Spinach and Mushrooms omelet

You arrive late at home, you are not in the mood to start cooking French haut cuisine...You need to cook something quick and easy, without getting the whole kitchen dirty. This is your dish.

Ingredients for 2 people:

- 1/4 kg. Spinach

- A can of mushrooms

- 4 Eggs

You take the spinach (either frozen or fresh, frozen is quicker) and put them on a pot with water and a pinch of salt. Heat them until they boil. In the mean time you beat the eggs in a container adding a pinch of salt as well. Make sure that the container is big enough for the eggs, the spinach and the mushrooms. After that open the can and empty the mushrooms in a colander, wash them with some water and wait until the water is strained. Then add the mushrooms to the colander. When the spinach is ready, put it in the colander too and wait until the water is gone (you have to insist pushing it with a slice as spinach keep a lot of water). Then you mix it together with the eggs and the mushrooms. 

 Put a fry pan on to heat and add a tablespoonful of oil on it, wait until it is warm and spread it over the fry pan. Then, add the mix of eggs, mushrooms and spinach and wait until you think that the lower part is done. After that you have to turn the omelet. Use a plate to turn the pan and add again the omelet the other way round. Wait until you think it is ready, and here you have...

It may not take longer than 20 minutes.

Black olives and onion

Olives are a popular product in our diet and even in our culture. We eat them as a fruit (olives) and also as a dressing (oil) in most of our dishes. A simple snack is made of olives, black olives with onion is an example.

Ingredients:
- Olives
- Onion
- Oil

Directions:
Put the olives in a container. Chop the onion into small pieces and mix it with the olives in the container. Add a teaspoon of oil into the container and mix it all.

We take often it as a snack together with a drink before lunch.

Presentation

The main target of this blog is to share our food knowledge since we became independent from our parents. Once we started our professional careers we were forced to change our food habits from those we had previously acquired at home. After some time we suffered from an important overweight and also from high cholesterol rate and all that before our thirties. For this reason we decided to change radically our food habits and look for a proper diet, which could be adapted to our present needs (sedentary jobs).

At the very beginning due to professional reasons we had to have lunch every work day in a restaurant, which was a very easy way, but as the time went by, it caused us an important overweight. After getting a new job we were able to have lunch in the office, so we started preparing lunch boxes. We could control what we ate, but we didn't. It is a hard task to be done daily, so we prepared easy recipes like pasta, rice, meat, etc., easy meals but containing many calories (at least too many for our sedentary jobs).

At any given time, we decided to change our nutritional routine, improve our diet and our health at the same time. The new diet involved a drastic reduction of several products, such as meat, fish, sugar and carbohydrates. We didn't intend to turn it into a vegetarian or vegan diet, as we are not determined to dispense with some food, as cured ham, or the star product of our meals: olive oil.

As a result of this initiative, we feel better physically, as we have lost weight (almost 20 kg. and by now we are reaching our "ideal weight") and we are improving our health. We didn’t have to use any kind of medicine, or follow a diet stated by a nutritionist.

After what we consider as a success, we have decided to share our experience and the knowledge we have acquired during this time. In this blog you will find different information such as recipes, comments, opinions and tips, among other. You will also find not so healthy recipes such a snacks or what we call “tapas”, as we think that sometimes it is necessary to take a break and eat not-so-healthy food to feel psychologically better. So that is what you are going to find here, any information we consider relevant other people.

We hope you’ll enjoy it and we encourage you to place comments or questions. They will be welcome.