If you're like me and can't think with a bloated stomach, I just discovered a really cheap, good recipe born from a mostly empty kitchen and a small obsession with my body frame.
A small amount of strong extra virgin olive oil.
(Weak olive oil will kill this. Alternatively, ghee or butter would work in theory but I haven't tried it. Stick to some form of strong tasting fat.)
3 pinches of black pepper
1 pinch of white pepper
1 pinch of rosemary
1 pinch of thyme
1 pinch of salt
2 handfuls of spinach, stemmed and sliced crosswise
1 bell pepper roughly diced
3 shiitake mushrooms sliced
1 clove of garlic thinly diced
2 black pepper/olive oil triscuits
Heat olive oil in a pan until it becomes fragrant, swishing it around the pan.
Add black pepper, white pepper, rosemary, and thyme. DO NOT FORGET THE SALT. Put it in at this step.
Once the kitchen smells like olive oil and black pepper, throw the bell peppers and mushrooms in and cook on medium heat for a few minutes. When the mushrooms look a little less than raw, toss all the spinach in. Cook it on medium heat until the spinach is thoroughly reduced.
Now you add the diced garlic. mess with it with a spatula so it doesn't brown, you only want it to be fragrant. After maybe 2 or 3 minutes it should be pretty fragrant.
put it in a small bowl and crush the triscuits over it. You have stir-fried spinach or something like that.
If you have chopsticks, I highly suggest using them for this. Metal utensils disrupt the taste and texture too much.
It really is just a cheap stir-fry recipe, you can do whatever you want with it but if you're watching calorie intake, this is probably one of the best you'll get without tasting like trash. By itself, it's about 180 calories without the triscuits. 2 triscuits I think is about 40 so 220 roughly is the total. As far as macros go, spinach which is the main ingredient has a good amount of protein and olive oil is one of the healthiest fats out there if you don't burn it. If you need more, you can easily add an egg or two for a really good amount of protein.
