Stuff You Should Eat!

I have to admit I'm extremely simple when it comes to my diet. I'm perfectly fine with eating the same boring things day after day. But I realize some people need variety. So I recruited some help when it came to recipes. Quite frankly, mine are just too boring!  For the first great recipe I asked Tony from http://www.tzcoaching.com to help us out. I paid a visit to Tony, and his Lovely wife Michelle, this weekend and ate this for myself. It was just wonderful!  I want to thank Tony and Michelle so much for the wonderful dinner, and the great write up for the recipe. I even stole the title from Tony on this one!  Thanks again!

From our friend Tony Zamora at http://www.tzcoaching.com

Stuff you should eat – Stuffed Bell Peppers

This time of year, most of my athletes and I are going through our winter preparatory diet phase, in which we are training our bodies to become more metabolically efficient for our spring and summer racing seasons.  To learn more about diet periodization, be sure to read some of Brian’s previous posts. 

During this season, the focus of the diet is to consume as little amount of carbs as possible (I shoot for about 150g a day, or about 1.7g per kilo body weight).  

What I hear a lot form clients during this time is, “how can I make food more appetizing?!”. The standard grilled chicken breast or steak with steamed veggies can get a bit old (although those are still staples in my diet!), so this stuffed bell pepper recipe is basically the same – veggies and meat – just prepared a little differently. 

Prep Time: 15 min

Cook Time: 30min 

Ingredients (good for 2 people)

   1lb lean ground beef (we prefer grass fed)

   4 medium green bell peppers

   ½ medium yellow onion

   2 roma tomatoes 

   ½ cup shredded cheese

   Garlic

   Salt & Pepper

Cooking

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees

Heat a large frying pan, adding in the garlic to begin to brown

Chop up the onions, add to the garlic to begin to caramelize

Add in the ground beef, mixing well and adding salt and pepper as preferred (I like a lot of pepper)

Once the meat starts browning, add in the chopped tomatoes

Cut the tops of the green peppers and scoop out the insides

Once the tomatoes get soft, you can turn off the frying pan

Scoop the filling mixture into the bell peppers until they are full 

Once all the peppers are full, put the tray into the oven for about 20 minutes, until the peppers get soft

Sprinkle cheese over each pepper, and leave in the oven another 5-10 minutes until the cheese melts

Serving

Once the cheese has melted, it’s ready to be served!  Just scoop a pepper onto the plate, and add in an optional side dish.  Here we had an easy dark salad with cucumber and avocado on top.