 1/2 of small apple banana, some fresh papays, a few frozen mango chunks, three dino kale leaves, almond milk, water, and hemp seeds.

 A boiled egg mixed with some of last nights dinner...Apple Chicken Sausage, with sauteed onions and garlic, baked potato chunks w/ Italian herb blend. And some raw fermented sauerkraut. I've been learning tons about how much our bodies and digestive system needs fermented foods to provide good healthy gut bacteria.

And this was my oldest's breakfast request...

Asparagus, eggs, sauerkraut, and "the seed bread". 

Butternut & Potato Soup

I wanted to make a yummy potato soup and found this recipe here. I kind of followed it and made this delicious soup with Rosemary Olive Oil bread (store bought)!

I started by boiling enough water to cover all the potatoes. I chopped up a lot of red onions and garlic and let them soften in the pot while it boiled. I chopped up about 8-10 potatoes, 5 organic celery sticks (leaves included), cilantro,  & dino kale. I also chopped up in quarters 4 Aidells Chicken & Apple Smoked Chicken Sausages. Luckily, I bought pre-chopped butternut squash. I put all the veggies in, except the leafy greens. I add smoked paprika, pepper, and salt. I also add more liquid vegetable broth and turn it down med heat. When the veggies are getting soft (about 8 or so mins) I add in almond milk, the leafy greens, chicken sausage (comes fully cooked), and turn it down to low. All the chopping takes the most time, but that's what I love most about making dinner the chopping is like a stress reliever for me. Good thing I enjoy it. 

I prefer to not buy non-organic meat, it doesn't mean we won't eat it because you can't always control what you eat outside of your home. The meals I make with meat is mainly organic. Organic meat is expensive, but we are able to afford it because we don't eat very much meat at all and buying it in bulk at Costco you can get the most for your money. We know its really important to include more plant based foods that have lots of protein, fiber, omega fatty acids, iron, folate, etc. Instead of eating animal meats and animal based foods. We really do like sausage, but I haven't seen organic pork anywhere around here, so these chicken sausages, although not organic, has no msg, nitrates, or added hormones and that's awesome! Like the Chinese say meat should be for flavoring and not the main course!