Sunday Funday Football

My dad invited Dustin and I over for some bbq chicken and some football action yesterday. I volunteered to whip up an eat clean pasta salad to add to the mix! Pat (dad's wife) referred to the salad as clean out the fridge salad and that is pretty much exactly what it was! My dad marinated chicken breast in raspberry chipotle dressing. I am not sure of the cleanliness of this dressing but I imagine it can't be that bad as a marinade, most of it falls off anyway. Pat whipped up some potatoes and I rounded out the meal with a small glass of chardonay. YUM! I will post the pasta salad below!

Clean out the fridge pasta salad
(Base Pasta)
1 box whole wheat penne pasta
2 cans tuna (drained)
3 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
generous sprinkling of fresh parm cheese

(Optional added goodies)
Really you can add anything and everything you would like to this pasta. This is just what I had hand in the fridge.
About 2 cups broccoli florets
A cup of sliced peppers
3/4 can of chopped olive I had leftover

Prepare the pasta per the instructions on the box. Drain pasta and add in tuna, peppers, broccoli, and chopped olive. Add in balsamic vinegar and drizzle with olive oil to taste. I added about 3 tbsp of olive oil to moisten everything up. Salt and pepper to taste and final step is to sprinkle with fresh parm cheese. YUM!

I also made some not so yummy cookies! I was planning on taking them to Sunday Funday Football but I nixed that idea after Dustin and I decided that they were more like biscuits. I did think it was odd that no sugar was added in the recipe so I added some agave...not enough ha. I also added raisins instead of chocolate chips.

Clean Cookie Recipe from Liftingrevolution.com

• 1/4 cup all natural peanut butter
  
• 1/2 cup canola oil (I used 1/4 cup oil)
  
• 1 egg white (1/2 cup of egg whites)
  
• 3/4 tsp. vanilla
• 3 T. water
• 2 cups old fashioned oatmeal Quaker oatmeal (large flakes)
• 2/3 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/4 tsp. sea salt
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 2 tbsp mini dark chocolate chips (handful of raisins instead)
  

Mix all the wet ingredients in first… the first 5 ingredients above. Then incorporate the rest of the stuff in and mix until just blended (don’t mess up the oats). Oh yea, make sure you had the oven preheated at 350 degrees. Drop teaspoon mounds on a cookie sheet and bake for around 11-14 minutes.