Feb 1, 2013

Zucchini Pizza Snack



Ingredients
1 zucchini
Pizza squeeze sauce
Shredded Mozzrella
Pepperonis
Olive oil

Set over to broil.

Slice zucchini, and place in foil lined baking pan.  Brush top side with olive oil, and broil for 5-7 minutes.  Remove from oven and flip zucchini, brush this side with olive oil and broil 5-7 minutes. 

Place cheese on top of zucchini, squeeze dime size pizza sauce on each slice, place pepperoni on top of each slice zucchini.  Broil in oven until cheese is melted and pepperonis are to your liking.

Bacon on George Foreman



In years past my husband has done the Atkins diet for the main purpose of losing weight, and he always loved it because he is a meat eater.  Recently he got to looking into the Atkins diet for health purposes.  He had heard some about sugars playing a role in cancer, and looked into what studies with the Atkins diet stated.  Having a kidney cancer a couple years ago really had him interested in this.  I wouldn't say we are big on studies at all, because every study has it's good, bad, and opinion.  With this one though, my husband made a decision that he's not going to eat a bunch of carbs the rest of his life.  So with any change of diet you begin to ask yourself what am I going to eat now.  So I have been preparing eggs in muffin cups for him to have for breakfast, but knew some different options were needed.  So I thought about trying to cook bacon on the George, and it turned out to be a good idea.  I can not stand frying bacon due to the grease popping and hitting me, and baking it in the oven is a whole big mess even when placing foil on baking sheet.  This leaves me loving cooking it on the George because grease is not popping everywhere and it's draining into the tray.  No it's not as good as frying it but it's really not bad at all and it's still crunchy.  It is time consuming, taking probably an hour or little more to cook a 3lb package, but it makes for easy breakfast throughout the week.  Take what you want place it in oven for bout 3-5 minutes and you have crispy fresh like bacon!

Took pictures with my phone so they are not very good

Baked Chicken Flautas


Back a few weeks ago I made these flautas on a whim.  I was looking at pinterest and saw some similar but I did not have the ingredients they used.  So I just used what I had that I thought would go together good.  It was kinda time consuming the way I did it, but they were yummy!

Ingredients
12-14 chk tenders
4 oz cream cheese
1/3 of 2lb block velveeta
1/2 can rotel
1/4-1/2 cup chicken broth (reserved from boiling the tenders)
2 lg jalapenos seeded & chopped
1 slice onion chopped
20 sm tortillas
2 Tbsp butter
Salt
Pepper
Garlic & Onion Powder
Montreal Steak Seasoning
Lawry's Seasoned Pepper
Canola Oil
Olive Oil

Preheat oven to 450 dergrees

Boil chicken tenders with chicken bullion and seasonings.  While chicken in boiling chop jalapeno & onion.
Once chicken is done, remove from broth and shred chicken.

Pour broth out of pot until you have 1/4 - 1/2 cup still remaining.  Place on low to med heat, add butter, cream cheese, velveeta, rotel, jalapenos, and onion, stirring constantly until all is combined and smooth like.  Then add the shredded chicken to sauce.

Mix some Canola & Olive Oil together and spread on baking sheet.


Place chicken mixture in tortilla  and place on baking sheet.  Brush all tops of tortillas with oil mixture, and bake about 10 minutes.  Turn flautas over, brush lightly with oil mixture, place back in oven and bake about 10 minutes.  

Use some remaining Velveeta and rotel for dipping flautas in if you'd like.