Pasta Con Delicious Broccoli

Your lips and tummy will be thanking me for this recipe. MMMMM!!!!!



This got my husbands very big seal of approval ~~ He'll be taking it as left overs tomorrow. Yep that means he likes it ~~ YAY!!!



Pasta Con Delicious Broccoli



2-3 pieces of chicken, cut into cubes

1/2 lb Rigatoni (a nice tube pasta works will for this recipe)

1 big bunch broccoli

1 8-oz can mushrooms

1/2 stick butter

2 cups half-n-half

8 oz can tomato sauce

salt and pepper and garlic salt to taste

Arrow Root or Cornstarch Slurry



Put Rigatoni in boiling water and boil for 15 minutes. Add broccoli into the pot in the last 3 minutes of cooking.



While Rigatoni is cooking, add the chicken to a skillet with a little olive oil and cook until done, set aside. Put butter into pan you cooked chicken in and add the mushrooms, cook for about 1 min. Turn heat down a little and add tomato sauce and half-n-half, add slurry and cook until a little thickened.

Add the chicken back to the pan.

Put pasta and broccoli on plate and add the sauce to the pasta and stir, add Italian Cheese to the top and a little dried basil. Serve with a nice French Baguette.

Enjoy.

Happy, Healthy Eating,

Dak's Famous Sausage and Peppers

So let me start by saying that my boy is becoming quite a food connoisseur. I told you about the Caesar Salad adventure a while back, and he has become a Caesar Salad and Salad in general eater. It is so cool, and strange, because if you know him, you know that salads or veggies in general were just not his thing.

Well a while back, I came across a vegan recipe for Sausage and Peppers. Well I made it and he loved it!!! Yes he will eat vegan meals and never even bat an eye. Yep even if said Vegan meal includes fake meat, in this case, vegan Polka Keibalsa Sausage. Lovely. Well, then I had the whole intolerance to soy thing and that knocked it out for me, but certainly not for Dak.

Well today I needed to fix something to take to my mom's for lunch. So I decided to make a non-vegan Sausage and Peppers and mom was thrilled, so I thought I'd share.

It is really easy and mom and Sir Cuteness ate it up so it must be good =)

Dak's Famous Sausage and Peppers

1 package Polka Keibalsa Sausage
1/2 red pepper
1/2 green pepper
1/2 orange or yellow pepper (I used orange, that's what I had =)
1 small to medium vidalia onion (another onion works well here to ~~ again it's just what I had on hand)

Saute' peppers in Pam sprayed pan. Cook until peppers are just a little softer, about 5 mins or so. Then add the onions and cook another 5 mins or so. Add the Sausage and cook until the Sausage is heated through, about 5 mins more, and then turn the heat down to low and let cook about 10 mins to let all the flavors meld together.

Then enjoy. I fixed roasted red potatoes with this and took to mom's. She loved it and has enough for left overs, even after Sir Cuteness got ahold of it =)

Hope you enjoy this latest recipe.

Happy, Healthy Eating,

Nachos ~~ Kicking it Healthy Style

So I love me some Nachos. I actually really like Mexican food. I don't like it really spicy, but I do like it with enough heat that you can still taste the food behind it.

So today I went to the health food store for Almond Milk and they had Mango Salsa in the deli, so I picked up some of that and started thinking what I might fix with it, and this is what I had tonight and thought I'd share it with you.

Nachos ~~ Kicking it Healthy Style

2 Corn Tortillas
1/2 cup Adzuki Beans, cooked or your bean of choice (Adzuki is what I had fixed)
1/2 cup frozen corn, cooked without salt
1 cup onions and green peppers, sliced and cooked
1-2 Tablespoons Mango Salsa (or salsa of your choice)
Lettuce
Tomato, diced

Heat oven to 350 degrees put 1 corn tortilla on sprayed cookie sheet. Start with beans and then add corn and onions and green peppers mixture, top with the other Corn Tortilla. Cook about 10 - 20 minutes, until tortillas are crispy. Keep on eye on these closely as they can get to done easily.

After it comes out of the oven, add Mango Salsa, lettuce and tomato.

Enjoy.

Happy, Healthy Eating,