Not more plain diet food... Please!

I grow tired of hearing people in my country talking about this diet or the other, ugh! For a food lover like me that was a sacrilege! Can you imagine that? People all over the place talking about how eating boiled organic chicken was the solution to loose those 2 extra pounds and here I was eating everything I found in my way and loosing all the extra weight at any wished moment, but then I got pregnant and people started telling me how I would be fat for a few months after my daughter was born, but not to worry, "you will only need the diet of the moment and you will be fine in a few months...." A few months of eating boiled chicken????    O_o    no way! If I gained weight, I will find a different way to get back to a healthy me without sacrificing my biggest love ( well my second because my daughter became number one,) so I was really afraid of what was coming my way; little did i know, every body works differently, and during my pregnancy I just didn't like food anymore, I just ate fruits and salads, as long as it was raw and very natural, I craved it. All the yummy cooking that was happening thanks to my family just didn't appeal to me any longer, so instead of gaining weigh I may say I lost weight and when my daughter was born, we were both very healthy.

What I didn't know was, that much later all that weight will come at me, with vengeance; so I not only doubled my size but, between my daughter's 10th and 20th birthday, I became obese. This time i was ready to figure out all these diets I heard so much about and create something suitable, to my taste, and that wouldn't  become a yo yo story for me. I learned about many chefs doing a grilled piece of protein (beef, chicken, fish, lamb... You name it) covering it with a sauce and charging a lot of money for it, so I thought "I can cook for myself ," to be very honest, I stopped eating carbs and became a salad friendly entertainer.

Here I will offer a Tapenade recipe I learnt from a class at Don Ignacio Culinary School (yes, I love food so much I took classes.) I use this tapenade to top protein, or to give my greens some flavor when I get tired of eating simple salad and  protein. 

For me it has a chorizo kind of flavor..... You try it and let me know.

Kalamata Tapenade

8 oz jar pitted kalamata olives

3 oz smoked sun dried tomatoes

7 garlic cloves (I like it very garlicky if you don't like that much garlic put 1 or 2)

1/4 cup of olive oil

Preparation:

Put the olives, sun dried tomatoes and garlic in a food processor or blender ( I have done it with a knife, very rustic finish.... And, delicious) , process while you pour the olive oil in a continuous stream, mix until reaching a consistency you like, depending on what I will use it that day I chop it more hearthy or to a cream point almost hummus like.

Voila there it is! I use it mostly sprinkled over my salad but you can eat it with whatever you may think of, right now I invite you to try on your favorite food.... Enjoy.