One thing that I don't do with my cooking, if you haven't noticed already, is cook with pasta. There are two reasons: I am gluten-free and the calories aren't worth it. Pasta, either gluten-free or not is about 200 calories per cup. No nutritional value. Luckily, Tony and I don't crave pasta at all. That's [...]
Looking through my pile of recipes, this one caught my attention. What's not to love about a soup with beef, brown rice and mushrooms? The original recipe from Very Well uses some high sodium ingredients like canned mushrooms and reduced sodium beef broth. Yep, reduced sodium beef broth is still too much sodium for a [...]
Since I did a stew after Thanksgiving with the turkey carcass, I thought I would give you another option for the dark meat you saved from the deconstructed turkey. I found a slow cooker recipe that I could make work for my dark meat turkey. Braising is the best way to cook the dark meat [...]
Bigos is a Polish hunter's stew. It contains bacon, pork, and polish sausage. All things that taste good, but could raise your sodium for the day through the roof. I love Polish food. With Hamtramk about an hour from here, we know good authentic Polish food. This recipe is one that needs to preserve the [...]
I tried this out a couple of years ago just for fun and came out with the most awesome tasting turkey you'll ever eat. No, I'm not kidding. Do you ever feel like a perfectly cooked turkey is out of reach? Not so with this method. I'm sure you have tried every method on the [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
As I promised from our vacation post, I said I would make a post on how to make a salad entirely from convenience food. When we're on vacation, it can be really hard to eat right. However, if you stack the deck in your favor, you can have healthy meals every day. Here are some [...]
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