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Turkey Meatballs with Marinara

Written By: Chris - Feb• 04•12

This meal was inspired by Bill’s request… He was hungry for “bigger” meatballs.  My goal was to make a flavorful, but low “point” (Weight Watchers Points Plus) meal since yesterday I over did it a bit and with a cold – just didn’t feel like going to the gym this morning download apps voor ios!

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I served this dish with a side salad (recipe to follow) and Spanakopita… a favorite side from Costco (2 points per meatball and 2 points per delicious Triangle.  A flaky phyllo sheet treat – layered with a savory spinach and feta cheese filling.)

Ingredients:
I pound of ground Turkey
I large Onion, chopped
1 1/2 Cups red, yellow and orange Peppers, chopped
3 Tablespoons Vegetable oil
1/3 Cup Egg Beaters
1 medium Zucchini, grated
1/3 Cup Fresh Basil, chopped
1 Cup Seasoned, dried Bread Crumbs
Salt & Pepper to taste
Fresh (frozen) Tomatoes (roughly 2 1/2 Cups)
3 Garlic cloves, pressed
1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
3 Tablespoons Worcestershire Sauce
1/3 Cup Xylitol (sugar substitute)
Remaining 1/3 of Onion, Pepper & Basil mixture
Salt & Pepper to taste

Saute Onions in Oil until transparent anstoss 3. If pan becomes dry, add a little water at a time to continue cooking until soft. Add red, yellow and orange Peppers and cook for about two minutes longer.  Add chopped fresh Basil bmw inpa download deutsch kostenlos win 10.

Turn off heat and set aside until somewhat cooled.

To assemble meatballs:
Add 2/3 of the cooked onion and pepper (Basil) mixture to Turkey.  Add 2/3 of the Zucchini, egg beaters and dried Breadcrumbs.  Salt & Pepper sims 3 free mobile phone.

Form meatballs a bit larger than a golf ball (divide mixture to 15 meatballs)

 

Cook meatballs over medium heat in Oil turning to brown all edges Download vavoo for free.

To Prepare Marinara Sauce:
(I always throw Tomatoes into a bag in the freezer once they start to become too soft. This is a great way to preserve the Fresh taste of summer Tomatoes all year-long making beautifully fresh-tasting sauces later)

In the food processor, add thawed Tomatoes, a remainder of the Onion & Pepper mixture, Sugar substitute, Worcestershire, Salt & Pepper and Puree until smooth dress gyro app.

Remove meatballs from fry pan and place into 9 X 9 cake pan, which has been sprayed with cooking spray.

Add Tomato Puree to the drippings from the meatballs, add crushed Garlic and stir over low heat cooking Garlic slightly while loosening pan drippings minecraft pocket edition for free in full version german.

Bake covered with Foil 350 Convection oven for 30 minutes.  While meatballs are cooking, prepare Salad and Dressing (recipe to follow)…  Once meatballs are cooked, uncover and sprinkle with Cheese.  Bake uncovered an additional 10-20 minutes and place Spanakopita into an oven on baking stone and bake until it is browned and done herunterladen.

 

Spoon Meatballs on the plate with some of the additional sauce amazon musicen.

Serve with a side salad and your favorite glass of wine.  We chose a delicious Beringer, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon herunterladen!

ENJOY!

CHEERS!
~Chris

Weight Watchers Points Plus Value: 15 Meatballs, 2 points each including sauce.

 

 

 

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Buffalo Chicken Mac ‘N Cheese

Written By: Chris - Feb• 02•12

This dish was created with some of our favorite flavors found leftover on hand in the fridge.  I combined leftover Broasted Chicken and Al dente’ pasta, along with some perfectly delicious extra’s on hand.  Since I’m watching my points, I was able to keep the Weight Watchers count to a minimum while the rest of the family enjoyed it just as much not even knowing it was somewhat healthy herunterladen!

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Ingredients:
3 to 4 Cups of par-cooked Pasta
3 to 4 Cups of shredded white and dark Chicken off the bone (all skin removed and discarded)
1 Tablespoons Oil
3 Tablespoons Butter divided
2 Cups chopped Celery including some of the soft leaves within the core
1 Cup chopped Onion
1 teaspoon Celery Salt
3 Tablespoons of Paprika
1/3 Cup of left over prepared Chicken gravy
2 cloves of smashed Garlic
3 Cups chopped Spinach
I try to add healthy optional vegetables such as Spinach because when chopped small they go unnoticed and the added benefits of the dark leafy greens are endless (And Zero Points value on the Weight Watchers Plus)


Salt & Pepper to taste (fresh ground)
3 Tablespoons flour
3 teaspoons dry Mustard
1 ½ Cups of Almond (Silk) Milk
1 Cup 1% Milk
1 Cup Franks Hot Sauce
1 Tablespoon crumbled Blue Cheese
¼ Cup of semi-soft Goat Cheese
1 ¼ Cup of shredded Cheddar Cheese
1/2 Cups of Panko Bread Crumbs
1 Cup of seasoned Bread Crumbs

Preheat oven to 400

Add celery and onion to oil and one tablespoon of butter into the bottom of pot.  Add celery salt, paprika, and garlic and saute until soft herunterladen.

  

Remove from pot and set aside Download youtube video on iphone.

Add left over gravy and flour to the bottom of pot and cook over med heat for about two minutes. Add dry mustard and garlic.  Cook for a few minutes before adding milk and almond milk.  Stirring occasionally while the milk simmers and thickens instagram lässt sich nicht herunterladen.

Add the blue cheese and goat cheese stirring until completely dissolved.

Stir back in the onions and celery.  Then add the cheddar cheese and mix until melted.  Add Franks hot sauce youtube movies download program.

 

Turn off heat.  Add in chopped chicken, spinach and the cooked pasta mixing gently fleetboard herunterladen.

Place mixture into a 9 X 13 cake pan (I used two smaller 8 X 8 to make dishes for two nights), which has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.  In a small bowl, melt two tablespoons of butter and then mix with the bread crumb combination.  Sprinkle over the top and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until top is browned and sides are bubbling microsoft excel chip kostenlos.

If you prefer less “hot”, use less Franks Hot Sauce.

Points Plus Values: 6 per serving.  14 servings (about one heaping Cup each)

Serve with your favorite wine and enjoy herunterladen!

 

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Cheers!
~Chris

 

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Szechuan style Green Beans

Written By: Chris - Jan• 30•12

One of my favorite side dishes is green beans; especially spicy and sweet Szechuan style!

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I use about one pound of fresh french style green beans.  I par-cook them by boiling them for about 5-6 minutes in a pot of lightly salted water.  Depending on how you prefer your texture, you can stop the cooking process by placing them immediately in a bowl of ice water vdownloader gratis downloaden.

 

Then toss them in the prepared Szechuan sauce herunterladen.

Ingredients:

1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil
2 large cloves of Garlic
1 T ginger (ground fresh) for convenience, look for the herbs in a paste form in a tube near the fresh herbs download comodo web filter database. They last a long time.
1/4 Cup Soy sauce
1/4 cup of Rice wine vinegar
2 Tablespoons of Xylitol sugar substitute (or sugar)
2 Tablespoons of Hot Chili sauce/paste
1 teaspoon of Oyster sauce
1 teaspoon of Chili oil
1 Tablespoon of Sesame oil
2-4 Tablespoons of Hoisin sauce (to taste)
3 Tablespoons of fresh Cilantro – chopped
1 T fresh flat leaf Parsley chopped
2 Tablespoons of chunky sugar-free peanut butter
dash of salt
fresh ground black pepper

Saute Garlic in oil over low heat until light brown.  Be careful not to scorch.  Add Ginger download car racing for pc for free.
Slowly add in Soy sauce & Rice wine vinegar.
Add Xylitol and mix until dissolved.
Add hot Chili sauce/paste, Oyster sauce, Chili & Sesame Oils and the Hoisin kaspersky herunterladen kostenlos.
Add peanut butter, salt & pepper and stir until mixed.


Last add the fresh Cilantro & Parsley

In a fry pan, gently mix and toss the sauce with cooked green beans you have to download fortnite.

Enjoy with your favorite glass of Zinfandel herunterladen!

Cheers!
~Chris

 

 

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Spectacular Shrimp & lobster Pizza!

Written By: Chris - Jan• 29•12

This is one of the first dishes my friend Jen and I documented together during the preparation process.  (March, 2010)

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This recipe was in inspiration from a pizza that Bill and I had eaten at one of the local restaurants in St lange youtube videos herunterladen. Helena, CA.

Start with your favorite pizza dough. (Trader Joes is great and all you have to do is roll it out) par-bake it on a lightly oiled pizza stones kassensysteme kostenlos downloaden. Smear the dough with a bit of olive oil and sprinkle with fresh cut Thyme.

Slice a whole lemon (with the rind on) very thin… bath it in a thin layer of tempura batter (flour, corn starch, lemon juice, milk, paprika) and fry in a single layer shallow pan of vegetable oil turning just once and until golden brown apps downloaden ohne anmeldung. Remove and cool on paper towels. (cut into fourths)

Slice a whole sweet onion very thin. Caramelize in olive oil/butter cooking long and slow. (I start with oil and continually add small amounts of water in a non-stick pan adobe flash player für chromeen. As it renders down just let brown and add/toss continually – then when they are browned thoroughly, I give a quick hot sear to add texture.) Set aside to cool samsung fernseher disney plus app herunterladen.

Remove oil from fry pan, leaving just a little, while adding a bit of butter and fresh garlic to par-saute the shrimp. (don’t let get cooked through or they will get tough) Then set aside download panzer general for free.

After the crust is par-baked, sprinkle about a cup of shredded mozzarella cheese evenly on the crust. Next sprinkle about ½ cup of fresh chiffonad (chopped thin slices) spinach, then evenly lay out the lemons, cleaned, de-veined and tails removed – shrimp (one package), next evenly place the lobster frutiger schrift herunterladen. Season with a little salt & pepper. On top of that, spread another cup or so of mozzarella and top with the caramelized onions. Top with a bit of the fresh Thyme anno free full version.

Add baby lobsters (Homarus americanus) that I found at Trader Joe’s. They come frozen shelled and pre-cooked… thaw and set aside trials fusion stretch. We also pulled them apart to be loose little pieces, rather than placing them on the pizza in a “chunk”.

Bake at 400 until golden brown on top and the crust reaches your desired crunch! Sorry, we drank some great red wine while enjoying all of the puttsing and camaraderie in the kitchen and didn’t watch the clock! Bill is my biggest cheerleader and always willing to give his suggestions or taste tests! Enjoying the kitchen with he and my friends is what I live for…

Enjoy!

Cheers!
~Chris & Jen

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Seafood Chowder

Written By: Chris - Jan• 29•12

This dish was created because I don’t love left over fish… I used Cod and Tilapia.  Then added some fresh shrimp…  Re-heating fish just doesn’t cut it even if you like left-overs!  But in the soup… it is amazing amazon movies pc!

(I borrowed this image, but mine looked very similar!)

Perfect Fall food… or any time!

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Ingredients:
2-4 tablespoons olive oil
2-4 tablespoons Butter
2 14 oz. cans of Chicken broth (or fresh Chicken stock)
4-6 celery stalks with leaves cleaned chopped in to small pieces
I huge sweet onion chopped
3 carrots peeled and chopped
Salt
Freshly ground pepper
4 large size garlic clove smashed
3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
3 ‘ish vine ripened tomatoes, chopped small
Chopped fresh parsley
2 sprigs Rosemary (chopped)
2 sprigs marjoram
Peperoncino (fresh) or 2 T red pepper flakes
14 oz can of artichoke hearts cut small
Zest of orange or 2 T orange juice
I small package Brie
1 ½ C smashed acorn squash (thickens soup)
dash of cinnamon
1 ½ C Sour cream
2 T flour to thicken
2 T cocktail sauce
3 C or more Sauvignon Blanc (reserve two glasses for you and a friend)
4 large fillets of firm white fish, such as Cod or Tilapia cut into small pieces warcraft 3 kostenlos downloaden deutsch. (I use left over cooked and added it at the very end)
6-8 large Raw shrimp (tails off and cut into pieces – add near the end of simmer and don’t over cook)

In a large stock pot over medium high heat add olive oil & Butter, onion, adding carrots, garlic and celery when onions begin to become transparent… add other ingredients and add small amounts of broth to keep from burning Download video from facebook on iphone. Continue to simmer, add cheese (Brie) and wine

Cover stockpot with a lid and cook for 2 to 3 minutes until shrimp is cooked through. Taste and season music cost-effectively.

Enjoy with Sauvignon Blanc!  Our favorite is CROZE!

Enjoy herunterladen!

Cheers!
~Chris

 

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