Crusted Tilapia

Fish is a favorite at our house.  I try to come up with interesting ways to cook it and this crusted way seems to be a favorite. 

4 oz. fillets of tilapia (prepackaged cut already :) )
3 sheets of phyllo dough
fresh dill (or dry)
diced garlic
lemon pepper (or sometimes I just squeeze some lemon on)

you take your 3 sheets of dough and light spray some olive oil cooking spray on each sheet as you layer them.  Cut the sheets in half and place one fillet on each half.  Sprinkle your seasoning on and fold the fish with the sheets and lay seam side down on a sprayed cookie sheet.  Spray a little more spray on top, it helps make the crunch!  Just light sprays, though!  And feel free to put more dill on top!

Bake in the oven at 375 until golden brown! 

These little crispy pockets of goodness are heaven!!!  And they taste great the next day cold for lunch! 

I don't know if there is an actual recipe for this, because I just did this on my own one day. :)

Total calories per 4 oz fillet: 200

Tastes like a caramel apple :)

--Trisha

I made one of my favorite yummy salads tonight to take over to our friends' home for dinner!

It normally has snickers cut up and mixed in, but I left it out tonight, and it was still awesome!

Choose your favorite apple, slice and dice it up. I used Golden Delicious tonight.

Choose a favorite SF, FF Jello pudding. Tonight's choice was butterscotch! I do love chocolate, white chocolate, and even coconut!!!

Then you take one tub of LIGHT cool whip.

You mix it all up, and there ya be! YUMMY!!!!! And, it feels like such a dessert :)

Yummy and healthy recipe!

I love this recipe! I first made it while visiting family in Texas many years ago. It's easy, cheap, low calories, and DELICIOUS!! It's from the Texas Rangers (as in the law enforcement, and specifically eating out on the trail) Cookbook!

 It was perfect for today, and the weather!

Texas Ranger Casserole

Head of cabbage= 290- Cut up and place in dish.

1 can of tomatoes with garlic, oregano, basil = 87.5 - Pour on top of cabbage.

1 large can of Rotel –tomatoes with green chiles (spicy--a favorite of us Texans!)=  150- On top of cabbage.

Mushrooms – 60 - whole fresh mushrooms, but you can use sliced mushrooms, if you want.I just put them on top of the cabbage.

Ground chicken – 1 pound- 859- I use turkey sometimes, too!

Spices--oregano, basil, garlic,etc. and 1 cup of water, can add more, if you want to make it more soupy :) I have even added tomato sauce before, when I wanted it especially soupy!

TOTAL = 1446.5 for total  or 241 calories for 1/6th of the dish, which is really a lot of food, and quite filling!

Trisha's Weigh-In and maybe TMI

Last week: 215.6
Today: 215
Down .6

I am OK with that, considering how absolutely bloated I feel...TOM started yesterday afternoon (so appreciative it wasn't the day before during the race!?!). That got me thinking...since I have been eating healthy and exercising, I am back onto a normal schedule (which is abnormal for me), and if that holds true, I will be TOM the day of my half-marathon in Vegas. THAT could be a problem, because I have TERRIBLE cramps and feel very nauseated the first day of TOM. I think that's an age thing, as I wasn't that way until only this past year :( I am curious how regular joggers deal with those sorts of things.

Best dinner ever. I wasn't feeling hungry at all :( So, I decided to try Stephanie's pumpkin oatmeal for dinner, and it was perfect, and exactly what I needed!!!! A new favorite comfort food for me :)

QUICK, easy, cheap, yummy!

--Trisha
This reminds me of veal parmigiana, only with chicken :)

The other night I tried a new recipe, and everyone liked it, and it was low calorie, and YUMMY!

I layered thin chicken breasts, with mozzarella cheese slices, and then I used two cans of tomatoes with garlic and basil to mix up with chicken stuffing, and a little bit of hot water, that I then added to the top of the cheese covered chicken. Then I baked it at 400 degrees for 30 minutes! YUMMY :)))))) OH my goodness!! I used fresh basil, oregano, and garlic, too!

chicken dinner for one serving: 359 calories (which is totally doable for dinner! We coupled it with salad and other veggies)

chicken= 164
tomato with garlic,basil-1/2 cup = 35
stuffing ½ cup = 100 calories
mozzarella cheese-1 slice = 60

Healthy recipe swap!

I love new recipes! I am a recipe book junky!!  And then to take something and tweak it and make it your own!!!

So yes, I am in for a healthy recipe swap!!!  I got an oatmeal recipe that I do in the mornings that is great!!! 

Pumpkin Oatmeal:

Make your oatmeal as usual.  (I do old fashion oats 1/2 c.)

Put in 1/2 c. pumpkin puree
1 tbs flax seed
cinnamon to taste
nutmeg to taste
1 tsp. real vanilla extract
1 tbs brown sugar (you can put more in depending on how you like it)
then add walnuts
and stir it all together!

YUMMY!

I have also been thinking...

It would be fun to share a healthy recipe once a month! I know that I love cooking, and I love learning new tried and true recipes :) Just something we could think about doing. Or, maybe we try a new healthy recipe that we review and share? What do you think, Stephanie?