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 …
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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
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
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
Busy Saturday!
Lots of errands today! So, I haven’t spent much time in the kitchen. Right now I am planning out my meals for next week, and go to the grocery store later. One thing I am excited about making for dinner tomorrow is a Mexican soup …
Pork chops and easy rice dish
When I got home from work, the only kind of meat I had in the fridge was a 2.5 pound pork tenderloin….and it was almost 6 o’clock. No time to roast that baby, so I decided I would cut it into pork chops and cook …
Kreativ Blogger award!
I have to thank Kristi for bestowing this award to me! Thanks Kristi! If you haven’t been over to her site, she also has healthy dishes, with nutritional value/weight watchers points! So, now I have to tell you 7 things you may not know about …
Turkey Kielbasa vegetable stew
Thanks to Jessie and Michael of Chef Fresco, I tried a new recipe they made using sausage and veggies. I love trying new recipes. Usually when I make something new, I just wait and see if my family says anything. Sometimes they do, sometimes they …
Home made rolls/quiche in a bread bowl!
Thanks to Dave at Year on the Grill and Cathy at Noble pig, I tried out both of their recipes. Cathy posted a recipe for an egg that was cooked in a bread bowl. Dave went one step further by making his own rolls! The …
Batter-Fried Chicken
While re-reading a Cook’s Country Magazine from last summer, I came across a recipe for battered fried chicken. Now, I know what you are thinking…how is that healthy? Well, it’s not! About once every other month I will deep fry something, and that frying happens …
My lunchtime dilemma this week…..
For some reason, I have not brought a lunch to work all week. Which, for me, is unheard of. I LOVE spending time the night before making healthy food, planning things out. But, I just haven’t done it this week. Which is kind of like …
Banana chocolate chip muffins
Every month at my office, we celebrate birthdays/anniversary’s. I almost always bake something, and even though I’ve made banana chocolate chip muffins I wanted to make a different version. So I googled “banana muffins” and this recipe was the first one to pop up and …
My favorite baked potato soup ever!!!
Before I get into this recipe, I wanted to mention that it turned out the Special K package I got in the mail, they wanted to give the same thing to one of my readers! So, I picked a number from one of the comments …
I challenge you…to make homemade bread!
Up until about a year ago, I NEVER had made any homemade breads at all. The only reason? I was scared of the yeast! I never knew if I would kill it, mix the dough too much, how long does it have to rise? What …
Fresh Herb Dinner
Last weekend while watching Giada on Food TV, she made an herbed quinoa as a side dish and I thought it looked so good. I wanted to do the same thing, but I had a spaghetti squash I hadn’t eaten yet, so I decided to …
Special K package!
When I got home from work the other day, I had a BIG package waiting for me. I knew what it might be. I was asked if I would like to try a bunch of Special K products and I immediately said yes! Before this, …
Easy dinner when you are in a hurry or tired!!!
I get these smoked sausages pretty much every other week at the grocery store for a couple of reasons. 1). It’s cheap! Usually 2 for $5.00 and they are low in calories (1 serving is only 110 calories). I’ve been sick all week, just went …
Quiche for one
Believe it or not, but I am the only one in my family that likes quiche! I would make it all the time for dinner/brunch, but sadly that’s not the case. So, I decided to make my own quiche for one! I used 1 oz. …
Pot sticker pillows + Biggest Loser re-cap
I am re-posting this recipe because I love pot stickers so much! I think I could eat these every day and never get tired of them! The best thing about making these is that you can pretty much use up any extra veggies or protein …