Basil Parmesan Salmon

Posted on November 26, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

This can be done in the air fryer (yay!) or the oven (boo!)

Recipe is from Skinnytaste.

Olive oil spray (absolute necessary for air fryer)
4 salmon fillets, skin removed, approximately 5 oz each
1/2 lemon
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
ground black pepper
3 tablespoons mayo
6 fresh basil leaves, minced, plus more for garnish
3 tablespoons Parmesan or Romano cheese

Preheat air fryer to 400F. Spritz the basket with olive oil.

Season the salmon with lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Mix the mayonnaise with basil and 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese in a small bowl.

Spread completely over the top of salmon. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan cheese on top.

In batches, air fry 7 minutes, or longer depending on thickness of the salmon.

Oven directions:

Preheat the oven to 425F. Spritz a sheet pan with olive oil.

Season the salmon with lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Mix the mayonnaise with basil and 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese in a small bowl.

Spread completely over the top of salmon. Sprinkle remaining Parmesan cheese on top.

Bake 10 to 12 minutes, depending on thickness of the salmon.

This is the first official Project Hundo dinner! I took lead on this one, because it was my idea and, frankly, I had most of the ingredients already. Except for basil. I left that up to Krista. She rolled in with an entire freakin’ plant. So I’ve got that going for me, now.

I can barely keep myself and the cats alive, now I have a fucking plant to deal with? Thanks, Krista.

I had made this salmon before and it was fabulous. Honestly, the air fryer is an incredible invention. We’ve used it so much more than I thought we would. Making salmon in it seemed fishy at first. (I’m sorry…I’ll see myself out.) But! It turned out wonderfully!

Except…once the salmon was done cooking (only 7 minutes, with minimal preheat time! Have I mentioned how much I love the air fryer?), I sort of left it in there while I finished mashing the potatoes we were having. Don’t do that. Take your shit out of there when it’s done. Or, if you’re busy, make someone else do it. The result of my negligence was aesthetically unpleasing salmon. It tasted great still! You know when you’re baking something with cheese on it, and that bit of cheese goes right on the baking sheet and gets slightly overdone, and brown and crispy, and it’s low key the best part? That’s basically what happened to the topping. Looked like awful, tasted great.

Please note the extra basil “for garnish” creeping out of the frame like it crept right out of my mind when it came time for plating. One day I’ll garnish. One day.

With the salmon, we had horseradish mashed potatoes for a starch. Not really a recipe here. Just mashed potatoes with some light sour cream and horseradish. (Pro tip: Don’t mash your potatoes in a gigantic pot when you have a reasonable amount of potatoes. They just get cold and you’ll get grumpy.)

For a veg, we had green beans that we sauteed in olive oil and garlic. The official measurements for that dish are: “Eh, that looks good” for the beans, oil, and garlic. It must be said that Krista did an outstanding job stirring the beans. It was her contribution besides bringing a potted plant. She is an excellent stirrer.

LOL. Whoops.

Whole meal took about 30 minutes to throw together, and a lot of that was taken up by pre-measuring shit for pictures. Please, take the time to wonder at that picture now that you know the blood, sweat, and tears that went into it.

Thanks to Wegmans and their wonderful individually wrapped, frozen salmon fillets, this is a dish that you really can just whip up on a weeknight and feel hella accomplished for having.

Also, get an air fryer.

Holy Crap, I Cooked Something.

Posted on November 17, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

In Episode Two: Horsey Sauce, Krista educated me on the facts that:

Boboli makes entire pizza kits.
You can buy them in bulk at BJs
They totes count as cooking.

Inspired by this knowledge, but without having a Boboli pizza kit, nor the desire to try one, I did the thing where you scramble through your kitchen until you come up with something to eat and made a pita pizza! It’s more of a white/veggie/brunch pita pizza. And probably even calling it a pizza is pushing it, but what’s in a name, amirite? The important part is that the thing was tasty af and I managed to take pics and write it down to share. Enjoy!

Brunch Pizza of Sorts

Let’s Get Cooking

Posted on November 10, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

Since Krista and I are renown for our reasonable and measured eating habits, we figured a great way to show that off would be to prepare dinner and eat together before we record, and share our recipes with you! (Read: If we cook together one night, RIGHT before talking about it, we may actually cook things that are better for you than if we were left to our own devices.)

I used to have a cooking blog, that I abandoned because life. It’s being resurrected and incorporated into the Project Hundo sphere. There you’ll find our weekly recipes under a conveniently named “Weekly Recipes” menu. You’ll also find all the original content for the blog, and we promise that we’ll throw up new recipes as we cook on non-recording nights, too!

Keep your eyes on the Recipes! page for updates each Tuesday!

-Amanda

Weekly Challenges

Posted on November 9, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

Krista and I are getting ready to record our second episode. Our first weekly challenges were for Krista to go to bed at 10:30 each night, and for me to come up with an affirmation to use daily in my planner that doesn’t make me want to rip my own eyes out. Of course, our weekly recording schedule got immediately thrown off courtesy of Halloween and rescheduled work travel. Which means we had two weeks to get our first challenge down pat. You would think we’d take total advantage of the extra time…but then, if we did stuff like that, we’d not be doing this podcast in the first place! (For real Krista, there are timestamps on text messages…don’t think I’m not checking.)

I won’t spoil how we did here. I rather leave everyone dizzy with anticipation to hear about our resounding success.* But we your brains! We need ideas!

We have loads of ideas of long term habit building, but the one off challenges for the week are harder to nail down. So whathca got? Is there an amazing recipe we should try? A form of exercise that doesn’t feel like torture you recommend? No sugar Sunday? Hit us up with all the ideas, folks. We need help. Seriously.

xo,

Amanda

*Okay, it’s more likely you’ll be witnessing a freaking train wreck like:

And We’re Live!

Posted on October 29, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

We’ve recorded Episode One: Human Roast. It was a learning experience, that’s for sure. We giggle a bit too much, and talk over each other a bit too much, and Amanda still needs to slow down! (She seriously needs to simmer down on the cold brew.) But there are some moments that were funny, and we laid the ground work for future weeks.

This week we’re getting new mics, and we’ll keep on plugging away!

Oh, and we’re getting a buzzer for when we talk about food a bit too much.

In the meantime, you can listen below. Please rate, review, and subscribe! And stay tuned for us getting our act progressively more together – both health and podcast wise!

Bitch, Don’t Eat That. Love, Krista

Posted on October 16, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

Growing up, I was sort of an athlete. I played soccer, softball, tennis, and marched in the band. (Totally making that an athletic event.) I wasn’t necessarily driven to be the best; it was just an activity and a chance to be social. I remember one of my high school sports physicals, not at all awkward, taking place in the high school cafeteria. Of course, the nurse weighs you. The number was 167; yes, 167 pounds. For someone 5’ 6.5”, that is in the yellow or overweight category on the dreaded BMI chart. I wasn’t skinny, I wore a 10/12, I wasn’t in denial. But, the nurse told me I really need to watch it and should probably go on a diet. Thus began years of “I shouldn’t eat this,” as I shovel it in.

I have gained and lost weight over the years, but I am at an all-time high. And not in a good way. In recent photos, I have noticed new rolls and that I look so much larger than everyone in the photo. I am not one of those people who have avoided photos but lately… yikes. I look unhealthy, not something a completely black wardrobe, cute haircut and a manicure can fix. My husband has been complaining about his pants not fitting so great, so I figured we are going to have to do something together since we live in the same house. So, I say to him that we both could probably stand to lose 50 pounds, 2 x 50 is a hundred, so I called our endeavor Project Hundo. A day or two later, probably over wing night, I am talking to Amanda, and I tell her about this “project”, and she says she’s in.

We’ve known each other forever, 35 years. I can say almost anything and not offend her. We both listen to podcasts – she on her long commute and me at my job where I where headphones, so no one talks to me. I have listened to a variety of topics and even found some So, why not make a podcast for real bitches like us (bitches includes men)?

-Krista

Body Positivity, Getting Healthy, & Starting a Podcast: A Note from Amanda

Posted on October 7, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

I am so fucking into the increased focus on body positivity in social media. Seriously. I love it. Seeing women that look like me having confidence and killing it out there gives me life. I would like to personally high five each and every one of them whilst declaring my love, but I am uncoordinated to point of being a mediocre high-fiver at best.

Here’s the thing though: I don’t have that confidence. I’ve not learned to accept and love myself as is. I realized how much of a problem this is when I had to hype myself up to wear a sleeveless t-shirt in 90 degree weather. Some introspection was in order.

The root of the problem is this: I’m just not healthy. I do not subscribe in any way, shape or form to the idea that you have to be thin to be healthy. Fuck that noise. If you’re active, feel good, have energy, and your blood sugar, cholesterol, etc. are in line – live your life! Keep slaying! That’s not me, though. I’m always tired, my back is a bit wonky, my feet hurt, and bending is terrible and I hate it. I feel like a shell of myself. And I’m donezo. Can’t stand it anymore.

Recently Krista told me she and her husband were starting Project Hundo – the goal being that they both loose 50 pounds. That’s not the amount any of the charts would tell them they ought to loose, it’s the amount they feel would be a significant enough overall change in their health. Krista asked me if I wanted in, and I said sure. Am I trying to lose weight? Yes. I’d like to be able to paint my own toenails again. If I don’t lose a ton, but gain flexibility and mobility back enough to paint them – that’s a mother fucking win!

I have a hell of a commute and like to listen to podcasts on my drive. After signing on for the beta version of Project Hundo, I decided to find some general health and wellness podcasts that I could get into. I quickly found that I do not respond well to the sort of upbeat, hyper positive, motivational platitudes that are often found in any…well, anything about getting healthy. Having known Krista for 35 years, I know she is a sarcastic bitch, too, and would feel the same way. We need humor, self deprecation, and room to complain while we work on kicking ass. We realized we need to make the podcast we want to listen to.

Which brings us here. Plotting out a podcast that will be full of triumphs, failures, experimentation, learning, and most importantly, laughter. Mostly at ourselves. Because we are ridiculous. We’re inviting everyone on our adventure. There have to be other people out there who aren’t necessarily looking to diet, just eat better and get moving again, but maybe aren’t 100% convinced or happy about it. Join us as we try to regain our vim and vigor, and very possibly bitch about it the entire time!

We have no idea what we’re doing…but we’ll have fun doing it.

-Amanda

Before We Begin:

Posted on August 18, 2019 by projecthundopodcast

What does being healthy mean to you? To Krista and Amanda, it means getting back to tying your shoes without making weird noises, being more active, and maybe simmering down on the Twizzlers. Project Hundo is an upcoming podcast for people who recoil at motivational quote memes, but still want to work on their overall well being. It’s getting healthy with a sense of humor.

Project Hundo Podcast:

Reluctantly Getting Healthy