Clean & Delicious with Dani Spies
Fuel your body. Feed your life!
One of my goals for 2018 is to share more simple kitchen prep methods with you. Getting good at kitchen basics is a great way to make your cooking fun, fast and easy!
In the video below, I am share the 4 onion cuts I turn to the most; rings, half moons, chopped, and diced.
Each one of these cuts will be helpful for a healthy home cook. Enjoy!
In order to make quick meals there are a handfull of things you need to know.
The most important (in my opinion)is knowing how to use your knife (which we recently updated to HD).
Once you’ve got that down all you have to do is grasp a basic understanding of how to handle the ingredients you’re working with and you’ll be good to go!
So for this How-To I decided to tackle chopping an onion. Onions are one of the most commonly used ingredients in the kitchen, so I thought it would be a good place to start.
In this video I am showing you how to chop an onion, but remember, a chop and a dice are virtually the same thing. The major difference is that a dice is smaller but all-in-all the actions are the same. This technique is very simple and I promise once you see how it’s done, you’ll never shy away from an onion again!
*Since this is one of my more popular videos we decided to re-shoot it in HD. We shot this when I was about 6 months pregnant with Jachs and my ears were constantly clogged so that’s why I sound like I’m talking under water!
I believe in what I call, “the stairs of wellness” when it comes to healthy living. There is a huge range of what is considered healthy when it comes to eating and ultimately I don’t think that it is as black and white as some of us might hope.
Sure, raw kale salad is super nutritious but that doesn’t mean that frozen broccoli or canned corn isn’t worth your time.
There is no such thing as the “healthiest diet” or “a perfect way of eating” that works for everybody all the time (although many of us, including myself, have spent quite the pretty penny hoping to find one!).
THE TRUTH IS that many different approaches, work for many different people during different periods in their life. And what’s good for the goose is not always good for the gander.
So while many people believe that cooking in the microwave may not be considered a safe or healthy way to prepare a “clean meal”, I say it depends on who you ask.
I have found that when it comes to often times I need faster than fast and easier than easy. And if the choice is a healthy breakfast cooked in the microwave vs. a pop-tart or a morning donut, I say microwave-it-up.
Sure it would be wonderful if we could have organic gardens, free-range farms, and endless hours of stress free time BUT unfortunately this just isn’t the case for most of us. Sometimes, we just gotta work with what we have and strive to make the best choices within that arena.
So do I think cooking in the microwave is the world’s “healthiest” way to prepare a meal? Not exactly. But I do think if you can use it as a tool to help get healthier food into your everyday life, more power to you.
Yield: Serves 1
Prep Time: 3 minutes
Cook Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Combine all in gradients in microwave safe bowl.
Pop in the microwave for one minute, remove and stir. Pop back in the microwave for one more minute.
Serve with some toast and fresh fruit!!
Serves 1.
Nutrients per recipe; Calories: 145 Total Fat: 4.6g; Saturated Fat: 2.8g; Cholesterol: 18mg; Sodium: 376mg; Carbohydrate: 4g; Dietary Fiber: 0.4g; Sugars: 3.1g; Protein: 20.1g
