Sunday, September 11, 2011

Spiced Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Spiced Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins from Amanda's Cookin

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs, beaten
3 medium ripe bananas
3 tablespoons vanilla yogurt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 cup pecans
1 cup milk chocolate chips, divided
Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 F.

2. In large bowl using a wooden spoon, beat together sugar and oil. Add eggs and bananas, mix well. In small bowl, stir the baking soda into the vanilla yogurt. Add yogurt mixture slowly to the banana mixture. Add vanilla and stir until combined.

3. Whisk together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and cloves. Add flour mixture to the banana mixture and fold in. Do not overmix! Overmixing will result in tough muffins. Stir only until combined, batter may be lumpy.

4. Fold in pecans and half of the chocolate chips. Spoon batter into greased jumbo muffin cups. Sprinkle top of muffin batter with remaining chocolate chips.

5. Bake 20-22 minutes. Turn out onto cooling rack and allow to cool completely.

Makes 11 jumbo muffins.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

chicken chilli

Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 10 • Size: 1 1/4 cups • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 5 pts
Calories: 203.7 • Fat: 1.4 g • Carb: 33.3 g • Fiber: 10.0 g • Protein: 16.9 g
1 onion, chopped
1 16-oz can black beans
1 16-oz can kidney beans
1 8-oz can tomato sauce
10 oz package frozen corn kernels
2 14.5-oz cans diced tomatoes w/chilies
1 packet taco seasoning
1 tbsp cumin
1 tbsp chili powder
24 oz (3-4) boneless skinless chicken breasts
chili peppers, chopped (optional)
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
Combine beans, onion, chili peppers, corn, tomato sauce, cumin, chili powder and taco seasoning in a slow cooker. Place chicken on top and cover. Cook on low for 10 hours or on high for 6 hours. Half hour before serving, remove chicken and shred. Return chicken to slow cooker and stir in. Top with fresh cilantro. Also try it with low fat cheese and sour cream (extra points).

Thursday, August 25, 2011

green chili chicken

bake chicken
once cooked shred
add green chili sauce
and a brick of cream cheese softened.
simmer till melted
in a 9x13 baking dish
fill flour (wheat) tortillas
roll and line the pan
cover with more chili sauce a bit of cheese and bake.

chicken nuggets

So I looked at the recipe that I posted right before this one.

I made a few changes....
I took a heal of bread and let it dry out
crumbled into a bowl
added seasoning -my kids love ranch so I used dried parsley, onion and garlic powder
I let it stand mixed in a bowl overnight
**to let it mingle and to allow the bread to dry out more**
I added 2t of oil into the season mix
cut chicken breast into small chunks
mix together

put on a greased cookie sheet.

**to grease the cookie sheet I used a small amount of cooking oil and wiped it onto the sheet. I don't use aerosol cans or cooking spray as the aerosol fumes are harmful to Noah's kidneys.

put in oven at 425 (I found this to be a bit to high in my own oven) for about 5mins
check and flip over. cook for maybe 5 more mins let sit and cool.

YUM

Amazing chicken!

Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 4 • Serving Size: 1/4th of nuggets • Old Points: 4 pts • Points+: 4 pts
Calories: 164.9 • Fat: 4.6 g • Protein: 22.1 g • Carb: 7.7 g • Fiber: 0.9 g • Sugar: 0.1 g


16 oz (2 large) skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut into even bit sized pieces
salt and pepper to taste
2 tsp olive oil
6 tbsp whole wheat Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
2 tbsp panko
2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
olive oil spray (I used my Misto)

Preheat oven to 425°. Spray a baking sheet with olive oil spray.

Put the olive oil in one bowl and the breadcrumbs, panko and parmesan cheese in another.

Season chicken with salt and pepper, then put in the bowl with the olive oil and mix well so the olive oil evenly coats all of the chicken.

Put a few chunks of chicken at a time into the breadcrumb mixture to coat, then on the baking sheet. Lightly spray the top with olive oil spray then bake 8 - 10 minutes. Turn over then cook another 4 - 5 minutes or until cooked though.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

hippie cobbler

black berries
1.5c of oats (old fashioned)
bout .5c flour (I used whole wheat unbleached)
cinnamon
1c brown sugar
vanilla

mix the topping together so it looks like sticky dry dough.
wash berries (I added honey not sugar)
bake at 350 till topping is browned and the berries are bubbling

burgers

I took ground beef added the following
Chili powder
garlic powder
seasoning salt
chopped read onions

once that was mixed well I added a bit of bbq sauce. Enough to make it sticky.

grill SUPER YUM