Eating Cleanse

I’ve been on a mission on eating cleaner foods because let’s face it when you eat good you feel good. There’s no buts or ifs about, you can eat crap all day long but sooner or later its gonna catch up. So when i feel that I’ve been eating too much processed food, i like to go a couple days where i eat clean.  For me this usually consist of  fruits,veggies, salads , lots of green smoothies , coconut water and green tea. This tend to be hard so i usually try to add a little treat  that would make the mundane be not so mundane like cheese cubes, pesto or  peanut butter. After a couple days  of  eating clean I’m usually feeling great and light as a feather! The whole idea of  not eating for a week and living off of liquids, is something i cant picture myself doing. What i  found that works for me  is eating clean high fiber foods that have a  high water content, which in turn helps to detoxify the body the natural way!

Mediterranean style quesadillas

On my weekly stops at the farmers market, i saw that they had these huge pita breads on sale. Not knowing what i would do with it, i threw it in the basket along with some greens. I than headed over to Whole Foods for some spirulina tablets and decided to grab some cheese. I bought a mozzarella cheese ball and pre- diced goat cheddar. This was my first time trying Goat cheddar but for those who haven’t tried it before , i would say it taste like  a mixture of  goat cheese and sharp cheddar.  Its pretty good but this is coming from a person who likes goat cheese lol, but if you want to try something different this is great to try.

Any-who when i got home i just threw in anything i had in the kitchen and created this Mediterranean style quesadilla. First you spread some pesto sauce on half the pita bread and sliced the mozzarella cheese and goat cheddar. Warm it up for about a minute in the microwave until the cheese is evenly melted. Add sliced tomatoes and fresh spinach followed by a couple splashes of balsamic vinaigrette and dried basil. Fold over the pita bread and cut into 2 to 4 pieces.  🙂

Fancy Smancy Grilled Cheese sandwich

The other day Publix had a sale on the Ezekiel bread, never having tried  it before i figured why not. I ate it with almond butter and coffee one morning , and it was the driest thing i ever tasted. So I contemplated on what i should do with this, cause i wasn’t going to throw away $3.50 just like that. So i looked up sandwich recipes, and came across this Tyler Florence grilled cheese recipe. It asked for  Tomatoes, Mozzarella , Pesto and bread of course. I never had Pesto, so instead of making it the way he did. I used a store bought pesto which was pretty good. Any-who,  I defrosted the Ezekiel bread while i sliced up the tomato and mozzarella. I then proceeded to spread pesto on each slice of bread and layer the tomato and cheese  and closed it up with another slice of  pesto covered  bread. Instead of butter he suggested olive oil to grill the sandwich, i thought it was going to make the sandwich soggy but surprisingly it did not. The Ezekiel bread took the grilling great, it didn’t fall apart or stick to the pan at all .I had my family test it out for me, and they loved it. Little did they know they were eating the driest bread known to  man lol.

FYI: If you have a panini maker it would make thing easier but laying a piece of foil while putting a skillet on top worked out for me.