Month: September 2013

So, I’ve realized during my “Four Week Chicken Challenge”, that I really haven’t been cooking very much lately, and I don’t really seem to have a lot of chicken recipes in my cookbook! I have been cooking, but I have been making simple things, and the same things. I like to throw a bunch of veggies in a skillet with some Olive Oil, salt and pepper, and then toss in some cooked meat of some sort. I like to throw something simple on the grill and eat a salad with it.  It’s not really cooking. I mean, I guess it is. It’s just not a big variety, and it’s far from fancy, and there really is never a recipe involved. I have been trying to eat more fresh food and less processed foods. I try to keep my fruits and veggies to fresh or frozen and avoid the canned goods. […]

         Avocado Egg Salad This is one of those combinations that I couldn’t decide if I thought sounded disgusting? Or delicious?     So I decided I had to make it and see for myself.     I adapted this from a recipe I found on Pinterest! I know, surprise. Click HERE for the original recipe that calls for mayo, and is served as a wrap,  but I decided to use just a small amount of Olive Oil and eat it topped with a fresh chopped tomato! Protein and healthy fats! Ingredients 4 Hard Boiled Eggs 1 Avocado 1 tsp Olive Oil Salt and Pepper   Mix all ingredients   I divided it into 4 servings, then topped my serving with a fresh Home Grown Tomato!       7 PPV   Hope you like it! I did!   “love the life you live, live the life […]

Chicken Taco Stew? I’ve been a WW member for a really long time. There have always been different versions of Weight Watcher Taco Soup floating around over the years, and really, I like them all. One of my favorites, includes one packet of taco seasoning and one packet of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing. My WW leader suggested putting a can of fat free refried beans in it, so I gave it a try. It really thickened things up a bit, and I loved it!     Ingredients 1 Pound, Cooked Shredded Chicken Breast (Click HERE for a recipe to boil and shred chicken breast) (You could replace the shredded chicken breast with the meat from one Rotisserie Chicken if you’d like a little dark meat too! You would need to adjust the points for the dark meat.) 2 Cans Black Beans, drained and rinsed 1 C. Frozen Corn 2 Cans […]

Friends, Food and Football. I love Fall and I am soooo ready for it! I started off my Sunday with a Pumpkin Nonfat Latte from Starbucks, then we headed to friends house to cheer on the KC Chiefs! Our wonderful hostess did an awesome job of making lots of yummies too!   Sunday evening at home was a whole lot of Football and very little of anything else. I loved it! Keeping it short today…..lots on the “To Do List”. Breakfast   Snacks (she made little footballs out of Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds!) More Snacks….Peanut Sauce Chicken Skewers!! Yum!     Lunch (Chicken Sausages and Veggies)   Dinner     Refresh…I can eat 26 points a day. I can earn Activity Points by doing exercise, and eat them if I choose. I have an allowance of 49 points that I can dip into if I chose. I should drink a […]

I love everything about going to the Farmer’s Market. The people, the live music, the samples and all the fresh food! I was headed to my dad’s house to work on our Parade project for the upcoming Overland Park Fall Festival on September 28th, when I drove through Downtown Overland Park. It was hopping and I hadn’t been to the Farmer’s Market in a while, so I HAD to stop! I started out with a coffee after entering through this door to a little bakery………So Cute!     Then I headed down the aisle with the hustle and bustle of all the Saturday morning shoppers! The weather could NOT have been more beautiful.     After finding the perfect pasta, zucchini and cantaloupe, I found an ear of roasted corn to snack on. It was delicious! I couldn’t have been the only customer that requested that my roasted ear of […]

Yesterday was crazy busy, and I did NOT cook for Mike and I. This means I did NOT make a new chicken recipe. One of my readers emailed me a recipe after I had blogged about making chicken recipes for a month. I hadn’t even thought to ask readers for their recipes, but I love the idea! I have now received a couple of recipes from readers that I plan to share, so if any of you have a delicious Chicken recipe that you would like to share, I would LOVE to have it! I haven’t made this yet, but it sounds delicious. I hope to make it soon! Thank you Brooke, for sharing this recipe with me!       Got this from the WW website in 2011  – love it   Chicken Lettuce Wraps 10oz canned chicken ½ cup shredded carrots  (I tend to chop these since its […]

I originally found this on Pinterest! This is an awesome recipe for Roasted Veggies. Click HERE for the original recipe. I like to make these to go along with anything I throw on the grill, but they’re also great tossed into the skillet with some roasted chicken or diced chicken sausages. I started eating them like that after working on the food truck, Beauty of the Bistro. Sidney, (the owner) makes an awesome Cowboy Skillet during the Fall that I tried to repeat, and although this really doesn’t taste anything like her Cowboy Skillet, it’s pretty darn tasty. Last Fall, I took these veggies as a side dish to a party, and they were a hit! Today, I’m roasting these veggies, (not exactly the veggies that the original recipe calls for, but the ones that I had in the fridge) then throwing them in the skillet with some shredded chicken for an […]

About yesterday’s eats……I’d like to plead the fifth. But…..I can’t keep my mouth shut, so I’ll tell you all about it. It all started so innocently too. I had sent my “coach” a text about what an awesome day it was going to be, and how great I was going to eat, and how hard I was going to workout and how awesome I was. True story. That was my text to her. I worked at The Food Truck, went to my mom’s in the afternoon to take her birthday present to her and ran a couple of errands. Now it was about 4:00 pm. Mike had called late in the afternoon to let me know he was going to golf, and for some reason, I got all excited about a 4:00 pm shower, P.J.’s and a Movie! So I sat down (still dirty from working at the Food Truck) and […]

Monday was a really nice and unexpected day spent with Tess! She came in town on Friday evening and Mike picked her up at the airport, then dropped her off at a friends, who then took her to Pitt State for the Football Home Opener!! Pitt State Wins!! She came back here late Sunday, and then I took her to the airport on Monday! She had decided to take the day off on Monday and catch a late flight, so we took advantage of her day off and enjoyed some Mother/Daughter time! We headed to one of our long time favorite breakfast spots! Succotash!     Tess ordered the Kitchen Sink! It literally has just about EVERY breakfast food in it that you would want, and then it’s topped with gravy!!   I ordered the Smoked Salmon and Caper Egg White Omelete…..it was served with the nicest, biggest piece of […]

My “coach” and I met for the first time in a few weeks on Sunday morning to catch up and see how my plan was going. We talk and/or text daily, but getting together in person has been a part of our “coaching” plan too, and I’m always happy to get together with her so we can catch up a bit. Knowing that it was going to get hot QUICK on Sunday morning, we decided to meet early at a park before the heat was too much to take! I’m so glad we did too, because it DID get hot!! We had a great meeting discussing some of our challenges over the last several weeks while also discussing some ideas for our future. “Coach” came up with this idea that I challenge myself to come up with some sort of “30 days of chicken” recipes”????? That’s a LOT of chicken!! […]