Friday, June 16, 2023
It was a good day! A powerful thunderstorm came through our area early this morning around 3AM. I’m sure Aspen was beside herself, but I had the doors closed to the upstairs so she couldn’t climb in bed with me – she survived.
Stats:
Calories burned: 1,845
Exercise: 211 minutes
Stand: 13 hours
Steps: 13, 401
Cycling: 26.38 Miles

Breakfast – steel cut oatmeal with ground flax seeds, apple, blueberries, walnuts and plain no fat yogurt.

Lunch – Avocado toast with jalapenos, tomato and over easy egg on top. Protein smoothie with a base of coconut and soy milk, kale, frozen bananas, blueberries, fresh pineapple and protein and collagen powder.

Dinner – Hawaiian Chicken Thighs over long grain rice, green beans, salad and homemade bread #46.
Chicken – I pre-heated the oven to 300 degrees and salted and peppered both side of the chicken, then I seared the chicken for a couple of minutes on both sides, in olive oil and butter, in a cast iron skillet. Then I put the skillet the skillet in the oven for 10 minutes. At the end of 10 minutes I turned on the broiled and broiled on high for about 2 minutes.
Sauce – 1/4 cup of soy sauce and 1-1/2 teaspoons of cornstarch to make a slurry. This was my first time using corn starch to thicken a sauce – and I loved it!.
I removed the chicken from the skillet when it came out of the oven and deglazed the skillet with the soy slurry. I mixture immediately started to thicken. I added a fish sauce and toasted sesame oil and then cut up pieces of pineapple and brought the whole mixture to rolling simmer for several minutes.