Soup, Squash and whole grain GF bread

This is the same spinach soup I put on here before but we were out of black beans so I substituted kidney and I added 1 small zucchini chopped which I added into the chicken right at the end to get all those flavors before I added the chicken stock.  You can't hurt that soup it's so good.  Jeremy didn't even know the zucchini was in it!!  Then we roasted some squash in the oven with a little grapeseed oil over the top to keep soft.  My fave way to eat it! And the bread you see here is my Gluten Free bread that I baked into mini loaf pans so that the little slices are only 2pts WW each.  It is mostly oats, and brown rice flour, sweetened with honey.  If you want the recipe just email me at sashbillette@yahoo.com and I'll shoot it to you.

Quesadilla and Grilled Chicken salad

Talk about easy.  Grabbed a pack of the pre-grilled chicken I made yesterday from the freezer, made up a salad and took the fresh corn tortillas from costco in a pam sprayed skillet and cooked them then added cheese into middle and finished toasting and melting them together.  These have very little additives unlike the already cooked and packaged one on the shelf.  Costco has them for very cheap and they fill the house with a wonderful corn smell and they taste great.  You don't need more than oil than Pam to make these cooked, warm and comforting at 1 WW pt. each!!!

Faux Grilling to keep it juicy!!

So grilling makes everything taste better, but I don't like things dried out!!!  My favorite way to do chicken breast is place them in a 13x9 pan season them with garlic salt, pepper, (etc if you so desire) and put them in the oven at 350 degrees for 50-60 min. depending on size of breast.  Then I get the grill pan on the stove super hot and spray with pam.  I place the bottoms on first to get off the juices they were sitting in and then flip just till I get those grill lines.  It adds the smokiness and they are still moist and tender and delicious.  Our new fave way to eat the zucchini on the grill is the same.  I steam them and then paint lightly with and olive oil garlic salt mixture and put on the grill.  Super yummy!!!. I'll usually use the brush with leftover olive oil garlic salt mixture and just lightly brush a little on my steamed potatoes and its just enough for them to be scrumptious.   But I don't stop there.  I cooked three times the amount of chicken, grill and sliced them and put them in packs in a larger bag into the freezer to make life easy the rest of the week for salads etc.  Oh yeah!!!

Stuffed peppers

We made stuffed green peppers tonight.  Now my Aunt showed up late so the Cotija cheese is a little over browned, but it tasted great besides.  The traditional way to make these is horrid.  Put stuff in and hope it cooks all the way.  NO THANKS!! :)  I put on one cup of rice in the rice cooker with 1 tsp. Turmeric and 2 tsp. Cumin. and started on the rest.  I just cut up a softball size onion and sauted in a couple Tbls. of olive oil.     Added about six chopped cloves of garlic.  Added in 2 Tbls. Cumin, 1 tsp. Coriander.  When onions started to be translucent and get some browned color put in 1 large carrot shredded and stirred into mix and then put mix into a bowl and in the same pan threw in the 2lbs. hamburger.  This was a fattier cut from local cows that we get from our neighbor for very inexpensive and antibiotic/hormone free so worth this next step I did.  After the meat was browned I poured it into a colander in the sink and rinsed it with hot water.  This essentially makes for fat free red meat.  I would only do this when doing a highly seasoned recipe like this so you aren't asking.."Where's the beef?"  I then put it back into the hot skillet to dry it out for a min and dump in the yummy onion mixture. Then I added two tomatoes chopped, and a can of low sodium beef broth.  Then I tasted and added more garlic salt, pepper, cumin, and red pepper flake to taste. I simmered the meat mixture for about 10 min. and added in the finished rice.  Stuffed them into hollowed peppers to a half inch over, stuffed extra mix around the peppers to help them stay up and sprinkled Cotija cheese over the top and cooked in a 350 degree oven for an hour and a half. put on bottom rack to prevent my browed cheese up there..lol.  Each pepper is under 170 calories and is only 7pts. WW.