Postcards from the rotation diet

A few of the things I've been preparing... and eating.  We start with egg day.  Yes, EGGS.  I can eat eggs again and I'm quite excited about it.  I may eat about six eggs on egg day.  Here we have poached eggs over grilled asparagus with fried plantains, a coddled egg with onions and shiitake mushrooms and bacon and an omelette with chopped bell peppers, avocado and bacon.  It's a real treat when pork day and egg day come together.  Bacon and eggs.  Sounds normal, doesn't it?

And then there's steak day.  I like to call it steak day rather than beef day, because really I eat as many pieces of steak on steak day as my body will allow.  Beef tenderloin, really.  So I guess it should be called beef tenderloin day.  I just whip out my grill pan and grill me up some steak, no need to fire up the grill when I come home for lunch.  Above, we have steak with grilled asparagus and new potatoes with a creamy cashew and chive sauce and steak with goat cheese and broiled okra.

I'm not so big on fish day, although I really like to make tuna salad.  I've made it a number of different ways and I think I've perfected it.  I used tuna, celery, raisins and chopped macadamia nuts.  For the sauce, I puree 1/4 mac nuts, 1 tbsp. oil, 1 tsp. apple cider vinegar and water to thin it out and eat it over spinach and strawberries or wrap it in lettuce leaves.  Or just spoon it into my mouth.  For the fish pictures, we have tuna salad, pan fried cod with parsnips (except I found out that I'm allergic to carrots now) and sauteed mushrooms and cod (again) with broiled okra and a sweet potato/mac nut sauce.  That was a good sauce.  I used half of a left over baked sweet potato, 1/4 cup mac nuts, a tsp. mac nut oil and water to thin.  Very sweet.

And then there's seared scallops (I'm never sure if those are cooked all the way through), broccoli and onions and roasted eggplant, burnt acorn squash with maple syrup and salmon with pineapple and avocado.

Oh, and frozen grapes.  So good.

Below, is my latest creation.  I made it last night after being inspired by the SFA homecoming talegate yesterday.  There was bacon wrapped everything.  I've only ever thought about bacon wrapped jalapenos, but they had bacon wrapped asparagus, bacon wrapped green beans.  So when I got home, I wanted to wrap bacon around something.  

What came from that was bacon wrapped eggplant stuffed with a pumpkin and goat cheese filling.  It was pretty good, but I know what I will do different next time... smaller, bite size pieces (these pieces worked as one bite, but really they were two bites) only stuffed with goat cheese.  I don't think the pumpkin added anything.

And as yesterday was eggplant day, I feel I must share that for a late breakfast, I pan fried some eggplant in mac nut oil and ate it with maple syrup like pancakes.  And yes, it was good.  And yes, it did taste like pancakes.  Except that I probably don't remember what those taste like.  But don't burst my bubble.