Showing posts with label grilled chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grilled chicken. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Day Three hundred and ninety: New Year's Eve

Lunch: Brown rice wrap, pumpkin puree, cheese, and spinach.  This is my current favorite lunch.

Brown sugar cookies, to be turned into the crust for a...

Cheesecake.  Family recipe, and it would not be the holidays without it.
Dinner (Carnivore-Lite): Grilled chicken, roasted rosemary potatoes, and sesame broccoli.  My dad is picky about most everything I make, and he was raving about the broccoli.  The recipe is definitely a keeper.

Dinner: (Carnivore-De-Lite): Steak, roasted rosemary potatoes, and sesame broccoli.

Cheesecake, up close and personal.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Day Three hundred and fifty-three

Gluten-free banana muffins.  These were SO good, moist and filling.  I found the recipe online but I didn't write down the source, and now I can't track it down. The recipe is worth sharing, though, so here it is.  Next time, I'm going to try making it as a loaf.

Gluten-free banana muffins
2 c. gluten-free flour blend
1 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
3/4 t. xanthan gum
1/2 t. salt
1/2 c. unsalted butter
1/2 c. sugar
2 eggs
6 ripe bananas, coarsely diced

In a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well.  In a separate bowl, whisk first five ingredients ingredients (through salt) then add to sugar mixture, stirring only until moist.  Fold in bananas.  Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes, until toothpick comes out dry.

Spaghetti squash Parmesan.  If you haven't made this, you should!  It's my older daughter's favorite meal. In fact, this day was her birthday, which was why I made it.

Dinner: Spaghetti squash parm, french bread, and fruit salad.

Pureed yellow squash, for the freezer.

Tomorrow's school lunch: Chunks of grilled chicken, gluten-free crackers, cottage cheese, carrots and apples.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Day Two hundred and ninety-three

Summer pasta salad (which we brought on a picnic; based loosely on Karmel's recipe): Whole wheat pasta, shredded carrot, baby spinach, corn, and chunks of grilled chicken.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Day Two hundred and forty-one

Orzo salad (fresh zucchini, grilled grape tomatoes, garden basil, and red peppers)
Dinner: Orzo salad, grilled chicken, and honeydew.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Sunday, May 15, 2011

A Day in the life of "a year in the life of a kitchen" (Day Two hundred and nineteen)

This was a day with an insane amount of cooking. In addition to making breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I had to make food to bring to my daughter's school for an event, we baked a bread, and then I decided to make ice pops with my little one. Whew. Here's a peak at our day (and please excuse the spacing-- blogger won't let me alter it no matter what I try!)


First, we began with a broccoli and cheese quiche, which went to school with my daughter for teacher appreciation day:




Since the oven was already on, I decided to make some egg cups (eggs, diced turkey bacon leftover from Mother's Day, broccoli, and red peppers). Two went into my daughter's lunchbox, and the rest stayed home for our lunch:




Next we went grocery shopping, and came home with lots of fresh vegetables, so I decided to make: lunch-- A veggie and pita chip platter with low fat vegetable dip:




Then we made ice pops, based on an idea I saw in BJ's member magazine. Starting with 5 oz. dixie cups and popsicle sticks (both purchased just for this occasion):
We blended three cups of fresh fruit:

One tbsp. of sugar, and one tsp. of lemon juice:


To make our ice pop mixture:


It went into the freezer:

And three hours later, out came after-dinner ice pops!







Next we baked a loaf of potato bread (half whole grain) which would later accompany dinner:




My husband came home, and offered to filet and brown the chicken breasts:

At dinner-time, the bread was sliced:




And finally, we ate dinner: Grilled chicken with fresh mozzarella, baby spinach, and grape tomatoes on potato bread, honeydew, and fresh vegetables with dip.





Then I put my feet up!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Day One hundred and nine

Smiley face dinner: Grilled chicken, asparagus, and triple-stuffed broccoli and cheese potatoes (recipe: Sneaky Chef; This is one of our favorite potato recipes- it has pureed white bean and is the bomb!!)


Meat-eater's dinner (aka my husband): Steak, triple-stuffed potato, asparagus, sauteed onions, and a horseradish sauce. Inspired by all of the cooking, my husband devised his own herb steak rub.

Kids' cooking project, aka Dessert: Brownies. My husband wanted to make these with the kids, which was so cute. We had them with fresh strawberries, which were so sweet that they were gobbled before we remembered to take a picture. Always the creative thinker, my daughter suggested using a plastic strawberry from her play kitchen to use in the picture. ;)

Monday, December 6, 2010

Day Seventy-seven

Dinner: Chicken Quesadillas (whole grain tortillas, grilled chicken, black beans, shredded cheese, and 3/4 cup of the remaining sweet potatoes leftover from Thanksgiving), broccoli, and sour cream. According to my mom, who was there for dinner that night, you couldn't even taste the sweet potatoes.

Latkes. My daughter's teacher asked me to bring these into the classroom, so we whipped up a few batches to share with her friends.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Day Sixty-five

Dinner: Whole grain penne, fresh spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, and grilled chicken, in an alfredo sauce. This dish is inspired by a meal I used to love from Macaroni Grill. Yesterday when I made chicken for the fondue, I made an extra few breasts and saved them in the fridge for tonight. When I took them out of the fridge today, all cooked and ready to use, I really loved myself. ;) We had cut up apples after dinner.


Purees for the freezer: Butternut squash

Purees for the freezer: Zucchini/cauliflower



Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Day Twenty-five

Dinner: Quesadillas (whole wheat wraps, grilled chicken, shredded zucchini, black beans, and melted mozzarella), sliced strawberries, and steamed carrots.