CrossFit Centurion

STEAK PIZZIOLA

What you need: Thin sliced steak strips, an onion, minced garlic, olive oil, a can of Italian stewed and diced tomatoes, a can of Italian style Green beans, a can of red kidney beans. And a sharp a$$ knife, you won’t look like you know what you’re doing if you don’t have a crazy looking, sharp knife. If I need to tell you that you will need a pan for cooking all this in, I will reach through the screen of this computer and hit you on the head with a tack hammer…

What you do: Slice of a slab of onion and dice it up. Pour about 4 tablespoons of Olive Oil in the pan and add the onions. Turn on the heat (duh!) and sautee the onions with some salt & pepper. Let the onions get transluscent and jively (that’s a French cooking term…sorta). Add about 1 tablespoon of minced garlic to the mix and sautee that for a minute. Push the concoction aside and add the sliced steak to the pan.

Brown the meat and start mixing in the onion/garlic mix. Once the meat is browned a bit, add the one can of Italian style tomatoes. Add about 3/4 can of the red kidney beans and 3/4 can of the Italian green beans. Note: Don’t be dumb like me and inadvertently buy “Dill flavored greenbeans”. It tasted like crap. Who the hell eats Dill flavored green beans anyhow!?!

Let the mixture sautee over low/med heat for about 10 minutes or until the sauce firms up a bit. Remove and dish it out. I aim for 5 blocks (roughly) of chow for myself, 4 blocks for Allison and then there is about 6 blocks of food leftover that we keep for lunch the next day. Enjoy! (If the whole “Block” thing doesn’t make sense to you, it’s time to get on the Zone Diet and make some major differences in your health and well-being. Go to the CrossFit website, click on the “Journals” link, and download the free issue 21 about the Zone Diet. If that doesn’t work, send me an e-mail and I’ll get it to you. )

I enjoy a romantic dinner of Steak Pizziola with Dorothy the Fish.

CRAZY SAUSAGE MEAT SPINACH DISH THINGY

Yes, that is it’s real name. OK, so maybe not, but I have no clue what it’s called other than, “Damn, that’s tasty!” I got this one from Robb Wolf’s blog site (www.robbwolf.com) – go there now! Actually read my stuff first then go there for more incredible info about diet and fitness with Robb. Phenomenal site! I made a couple tweaks to this recipe but it’s still pretty right on to what Robb originally came up with.

What you need: One pound of ground beef or ground anything, one pack of Apple Chicken Sausages, one large bag of spinach, a jar of healthy tomato or spaghetti sauce, some olive oil. Yes, pan, cooking utensils and bad azz knife still apply. Clothing is optional.

What you do: Pour about 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil in the pan and brown the meat. I’m not overly concerned with fat, but if you’ve got a ton of it from the meat, you can drain some of it off to feed to your dog later on or wax your legs or chest with. While the meat is/was browning, you should be busy cutting up 2-3 of the apple chicken sausages. I slice them and cut the slices in half. Dump the sausages into the ground beef and mix it up over medium heat. Pour in about 3/4 jar of spaghetti sauce or tomato sauce into the mix. Not so much it gets soupy. Add the whole bag of spinach and put a lid on the pan on med/low heat. The spinach will cook down after about 5 minutes and you can start to stir it into the mixture. Simmer it for about 10 minutes and voila, you are living large!

Again, I follow the same serving sizes as above and have a good portion of leftovers for the next day or so.

This is it - Better than a cat eating Milk Bones, eh?!