So, maybe it was a coincidence that three days after my boyfriend, RJ signed on for a life insurance policy, his coworker suddenly passed at the age of 38. I may be a scientist, but I still believe that there are signs. They can be as subtle as a breeze caressing your cheek or as slap-you-in-the-face blatant as your coworker dying just as you are planning for your own hopefully distant demise. So, in addition to our daily workout regimen (which was brought on by the sign of the ‘L’ sticker on my jeans), we’re going to start eating healthy, vegetable-laden meals until we turn 60, after which we’ll indulge to our hearts content and be able to die happily. Possibly with a twenty-piece chicken mcnuggets in one hand and a guinness in the other. Until then, here is healthy dish #1, chicken and quinoa. Thankfully, garlic, chili peppers, and cinnamon have been deemed ‘healthy’.
Live long thyme chicken and spinach over spicy quinoa
- ½ white onion, diced; another ½ diced for quinoa
-1 pack thinly sliced chicken breast, sliced in chunks
-3 cups+ white wine
-2 sprigs of thyme, stripped
-2T Worcestershire
-6 cloves garlic, chopped
-heap of fresh spinach, washed
-salt and cracked black pepper
-red chili powder
-3 cups quinoa
-4 whole dried chili peppers
-6 cups mushroom stock
-1t cinnamon
-1T cumin
-olive oil
see the spirals!? |