Thai Chicken Cups are the Good and Good for You supper you need on a hot day.
Cold suppers on hot days are luxurious. Well, it’s time. Break out luxury. We’ve hit summer food season. It’s time for less cooking, less heat in the kitchen, less fuss over food, and more simplicity that makes your body feel fed and refreshed.
This recipe for Thai Chicken Cups is a simple combination of ground chicken, zesty herbs, and bright flavors. It’s fantastic to make ahead and perfect for a cold supper.
This issue also shares
- The Best Life Living Tip: How to manage perfection paralysis. 👋🏻
- The Self-Care Technique: Quit calling it yoga. Let’s call it stretching.🧘♂️
- Ideas and Inspiration: Rushing the rapids with self-confidence.🛶
Read on for more — including this awesome recipe for make-ahead Thai Chicken Cups.
Best Life Living Tip
Cold suppers might be great, but perfectionism freezes us.
It prevents us from moving ahead. In small doses, aiming for perfection can be a motivating force that pushes us to reach for the best. It can help us stay focused, work hard, and concentrate on our goals. But, too much and perfectionism becomes an icy cage that keeps us from fulfilling our potential.
Perfectionism, procrastination, and paralysis all go hand in hand according to Psychology Today. “Perfectionism believes if it isn’t perfect, it’s horrible. While aiming high can help us become successful, aiming for perfection sets goals always beyond our reach.”
Perfection paralysis is born from anxiety. You’re too scared to fail so you don’t do anything which is then followed by dooming shame.
Candidly, perfection paralysis can be my Achilles Heel, especially when it comes to financial self-care. I can become frozen and overwhelmed. It’s terrible, but I work on it every single day and have made huge strides.
Tips for overcoming perfection paralysis
- Set up realistic goals. Learn what you are capable of and have that be your guide.
- Treat yourself with grace and kindness.
- Surround yourself with positive support.
- Avoid all-or-nothing thinking.
- Remember, progress is progress no matter how small.
- Use your breathing techniques and realize it will not kill you, it only feels like it.
Self-Care Technique
Images like the one above are what scare many folks about yoga. Like, “If I am in that position it is because I am being held hostage.” This position says “far from calm” for a lot of people.
So, if you haven’t tried it or are scared of it, you should just think of yoga as stretching. Yoga has long been a part of my self-care technique — even when I was much heavier and less health conscious.
Yoga is for everyone.
With a sarcastic nod and a wink, WebMd states, “You don’t have to be flexible, fit, or comfortable wearing spandex to practice yoga. You don’t have to be young, wealthy, or able-bodied. You don’t even need a ton of free time. You can practice yoga in a wheelchair, at home in your pajamas, or in as little as 5-minute slices of time. ”
That’s pretty much anybody!
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Yoga on YouTube
If you like yoga, yay you! However, you may think you always need to go to a studio, too. How easy is it to shove back the coffee table and do 10 minutes at the end of a long day?
Yoga can be easy, it doesn’t have to be hard. It can be a part of your life.
Options include giving a local studio a try or pulling up a video on YouTube. My weekly yoga practice is courtesy of Sarah Beth Yoga (and I also like Yoga with Adrien.)
You can do it!
Ideas and Inspiration
North Carolina’s Evy Leibfarth aka @evykayak on Instagram is the Olympian of the week. According to the Human Rights Campaign Fund, she is one of the record-setting 186 queer athletes at the 2024 Olympics.
In a Teen Vogue story she shares the first person she told about her bi-sexuality no longer wanted to be friends. She says this experience put her back in the metaphorical closet, nervous that being open would only add to the pressure of competing.
“There were a couple of queer paddlers who really inspired me and showed [me] that [your sexuality] has nothing to do with your athletic performance, but it’s really great to be in a space where you feel accepted,” she says.
“There’s so much stress around sports, just being able to not worry about who I am feels so powerful,” she says. “I hope that my career will inspire others to be very authentically themselves.”
Thanks, Evy, for your leadership and love. How wonderful it is to be who we are and want to be. Good luck in the 2024 Olympic Games!
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This recipe for Thai Chicken Cups cold supper comes in at right under 250 calories and 4 WW points per serving. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading.
Bon Appétit Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Thai Chicken Cups
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 2 cups cold water more if needed
- 2 cups fresh mint leaves washed and dried
- 1 cup fresh cilantro leaves washed and dried
- 3/4 cup unsalted roasted peanuts
- Juice of 2 limes
- 3 tablespoons fish sauce
- 4 Thai red chiles or to taste, seeded and finely chopped
- 2 shallots very thinly sliced (about a1/2 cup)
- 3 green onions chopped
- 1 cup carrot matchsticks or 3 carrots, grated
- 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh ginger
- 1 head cabbage cored, leaves separated
Instructions
- Place the chicken in a small saucepan. Add cold water to cover (about 2 cups). Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to maintain a simmer. Cook gently, breaking up the chicken with a wooden spoon as it cooks, until the chicken is opaque, 5 to 7 minutes. (Skim the foam that rises to the top while cooking. It’s simply coagulated protein and doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the chicken.)
- Remove the chicken from the heat and drain well, reserving the cooking liquid for another use. (You can use it as a light stock to cook with or even season it and sip it.) Transfer the well-drained chicken to a medium bowl and set aside to cool just slightly.
- Add the mint, cilantro, peanuts, lime juice, fish sauce, chiles, shallots, green onions, carrot, and ginger. Stir to combine. To serve, spoon a few tablespoons or so of the larb into a cabbage leaf, fold the cabbage leaf somewhat like a taco, and eat.
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