Bibimbap!!

We love bibimbap!!!!!! It's probably one of my most favorite meals ever. When we lived in China we lived above a Korean restaurant and I would go down every week to get a hot stone bibimbap bowl and my son loved the kimbap. So delicious!!!

The best part about having Korean Beef Bowls so often is that we can take the leftovers (when there are leftovers) to make bibimbap bowls! Thank goodness for Lifesaving Leftovers!

My kids made the rice, heated up the beef leftovers, peeled and julienned the carrots, fried some eggs, and my husband made the delicious Korean Spinach...https://www.thespruceeats.com/korean-seasoned-spinach-sigumchi-namul-recipe-2118874. One of my kids said don't forget the sesame seeds and Korean sesame seaweed. So so good!!!!

Way to go family!!

Life Saving Leftovers: Teri Chicken Sauce Over Rice

I really love making dinner, but sometimes it's nice to rely on leftovers, especially when we are in a rush or I don't feel well and the leftovers become life savers!!!

Our Hawaiian Teriyaki Chicken from a few nights ago came to the rescue.

Heated up the sauce on the stove.

(We don't have a microwave)

Cooked some white rice.

Steamed some edamame beans.

Cut up some bell peppers and carrots.

Dinner is served!

Here is another Life Saving Leftover Teri Chicken Plate....

With green beans, fried tofu, and cut up veggies. 

Yum!

Pressure Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken

This Pressure Cooker Honey Sesame Chicken looked pretty good so into the Instant Pot it went. The feedback from my oldest was...

"Mom, this is at the top of my favorites now! It's not the first, but it's at the top!"

Well then, there we go! However, my youngest refused to eat it because I added bean sprouts and little seeds. Oh no! Not bean sprouts or sesame seeds. Ha! Sorry buddy, its what's for dinner.

This was quick and easy to make along with a big pot of rice. I always have to make sure I make lots of rice! I really wish I was able to taste for myself, so I could give you feedback, but you'll just have to trust a kid's food critique. Which, I assure you he has good taste in food!

With the right ingredients you've got a healthy meal...

I try very hard to avoid GMO's (genetically modified organisms), unnecessary preservatives/additives, and over processed foods. So I like sticking with these non-gmo, organic, minimally processed food products. FYI, this honey is the BEST! I order mine from Vitacost.com (best price). Also, found at your local health food store and amazon.

This meal also turned into one of my lifesaving leftovers too...

On night number 2 we had the original meal with some steamed broccoli and corn. Then night number 3 there was still some left but not enough for everyone. So, I cut up onions, garlic, and a half a head of cabbage. Once cooked I added the rest of the rice and honey sesame chicken. Then whalla, dinner is served! Lifesaving Leftovers at its best.

Salsa Chicken + Lifesaving Leftovers

Another incredible instant pot dish...Salsa Chicken!

Put 1lb frozen chicken breast into the IP...

I use this recipe from Skinny Taste

Instant Pot (Pressure Cooker) Easy Salsa Shredded Chicken 

Skinnytaste.com Servings: 5 • Size: 1/2 cup • Points +: 3 • Smart Points: 2 Calories: 125 • Fat: 3 g • Carb: 3 g • Fiber: 1 g • Protein: 22 g Sugar: 0 g • Sodium: 379 mg •Cholesterol: 66 mg

Ingredients:

• 1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 3/4 teaspoon cumin
• black pepper, to taste
• pinch oregano
• 1 cup chunky salsa

*I make my own homemade salsa.

Then I throw it all into the pot and set the manual button for 15mins. It takes the IP 15mins with the frozen chicken to reach high pressure and it was done cooking in 29mins! Incredible.

I usually serve it with refried/black beans and melt some cheese in it, white rice, lettuce, tomatoes, or corn and organic tortilla chips.

This is one of my favorites to make because it can last for days and I mean days and not just the same meal over and over because I can easily transform it into fajitas, burritos, enchiladas, etc. 

Just cut up some garlic, onions, and bell peppers and fry them up.

Then add the salsa chicken leftovers and whalla...

I found these organic corn tortillas at the commissary thank goodness. And thank goodness I made some guac earlier in the day!

For burritos I reheat the salsa chicken/bell peppers/rice/beans mix and warm up some organic tortilla wraps on my flat cast iron skillet. Then I wrap it all up and continue to heat them up in my cast iron skillet with some melted butter on underneath and over the burritos. Adding cheese on top at the end. Hubby loved that! You can also make some enchilada sauce for chicken enchiladas. 

Lifesaving Leftover at its best!

Pretty amazing and oh so good!

The Party Plate: "Corn Chip Pie!"

Today's lunch plate was a leftover leftover party!!!

In lieu, of the awesome chili recipes, we put all our leftovers from the last few days on this plate, thus the party plate!!...

Frito Corn Chips on the bottom, leftover homemade veggie chili, mixed w/ our leftover Annie's Organic Mac&Cheese and black bean soup, and green beans. Then topped with sharp cheddar cheese and our salad!

Oh yeah, who doesn't like a party plate and lifesaving leftovers all in one!

My kids sure enjoyed the party :)

Chili Taquito Casserole

So this was a totally random look in the pantry and fridge to see what foods we have meal!

We've been traveling and haven't gone grocery shopping so come Sunday I looked around and came up with this meal. 

Interesting, but the Fish Fam loved it. 

I had lots of canned Chili in the pantry that my husband bought on sale last summer to take camping and we still have lots left. 

So, then to help my creative juices get flowing I looked up some canned chili meal ideas and walla...

I had some frozen organic hash browns, which I fried up, then put at the bottom of a casserole dish. Topped the potatoes with the heated up canned chili and then bake at 375deg in the oven for 15mins while the taquitos also baked. At the same time those were in the oven I steamed some frozen corn and green beans.

When the time was up I pushed some of the chili to one side of the dish and then added all the taquitos and then pushed the chili back over them. Then topped it with the corn and green beans, with some fresh tomatoes and green onions.

Yum! Well at least they said it was yum!

Meatball Soup

This is a life saving leftover’s meal!

I make a lot of bone broth from chicken backs that I get at Wholefoods. After cooking it I let it cool overnight in the fridge and then put it in freezer bags and store in the freezer and get it out when need to use it. Easy peezy!

After heating up the frozen chicken broth I add my cut up veggies...carrots, zucchini, and yellow squash, which most of the time these veggies are pre-steamed or cut up and in a container already in the fridge. I make sure my rice is ready to go as well.

***Always make sure to clean your rice before you cook it!!! After measuring the rice put it in the pot and I like using clean purified water from our water filter to clean the rice over and over by grabbing it with my hands and rubbing it and then dumping the water out carefully to not let the rice dump out. Seriously, repeat this over and over until the water runs clear or is close to it. Rice naturally has arsenic, its in the soil, it can be reduced by cleaning the rice very well. Also, this is what Chinese people do...they always clean their rice!

Then I also used my leftover meatball to add in.

Add in sea salt, pepper, other spices to taste.

*** I also just learned that to make broths low fodmap you have to be careful about what types of bones you use. If it's from bones that still have lots of cartilage and remains it still has, I think, a good amount of polyols that will irritate your gut. It did mine, but it took awhile for me to finally discover it. So, for low fodmap Dr. Allison Siebecker suggests making bone broth that is from purely bones.

Super good!