Cilantro Shroom Eggs

So eggs are on of my favorite go to items in the fridge. This morning I was craving eggs over easy, but I didn't want eggs and toast or eggs and hash browns. I had la tortilla corn tortillas and this is the dish that I made this morning.

Time to Make: 10 minutes

INGREDIENTS:

la tortilla corn tortillas

Fresh cilantro

Laughing Cow light queso and chipotle spreadable cheese

Pico de gallo

Mushrooms, chopped

Minced garlic

Eggs

Olive oil

Sprouts (I prefer spicy sprouts)

DIRECTIONS:

In a small skillet heat about a tbs. of olive oil over medium heat. Once oil is warm add chopped cilantro leaves, mushrooms, and garlic. After you sauté this mixture remove from pan and set aside in a bowl. Place corn tortilla in pan until heated. Add about a tsp. olive oil

and crack your eggs and cook to desired egg preference. While eggs are cooking spread the Laughing Cow cheese on your tortilla (I use half on one tortilla) and add sprouts and pico de gallo. When eggs are finished, add them to the top of your tortilla. Last top with the mushroom mixture!

ENJOY!!

Garden Egg Fritata

I love this dish because it tastes so fresh and it's really simple, but it does take some time to bake so if you are starving then I suggest eating some fruit to hold you through!

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Bake Time: 60-90 minutes

Ingredients:

1 bag Simply Potatoes hash browns found by the Eggs

1/2 cup liquid egg whites

1/2 cup egg beaters

1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

1/2 cup reduced fat mozzarella cheese

1/2 cup diced mushrooms

1/4 minced clove garlic

2 Roma tomatoes diced

1/4 cup broccoli heads chopped

chopped spinach (amount to liking)

1/2 cup red onion finely diced

1 red bell pepper chopped

1/2 fresh jalapeno finely chopped

Olive oil the a round baking dish bottom and sides to prevent sticking.  Fill the dish half way with Simply Potatoes and then add all your veggies of choice and half of the cheeses. Mix together well and then add the rest of the hash browns and veggies mix in well.  now add the Egg Beaters and the Liquid Eggs until just covering the top of the hash brown mixture. 

Put in oven and set timer for 60 minutes.

At 60 minutes if the top of the middle of the fritata looks shiny then it needs to go in for another 30 minutes.  If this is completely done then you can stick a knife in the middle and come out without runny egg on it!

When you get this then top with cheese and melt. 

Let the Fritata sit for about 10 minutes and then serve!

ENJOY!



Food for Thought! Mushrooms!

Shrooms, Shrooms, Shrooms

Did you know how beneficial these little fungus' can be to your overall health?  Well, I most certainly didn't when I finally decided I would give them a real chance about six months ago.  I dice them up and add them into foods and can't even tell they are in there.  If you are a picky mushroom eater and don't like them, well just mince them up and add them into sauces that will overpower the taste.  If you sautee these little bad boys over a medium heat with some garlic and add into your dishes like even tacos, wow it will be amazing and mentally just tell yourself it's garlic!  :)

So here's a little information that I read in my Wellbella magazine about four different mushrooms and their four different benefits!  Go on and read even if you are still disgusted by eating FUNGI!!  hahaha

1. White Button: Fights bacteria and viruses, defends against tumor development
2. Maitake: Conveys super immunity, helps regulate blood sugar and improves insulin sensitivity.
3. Reishi: Boosts overall health and anti-aging, lowers cholesterol and blood pressure, eases allergies.
4. Shitake:  Cuts cholesterol, fights bacteria and viruses, lowers blood pressure, protects liver.



Baked Spaghetti with your Leftovers!

Hi out there to all my great people who are following this blog! I haven't posted any recipes in a few days because I've been going going going! This past weekend Lily,my beautiful 3 year old,and I decided Togo see Grandpa Gerald while he was driving the combine during corn harvest! It's always so nice to get back out to the country and remember what life was like when I was Lil's age. After riding a good three hours we decided to drive even further into the flat lands to Tribune, KS where JR, my husband is from. It was a nice surprise for his mom. We stayed overnight and then headed back to the mountains where home is for us! We got home and I really wasn't in the mood to cook, so I took the leftover Turkey spaghetti and grabbed a baking dish and dinner was done and different in 30 minutes!

Leftover Baked Spaghetti

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Olive oil the casserole baking dish

Fill spaghetti half way add some mozzarella & Parmesan cheese add the rest of the spaghetti to the casserole dish and top with Parmesan and mozzarella cheese, bake for thirty minutes and slice like pie!!

ENJOY!

Spaghetti with homemade sauce

Spaghetti Sauce Prep Time:  10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Noodles wih Boil Time: 30 minutes

Spaghetti sauces that you find sitting in your grocery stores shelves are loaded with preservatives and sodium. I'm guilty of using these shelved sauces, but can tell you that once I started to educate myself of the foods I was putting in my body and my family's bodies I have not used! So here's my theory on making your own sauce that tastes delicious and you can be proud of what you just made! The time that it takes to get a pot of water boiling and your spaghetti noodles cooked, you can have a homemade spaghetti sauce made with time to spare!

INGREDIENTS:

1lb. ground lean turkey breast or fresh ground sirloin

Fresh or freeze dried oregano (king soopers carries freeze dried herbs by there fresh herbs & salad section)

Fresh Italian parsley (chopped)

Garlic (minced, fresh/freeze dried)

Basil

1 15oz can diced tomatoes *no salt added* (be careful when buying canned tomatoes, they sell flavored that sound like they would be great in your dish, but many of these are loaded with high fructose corn syrup. Example Italian diced tomatoes)

1 box whole grain or the barilla yellow box with dha (has best life on box) spaghetti

2 cans tomato sauce *no salt added*

Olive oil

1 cup diced mushrooms

1/2 cup pureed carrots

DIRECTIONS:

fill a large pot with water and start over a medium high heat. Add a tbs olive oil to pot. Don't add spaghetti until the water is at a rolling boil

Add meat to a deep skillet with a tbs olive oil to prevent meat from sticking.

Add fresh herbs, spices, & mushrooms

Once the meat is cooked fully add carrot purée, tomato sauce

Follow the box instructions for the spaghetti. 

Mix the spaghetti noodles with the sauce or serve sauce over noodles whichever you prefer!

Voila it's done!

DIVERTITI!

Food for thought!

I really just wanted to tell somebody how much I love to be in my kitchen jamen to some classics from my days in school &?cooking! So many people I've met, some great some not so great, isn't that's what life is about friends+family=happiness & if this doesn't apply to you reading this then I hope you experience it so that then you are definate in which you prefer!

I'm currently in my kitchen making a turkey breast & ham steak that let's just say in fallacious!! Stay tuned for the recipe following very soon taste test!!

ENJOY!

Fajitas, Fajitas, Fajitas



Enjoy fajitas much, well this is my favorite Mexican meal and I'm going to tell you how to make a quick and easy dinner!  This is my sinless dinner!  It's so yummy and tastes to good to be good for you!  With my quick and easy pico de gallo recipe you don't need all the fattening add on's like sour cream and cheese!  However, I do have a few add on's that are easy switches if you like those textures and tastes!

PREP TIME: 15 minutes

Cook: 15 minutes

Ingredients:

Chicken Breast cut into strips ( 1lb for 2-3 people)

NY Strip or Sirloin Strip cut into strips ( 1 lb. for 2-3 people)

1 red, 1 yellow, 1 orange bell peppers cut into thin strips

1 fresh jalapeno diced (leave this out if you don't like spicy food)

Mrs. Dash EXTRA SPICY seasoning to flavor

Mrs. Dash SOUTHWEST CHIPOTLE seasoning to flavor

Cholula Original Seasoning to flavor

1 lime (zest and then cut into two halves)

extra virgin olive oil

1 white onion (cut in half and cut in strips save the other half for pico de gallo)

1/2 clove minced garlic

Pico De Gallo

5 Roma Tomatoes (Roma tomatoes are the easiest to dice into cupes)

fresh cilantro chopped

half of the lime

half of white onion diced

salt to taste

Toppings & Tortillas

La Tortilla Factory corn tortillas or flour tortillas

Greek Yogurt in place of sour cream

Laughing Cow Queso Fresco & Chipotle Light (35 calories)

Cooking Directions:  Heat OIL on medium heat and add chicken and beef strips (do not over heat the oil because you loose a lot of nutrients by doing this).  Sautee meat for about a minute to two minutes uncovered and then add all your veggies.  I like to turn my heat to medium and cover the skillet while the meat and veggies cook. 

While the Fajita mix is cooking start dicing your roma tomatoes, white onion, and chopping the cilantro.  **Make sure to check and stir your fajita mix while doing this step**  Mix the tomatoes, cilantro, and onions together and squeeze the lime into the pico and add salt to taste!  Thats it for the Pico!!

Going back to the fajita mix add in your lime zest and sqeeze the half of the lime into the meat mixture.  Make sure the chicken has no pink in it and the beef is cooked to your preference.

Spread the Queso Fresco & Chipotle Laughing Cow cheese spread first onto your tortilla and add your favorite fajita toppings!

ENJOY!

Rosemary Roasted Potatoes

PREP TIME: 10 minutes

BAKE TIME: 40 minutes

YIELD 4 Servings

INGREDIENTS:

1 LB. New potatoes (yellow, red, or fingerlings potatoes) quartered

1/2 cup extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sea salt to taste

1/2 clove fresh minced garlic

Cracked pepper to taste

fresh Rosemary leaves

DIRECTIONS:

Mix olive oil with salt, pepper, and garlic. Put quartered potatoes into baking dish and pour the olive oil mixture over potatoes then place Rosemary leaves on top of potatoes. Put in oven, bake for 40 minutes or until potatoes are golden and soft.

Banana French Toast

Goodmorning everybody! Here is my favorite way to make French toast! It's healthy and so delicious that you don't even need syrup!

Prep & Cooking Time:  10 minutes Total!

Yield: About 8 Slices

Ingredients:
1 banana
1 tsp. Vanilla
Cinnamon to your preference
2 tsp. Sugar (I use Stevia which cuts the sugar down to 1 tsp)
1/4 cup fat free organic milk
1/2 cup egg beaters plain
1/2 cup egg white beaters
8 slices 100% whole wheat bread
**to make this even lighter, use 1 cup egg whites and no egg beaters, and use the 100% whole wheat 45 calorie sliced bread by Sara lee**
Extra virgin olive oil for griddle

Turn on griddle to a medium high heat and add olive
Mash 1/4 of banana until almost a purée & slice the rest for topping
Mix together the remaining ingredients (except for bread) until well blended.
Dip both sides of bread into the batter mixture and place on hot griddle with oil on it.  The banana has a tendency to go to the bottom of the bowl, so spoon it onto the top of the toast and then flip over and finish cooking then top with sliced bananas and strawberries and sometimes I like to top it off with a little Colorado Proud Honey!

Turkey Chili

Yield 4-6 cups
PREP TIME 10-15 minutes
COOKING TIME 20 minutes
Now that fall is almost officially here, I thought I'd share my delicious Turkey Chili! If you aren't a fan of ground turkey you could always buy ground sirloin or very lean ground beef! Whether you are getting ready to sit down on Sunday or Monday for some football, you can put this Chili together in less than an hour and indulge!

Ingredients:
1 lb. ground turkey *Breast* if you buy ground turkey thats not the breast you could be making this dish higher in fat than with some ground beef!
1 fresh banana pepper
5 small to medium sized mushrooms
1/2 white onion chopped
1/2 garlic clove
1 fresh green chili or 1 4oz. canned green chilies
1 15oz. can *no salt added* kidney beans rinsed and drained
1 15oz. can *no salt added* chili beans in chili sauce
1 29oz. can *no salt added* all natural tomato sauce
1 15oz. can *no salt added* all natural tomato sauce
1 15oz. can diced tomatoes with cilantro and lime

Cooking Directions:
Brown ground meat with onions until meat is cooked then add all the fresh vegetables and let them cook for 2-5 minutes with meat and onion mixture.
Add all canned ingredients to a medium sized pot and then combine the meat mixture. Heat until hot and voila you're done!!!
If you are wanting this to be an all day dish, do the same except add to crockpot instead of pot over the stove and let heat, just make sure it doesn't start boiling! Also if you are feeding more than just a couple of people, just double this recipe and if you are feeding a lot of people do double the recipe with everything except the tomato sauce, you can add four or more 29oz cans and still have a great consistency!

ENJOY!!!

Peanut Butter & Honey Whole Grain Muffins

YIELD 12 muffins
PREP TIME: 10 minutes
BAKE TIME: 20 minutes

1 1/4 cups Whole Grain Flour
2/4 cup all purpose flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup. honey
1/4 - 1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 cup organic fat free milk
1 egg beaten
*1 tbs. ground flax seed*
**if you add the flax seed you may need to increase the milk**

Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Mix together all the dry ingredients into a bowl
Now mix together all the wet ingredients and add to dry ingredients.
Batter will be lumpy, spoon into muffin pan and bake for 20 minutes.
To make this fun to eat for the kids or adults let them add their favorite sprinkles. My daughter added Halloween sprinkles and now she thinks these are better than cookies! YAY :)

Cheesy Veged-Out Egg McMuffin

EGG McMuffin TIME: 5 minutes

Goodmorning everybody! Here is a quick delicious egg mcmuffin recipe.
Ingredients:
Egg white or egg white bbeaters
small skillet or egg pan (you can buy these little egg pans at walmart for less than $5 & they are great for a perfect sized egg to put on a muffin)
1 tbs. olive oil
salt & pepper to taste
100% whole wheat english muffins
fresh Spinach leaves
Roma Tomatoes
Laughing Cow Spreadable cheese
Avocado

Directions:
Add oil to pan and once the oil is hot add the egg wwhite, add salt and pepper to taste cook fully to liking!
Toast muffin and add egg, voila a great fast (not McDonalds Egg McMuffin)
I love to spread the laughing cow cheese and top with spinach, avocado, & tomato! It's absolutely delicious!

ENJOY!

Goodmorning Pancakes!

Goodmorning to all of you who want to have a healthy indulgence this morning! Here is a great recipe that you can whip together any morning and get a good boost in the am! First of all, so many people have switched to what they think would be a great low fat fast breakfast by pouring a bowl of special k with low/non-fat milk or even just grabbing a bar on their way out the door. Truth is you could wake up 20 minutes earlier, make these pancakes, wake up your kids tell them they have hot pancakes at the kitchen table and while they are grubbing down, you can jump in the shower and know that they are having a "secret" healthy breakfast and you did too! Research has showed for years that a good breakfast fuels you throughout the day, and carbs are our "genius" for fuel throughout the day!

**With this recipe you can add less or more flour to make a yield to your needs or if you make a big batch you can freeze these and then pull them out anyday and heat them up either in the oven or toaster oven**

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Griddle Time: just watch until they start to bubble then flip & should be done within 30 seconds!

WHOLE GRAIN FLAX PANCAKES
2 cups whole grain flour
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 tbs. ground flax seed
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder (for fluffy pancakes)
1 tsp organic vanilla (or to preference)
1 egg add organic milk to a thin, but not runny consistency!!
cinnamon to taste
Mix ingredients so that the batter is a thin consistency and heat a griddle with olive oil. Pour batter onto griddle into dollar sized circles and when they start to bubble turn cakes over. Top with fresh fruit, light syrup, honey, peanut butter or whatever you would like!

ENJOY