I decided to go Mexican style with this recipe. Chicken thighs smothered in a peanut-based sauce. YUM!!! It had a lot of flavor and punch from the ancho chili and using thighs over boneless, skinless chicken breasts. However, it lacked the vitamins we needed make this a more well-rounded meal. Here is the original recipe [...]
I was looking up a recipe to adjust for you this week, but found that I ended up developing my own instead. I had some leftovers to use. No, not turkey but the other half of a beef roast from another recipe. The recipe also called for canned cranberry sauce, which is terrible. If I [...]
Ok. So now you have that turkey carcass and a bunch of leftover turkey. My brother and sister-in-law do not typically use the carcass (we ate at their house on Thanksgiving). So I decided to take it home along with the rest of the leftover turkey. We cooked a bone-in turkey breast this year, which [...]
Original Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens: Slow Cooker Indian Chicken Stew This was another interesting recipe from Better Homes and Gardens. I love Indian-inspired dishes. This one just needed a few small changes to make it fit our diet a bit better. Here are the original stats for the recipe which serves 8: 295 [...]
As you can see from the title of this post, I am making not just gluten free pizza, but good pizza. All too often gluten free pizza becomes something that most people would not equate to being real pizza. Now I'm not insulting those who create these recipes. I love cauliflower crust pizza and some [...]
Original Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens: Braised Chickpeas with Mid-Summer Vegetables One of the things I like to do is find and interesting recipe and make it fit our lifestyle. The Better Homes and Garden recipe had some great things going for it. However, I had to do something about the tomatoes, because Tony [...]
Original Recipe from Very Well: Slow Cooker Moroccan Beef Stew This recipe didn't need too much of a makeover. Around our house, we love beef stew and we love international flavors. This beef stew recipe has that. The calories weren't too bad as was the protein and vitamin A. The tomatoes had to go. Here [...]
August marks our wedding anniversary every year. This year is our 9th wedding anniversary. We never go out to eat. I can make a better dinner at home that costs way less than a restaurant. This year I challenged myself to make a dinner that was a treat, but didn't bust our diets. I think [...]
The two main types of ingredients that contain potassium are potatoes and beans. So what can you make with both? Chili of course. I have below a recipe for a two bean and sweet potato chili that has a whopping 511mg of potassium per serving. That helps you get to the amount you need for [...]
In my last post I showed you how to add vitamin C to a recipe. I created a recipe that has a high amount of vitamin C and tastes great! You'll also noticed I used two types of protein. Sometime one protein is too high in calories to add more. This was the case with [...]
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