Perhaps it is because it is February or because this winter keeps on dragging his/her cold, slush and mud covered feet, but I have a very serious case of the Blah’s these days.
My energy levels are at sub-zero and keep on plunging down, down, down into the great abyss know as Winter-depression. I drag myself out of bed each and every day and almost solely exist on coffee and other ‘stimulating’ drinks. And yes there is the daily occasional glass of wine too.
After playing reluctant hostess to the Rampaging Flu of Never Ending Snot and Occasional Vomit these past weeks I’m completely and utterly ex-haus-ted. This mama is drained to the very last drop. Everything on my to do –list seems to loom above my head a maladjusted giant who I have to defeat using only matchsticks and a rubber duck.
Laundry… blech. Writing…please not now, I have lost my funny. Cooking… oh dear god lord NO, I can’t handle anything more complicated then boiling an egg right now. Reorganizing the girls’ clothes and cleaning out their closets… do I have to? I don’t want to! I just want to lay here, on this couch and pretend I’m on holiday.
Needless to say this is no way to continue. Action is required and pronto. Since a holiday in the Caribbean is not possible (meh) I’ll have to find some other way to dragon-kick my shoggy, unmotivated ass into action, Chuck Norris in his heyday style.
My body is clearly craving leafy green vegetables, fish oils and such like. So instead of following the call of the croque monsieur machine I decided to make a salad.
Ok, ok, ok . The last paragraph is not strictly true: I intended to make Croque Monsieurs (these in fact) but the machine turned out to be broken. So I had to be creative with the ingredients that I had laying around, which led me straight to this relatively healthy salad :
And since my butt could do with some serious kicking I thought this was not bad way to start the recovery.
Kick Winter Depression’s Ass Salad of Baked broccoli, Sardine and cherry tomatoes (for two)
Ingredients
1 (small) broccoli
200gr of mozzarella cheese
1 can of sardines on oil
A bunch of corn salad (or lamb salad, if you call it that way)
2 tablespoons of pine nuts
6 cherry tomatoes
A teaspoon of olive oil
Pepper and salt, that tasty duo.
How to
Cut up the broccoli into tiny rosettes, heat up the olive oil in a pan over medium heat and add the broccoli, bake until tender.
Cut the mozzarella into cubes, the sardines into pieces and the cherry tomatoes in halves.
Divide the salad over two plates, add the broccoli, the mozzarella, the tomatoes, the pine nuts, season with salt and pepper.
Serve with some hot and toasty bread.
Filed under: Detoxing, Fish, Quick and easy, Regime, Salads, Saviors from the Storage Cupboard, Uncategorized Tagged: broccoli, energy restoring food, lamb salad, mozarella, salad, sardine, winter depression
