Odacava

Normally I make frittata with a lot of bread and bacon. I ran across this recipe in a book my mom gave me (the below recipe was inspired and slightly modified from “Now eat this” by Rocco Dispirito). It was much more flavourful and a fraction of the calories than what I normally make.

Ingredients:

• extra virgin olive oil
• 2 cups cauliflower florets
• zucchini cut into half moons
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• salt and fresh ground black pepper
• roasted red pepper, (from 1 pepper)
• 3/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, second portion of 2 Tbs
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
• 10 eggs
• Romaine lettuce

Steps:

1. Roast red peppers. (cut up, broil with skin up, once skin shows some black, remove from oven, cool, peel skin off, cut into strips). Once red peppers are done,  Set oven to 475 Fahrenheit
2. Use an 8″ nonstick oven proof saute pan. Heat oil over medium high heat, add cauliflower and zucchini and saute for 5 min. Add garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Cover and reduce heat to low until veggies are tender (another 5 min). Stir in red pepper, increase heat to medium high.
3. Whisk together 3/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano, basil and egg in a separate bowl. Season mixture with salt and pepper to taste. Stir mixture into veggie pan. Once eggs begin to solidify, flatten with a spatula while the mixture is still wet and stop stirring. Cook undisturbed for one more minute. Transfer pan to the oven.
4. Bake in the oven for 8 more mintutes until the eggs are completely set. Remove from oven.
5. Sprinkle 2 Tbs of Parmigiano-Reggiano over Romaine lettuce stalks. Place a strip of the Frittata on the Romaine and enjoy!

My iphone doesn’t take the best pics, but at least its some sort of visual

Warning: I will jump around in my posts, from past to present and I will eventually jump to the future and to the amazing people in my life. I know, this could be against the books to some Self Help gurus who encourage you to live in the moment, but I want to get a lot out, so I’m going to jump around, jump up, jump up, and get down….sorry, reminiscing from the wedding dance.  It has been a busy summer, and I can’t believe it is almost over.

Side track, it drives me crazy when people complain about summer being over and that the weather sucked. It isn’t over yet, the forecast is great for the next week, and it was a great summer. Maybe if people were a little more grateful and took the time to enjoy the summer they would realize, it was a great summer.

This summer has been life changing, I feel as though, at 26 I have become a woman. I feel as though I am the most confident, and independent I have ever been. However, at the same time I have also joined my husband Brendan in marriage which in a sense we have become one. At times I feel as though we are one, we know what one another are thinking and we balance each other out. In that same sense, I feel as though I have found a balance of oneness and independence and that makes me proud to be a woman and be where I am today.

However, not gonna lie, I fell a little off track lately, it happens. I confess, I am addicted to making myself too busy. Sometimes I make myself so busy trying to please everyone else, I forget about numero uno, me!

I am human, but sometimes the best thing is the feeling of getting back on track. Today, I went to work (financial needs) early, went for lunch with a girlfriend (social needs), and I left on time to give myself the chance to go to the gym (physical needs). After the gym I came home to spend me time! I cranked the music, opened a bottle of wine, and made sushi, all while making this blog post (mental needs). I believe these are the basics of human needs, and everyone’s individualism needs to have a mixture of these with their passions. What is your passion? What makes you tick? What keeps you in check and balanced?

Cheers,

Krista