Steamed Sweet Potatoes & Corriander Mixed Vegetables

Steamed Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients:
1 Sweet Potato
1/2 Orange
1 tsp of allspice
1 tsp of olive oil
1 tsp of water

Recipe:
1. Slice sweet potato into 1 inch cubes.
2. Squeeze orange, pour olive oil and water over sweet potatoes.
3. Sprinkle allspice over sweet potatoes, cover and cook in microwave for 5 minutes
4. Enjoy!


Corriander Mixed Vegetables
Ingredients:
1 bag of frozen vegetables, defrosted
1 tablespoon of corriander
1 tablespoon of olive oil

Recipe:
Put frozen vegetables, corriander, and olive oil in a gallon sized ziploc bag. Shake bag, layout vegetables in pyrex pan, and cook at 375 for 15-20 minutes.

Enjoy! These were some of my favorites!

Baked Swai

Ingredients:
1 piece of Swai (fish sold in super market)
1 egg, wisked with a fork
1 tsp of garlic salt (put in wisked eggs)
1/2 cup of flour
1 cup of panko bread crumbs

Recipe:

1. Lay fish in flour, once it is covered comprehensively on both sides, run it through the wisked egg.
2. Bread in Panko crumbs
3. Bake on 400 on a greased baking sheet for 15 minutes, be sure not to overcook. Fish should slice tenderly when ready.
4. Enjoy!

Homemade Potato Chips!

Ingredients:
1 small red potato
Pam
1 tsp of garlic salt
salt
pepper
cajun seasoning (optional)

Recipe:

1. Take a cheese grater and use the slicer section to thinly slice potato
2. Spray baking sheet, lay potaoes on baking sheet, spray potato slices with pam
3. Sprinkle seasonings on top.
4. Cook on 375 degrees until crispy, flipping over once.

Serve with fat free sour cream!

Creamed Cucumbers

Creamed Cucumbers
Ingredients:
1 cucumber, very thinly sliced
Paprika
1/4 cup of sour cream
1 T of Garlic Salt

Recipe:

1. Slice cucumber, put in bowl and sprinkle garlic salt on it. Mix. 
2. Cover and put in refridgerator for 20-25 minutes or until watery.
3. Take bowl out of refridgerator and add sour cream, paprika and more garlic salt.
4. Keep in refridgerator for about 10 more minutes
5. Serve chilled.

Delish Dish!

Italian Broccoli

Side Dish # 2 Tonight---

Italian Broccoli
Ingredients:
Garlic Herb Seasoning
Salt and Pepper
Broccoli
1/4 cup of italian dressing

Recipe:

1. Combine Ingredients
2. Put in microwavable bowl and cover. Microwave for 3 minutes.
3. Serve!

Viola!

Black Beans and Rice with a Twist

This is a side dish- The meal tonight was chicken with a lot of side dishes so I'm going to do different posts for each side.

Black Beans and Rice with a Twist
Ingredients:
1 can of Black Beans
1 cup of brown rice
1 handful of black rice
Cilantro
Minced Garlic
Grinded Sea Salt and Pepper
1/2 a can of diced tomatoes with chiles
1 handful of Kale

Recipe:

1. Cook rice as per package directions.
2. In microwavable bowl, combine black beans, tomatoes, kale, cilantro and spices. Cover bowl and microwave for about 5 minutes.
3. When rice is cooked, put black bean kale mixture in it, and serve!

Crockpot Pork Chops

So this is a recipe that is made as a "leftover" type meal. I had some grilled asparagus in the fridge (grilled it with sesame seeds, olive oil, and mrs dash in aluminum foil) and some spinach that needed to be used. Alas, here comes my masterpiece.

I shall name it Crockpot Pork Chops and it shall be mine.

Crockpot Pork Chops
Ingredients:
2 boneless pork chops
1 cup of chicken broth
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
1 clove of garlic

Seasonings: (add to taste)
1 tsp of Paprika
1 tsp of oregano
1 tsp of Italian seasoning (or Basil)
1 tsp of garlic powder
1 tsp of Poultry seasoning
salt and pepper (red and black pepper)

Base:
1 bag of spinach
1 90 second wild rice bag (Uncle Bens)..or just 2 servings of wild Rice
Almonds (if you want them)
1 tsp of italian Dressing (if you want more flavor)

Recipe:

1. In the bottom of the crock pot add olive oil, seasonings, chicken broth, and garlic. Stir.
2. Slit the tops of the pork chops and rub poultry seasoning, salt and peppers.
3. Put meat on top of liquid mixture in crockpot. Cook on High for 4 hours.
4. When meat is close to being done, microwave spinach, rice, almonds, and italian dressing in a bowl for 5 minutes with a plate over the bowl to prevent splashing.
5. Slice the asparagus into 2 inch pieces and put on top of rice and spinach mixture and cook in microwave until spinach has melted down.
6. Lay the vegetable/rice mixture on plate and put pork on top.
7. Garnish with onions from crockpot and sauce.
8. Enjoy!

Italian Sausage Sandwiches

It's a given that most of these recipes are convenient, mostly because I don't do inconvenient. After college I became a LeanCuisine girl, so anything more than that is a lot for me. Baby steps...

Tonight was SO easy. (and cheap!!) Granted it was not the most healthy option. I can imagine that the sausage and peppers can be served over whole grain pasta with a salad to make it better for you. I got it off of the McCormick website http://www.mccormick.com

Tonight we had a comfort food night. We served the Sausage on toasted hoagie rolls with green beans and mac-n-cheese. (I know, I know..it was our TGIF meal). It would be great for entertaining for football season!

Italian Sausage Sandwiches
Ingredients:
2-15oz. cans of stewed tomatoes
2-10oz. cans of tomato paste
2 lbs of italian sausage (we used hot, but you can go for mild if you don't like spicy stuff)
1 medium onion
2 green peppers (sliced in 1/2 inch longitudinal pieces)
1 Pkg of McCormick Italian Herb Chicken Seasoning

Recipe:
Combine all ingredients in Crock Pot and cook for 8-10 hours on low and 4-6 on high.