Zucchini Stir Fry

Easy enough and tasty to boot!


Ingredients:
375g or 13.25 oz sliced zucchini
1/2 cup water
palm full of chopped onions
1 tablespoon garlic powder
Garlic Pepper Grinder Seasoning
Sprinkle of salt

Preheat skillet over medium heat, spray with PAM. Add in squash and spices, top with water and stir. Cover and stir frequently til squash is cooked through.

A healthy pretty side for 0 Points+. Makes 2 servings.

Baked Cabbage

One of my online Buddies, Amber, Shared this with me when I asked how people make their cabbage. The recipe looked tasty but I wanted to slim it down some. The results were yummy. Ed and I both really liked it!

Original recipe credit with great step by step found here: Newly Weds Blog (now if you are flipping back and forth between here and there, don't mix up the ingredients :) it is sure to change the PointPlus value!

Baked Cabbage 8 servings
1 head of cabbage, shredded (mine was about 1.5 lbs)
1 large sliced onion ( i used the dehydrated onion flakes)
3 tablespoons cornstarch
2 cups 1% milk
splash of hot sauce
7 slices raw turkey bacon, crumbled
dash of salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 350. In a 9x13 baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam, dump in onion and shredded cabbage. In a separate dish/bowl, mix cornstarch, salt, pepper. Once combined and milk and hot sauce, wisk together. pour evenly over cabbage. cover with foil and bake for about 1.5 hours, remove the foil for the last 10-15 minutes so the bacon can get crisp.

My only suggestion would be stir it before you serve it, to make sure the salt and pepper distribute evenly.
But other than that a very nice side for just 1 pointsplus per serving!

**recipe side note** great served as leftovers! just reheat in microwave!

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Butternut Squash Fries

I must say that I LOVE MY WEIGHT WATCHERS WEEKLIES!!! :)

I got this recipe from the book that is being handed out this week.

First you start with a 2lb Butternut squash

Olive Oil Cooking Spray

1 tsp table salt, or to taste

1/2 tsp chili powder

Preheat over to 450.

Cut the "neck" off of the squash, this is the part you will use for the fries

(I am going to roast the other portion)

Peel the neck portion

cut it in to planks/sticks/whatevers

Place on a foiled lined cooking sheet, sprayed with cooking spray 

(both the pan, then the "fries" once they are on the pan

Sprinkle with Salt and chili powder.

Bake for 14-18 minutes, turning once.

Served with the BBQ Chicken left over from the other night.

This was GOOD. Ed liked it, though he was apprehensive at first

I think next time I make them, I will cut the strips thinner so they can crisp up

some more. And maybe, drizzle with honey once cooked.

YUM!

1/4 of what was cooked here is 1 PointsPlus per serving. (just the fries of course)

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Yellow Morning Sunshine Smoothie

This thing deserved a better name than yellow smoothie, hence the "special" adjectives above.

I wanted a smoothie but didn't have kale. HOWEVER :) I did have the left over Butternut Squash from last night.

Ingredients:
3/4 cup mashed butternut squash, with brown sugar & cinnamon
1 frozen banana
1 cup frozen peaches
2 dole pineapple rings (canned in its own juice)
about 1 cup of water

I put the squash on the bottom and topped with other ingredient. Give it a nice spin in the blend.

It is PERFECT. Thick and smooth.

2 Points Plus for this! that is including the brown sugar I put on the squash.

My First Experience with: Butternut Squash

I have a new found mission to try some things that I have never had, or haven't had in a LONG time. So I figured I would take the different ways my friends suggested cooking it and mix it all together.

Preparation:

First you buy the squash :) This is a 1.5 lb squash

Cut off the end, I was intrigued by the juices!

Cut it in half

Scoop out the "yuck"

Place in baking pan, lined with foil, lightly sprayed with 

Pam and add about 3/4 cup water.

Bake in over preheated @ 400 Degrees

( I only cooked mine for about 40 minutes, definitely needs longer!)

All pretty and roasted up

Sprinkled with Brown sugar, cinnamon & spray butter

The review: Not too bad. Needed to be cooked longer, maybe about 10-15 minutes.

It wasn't quite as sweet as I thought would be based on other recipes I had read. But I really think that just lends to further flexibility with spices and flavor combinations. I will definitely make this again!

Angie's Brown Monster

As a follow-up to the Green Monster,  I made another concoction, only this one turned out brown. But I still liked it!

in this one I put:

1 frozen chopped banana

3 leafy parts from kale stalks

1/4 cup milk

1/4 cup water

1 cup frozen fresh orange juice (i squeezed, not concentrate)

about 1.5 cups of frozen whole strawberries.

Blend it up and you get:

Rockin' it in my Totally 80's Glass

Crockpot Apples and Sweet Potatoes

I know how much I love my crockpot apples and I had made some smashed sweet potatoes with apples before, so I figured I would give it a shot in the crockpot.

Ingredients:

4 apples (there are six in the picture but I didn't use them all!)

peeled, sliced & diced

1 sweet potato, peeled, sliced & diced

dash of all spice

sprinkle of ground ginger

healthy coating of cinnamon

(seasoning can be altered depending on how "spicy" you want the mix)

1 tablespoon vanilla favoring

You dice them

Sprinkle them

Dump them in your crockpot (this is a small 2-3 quart one)

Cover and cook for about 4 hours. 

This pot only has an on/off setting, not hi/low so know your pot.

When all is said and done, mix them up with a spoon and it should mash together

easily. If they don't break up, cover and cook for another 30 minutes, or until soft.

Can serve as a side or as a dessert with some whipped cream.

I will have to get a better final project picture!

Using the amount I used, it makes about 4 - 1/2 cup servings @ 3 points plus each.

(if served as a dessert with whipped topping, the topping would be extra)

And it tastes absolutely fantastic!