What's for Lunch?

In our house Adam is the one that usually does the cooking. And he is GREAT at it. Me? Not so much. I have never liked cooking... It's too much effort for not enough return. Baking, on the other hand, I love.

Adam has been working up a storm lately (Valentine's Day is coming up which is our high time) so cooking has fallen to the back burner. We have been eating out a lot and doing take-out which isn't the healthiest option so I have been trying to pitch in and take over in the kitchen.

Last night I made a deeeelicious broccoli recipe. My house liked it so much that I made it again for lunch today!

Roasted broccoli with some grilled chicken!

How it's made:

• Take a big bunch of broccoli, cut it up into little trees, put in a big bowl
• Get some garlic heads, peel them, and throw them in whole (roughly 4 per big broccoli bunch used) -- I also added a spoonful of chopped garlic because I loooove garlic
• Drizzle olive oil on it (I used macadamia nut and safflower oil)
• Dash salt and pepper to taste

Spread broccoli in a cookie sheet or baking pan
Bake on 425 degrees for 25 minutes -- It will be nice and roasted, kind of crispy.

When it's out of the oven:

• Throw on a handful of sunflower seeds (pine nuts or roasted soy beans would also work)
• Zest a lemon over the broccoli
• Squeeze lemon juice over the whole thing.

Then it's done!

Dessert after lunch was a mini Chocolate Mousse cup that I made last night!

The cup is much smaller than it looks in the picture, it's only a 2 oz cup (so like a double shot glass). And this is another desert favorite in our house since it's made with tofu (!!!) instead of heavy cream/eggs/butter and you can change the flavor to be chocolate mint, chocolate peanut butter, orange, raspberry, liquer... Options are endless! However this one is just plain chocolate.

Now it's time to get back to work. Hope your lunch was as yummy as mine!