When it feels like I've had all the bad news I can take, I especially love to incorporate lots of Kari Jobe songs into my worship time. I love her music. There's lots of heavy stuff in this world. Things that are so far beyond our control, it's not even funny. The more we expand our circle of who we love and care about, and the older we get, the heavier the burdens that we are handed. God is good all the time! Spend some quiet moments in broken worship, and then resolve to be thankful for something. It helps, I promise.

You lift me up, You never leave me thirsty! 

Eating Clean & a Brunch Recipe

This is one of those recipes that I categorize as "brunch" because I truly mean it. Although it is an extremely low carb dish (11 grams), it still has 400 calories. So, it's the dish you make on your "day off," when you get up early to take the hubby to work, run errands, race to your Dr.'s appt, run more errands, and finally get home at 12:30. Too late for breakfast, but loathe to call this meal lunch, I opted for a brunch tag here.

This year we are eating 100% clean. I have made huge strides towards this in 2012 but with Rich on board, I very recently started buying 100% clean foods only. This means local, organic produce, pastured eggs, organic, hormone & antibiotic free meats, no processed/packaged foods (Yes, I've got a pot of black beans cooking right now that came from a bag. Dry beans!), no refined sugar, etc. Just to make it extra fun we are also eating primarily gluten free. ;-) After losing 50 pounds in the last 18 months I have to do it again and get the next 50 off. I've been in that holiday plateau phase for a couple months so it's time to get serious again. This year, aside from continuing to lose weight and get healthier, my goal is to learn as much as I can about how to best use food as fuel & medicine for our bodies. I'm using the resources from the Daniel Plan. If you don't know about that, you can read about it HERE.

Ok. Enough about me.

Eggs, Chicken Sausage & Veggie Brunch Bowl

2 organic, pastured eggs
1 link Aidell's organic chicken sausage, halved and chopped
1/4 each red and orange bell peppers
1/4 cup chopped zucchini
1 large leaf fresh kale
1 tsp olive oil
1 tsp butter substitute (I use earth balance)

Prep: whisk 2 eggs in a medium bowl. Add a dash of salt & pepper. Chop the veggies into small pieces.  Preheat wok on medium heat.

In a frying pan or wok (wok is best!) swirl the olive oil over medium heat. Add the sausage, peppers, & zucchini and stir fry just until the sausage begins to turn light golden brown.

Move to the edges and melt the tsp of butter or butter substitute in the middle. 

Next, pour the eggs into the middle and then begin to "scramble" them after they have cooked about 45 seconds. (Don't burn them!) 

Once the eggs begin to solidify, you can toss in the kale. 

Once the kale is cooked for about 3 minutes, you'll be ready to eat.

And there you have it. Brunch bowl & green tea.