{"id":74,"date":"2018-05-06T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2018-05-06T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T17:16:29","slug":"happy-cinco-de-mayo-successful-veggie-intake-for-my-8-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cinco De Mayo! Successful veggie intake for my 8 year old!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two things of note: \u00a0I realize that I haven’t posted in a few weeks \u00a0and secondly, my posts have been leaning toward nutrition including this one! \u00a0No excuses other than life as a dad and periodontist get super busy and nutrition really is my passion!<\/p>\n

My wife was away for a girls trip this weekend and so the kids and I really just hung around the house. \u00a0My son Grant was getting over being sick so we couldn’t actually get out and stretch our legs much including going out for a Cinco de Mayo celebratory dinner which I was sorely disappointed about.<\/p>\n

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Lily giving the thumbs up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As a huge fan of Mexican food, I have come up with a number of healthy recipes over the years to satisfy my cravings but have never found one for a really good salsa until now! \u00a0One of my staff members, Claudia, is originally from Mexico and brought in some of her homemade salsa a few weeks ago\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0and it had to be one of the best I have ever had! \u00a0I was finally able to convince her into sharing after asking multiple times and made a batch today that did not disappoint! \u00a0See below for the ingredients and steps in making. It is a bit laborious but well worth it! \u00a0I even got my daughter Lily, who eats very little vegetables or fruit, to have second helpings and my wife, Sue, just walked in the door from her weekend away and couldn’t keep her hands out it! \u00a0Thanks Claudia! \u00a0A win: win kind of day in the Evans household! \u00a0The kids eating vegetables and me getting my Mexican food fix while also celebrating the true Cinco De Maya where the townspeople of Puebla, Mexico were outmanned 3:1 but were still victorious in holding off French fighters even with the odds so stacked against them! \u00a0That’s what I call will power!<\/p>\n

Until next time, be fit!<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n

Authentic Mexican Salsa<\/u><\/strong> (shared by my team member Claudia!)<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 lbs of Roma tomatoes<\/p>\n

1 yellow onion<\/p>\n

2 large jalape\u00f1os (you can add more depending upon your taste for spicy)<\/p>\n

15 cloves of garlic (skin on)<\/p>\n

2-3 tbsp of olive oil<\/p>\n

1tsp Cumin<\/p>\n

2 tsp of black pepper<\/p>\n

Salt to taste<\/p>\n

1 bunch fresh cilantro<\/p>\n

Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a non-stick saut\u00e9 pan or Le Cruset dutch oven pan in my case, add 2 tbsp oil and whole Roma tomatoes and cook on very low temperature for ~ 20 minutes. \u00a0The key is to cook the vegetables from the inside out which imparts the flavor!<\/p>\n

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Remove the tomatoes from the pan and peel skin. \u00a0Chop the onion into six large pieces and add the garlic and jalapeno cooking again for ~ 20 minutes. \u00a0Peel garlic cloves and add all ingredients to blender with cumin and black pepper. \u00a0Add salt to taste after blending. \u00a0Let salsa cool, then add half the fresh cilantro. \u00a0Use the remaining half to add upon serving according to individual tastes.<\/p>\n

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Tip: \u00a0If you want your salsa chunkier, only blend half the tomatoes and coarsely chop and add the rest separately.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Two things of note: \u00a0I realize that I haven’t posted in a few weeks \u00a0and secondly, my posts have been leaning toward nutrition including this one! \u00a0No excuses other than life as a dad and periodontist get super busy and nutrition really is my passion! My wife was away for a girls trip this weekend … Continue reading “Happy Cinco De Mayo! Successful veggie intake for my 8 year old!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fit","category-nutrition","category-nutrition-recipes","category-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MsJq-1c","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drbrianevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}