Celebration Meal Plans: My Diet Starts Tomorrow
Fresh Tomatoes | Garlic Mashed Sweet Potatoes | Grilled Ribeyes | Blueberry Pie
Fresh Tomatoes
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Salad |
Meal: | My Diet Starts Tomorrow (Celebration Meal Plans) |
2 | large | tomatoes, fresh |
2 | Tb | capers |
2 | Tb | onion, red |
2 | Tb | oil, olive |
2 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Slice tomatoes in 1/4 slices; arrange on plate. Thinly slice red onion and sprinkle on and around tomatoes. Sprinkle capers on and around tomatoes. Pour olive oil on tomatoes. Squeeze the lemon juice on top of tomatoes. Salt and pepper to taste.
Garlic Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Starch / Pasta |
Meal: | My Diet Starts Tomorrow (Celebration Meal Plans) |
4 | large | sweet potatoes |
2 | Tb | salt, kosher |
2 | cloves | garlic, minced |
3 | Tb | butter, salted |
0.5 | cup | sour cream |
1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Peel sweet potatoes, cook in a large pot of salted water (2 Tb) until fork tender. Melt butter in a small sauté pan, add garlic briefly, and cook until in just starts to change color. *
Drain potatoes, place in mixing bowl, and add garlic, butter and sour cream. Mix using an electric mixer until there no lumps. Salt and pepper to taste.
Note: Don't overcook the garlic, as it will become bitter.
Note: Never use a food processor for potatoes, as they will become glue in the processor.
Grilled Ribeyes
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Beef Entrée |
Meal: | My Diet Starts Tomorrow (Celebration Meal Plans) |
4 | whole | steaks, ribeye |
1 | tsp | salt, sea |
1 | tsp | pepper, fresh cracked |
1 | Tb | oil, olive |
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Let steaks sit at room temperature for one half hour. Season with salt and pepper; drizzle olive oil over steaks. Grill over medium high heat- turn only once and cook to 120 degrees for rare, about 9 minutes. A good rule of thumb is to grill 1 minute per side for each 1/4 of thickness. So a 1 inch steak would take 4 minutes per side. Allow steaks to rest for 10 minutes after removing from the grill.
Blueberry Pie
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Medium |
Serves: | 8 |
Category: | Dessert |
Meal: | My Diet Starts Tomorrow (Celebration Meal Plans) |
1 | recipe | Pie Dough |
5 | cup | blueberries |
1 | cup | sugar, granulated |
3 | Tb | cornstarch |
1 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
2 | Tb | butter, salted |
1 | pinch | salt, table |
1 | dash | cinnamon. ground |
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Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Prepare one recipe Never Fail Pie Dough or use premade piecrust dough. Roll out bottom crust on floured board and put in 9-inch pie pan. Mix berries, sugar, cornstarch, melted butter, lemon juice, and salt together. Let sit for ten minutes then pour into bottom crust. Roll out top crust and make three or four slits in crust to vent. Put over top crust and crimp edges. Place on cookie sheet to catch drips and bake at 450 for ten minutes. Reduce heat to 350 and bake 50 minutes more. If edges of crust start to brown too much, fold thin strips of foil over the edges to protect it.