So I have found that it is very important to create a menu that you can follow for a whole week of dinners. I have posted my menu on a whiteboard that I purchased from WalMart for 4 dollars with magnets on the back so I can take it down from my fridge and write down the next menu on it every Saturday. It takes some a little bit of time to create the menu and shop for what you need but it frees up so much time at night when I am trying to come up with a healthy creative dinner for the Family. Here is last weeks menu for you to look at. Simple ideas that can be made in less than an hour. I know an hour might feel like a long time in the kitchen sometimes but it is so worth it knowing that your family is eating a home cooked meal without all the preservatives and sodium. So here it is:
Monday- Baked Chicken, Sweet Mashed Yams, Vegtables
Tuesday- Baked Tilapia, Baked Potato, Vegtables
Wednesday- Parmesean Crusted Polenta with a Marinara Sauce, Garlic Bread, Vegtables
Thursday- Red Beans and Rice, Vegtables
Firday- Shrimp Alfredo, Salad, bread
Saturday- Burrito Night!!
Sunday- Spaghetti and Meatballs, Salad, Baked Accorn Squash (for dessert)
All of these dinner ideas cost me less then $8 and were prepared by me so that I knew what we were eating. I will post more ideas along with how to prepare them soon. In the mean time, get yourself set up with a whiteboard and 7 dinner ideas that you would like to make for your family. By starting this process you will see how much better your house will run when everyone knows what you will be eating throughout the week.
Have fun and as always, Dish it up!!!!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
Crooked Crockpotted Caccitore
Welcome to heaven, come on in:) Thats what this recipe is saying to you. Trust me, I made this for my mother inlaw and she is a seriuos food critic. Well, thats not her job but after almost 60 years of cooking she tells me when my food, "Just doesn't taste right."
Not this time!!! She could'nt get enough of it. Trust me, print this one out. It will become a family favorite.
Goes well with a chilled Rose wine.
Have fun and as always<
Dish it up!!!
Brian
Crooked CrockPotted Cacciatore
1 (2 1/2 to 3 lb.) chicken (not frozen) ( I remove the skin after it’s cooked, with the bones, but for a healthier dish you might want to remove before you cook it)
1 small can of stewed tomatoes
3 Large Roma tomatoes, diced
1 can tomato sauce
4 cloves garlic, diced
1 Large onion chopped or sliced
½ bell pepper
2 stalks of celery, chopped up
1 tsp. oregano
1 Tablespoon. sweet basil chopped
2 bay leaf
1/2 tsp. rosemary (dried is cheaper unless your like me and grow your own)
1 tsp. cilantro
½ tsp chili powder
½ tsp coriander
1 ½ cups water
Ok, so there is a good amount of stuff that goes into this recipe but in the end it is Soooo worth it!!!
If you can you might want to cut up the whole chicken in parts, or make someone else do it for you J and follow these next steps. If you want to only use white meat or just dark meat don’t worry, it will still come out freaking bomb.
So the first step that I do you don’t have to but it turns out amazing if you do it also.
Step one: Get a big pot and put in 1 tablespoon oil. Heat up the pot on medium and set your chicken in with skin on.
Let cook for about one minute then add onions, garlic and stewed and fresh tomatoes.
Cook for only about five minutes total in that pot.
Step two: Take your pot mix and put it in a crock pot.
Add all of the rest of the ingredients except for the salt. Turn on high and let it do its thing for about eight hours. Add salt an pepper last.
The celery has a lot of salt already and the tomatoes have sugar in them so if you want to salt even more, wait till the very last 30 minutes before you stop and eat it.
This dish goes great over rice with some broccoli on the side!!!
Hope you enjoy.
Dish it up!!!
Not this time!!! She could'nt get enough of it. Trust me, print this one out. It will become a family favorite.
Goes well with a chilled Rose wine.
Have fun and as always<
Dish it up!!!
Brian
Crooked CrockPotted Cacciatore
1 (2 1/2 to 3 lb.) chicken (not frozen) ( I remove the skin after it’s cooked, with the bones, but for a healthier dish you might want to remove before you cook it)
1 small can of stewed tomatoes
3 Large Roma tomatoes, diced
1 can tomato sauce
4 cloves garlic, diced
1 Large onion chopped or sliced
½ bell pepper
2 stalks of celery, chopped up
1 tsp. oregano
1 Tablespoon. sweet basil chopped
2 bay leaf
1/2 tsp. rosemary (dried is cheaper unless your like me and grow your own)
1 tsp. cilantro
½ tsp chili powder
½ tsp coriander
1 ½ cups water
Ok, so there is a good amount of stuff that goes into this recipe but in the end it is Soooo worth it!!!
If you can you might want to cut up the whole chicken in parts, or make someone else do it for you J and follow these next steps. If you want to only use white meat or just dark meat don’t worry, it will still come out freaking bomb.
So the first step that I do you don’t have to but it turns out amazing if you do it also.
Step one: Get a big pot and put in 1 tablespoon oil. Heat up the pot on medium and set your chicken in with skin on.
Let cook for about one minute then add onions, garlic and stewed and fresh tomatoes.
Cook for only about five minutes total in that pot.
Step two: Take your pot mix and put it in a crock pot.
Add all of the rest of the ingredients except for the salt. Turn on high and let it do its thing for about eight hours. Add salt an pepper last.
The celery has a lot of salt already and the tomatoes have sugar in them so if you want to salt even more, wait till the very last 30 minutes before you stop and eat it.
This dish goes great over rice with some broccoli on the side!!!
Hope you enjoy.
Dish it up!!!
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Lets eat!!!
So, for the last couple years I have been really having this craving to eat healthier but have stuck to my cheap and fatty ways and have supported our wonderful fastfood chains.
As health and risk taking in that area will have it, I have some pretty good pading around my body (BIG OL' FAT CELLS) and kinda high triglicerides ( 1500, my blood is syrup).
So I am working on finding and making good tasteing food that is healthier and taste good, cause we all know that there has been so many recipes for healthy cooking that taste like crap! No fat, no carbs, not alcohol, NO LIFE!!!
Well, toss all of your thoughts toward those type of suggestions and try some of my recipes that stay within my opinion of eating hella good food without there being a "Mac" or "Happy" in the title of your meal.
These recipes are way easy and the information is like "Duh!"
It has been fun for me to come up with new recipes and you can manipulate these favorites to your taste.
Have fun and "Dish It Up!"
Black Bean Soup
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 cans black beans, drained/rinsed
3 roma tomatoes
1 large onion, diced
2 Tablespoons minced garlic
1 Tablespoon chili powder
1 cup chicken broth/ or 2 teaspoons chicken broth powder
1 teaspoon powder ginger
2 teaspoons worschestire sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 cups water
1 yellow squash chopped
3 oz can tomato sauce
1 bay leaf
2 Tablespoons Liquid Amino Acids
Lime juice, to taste
Kosher Salt and Pepper to taste
Optional: 1 Tablespoon Golden Milled Flax Seed
In a pot or pan is where you start this amazing soup. Sautee (on medium high heat) onion and chili powder in your olive oil first. When your onion starts to soften add garlic, worschestire sauce, ginger, soy sauce, tomatoes and squash. Stir until the squash is soften but not mushy. Then add everything but the salt and pepper. Turn your soup to simmer. After about ten minutes start adding salt and pepper to get a good flavor. Simmer another 20 minutes then turn soup to a medium low heat.
All in all it takes with prep time about an hour to make. I made this for just me and my wife and we ate it for dinner, the next morning in an omlete and for lunch the next day.
You don’t have to use everything that I listed for ingredients to still get a killer soup.
Brian
“Dish it up!”
As health and risk taking in that area will have it, I have some pretty good pading around my body (BIG OL' FAT CELLS) and kinda high triglicerides ( 1500, my blood is syrup).
So I am working on finding and making good tasteing food that is healthier and taste good, cause we all know that there has been so many recipes for healthy cooking that taste like crap! No fat, no carbs, not alcohol, NO LIFE!!!
Well, toss all of your thoughts toward those type of suggestions and try some of my recipes that stay within my opinion of eating hella good food without there being a "Mac" or "Happy" in the title of your meal.
These recipes are way easy and the information is like "Duh!"
It has been fun for me to come up with new recipes and you can manipulate these favorites to your taste.
Have fun and "Dish It Up!"
Black Bean Soup
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 cans black beans, drained/rinsed
3 roma tomatoes
1 large onion, diced
2 Tablespoons minced garlic
1 Tablespoon chili powder
1 cup chicken broth/ or 2 teaspoons chicken broth powder
1 teaspoon powder ginger
2 teaspoons worschestire sauce
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 cups water
1 yellow squash chopped
3 oz can tomato sauce
1 bay leaf
2 Tablespoons Liquid Amino Acids
Lime juice, to taste
Kosher Salt and Pepper to taste
Optional: 1 Tablespoon Golden Milled Flax Seed
In a pot or pan is where you start this amazing soup. Sautee (on medium high heat) onion and chili powder in your olive oil first. When your onion starts to soften add garlic, worschestire sauce, ginger, soy sauce, tomatoes and squash. Stir until the squash is soften but not mushy. Then add everything but the salt and pepper. Turn your soup to simmer. After about ten minutes start adding salt and pepper to get a good flavor. Simmer another 20 minutes then turn soup to a medium low heat.
All in all it takes with prep time about an hour to make. I made this for just me and my wife and we ate it for dinner, the next morning in an omlete and for lunch the next day.
You don’t have to use everything that I listed for ingredients to still get a killer soup.
Brian
“Dish it up!”
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