This chopped broccoli salad was awesome! Fresh greens, bacon, dried fruit, nuts/seeds, and did I mention bacon….simple and delicious. I got the recipe from Health-Bent.com (check them out in the resources tab at the top of the page), and made just a few tweaks.
Feel free to mix or match your favorite dried fruit and nuts to the recipe. I used golden raisins and would like to try dried cherries or cranberries next time. I also added sunflower seeds in addition to the chopped almonds. I prefer cooking bacon on the stovetop, so I ignored baking the bacon. Give it a shot and post a comment on how it turned out!
http://www.health-bent.com/salads/paleo-broccoli-salad
Ingredients
1 lb broccoli
3/4 c slivered or chopped almonds
1/2 c raisins
6 slices bacon
1/2 c rendered bacon fat (drippings) or olive oil
1/4 c red wine or apple cider vinegar
s&p
Method
Set your oven to 375ºF. Place the bacon slices on a baking sheet and bake until they’re brown and crispy, about 25 minutes.
While the bacon is cooking, get out a large bowl. For the broccoli, use your hands to remove the leaves on the base of the broccoli. With a knife, trim off the tough outside of the broccoli stem, so you’re left with the tender, pale green center. It shouldn’t be more than a couple millimeters thick–so don’t hack! Chop up the stem into tiny, bite-size pieces and do the same with the florets. Complete broccoli utilization–woohoo!
Add the broccoli to the bowl, along with the vinegar, almonds, raisins and salt & pepper.
Once the bacon is done, remove from the oven and let it cool. Once cooled, chop or use your hands to crumble up the bacon and add it to the bowl. Pour 1/2 c of the rendered fat (drippings) from the bacon directly into the bowl.
Toss everything to combine. Serve immediately, or wait until it’s cold. It’s good either way.
Overhead Squats: 185 (BW) x 15 reps
Overhead Squats – 1 rep at bodyweight (185 lbs).
Muscle up on the rings.
GOT SEVERAL GOATS (determined by going through the blog and measuring frown frequency), HERE WE GO! –>
10 consecutive DU, 1 kipping pullup, 10 air squats (“perfect form”), 100 unbroken 25# KBS, *respectable Karen time*…
I have a long list of goals, but I’m just picking a couple to post.
-20 consecutive double-unders (hopefully very soon!!)
-1 kipping pull-up
What i love about CrossFit, though, is that it makes you continually want to strive to be better in everything!!
Thanks for your encouragement and for pushing us to be better, Matt!!
Ashley already knocking one goal off her list….20 consecutive double unders yesterday!
20 unbroken kip pullup
3.30 min 800 m run
Ok tell me if this is too easy b/c I can always work on something 25 box jumps unbroken, or 800 in 6 min, and I do want to be able to a kipping pull up by the end of the year!
Those are all good, but I am going to push you on the 800m Run….how about sub 5 minutes
- 5 Unbroken Straight Pull-Ups within the next two weeks
– 5-10 Consecutive Double-Unders
I like the pretty picture of the goat by the way.
Don’t talk bad about the goat, you will get Janet all riled up!
3 of my 50 goats: 20 unbroken kipping pull-ups (thanks Shayne for raising my original thought of 15); 5 hand stand push-ups (kipping acceptble if I can figure out how); 5 good pistols (each leg)…nothing like accountability – thanks Matt!
225-250lb DL
10 double unders; 30 second hand stand w/out aid of the wall; 5 hand stand push ups (wall aided); 25 pull ups (unbroken); etc…etc…etc… – goal end of August – Hookem Horns.
Ok I love goats so it’s hard for me to talk about whipping them
But I dislike cockroaches, so… mine are 50 double unders, 5 ring dips, 15 unbroken thrusters at 65.