Vegetable Stir-fry

Vegetable Stir-fry is one of Josh and I's favorite meals. We eat this at least once or twice a month. Its yummy, and pretty easy to make.

Ingredients

Rice noodles
Brocolli
Cauliflower
Tomatoes
Carrots
1/4 cup Teriyaki stir fry sauce

I don't even measure when making this. Just eye ball it and go to town! Cook your rice noodles and as those are cooking drizzle some olive oil on a large skillet and start steaming up those vegetables. When they are almost done add your noodles and sauce and mix them all together. Before I stopped eating meat, we used to add pepper bacon which added SO much flavor to this. Try it either way and I guarantee you will be satisfied. Plus you can add whatever vegetables you like, we add green pepper sometimes too.

Healthy Shrimp Tacos

These were TASTY! And easy to make.

Ingredients

Corn tortillas
2 Cups coleslaw mix
1/2 cup salsa
freshly chopped cilantro
grilled shrimp
Mrs. Dash Chicken seasoning
Olive oil

Mix coleslaw with salsa and add fresh cilantro. Drizzle a little olive oil on a skillet and heat it up. Cook the shrimp in the skillet with plenty of Mrs. Dash seasoning. Then make your tacos! We heated up the corn tortillas. SO easy and yummylicious!

Our Favorite SuMmEr CoRn!!

EASY EASY EASY!!

Ingredients:
1/2 cup unsalted butter
3-4 cloves garlic, minced
2 Tablespoons finely minced fresh parsely
4-5 ears of corn
salt and pepper, to taste

On the bbq: Melt the butter with ingredients. Cut some foil long enough to wrap the corn with. Drizzle butter over each ear of corn evenly. Then wrap foil around corn tightly. Place on bbq for 15 minutes, make sure you turn it at least once.

In crockpot: Do the same as above by drizzling the butter ingredients on corn and then wrapping tightly with the foil. Then in crock pot place an inch of water and put corn in crockpot and cook on high for 2-2 1/2 hours. or On low for 4-5 hours.

SCRUMPTIOUS!!

Healthy & Yummy Strawberry Smoothies

Yummy! This picture makes me want another one RIGHT NOW!

Blend the following ingredients:

2 cups fresh strawberries
1/2 cup ice or more, your choice
1 packet Truvia sweetner

*Truvia is a natural sweetener derived from the Stevia plant. DONT USE SPLENDA, it was created as rat killer. Truvia is the best 0 calorie NATURAL sweetener out there for you. Also if you cant stop drinking those sodas, try switching to SOBE Lifewater, all flavors are delicious and its zero calories!

Creamy Italian White Bean Soup

I Loved this soup!

Ingredients:
1 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion finely chopped
1 medium stalk celery chopped
1 garlic clove
2 cans white kidney beans (15 oz each)
1 can (14 oz) vegetable broth
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon dried thyme
2 cups water
1 bunch spinach
1 tablespoon lemon juice
fresh parmesan cheese

In a 3-quart saucepan, heat oil over medium heat until hot. Add onion, and celery till tender. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds while stirring. Add beans, broth, pepper, thyme, and water. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, trim stems from spinach.

With a slotted spoon, remove 2 cups bean and vegetable mixture from soup and blend in blender. Put back into soup when blended and bring back to a boil. Place spinach in soup and cook until wilted, about 1 minute. Stir in lemon juice and remove from heat. Serve with cheese on top if you like.

each serving is 1 1/2 cups. Each serving has 295 calories, 18 grams protein, and 5grams total fat and 945 mg sodium.

Falafel

This is a DELICIOUS falafel!

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups garbanzo beans
1 tsp crushed coriander seeds
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves (optional)
3 crushed garlic cloves
1/4 cup finely chopped parsley
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 cup flour
oil for frying

Grind beans in a blender or food processor until fine. Add spices and flour. Make small balls about 1 inch in diameter each and place on waxed paper. Heat oil for frying. Fry few balls at a time for 2-3 minutes or until golden brown. Drain on paper towel.

Stuff 3 falafel balls into pita bread, spread humus in pita, and stuff with any fresh vegetable salad of your choice.

Baklava

This is a traditional Israeli dessert. Very unhealthy so you know it delicious! ;)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lb filo dough
1/2 lb peanuts, walnuts, almonds or mixture of nuts, peeled and chopped (I didnt use all 1/2 lb)
7 oz melted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

Topping: ( I did not use all of this either)
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups water
1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Line a greased 10 1/2 x 13 1/2" pan with 1/3 of dough. Brush each filo sheet with melted butter. Mix nuts, sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle half on dough in pan. Cover with another layer of filo dough. Sprinkle remaining nuts mixture onto filo, then cover with final layer of filo.

Cut into diamond shapes but not all the way through. Pour remaining butter on top. Bake in pre-heated oven at medium-hot ( I did 350 degrees) for 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cut pieces through and allow to cool.

Topping: Boil all ingredients until thick and pour over slightly cooled Baklava. There is like two cups of this and I only used maybe 10 tbsp fulls. It turned out great!