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Baked Salmon and Zoodles Recipe – Stuff we Eat

 

Hello Friday! You have never looked so sweet. After a long week I’m just ready to get the weekend started and Monday going. Says no one, ever. LOL.

I’ve been back on the search for yummy low carb/keto recipes since I decided to go back on a low carb nutrition plan since the beginning of the month. Here’s a quick and easy one that is so yummy I had to share!

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It’s a 2 part recipe but it’s really easy and quick! It’s low carb, low in saturated fat, and full of flavor. So here we go…

Ingredients (serves 2):

  • Zucchini: 2 large, “zoodled”
  • Garlic: 2 tsp, minced
  • Yellow Onion: 1/4 of medium onion, sliced thin
  • Soy sauce: 2 tsp
  • Olive Oil: 3 tsp
  • Salmon: 2 qty 4 oz, filet
  • Lemon: 4 slices
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Parsley or green onion for garnish
Tips before you cook:
  1. If you cut your zucchini in half before running through a spiralizer the noodles won’t be as long and easier to eat.
  2. Slice all your vegetables and zoodle your zucchini before you start cooking.
  3. The key to good zoodles is to not overcook them. The last thing you want is mushy zoodles. I personally don’t cook my zoodles longer than a minute or 2 on high heat.
  4. Season your salmon filets with salt and pepper on both sides.
  5. Because you’re baking the salmon I would go with a skinless salmon filet. The skin will just get soggy and gross when you bake.
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Cooking:
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
  2. Place 1 tsp of olive oil, salmon filet, 1/2 of your sliced onion, and slices of lemon onto foil. Squeeze some juice out of lemon and then wrap completely. Bake salmon for 15 mins.
  3. While salmon baking heat a skillet on medium/high heat.
  4. Add olive oil and remaining onions. Cook until the onions sweat a little bit.
  5. Add zoodles, garlic, soy sauce, and a little bit of salt and pepper. Cook on high heat for about a minute or until you’ve reached desired texture. Remove from heat and plate immediately.
  6. Using a spatula, carefully remove salmon from foil and place on top of your zoodles.
  7. Garnish with green onion or parsley, whatever you have handy!
xoxo,
Kissa
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November COfitnessjournal Update – Stuff we Make

OMG it’s November. Where did this year go?!

The election has come and gone (don’t even get me started) and the holidays are approaching. I had to talk a long hard look at this past year and just accept that this year was a loss in a lot of ways for me. There were big losses, and there were a few wins as well. This month I’ve decided that I’m going to make these last 2 months count for me. Yes I might have been immensely defeated this year, but maybe these last 2 months in the year can help me start to float above water again.

That’s starting with myself. I’ve been using my #COfitnessjournal all year, but I haven’t been using it so that it can work for me. I haven’t been using it to help me makes changes. I’ve been using it to help me remember my bad habits. This month that changes.

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It all starts with me. How willing am I to make a change? I’m not at the point where I’m ready to go all in, but I need to ask myself why not? If I’m not ready then I may as well never be. There’s never a good time. I know the holidays are right around the corner and I can easily just say I’ll start next year. But why not get a head start? It’ll help make the holiday parties feel a little less guilty. So I’m going to make a conscious effort to be better this month. Make better choices and get up instead of stay down. 🙂

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Join me and let’s do this together! If you want your own journal hop onto our website, we’ve got a couple choices depending on what suits your needs the best!

xoxo,

Kissa

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New Kitchen Upgrade – Stuff we Like

Happy voting day! I voted early this year to avoid the lines and the craziness. Like I said in my previous post, I hope you all go out there and vote. Before I get into my post for today I just want to reiterate why it’s so important, especially the millennial generation (I just barely make the cut lol), to vote. I say that because 1. the future is in our hands. The future of this country is determined by the choices we make, and more specifically, the votes we cast. What kind of America do you want to see in the foreseeable future? Our future. What kind of America do you want to leave behind for our children and generations to come? Secondly but equally important, Millennials – Do you realize how lucky and blessed we are to vote? Women…minorities…you can actually have a say in what happens to our country and our local community. We didn’t have these basic rights in the past, and as an individual that falls into both of those categories I’m going to make sure that I honor those that fought for me. That’s pretty damn awesome when you think about it. How fortunate and lucky are we?! We can’t ever take that for granted so exercise your right and be grateful that you can!

But enough of that. We’re talking about something else today 😉

Charlie and I have a new venture coming up that I can’t talk about just yet, but it has something to do with food. Because of that we’re going to be working in our home kitchen a lot and we’ve been running out of functional counter space. We have this weird “window” in the kitchen that shows into the piano area. It’s probably 5-6 inches in width and I usually just put junk on it like extra chop sticks, pot holders, etc. The most use it gets is at our holiday parties where I’m able to kind of put food on it for our pot lucks.

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I’ve been thinking about what to do with this awkward window thing since we bought the house 5 years ago. I was thinking of tearing it down to open up the kitchen more, but what if the previous owners kept it because it’s load bearing? Probably is. Don’t want to worry about that. What if I add cabinets to that wall to add more storage? I could, but it would be kind of costly (God knows yo’ girl is on a budget) and since our kitchen is still new it would be hard to match the cabinets perfectly. So…what to do? I know! Breakfast bar!

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Breakfast Bar 2

We scored a really good deal at Ikea! They were selling a 74″ solid wood butcher block counter top for only $99. We bought some industrial strength adhesive, shelving brackets for added support, and cut down the butcher block to the correct size. BOOM! For less than $140 Charlie turned our sad/awkward window to a functional/pretty breakfast bar.

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It didn’t take long either! It took Charlie no more than 2 hours to measure, cut it down, sand, and secure it onto the wall. I ordered a couple stools from Target to finish off the look for $40 a piece. Can’t wait to use it for that new venture I was talking about! Stay tuned 🙂

xoxo,

Kissa

 

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