Avocado, chicken, spearmint salad

So during the weekend I bought a grilled chicken and guess what? I'm still eating it. Show me the leftovers!!!

There's no way in the world I would buy or prepare chicken just to make a salad with it. Too much work for a salad, and in these hot days I'm pretty allergic to work. Symptoms: many watery drops covering my body. Mainly armpits. Maybe that's sweat. How would I know, I haven't done a proper exercise for ages.

Wait! I'm lying, last week I did something, I haven't done for the longest time - I finished an entire 1 hour workout. Pretty intense at that. Three times last week. Maybe because I'm too scared that next week on the beach someone's gonna call Greenpeace to put me back in the water, where all the whales belong. Not on the moon, like one episode from South Park tought us. Wise men, those South Park creators!

This picture? Still salad - not a whale

The point is - I had grilled chicken leftovers and I made a salad out of those. And I used the avocado, I had in my kitchen for a week. And most importantly: SPEARMINT! Did not expect it, but this herb is just increadible in salads - so fresh and flavourful at the same time! Love it!

The result - Mmmhhhh, Alkaline Mmmhhhh!

INGREDIENTS

1 cup chopped chicken - white meat, grilled if you have, for a vegetarian version you can also use chickpeas
10 spearmint leaves
1 bunch of parsley
1 avocado (peeled and pitted)
1 cucumber
1 small green pepper
olives
olive oil
salt
juice of 1/3 lemon

DIRECTIONS

Like always with salads - eaaasyy. Chop all the vegetables and herbs, put them together with the chicken in a big salad bowl, add some olive oil (1-2 tbsp), salt, and the juice of 1/3 lemon and mix.

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Light summer salad

Yes, it's another salad! I don't know how you've guessed it - is it the picture or the name of this post? Or maybe it's just a gift - the gift of guessing.

Anyway it's so ridiculously unbelievably and unpleasantly hot, I just want to throw myself in a cold water somewhere, doesn't matter how dirty and stay there!!! Today I didn't even want to eat anything normal, I just had this salad and it was enough. Usually I would have this salad as a side to something - meat, grains, fish, but now...shame on me! OK tonight I'll probably eat something pretty serious, because nobody can beat Mr. Hunger, but for now I'm good.

I don't even think you need an ingredients list - tomatoes, cucumbers, dill, parsley, olives, some olive oil and salt to taste and you're ready!

Now I don't even have anything else to say, I'll look for some place to cool myself off!

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Spinach, chickpea and bulgur salad

Whyyyyyyy???? Why is it soooo hot? I can not concentrate on anything, besides trying not to sweat, and I'm telling you, that's not working out very good for me either.

 I hope you're as excited as me about me going to the beach in 2 days. Yaaay!!! Are you? You don't have to answer that, just keep on nodding. I think I will not come out of the water for hours. Pretty much like in my childhood, when I would spend all of my beach time in the water and would come out only after my lips are purple-blue. Aaaaahhh best memories ever!

But before I go, I'm still trying to lose some belly, so I can look like a slimmer whale on the beach, and not like the fattest one. And now I'm eating mostly alkaline - mostly salads, wraps and watermelons (love love love love love watermelons). I have to admit everything is really delicious and I feel a whole lot better than during the times when I was eating mostly pizza, burgers and sweets. OK, those times were less than 2 weeks ago, but hey 2 weeks is something right?

I make this salad and it's variations really often, and mostly it's my lunch at the office. I don't feel sleepy afterwards, so I can still work, so that's probably good for some reason.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups spinach
1 cup chickpea (canned)
1/2 cup cooked bulgur (1 cup uncooked bulgur makes about 3 cups cooked - you can store it cooked in the fridge for at least 5 days)
1 small tomato
1 small cucumber
1/3 cup chopped parsley
handful of arugula
dill
olive oil
salt

DIRECTIONS

As for all the salads preparation is really easy - one of the many good things about salads. You just wash and afterwards chop all the vegetables and herbs (spinach roughly). Place vegetables, herbs,  chickpea and bulgur in a bowl, add some olive oil and salt to taste and you're ready to serve, even better to eat. Does not take more than 20 minutes and afterwards you don't have to take a nap.

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YaSUSHI, Yakashi

Last time with all the excitement about Greece, goat crap, and getting fat I forgot to tell you about my sushi week. I do not recommend that sushi week to my worst enemy. Especially if he/she has a thyroid condition.

Can you believe that I ate sushi for one whole week and I didn't even make one picture of it. Talking about greediness. Now you must stare at this salad. But it was also good.

Anytime someone says sushi, my dad likes to make this comment: ya sushi, ya kashi. In Bulgarian it means: either sushi or porridge. Yes, I come from a family of creative minds.

One time when I was stupid and brave enough, I asked my dad about the deep meaning of his wise words. Turns out there is a famous guy in Japan named Yasushi Akashi, who my father (but not me) has heard of and always makes this association, when he hears the word sushi. Now I say it too, so that people think I know who's who in Japan.

Aah what a nice story that was, wasn't it? Now I'll tell it again! I'm just kidding. Don't leave. Or hurt yourself.

Anyways. About the sushi week. Man I feel like I said sushi for the trillionth time in this post.

Sushisushisushisushisushisushsushisushisushsushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushisushi!

SUHSIIIIII!!!!

Now it's out of my system!!! The last one is spelled wrong?

Next fill in the blanks:

So yes, I was craving ....... for a really long time. At some point I even felt like I can wrap myself in seaweed and just lay there drooling happily. Maybe it was iodine deficiency, maybe not. Who knows? Not my doctor. I already asked her (she is not a psychiatrist).

So after I ate ........ at a friend's place, me and my sister, who has a problem with her thyroid decided to make ....... And no we didn't make 20 or 30. We made around 300 in one week and ate them all. It was so delicious, but it is a little addictive. I didn't actually lose weight, as I expected, cutting all the pizza and other delicious stuff out of my life. Now I had .........!!! My precious.

In the end of the week my sister and I both had bad headaches, really salty taste in our mouths and felt really nervous for no reason. My heart was beating so fast. Probably the way I would feel if I ever met Bradley Cooper. Or Justin Bieber. Or the guy from Gangnam Style.

The doctor didn't even think of iodine overdose. She was - stool sample here, stool sample there. And all I was thinking: "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I don't want some stranger digging in my stool". Although I can imagine it was not a holiday for that person too. We mentioned here and there my sister's thyroid condition (covering it with a cough or a sneezer, so we don't seem like desperate hypochondriacs) trying to bring the doctor to the right diagnosis. Nothing helped. The stool sample was stuck in her head. So we had to do it.

Man what a fun that was. Something in me changed that day.

Anyway, after this very unproductive visit at the doctor's office we ate a salad made only of vegetables with a little bit of olive oil and without any salt. I didn't expect it, but it actually turned out delicious. And we both felt a whole lot better after eating it. Here's the recipe for it, if you ever have a sushi or some other intoxication problem and you need to take it easy.

INGREDIENTS

5 small potatoes with skin (cooked)
6 medium sized radishes
1 medium size green pepper
1/2 cup arugula
1 medium cucumber
1/2 cup chopped parsley
1 tbsp olive oil

DIRECTIONS

All you need to do is chop everything (except olive oil, I dare you to try chopping olive oil!!), put it in a huge salad bowl and mix it.

NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

The whole thing has 317 kcal and it makes 2 big portions, so for all the non-mathematics-geniuses out there - it's 158.5 kcal per portion. And it's rich in potassium, iron and magnesium.

Enjoy and write to you tomorrow!

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