If you would like to share a healthy recipe with me, send it to me and I will gladly credit you and post it here! Please include calorie or point calculations, if you have them. If not, we can figure them out. I love to try new, easy, healthy recipes! So please share, or even any helpful tips you have discovered!
J
Monday, November 3, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Easy Risotto
1/3 cup thinly sliced onion(can use 3 green onions)
butter flavored cooking spray
2/3 cup arborio or long grain rice
2 cups water
1 teaspoon chicken boullion granules
dash pepper
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Traditional method: Spray medium saucepan well and cook onion until tender but not brown. Spray again and add uncooked rice. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Carefully stir in water, boullion, and pepper. Bring to boiling, reduce heat. Cover and simmer 20 minutes without lifting cover. Remove from heat, let stand, covered, 5 minutes. Rice should be tender, but slightly firm, and the mixture should be creamy. If necessary, stir in extra water to make it creamy. Stir in Parmesan. 2.5 points per 1/2 cup.
I have a food and rice steamer and this is another method....Steamer method: place 1 cup rice to 2 cups water in rice bowl. Add boullion and pepper. Place rice bowl in steamer basket and steam for 50 minutes. When time is up, check to make sure it has the right consistency, adding water if necessary, and add Parmesan. Sorry, no picture yet...
butter flavored cooking spray
2/3 cup arborio or long grain rice
2 cups water
1 teaspoon chicken boullion granules
dash pepper
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
Traditional method: Spray medium saucepan well and cook onion until tender but not brown. Spray again and add uncooked rice. Cook and stir 2 minutes more. Carefully stir in water, boullion, and pepper. Bring to boiling, reduce heat. Cover and simmer 20 minutes without lifting cover. Remove from heat, let stand, covered, 5 minutes. Rice should be tender, but slightly firm, and the mixture should be creamy. If necessary, stir in extra water to make it creamy. Stir in Parmesan. 2.5 points per 1/2 cup.
I have a food and rice steamer and this is another method....Steamer method: place 1 cup rice to 2 cups water in rice bowl. Add boullion and pepper. Place rice bowl in steamer basket and steam for 50 minutes. When time is up, check to make sure it has the right consistency, adding water if necessary, and add Parmesan. Sorry, no picture yet...
Pumpkin Muffins
I have requests to post pictures of these, so here we are again...
One cake mix(I love carrot, but you can use any kind!)
1/2 cup water
1 small can pumpkin(pure, not pie mix)
Mix ingredients together and place in muffin tins. Bake about 10 minutes longer than the box instuctions.
Makes 24 small muffins for 1 point each, or you can make 12 LARGE muffins at 2 points each. They can be served at room temperature, or while still warm with a dollop of fat free whipped cream and taste just like warm pumpkin pie! They freeze well, I like to make two batches at once with a large can of pumpkin(just split the can in half if you are making two different flavors)and freeze them for later. Picture is one chocolate and one made with yellow cake mix.
One cake mix(I love carrot, but you can use any kind!)
1/2 cup water
1 small can pumpkin(pure, not pie mix)
Mix ingredients together and place in muffin tins. Bake about 10 minutes longer than the box instuctions.
Makes 24 small muffins for 1 point each, or you can make 12 LARGE muffins at 2 points each. They can be served at room temperature, or while still warm with a dollop of fat free whipped cream and taste just like warm pumpkin pie! They freeze well, I like to make two batches at once with a large can of pumpkin(just split the can in half if you are making two different flavors)and freeze them for later. Picture is one chocolate and one made with yellow cake mix.
"Breaded" Chicken
nonstick spray 4 chicken breast fillets
spray butter
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp garlic salt
2 tsp parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp bread crumbs
Preheat oven to 425 and spray baking dish with nonstick spray. Mix together spices and parmesan with bread crumbs. Place chicken breast pieces in dish and spray with spray butter. Sprinkle breadcrumb mixture on top, then spray with spray butter again. Bake for 45 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink inside.
3 points per breast. The breadcrumbs and Parmesan add 50 calories to the whole recipe, about 12.5 cal per breast, but it still counts as a 3, (my chicken breast fillets are 120 cal each.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Garlic Butter Fish
3 fillets of any kind of fish(I used whiting in the picture below with the roasted potatoes)
spray butter
1/8 teaspoon parsley
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
cooking spray
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a baking pan and place fillets in pan. Spray with 5 sprays of the spray butter, then sprinkle parsley and garlic salt on top. Bake for about 30 minutes or until the fish is all white and flakes easily with a fork.
spray butter
1/8 teaspoon parsley
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
cooking spray
Preheat oven to 350. Spray a baking pan and place fillets in pan. Spray with 5 sprays of the spray butter, then sprinkle parsley and garlic salt on top. Bake for about 30 minutes or until the fish is all white and flakes easily with a fork.
3 ounces of whiting is 2 points.
Monday, October 20, 2008
A Note about Fish
I did NOT grow up liking fish. Not real fish, occasionally we had fish sticks, but never the real thing. Then when I was pregnant for the second time, I really wanted to eat fish, no other meat settled well in my stomach. So I forced myself to learn how to cook it and learned that you can buy fillets with no skin or bones(Hallelujah!!!) and now our entire family loves it! So try something new, make sure you kids see you enjoying it, maybe they will like it too!
Roasted Potatoes
These are my son's favorite "tomatoes!" He can never get tomatoes and potatoes straight! He does not like any other type of potatoes(except french fries, which totally don't count,) but asks for these almost every night! Totally kid-friendly and diet friendly, too!
6 lg potatoes, any kind
olive oil flavored cooking spray(or whatever you have)
1 Tablespoon garlic salt
2 teaspoons cumin
3 teaspoons paprika
Preheat oven to 400. Spray an 11x7" or roasting pan really well with the cooking spray. Mix together the 3 spices, set aside. Scrub the potatoes really well, (don't peel) and cut into about 1" cubes. Parboil them(this means boil them for 8 minutes or so until they are partially cooked, be careful not to boil them much longer than 8 minutes or they will be too soft.) Then drain and shake around in the strainer a bit(bang them about just a little.) Place potatoes into pan, then spray the tops of the potatoes with the cooking spray. Sprinkle half of the spice mixture over the potatoes. Stir the potatoes around, spray them again and sprinkle the rest of the spice mixture. Put in oven for about 20 minutes, then remove, spray the potatoes again and turn them over. Bake another 15 minutes or so until they are crispy. If you have a broiler and would like them done a little quicker, you can broil them at this point for 15 minutes or so to get that crispiness.
Crispy, but not hard, is the point. Be generous with the spray and respray every time you turn the potatoes, this is important. These are incredible hits with everyone I have ever made them for, however, they do not reheat well. 3 points for one cup of these. Serve with ketchup for the kiddos :) And one more tip: I know they are getting done soon when they start to make a high pitched noise and the surfaces are sizzling!
(Pictured with steamed zucchini and garlic butter fish.)
6 lg potatoes, any kind
olive oil flavored cooking spray(or whatever you have)
1 Tablespoon garlic salt
2 teaspoons cumin
3 teaspoons paprika
Preheat oven to 400. Spray an 11x7" or roasting pan really well with the cooking spray. Mix together the 3 spices, set aside. Scrub the potatoes really well, (don't peel) and cut into about 1" cubes. Parboil them(this means boil them for 8 minutes or so until they are partially cooked, be careful not to boil them much longer than 8 minutes or they will be too soft.) Then drain and shake around in the strainer a bit(bang them about just a little.) Place potatoes into pan, then spray the tops of the potatoes with the cooking spray. Sprinkle half of the spice mixture over the potatoes. Stir the potatoes around, spray them again and sprinkle the rest of the spice mixture. Put in oven for about 20 minutes, then remove, spray the potatoes again and turn them over. Bake another 15 minutes or so until they are crispy. If you have a broiler and would like them done a little quicker, you can broil them at this point for 15 minutes or so to get that crispiness.
Crispy, but not hard, is the point. Be generous with the spray and respray every time you turn the potatoes, this is important. These are incredible hits with everyone I have ever made them for, however, they do not reheat well. 3 points for one cup of these. Serve with ketchup for the kiddos :) And one more tip: I know they are getting done soon when they start to make a high pitched noise and the surfaces are sizzling!(Pictured with steamed zucchini and garlic butter fish.)
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