Healthy and Easy snack or appetizer.

This is a great snack or appetizer.  Easy and good for you anytime.

Cut up your favorite apples and do a light drizzle of caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, or both.  Can't get any easier.  I used Hersey's syrups.

Cranberry Pork Chops-Incredible

This is a super simple recipe and its outstanding.

Place onions in the bottom of a crockpot.  Place pork chops on top of the onion.  Pour a can of Cranberry Sauce over chops and add salt and pepper.  Cook on low for 7-8 hours. Remove them from the crockpot and place them on the grill, 3 minutes per side. This is an amazing and super simple recipe.  You can also use chicken.

The Easiest and Best Fried Rice Recipe

I have made Fried Rice and Chicken Fried Rice several times.  This recipe is by far the easiest and most delicious recipe I have ever found for this dish.  Last weekend I just made Fried rice without chicken for a side dish.  It lasted for quite a few meals and was excellent!!  This is also on my Pinterest Board

Better-Than-Takeout Chicken Fried Rice
Ingredients:
*4 cups rice, prepared
*1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cooked (slow cooked teriyaki chicken is recommended)
*1 cup peas & carrots, frozen ( I used corn instead of the carrots)
*1 white onion, chopped
*2 cloves garlic, minced
* 2 eggs
*3 tablespoons sesame oil
*1/4 cup soy sauce

Instructions:
1.  Prepare rice according to package instructions to yield 4 cups cooked rice.
2.  Heat sesame oil in a large skillet on medium heat.
3.  Add onion, garlic, peas, and carrots.  Stir fry until tender.
4.  Crack eggs into pan and scramble, mixing throughout vegetables.
5.  Add rice, chicken, and soy sauce to pan.  Stir in soy sauce and remove from heat.

When I reheated this dish for the next dinner, I did it with a bit of sesame oil in the pan heated.  Then just added a little soy sauce.
Enjoy!!

Great Fruit Salad....

This is one of the recipes we tried last weekend from my Pinterest. 

You mix 2 tablespoons of dry vanilla pudding mix with fruit.  It was amazing and got raves from everyone.  We had 16 people spend the weekend and it didn't make it past day 2.

 

Healthy Dinner

Here is Dinner....

 Teriyaki Chicken Kabobs....pineapple, red peppers, onion......

Sauteed Green Beans and Broccoli with garlic

Brown Sugar Roasted Sweet Potatoes!!!  Yum.....

Garlic Chicken - Pinterest Recipe

Garlic Chicken   -  221.2 Calories


Boneless Chicken Breast

1 Clove of Garlic per piece of chicken

4 Tablespoons Brown Sugar

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil

Herbs and Spices, as desired

1.  Preheat Oven to 450.  Line baking dish with foil and lightly coat with cooking spray.

2.  In small saute' pan, saute' garlic with the oil until tender.

3.  Remove from heat and stir in brown sugar.  Add additional herbs and spices as desired. ( I added Paprika and a little Basil.

4.  Place chicken in baking dish and cover with the garlic and brown sugar mixture.

5.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

6.  Bake uncovered for 25-30 minutes, or until juices run clear.  Cooking time with depend on the size and thickness of your chicken.  

Slow Cooker Brown-Sugared Baby Carrots

Anytime I can find a recipe for a side dish in the crock pot, I am a fan.  Not just for at home, but it is great up north when we are at the lake for the day and want things easy to make.

SLOW COOKER BROWN-SUGARED BABY CARROTS

1 Bag (32 oz) ready-to-eat baby-cut carrots 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup backed brown sugar 2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces ( I would use my spray butter) 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

1.  Spray 3 1/2 to 4 quart slow cooker with cooking spray.  In slow cooker, place carrots; sprinkle with salt, brown sugar, and butter.
2.  Cover; cook on High heat setting 4 to 5 hours, stirring after 22 hours, or until carrots are desired tenderness. 3.  Spoon carrots into serving bowl; spoon any sauce from slow cooker over carrots.  Season with additional salt and pepper, if desired.  Stir before serving .  Sprinkle with parsley.

Whole food cooking....RedSkin Potatoes

A Bag of RedSkin Potatoes......

A much more economical way to cook.  Not to mention, much more healthy

A couple of dinner ideas:

Clean and pierce as many potatoes as you need for the amount of people you are cooking for.

Use a microwave safe plate, place a wet paper towel and then the potatoes.  I usually cook 2-3 on high for 4 minutes.

Cut into cubes.  Cook in pan with a bit of olive oil, salt, and fresh cracked pepper.

A couple of add ons to change it up:  Red pepper flakes, and /or fresh garlic.  Also add sliced green onion....Anything you have on hand.

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Just a plain baked potato in the oven at 425 for 35-40 min. (Watch what you top it with)  The spray butter above is a staple in our kitchen.  Zero Calories, Zero Fat.  We put it on everything and cook with it.

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Of course, boil for mashed potatoes
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Boil potatoes, use a masher and smash each potato on a sprayed baking sheet.  Spray with butter.  Add Sea Salt and Fresh ground pepper.  Bake in oven 425 for 15 to 20 minutes until golden brown.

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1 bag of potatoes will take you farther than anything prepared in a box.  Cheaper and healthier.

Eat Fresh and Healthy

Co-Worker (and friend of mine) would like (not a diet) but to 'lose weight eating better' tips.  

I will be adding recipes and tips for a healthy life for all.  I will research and find more tips that I can share.  

First Five:

1.  Eat whole foods.   Buy fresh fruit, vegetables, and a bag of potatoes.  Farmers markets are your best friend.

2.  Pass by the frozen food section completely.  There is nothing there you want or your body needs.

3.  Pass by the boxes prepared foods....You have all the ingredients to make the same thing in your cabinets...  If you want to know spices that will help, leave a comment.

4.  If you need to lose weight, never pick up any drink that has sugar, I would rather eat.  (  also - I would rather have a beer than a soft drink, up to you....

5.  Get a fresh black cracked pepper shaker and sea salt shaker.  Makes all the difference in food taste, you will be a fan.