Did you get your greens today? Roasted Spinach Chips and Roasted Collard Greens Chips

Roasted Collard Green Chips

Roasted Spinach Chips

So today, I decided to try a few new different greens, made into crispy thin chip things.
The Collard Greens were crunchy and okay, You still can taste the little bitter of the greens.
The Spinach Chips were the best. They were crunchy and had a milder taste.

They actually can satisfy that crunchy, salty need in your diet. Along with that you get some great nutrients.


Roasted Spinach Chips and Roasted Collard Chips

Ingredients:

1 cup of which ever greens you would like.

2 tbs of olive oil

sea salt

Instructions:

1) Toss greens in a bowl with olive oil and a small amount of sea salt.

2) Put on a tray covered with parchment paper.

3) 350 for about 10 minutes. Keep an eye on them once they start turning dark they are almost finished.

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I am almost sure you could put them up, but we eat them all up. I actually will be making the spinach more often. I am wondering how it would taste on a salad.

I also share these with my kids. They are kinda funny tasting at the beginning, but it gets to be a bit addictive.

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This weekend is Memorial Weekend.. For all my new friends, family and friends, be safe and have a great time.

Get out there and make it yours..try something new!

Sausage, Egg and Cheese Stuffed Breakfast Sliders (wwpp-7 points a piece)

Okay another take on the Stuffed Sliders. We were wanting breakfast today. So we made these, the Sausage, Egg and Cheese Stuffed Sliders. Of course you could fill them with anything you want and they will turn out great. They also heat back up real well, or like my family they eat anything cold.

I calculated for the weight watcher points and they come up a little high at 7 points a piece. I found that if I flattened the biscuits and stretched them to about 5" circles and then put the filling. I found one to be satisfying. But I must tell you these are addictive and you want to grab more. The actual biscuit is 5 points to start with. I know you could fill these with veggies and a little egg beaters and cheese and maybe shave a point off.

Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Stuffed Breakfast Sliders 

Ingredients:

1 (8) of Grand Biscuits ( I used Kroger Jumbo)

1/3 of a breakfast sausage (crumbled and cooked)

1/4 of a cup of shredded low fat cheese

5 eggs ( you could use egg beaters)

Instructions:

1) brown and break up sausage

2) Scramble eggs and cook in with the sausage

3) Sprinkle with cheese.

4) Spray a non-stick spray on pan.

5) Take each biscuit (starting from the center and start to flatten it with your hand) until you get about 5 inches.

6) Take about a tablespoon of mixture and put in middle of circle and draw up edges to make a ball.

7) Put seem side down on the pan
8) Do this until you are finished. Spray the top with a bit of non-stick spray.

9) Bake at 350 for about 20 minutes until brown on bottom and top.

Be sure to let cool, they are hot coming out of the oven.
To put up, (if I get to ) I put each on in a sandwich baggie and put in fridge for leftovers.
When heating up, wrap in paper towel and zap about 40 seconds and go.


These were very good and we will make them more often, take a bit of time, but it does work with the serving portion thing and keeps everyone happy.

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Kitchen Tip

When I cook breakfast sausage, I cook it all in crumbles and add minced onion. At the point when it is done, I repackage for what I need. I usually split it into 3 containers to be used later. For sausage gravy, pizza, breakfast stuffer, or something requiring sausage.

I have taken on a great many new habits to save money on my groceries, or how to expand my meals and keep them healthy. I am going to try to share them as I go along.


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Today here in Ga. it is such weird weather. Yesterday you would have thought it was winter again. Today it isn't as cold, but chilly. On the menu for dinner tonight is Chicken Alfredo and Bacon Wrapped Green Beans. The kids love those Green Beans, if you haven't tried to make them, you really should, they also are great cold too.

So my friends and family, get out there and make the day yours...Until we talk again..

Getting back to it May 3, 2013

I know I haven't been keeping up with my blog. I guess I was thinking as long as I had a recipe, I could blog. I really didn't want cooking to define who and what I was.

I have a million thoughts running through my head at one time. I guess that is why I like the blog. So I am promising to hit it up a little more.

I am doing better with my health. I gave up diet soda. Shewwww...talk about something hard to do. It has been two week and sometimes I feel I could take a shower in soda. It just made everything better. I actually think I used it as a reward for everything. I substituted soda with teas and fruit infused water. I bought a really great pitcher from amazon.com and I use it all the time. I change the fruit every 3 days and refill every day. I am hoping it will help me to feel better. I am finding that I crave carbs and sugar alot less. I am less hungry and my mind, I know this may be crazy, seems clearer.

I have also been going to a chiropractor for the last 12 weeks, and he is thinking that my right side of my pelvis was turned in and yes, they new hip was great, but the muscle imbalance wasn't addressed. Even after all the physical therapy, no one knew what to do. The pain was always so intense and no one ever gave me more than 1 week of any kinda pain killer. I guess I should be glad, because I have no dependency problems on top of it all. This week is the first actual week that I can put weight on the right hip without pain.. whooohoo... progress is coming.

The pool is up and running. Too cold to swim, but okay to walk in with my canes, and my 4 year old loves to hear me yell when he splashes me. Hopefully I will progress enough to get all this nasty weight off. I have about 75lbs to drop. Anyone want it?

Well I just dropped in to say hello.. promise to catch up more later..

So get out there and make the day yours...until later.

Thanks

I have reached the 30,000 visits to my page.
Wow, I just don't know what to say.
I hope that everyone has enjoyed what they have found amoung these ramblings.
I started out just not knowing where my niche might take me and now I see a path. I hope to come back soon with a few new recipes. I have to create them and try them out first. I have a great set of guinea pigs here at the house.
It is spring starting here in GA and the sun is shining today. I have two boys waiting to get outside so I will make this brief.

Thanks for all my family and friends that have supported me in writing this BLOG. It could never had been anything without you. Also for all my new friends that are checking me out. Feel free to leave your email and comments any time.

So enjoy they day.. get out there and make it yours.. until later...


XOXOXOXO

Meatloaf - Veggie Filled wwpp- varies from how many you make

So I have finally decided to share my meatloaf. I have perfected this so it is really easy to put together quick and get into the oven.

I find in this day and age, that groceries are very highly priced and you must really be creative to use what you have and to stop needless waste.

I buy fresh vegetables when I can, usually a head of cauliflower, broccoli, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, onions, green peppers, zucchinis and anything else in season. I use them to roast and have as a side to most meals. Sometimes a fresh salad, sometimes grilled. The one thing they all have in common is that there is always some left over.

Every week or so I try to get my meatloaf on the menu, because it helps with the leftovers that I have hanging out. I go through my produce and pick out what is getting ready to go, and then I take the leftover roasted, and always I add an onion and fresh garlic to it all.

This week I had leftover grilled asparagus and even mushroom. I put it all in a pan with a 1/2 cup of water and soften all the veggies. When softened I puree them with my immersion blender. Not a real pretty site, but pretty tasty in that meatloaf.

I have been doing this for about a year now and I through no produce away, unless it is a peel of some sort.  I find that my kids love it too. I also make them into mini loaves 3"x 2". . I also will if I have plenty left over , freeze a batch for another day.

Meatloaf - Veggie Filled

* wwpp- will vary from how many minis you make. I got 10 nice sized mini loaves and one was plenty for me. I am average about 5 points per mini loaf.

Ingredients:

All leftover veggies, (if you don't have any on hand, then roast up a big pan of veggies (see one of my previous blogs) make sure you include onions and garlic, more flavor the better.

* I put 3 big handfuls of baby spinach in mine.

3 cups of oatmeal (not instant)

1 bottle of any bq sauce you like

2 lbs of ground beef (I used 93%)

Instructions:

1) If your veggies are all collected put into a large soup pot. Cook under tender.

2) When tender, I used my immersion blender to puree the whole thing. (not real pretty)

3) Pour this mix into your ground beef, 1/2 bottle of bq sauce, and 3 cups of oatmeal and mix.

4) On a foil lined and non-stick sprayed pan, mold your mini loaves. ( you can of course split this into two and make just a regular looking meatloaf. Putting one up in freezer for later. I made 10 minis and they never make it to the freezer. )

5) Take what is left of BQ sauce and smooth on top of meatloaf.

6) Put into 350 oven for 1 hour.


For a side, I bought one of the institutional size can of small whole potatoes (I was feeding 6) and tossed them with a bit of melted butter, garlic powder, sea salt and pepper. Roasted them with while I baked the meatloaf. Just stirring them every once in awhile. They turned out roasted on the outside with a wonderful soft inside.

Just a quick pic...

With any leftover potatoes, you can make home fries. Or save them until after St Patrick Day and mix with leftover corn beef and make some yummy hash.

I have now shared my great meatloaf..teeheee... and if you are good, just don't mention the veggies and no one will know.

I am off for now, I actually published the first 308 pages of my blog into a keepsake book for my kids.
I am so excited with it.

I am in the future thinking about working on a real cookbook. So if it finally gets done and you are interested I will be letting everyone know where they can purchase one.

Today is a beautiful day in Georgia..so get out there, enjoy you day.

Cheese Burger Stuffed Sliders

I guess we were cooking fiends this weekend. While we were creating the pepperoni rolls, because they went so super fast we started to search the refrigerator. We found one more container of grands biscuits. So this was our new creation.

Cheese Burger Stuffed Sliders  made 8 ( which gave 2 to each person) servs 4

Ingredients:

1/2 lb of ground beef

1/4 cup of minced onion   (or you could use 1/2 lipton onion soup)

1/2 cup of shredded cheese

a healthy squirt of ketchup

a half healthy squirt of mustard

a healthy squirt of dill relish

*optional - sesame seed

Instructions:

1) Brown up your meat with the minced onion.

2) put in your squirts and your cheese, mix ever so gently.

3) Flatten out your biscuits and put a big tbs of mixture in the middle and close it up like a ball.

4) Put seam down into the baking dish.

5) Spray a bit of non-stick spray.

6) ours we put sesame seed on top.

7) 350 oven for about 20-25 minutes, until brown and I even checked to make sure the biscuit was done all the way through

These again were very good. Especially if you have kids. This is the only picture that I got before they gobbled them up. I found these to be as conquerable as those sliders from hotpockets. I don't have any to try to see how they freeze and warm up. If I ever get that chance I will let you know.

I hope you enjoyed our weekend of foodies ...

Get out in your kitchen, save time, save money and enjoy spending time with your family.
My family are my guinea pigs. Seems like they make out pretty good.

These are on our snacking menu too. I did try them with the small ones, but you couldn't get enough of the mixture to get a good taste of the cheeseburger, so the large biscuits are the way to go.

Have a great day!

Pepperoni Rolls

Tell me that does not look yummy.. This was our creation this weekend. We now have an attachment to the cheap 4 pack of refrigerator biscuits. They are great little versatile little things.

This weekend we made Pepperoni Rolls. I actually took pictures of a few steps. I am trying to be more tutorial.

Pepperoni Rolls

Ingredients:

1 package of pepperoni slices (we use the turkey, less calories0

1 cup of shredded Mozzarella cheese

3 cans of biscuits (the small refrigerator ones) (3 cause that is what number could go in my 9x13 pan)
      
* A note about my 9x13 pans. I use the gladware that go in the oven and have a lid for when they cool. I can then just slide leftovers  into fridge and stack up. I have a large, hungry family and that is what works for us.*


Instructions:

1) Spray your pan so they won't stick.

2) Take one biscuit and stretch it out.

3) Lay a piece of pepperoni in it.

4) A pinch of mozzarella cheese.

5) Another piece of pepperoni.

6) Roll up around filling and pinch bottoms closed. Lay seam down into pan.

7) Fill up pan. Spray top with Non-stick spray and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

8) Place in 350 oven for about 25 minutes or until they are golden brown.

These babies were really good and warm. I actually turned it out onto another pan and carefully separated them and put them back in the pan, that way my bunch didn't mutilate the whole thing.

This was a really good snack. I see these as a great potential for all kinds of fillings.
Sausage and peppers, philly cheesesteak, and maybe a great finger food thing for the holidays.

They do take a bit to make, but we sit, the kids and me and laugh and create, so it is a win, win situation.

So get out in that kitchen, make it yours, change it up, get your family out there too..