Month: February 2010

Blender waffles

My waffle maker made a rare appearance this weekend! I haven’t used it in probably 6 months. I was reminded of a recipe I made last year, and it didn’t disappoint. This recipe is adapted from Spark People I ended up sauteing a banana in 

Breakfast stir fry?

Have you ever woken up and decided you don’t really feel like a “breakfasty” kind of meal. No pancakes, no oatmeal, no cereal, I want something different! So, this is what I made for my breakfast: 1 cup cooked quinoa sugar snap peas red onion, 

New smoothie

When I went to the store last weekend, I found in the freezer section all sorts of flavors of Goya Brand Fruit Pulps. Flavors like papaya, pineapple, passion fruit, etc… For each 1/2 cup its only 39 calories. So I picked up the passion fruit 

Healthy Banana Bread + Give-a-Way!

I adapted this recipe from “Eat Better America”. I LOVE banana bread, and like Christina, we always have bananas in our freezer! The one thing I did change was instead of walnuts, I added chocolate chips. I also used Nevella, which is a new brand 

Sofrito!

Sofrito!

Look at how beautiful that is. Up until yesterday, I had no idea what sofrito was. I bought a container of what I thought was green salsa, and upon getting home, I actually read the label/ It is green pepper, red pepper, onion, garlic, culantro, 

Sweet & Spicy Stir Fry   + Mystery fruit!

Sweet & Spicy Stir Fry + Mystery fruit!

I had worked up an appetite for lunch today. I spent like 4 hours deep cleaning. I even pulled out my oven and cleaned under/behind that…yuck! Since I hadn’t gone the store yet, I was thinking about what to make with what little I had 

Kicked up noodle soup

Kicked up noodle soup

First of all, when I got into work yesterday, I had this nice big blue canvas bag on my desk, and I immediately knew what it was. Pirates Booty!!! It was filled with big and small bags of Pirates booty! The boyfriend of a co-worker 

Food Finds

Food Finds

As much as I love making foods from scratch, let’s face it, life sometimes gets in the way and you need stuff on hand as a healthy back up. While I was at the store the other day, I picked up a few things I 

Mmmmm…..chili

Mmmmm…..chili

Chili is usually reserved for my husband to make. It’s his specialty, but usually we do that on Super Bowl, or on Halloween. I never really thought about making it during the week. I was looking through a huge binder of recipes I’ve clipped out 

Easy Chicken Parm

Easy Chicken Parm

My sister always cooks chicken parm all the time, but I rarely think of it, but tonight it sounded really good! I cooked Whole Wheat angel hair pasta, I had a jar of Barilla garlic flavored tomato sauce, I had some chicken tenders in the 

Southwest chicken wraps

Southwest chicken wraps

The other night, after coming home from work, I had no idea what to make for dinner. I looked in the freezer and saw that I had frozen chicken tenders (boneless and skinless), so I decided to just throw those into a skillet. I was 

Nevella Chocolate Chip Muffins

Has anyone seen this new sweetener at the store yet? I was picking up a few things the other night, and happened to see this on sale. It’s a sugar free, calorie free sweetener, good for diabetics, and you can actually use it for baking 

Spicy  Carrot Soup/Biggest Loser Re-Cap

Spicy Carrot Soup/Biggest Loser Re-Cap

It snowed for over 24 hours in the Chicago area and we have LOTS of snow! I think its pretty though! So here is a nice soup for when its cold and windy outside! I always have a ton of carrots lying around, so I 

Won ton Purses/Won Ton Soup

Won ton Purses/Won Ton Soup

I remember watching a throw down with Bobby Flay where he challenged this woman to a pot sticker throw down. I LOVE pot stickers, and since I had left over won ton wrappers, this dish was created. Using a tip my sister used where she 

What’s for a special treat? + Biggest Loser update

What’s for a special treat? + Biggest Loser update

This is what I get asked pretty much every night after dinner by my kids! When they were younger, it would be yogurt, or a piece of fruit, but somehow over the years, its changed to cookies, or a little ice cream, etc… I purposely 

Smoothies

Smoothies

I know I’ve posted smoothies a lot on this blog. I think for me, its such a great way to get more veggies/fruits in PLUS they taste so awesome! I decided to enter my favorite smoothie into Calorie Count to see how many calories it 

How to make Pozole Rojo

How to make Pozole Rojo

I went all out on tonight’s dinner and it was so much fun! I have to thank my co-worker Lilly for telling me about this recipe! My sister had made a Mexican soup last week which included hominy. Now, I’ve passed the cans of hominy