Amazing Nutritarian Spinach Stuffed Mushroom

Stuffed mushrooms are one of my FAVORITE things! They're usually stuffed full of breadcrumbs, or cheese, or crab, or basically all kinds of things I'm not eating as part of my nutritarian food choices. Luckily, Dr. Fuhrman put out the Eat To Live Cookbook late last year that includes an absolutely delicious stuffed mushroom recipe!

 

Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms

1 small onion, chopped

12 large mushrooms, stems separated and chopped (I used 4 medium caps)

1 clove minced garlic

1/2 teaspoon dried thyme

1/4 cup low or no sodium vegetable broth

5 ounces fresh spinach

2Tablespoons raw almond butter

1 Tablespoon nutritional yeast

Black pepper to taste

 

Water saute the onion with about 1 Tablespoon of Dr. Bragg's liquid aminos or tamari for 2 minutes. Add mushrooms, garlic, and thyme and saute until onions and mushroom stems are tender, about 3 minutes. Add mushroom caps and vegetable broth to pan, bring to simmer and cook 5 minutes (because the mushroom caps I had were kind of flat and thinner than smaller caps, I only left them in about 2 minutes so they would hold a little shape for stuffing). Remove caps from pan and place on lightly oiled baking sheet. Add spinach to onion mixture and heat until wilted. Remove from heat and stir in almond butter, nutritional yeast, and black pepper. Fill caps with onion/spinach mixture and bake 15-20 minutes.

Man it's hard to take pretty pictures of food. Here's my picture.

Dr. Fuhrman's Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms

 

Here's the picture on Dr. Fuhrman's website.

 

 

Whatever, they were so good with a side salad of mixed greens, Cucumber Noodles with Coconut Lime Dressing, and sprouts, I don't care that they kind of deflated on the reheat!

 

On an exercise note: I very nearly wimped out today. Jeff had to get up and head to the airport at 3AM for a work trip and I rolled over while he was getting ready and pushed my alarm to regular time (i.e. no time for a run). When I finally got up and around, I was kicking myself in the ass for not getting with it. As the day wore on, it got easier and easier to think it was no big deal. Husband's gone, no help with Sam or around the house. Surely that grants me a pass right? Right?

 

Wrong!

 

Once I could no longer hear Sam singing to himself and knew that he was asleep, I put on my running gear and got to it. I even added 8 minutes from Wednesday. And I kicked it's ass! I think a lot of us get into trouble by thinking that we can just skip this once or that we don't have to be consistent with our healthy habits. It helps for me to know that this isn't a diet, it's my life and I want to keep on living it so I'll embrace my Friday night sweat with open arms!!! I made a promise to myself, to Jeff and Sam, and to this journey.

 

 

Yea buddy!