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KitchenKatalog: Blog 346
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 08:28 PM
The pork chop was okay. Not great. I cut slits in it and filled it with garlic. I then used some cayenne pepper, garlic powder and oregano. Like I said, it was good but not great. I am trying to replicate what I have had before but I cannot seem to get it.
The vegetables was just a frozen mix with butter spray, garlic powder, cheese and 21 seasoning salute.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 663, 2010-11-16_202805
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 09:34 AM
We had seen a balsamic chicken recipe but didn't have the stuff so we based ours on this recipe. It was okay. I thought it was a bit more of a tomato chicken then really a balsamic chicken. We served it over green spinach. I think part of the problem was that we cut down the recipe but may have used too much tomatoes. One nice thing is that it was pretty low point wise.
Points, about 4 for the chicken. That's it!
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 660, 2010-11-16_093423
Tuesday, November 09, 2010, 09:42 AM
In a continuing effort to clean out the fridge and eat quickly, we made sloppy joes again. I was more rushed and I experimented a bit too much. It wasn't as good. I added too much balsamic vinegar and I tried adding some Franks Red Hot. It was a lot of vinegar. Also, I thought we had more beef so there was too much onion. Oh well. It was better than eating out.
Meredith made a spinach salad. We used feta, pine nuts and some of the Orange Muscat Vinegar. It was good.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 657, 2010-11-09_094230
Sunday, November 07, 2010, 09:18 PM
The soup was really the main attraction here. We used the purple majesty potatoes, a [very] small onion and celery. We also used a bit of margarine but that could have been skipped! After a while, we used the immersion blender. We served it with fat free greek yogurt and cheese. Sadly, we didn't not have green onions or bacon bits/bacos. What is funny is that because of the color and because we left the potato skin on (extra fiber), it looked like black bean soup. Overall, it tasted pretty good. Not incredible, but pretty good.
The hot dogs were the 97% (or something close) fat free Hebrew National. They were fine. We served them with a variety of toppings including leftover squash chilli to make chilli dogs.
Points:
Soup (whole thing, 4 servings)
~1.25 lb potato...9
margarine...1
The hot dogs are one each plus one for the first Arnolds hot dog roll and two for the second.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 654, 2010-11-07_211816
Saturday, November 06, 2010, 09:56 PM
We made the sloppy joes off of this recipe (approximately half). Of course, I made a lot of changes. First of all, I added some balsamic vinaigrette on the idea of a few other recipes. It was good and I liked the sharpness. I then also used a bit more ketchup and some more mustard. I also added a lot of freshly minced garlic. It is interesting how much variety there seems to be with the tomato base of the recipe. Some use sauce, ketchup, tomato paste and/or pureed tomatoes. I guess they would all have their benefits. This one was very good but, not surprisingly, salty. Finally, instead of the peppers/carrots, I used diced chillies. Pretty low points too. See below. We will be making these again!
The soup was pretty good even though it didn't really go with the meal. Meredith wanted a lighter soup (not pureed and thick). Started with chopped celery, onion and bunch of mushrooms. plus chicken brother (or water and bouillon). Thankfully, the mushrooms shrunk a bit. I added some soy sauce and sriracha plus ginger, garlic and onion powders. It was good but, also not surprisingly salty.
Points (made 4 sandwiches for two people):
9 oz extra lean beef...9
Ketchup...1
Brown Sugar...1
Arnolds...(1 for first, 2 after)
soup...0
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 651, 2010-11-06_215618
Saturday, November 06, 2010, 12:28 PM
We really just threw together a marinade with soy sauce, white wine, sesame oil, various spices, and garlic. After marinating it for a bit we bakes the fish for about 20 minutes.
We also made a lot of Brussels sprouts. They were not as good as we had been having in the past but they were fine. We made a lot!
Points: Fish 3 Marinade1 Brussel Sprouts0
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 647, 2010-11-06_122838
Friday, November 05, 2010, 03:45 PM
The chili is based on this recipe. It was pretty good. Of course, we used a sugar pumpkin that looks similar and tastes close. We added extra tomato and other seasonings because there was so much pumpkin. I liked it a lot. And, I think the points were pretty low. It is really hard to calculate because I do not know how to count the sugar pumpkin. Is it butternut squash pumpkin. There was a 1/2 cup of quinoa too. There was a huge amount! It also burned the bottom of the pan but I was eventually able to get that off.
The pumpkin was entirely thrown together. I made a crust by blending the cinnamon toast crunch fiber one stuff with some extra splenda. I added almond milk to bring it all together. For the filling, I added some almond milk, splenda, pumpkin pie spice, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. I then added a bit of egg beaters. It wasn't too bad considered how thrown together it was but could have been worse.
Points:
As I said above it was really hard to calculate but I figure around 3-5 for a serving of the chili and maybe three for the whole pie.
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 644, 2010-11-05_154532
Thursday, November 04, 2010, 09:19 AM
The shepherd's pie was much the same as last time except we used purple majesty potatoes giving it the really cool (or strange) look you see. It was pretty good. I think it tasted better last time though. It was also a pretty easy meal. Just brown onions, beef, peas and corn and then top with mashed potatoes. Meredith did the potatoes so I do not know what exactly it was but there was the usual including greek yogurt, a bit of fake butter, and other stuff. The whole thing made over four servings.
The soup was also very good. We used a part of a sugar pumpkin (looks like a huge butternut squash). I also used a new chicken stock called Better Than Bouillon. I think I agree that it is better but it is also a bit expensive so we will try it again but may not make it our normal. I added all kinds of spices and on Meredith's suggestion, some grated parmesan cheese. The cheese was actually a nice addition.
Points for the entire shepherd's pie (over 4 servings)
Beef (11 oz, very lean)...11
Potatoes (~1 1/3 poind)...7
extra stuff in potatoes...2 or 3
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Each serving is about 5 or 6.
Soup:
Squash (hard to say exactly so a guess)...5
Original Wordpress ID and Date: 640, 2010-11-04_091934