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