A light Salad to get back on track

Hello all! So another holiday is over and now it’s time to get back on track. I made valentines dessert for work and it turned about bad. I was really excited to try a new cupcake recipe and after reading the directions a thousand times through, I still added an extra stick of butter when it only called for one. I will talk about these more later on. Right now I have to get back on track and start working out

Today I wanted to offer a delicious and healthy meal. Greek Salad. This one is a winner and I go back to this at least every other week.  It’s super simple and doesn’t take very long to make. 

Here is what you need to do;

Ingredients/recipe

For Chicken:

4 chicken breasts

1 clove of garlic finely chopped

A squeeze of lemon juice

Salt and pepper

For the Salad:

4 tomatoes cut into chunks

 1 red onion, thinly chopped

1 seedless cucumber, cut into bite-size chunks

1 small bell pepper, seeded and chunked

1 cup black olives

2 hearts of romaine lettuce

Feta Cheese to taste

For the Dressing:

1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil

3 tablespoons red wine vinegar

1 teaspoon dried oregano, crushed in palm of your hand

Rest of the lemon juice

Salt and black pepper

First, marinate your chicken in ¼ cup of EVOO, finely chopped garlic and a little bit of lemon juice. Once it has marinated about ten minutes, bake or grill your chicken. While the chicken is baking or grilling, cut all of your ingredients and place in a large bowl.

For your dressing, mix the ingredients in a small container or bowl.

Once the chicken is done, let it rest, then cut into slices. Place on top of your salad (or serve the salad and chicken separate) and sprinkle with feta cheese to taste. Top with a little bit of your dressing and enjoy!

Two Ingredient Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream!!!!

How is everyone today? I had a really nice three day weekend, but it went so fast! I stayed busy and tried to get as many things done as I could, but I still have a long list of things to do.

So tomorrow is the big day for lovers…and if you don’t have someone, don’t worry. You can go out with one of your best friends, or a family member or even take yourself out. Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be a day where we only share our love with a girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband we should share our love with those around us.

I say this because this weekend while I was running around, I was at one store and they had a TON of balloons and there was an old man in front of me. He told me to go ahead of him and went and grabbed a whole bunch of balloons and passed them out to all the ladies in the store. It was so cute! He was talking to the ladies and said that he feels better to give that receive.

Today’s recipe is one to share and I am so excited to share it with you. Remember those cookies I made from my last post? Well you need some of those for this recipe. I used about 12-14 cookies. You need those cookies because the recipe today is Two Ingredient Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream!

This recipe is so easy and so good! Now before you guys get on me because technically this is more than two ingredients, but the base for the ice cream is only two ingredients. I discovered this recipe over the summer and have been playing around with it for some time now.  I’ve had this idea in my head and I am so excited to finally have it done. What’s still great about this recipe is it still only takes four ingredients (ok ok 7 when you make the cookies too) still not that bad. You could also cut the ingredients down by buying pre-made red velvet cookies. I wanted to use cookies because I thought they would hold up the texture and bite to them more than the cake, but you could used cake if you would like. 

Here’s how to make it.

Ingredients/Recipe

1 14oz can of Sweetened Condensed Milk

1 pt (2 Cups) of Heavy Cream

12-14 Red Velvet Cookies

1 Tub of Cream Cheese Frosting

First chill your bowl and mixers for about 30 minutes. While those are chilling, pour your can of sweetened condensed milk into a large bowl.  Break up your cookies into pieces, do all different sizes, and put them in the bowl with the sweetened condensed milk.

Take about half of the cream cheese frosting and put into a small bowl and microwave for about 3 seconds until slightly melted. If you go too far it will be too loose. You want it to have some body to it. If this happens just take some of the frosting from the tub and mix it in.

 After the bowl and mixers have been chilled, take out and pour the heavy cream in the bowl. Whip until soft peaks form. If you take it too far it will become butter. So watch closely it happens fast. It takes about 2-3 minutes. You can do this by hand it just takes a little longer.

Fold the whipped cream into the sweetened condensed milk and cookie mixture. Once you have it all incorporated you should have a pinkish/red mixture.

Place about a cup of the mixture into a container (I find large cottage cheese containers work great). Layer in some of the slightly melted cream cheese frosting, about a 1-2 tablespoons. When you serve it you want there to be pockets of the frosting. NOTE: you can use as much or as little of the cream cheese frosting, it’s really up to you. Repeat until you reach the top of the container. Continue with the next container.  I had a little left over so I used a smaller container for the rest and repeated the same process.

Place the containers into the freezer for about 4 hours. Once frozen take out and enjoy!

If you decide to go with premade Red Velvet Cake or Cupcakes, chop into pieces and mix in with the sweetened condensed mix right before mixing in the whipping cream. I would also skip the cream cheese frosting part because you have that from the cake or cupcakes.

The ice cream is creamy, sweet and chewy because of the cookies. You get those pockets of frosting that just take it over the top!

This recipe is a winner in my book. I hope you try it and enjoy!

Red Velvet Cake Cookies!

Hey everyone! We are on the verge of Valentines day and here is my start to a grand recipe coming up this week. First I would like to say that I am praying for Whitney Houston's family. I grew up listening to her beautiful voice and am sad that we lost her at such a young age. There is not that many singers now that are like her and this is a sad day for me. I hope she found her peace.

Ok, sorry about that. I am super excited about these cookies because you can do so many things with them and they are super moist. You can even turn these into Red Velvet whoopie pies if you want. Its a very simple recipe and takes no time at all. If found it when searching Duncan  Hines website.  It is so easy all you need is a box of Red Velvet Cake mix, two eggs, and oil. This is also  your basic recipe for any cake box cookies. I went an extra step and rolled them in powdered sugar before baking. Here is the recipe and I hope you guys try this for your sweethearts. Go the extra mile and use a heart shaped cookie cutter and cut them into hearts! So cute!

Recipe adapted from Duncan Hines found here

1 Box of Red Velvet Cake Mix
2 Eggs
1/3 cup of oil.


Put your cake mix. 2 eggs (let them get to room temp) and 1/3 cup of oil in a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon, or a use a mixer, until the cake mix is fully incorporated. Roll into balls and than roll into powdered sugar. Place on a baking sheet and bake 8-11 minutes. Let cool on the pan for a few minutes then place on a cooling rack.

That's it. Its all you have to do. These are super easy and are perfect for anytime, but are great for Valentines Day. Don't forget to save some from my next dessert coming soon!  Enjoy!

Gearing up for the big V day

Hello all.

Doesn’t it seem that once it hits Halloween that there is one holiday right after the next? The Super Bowl isn’t a holiday, but we go to parties or throw a party, make lots of food and the list goes on, it can seem like a party.

Now right around the corner is Valentine’s Day. A day for lovers or for people to enjoy special people in their lives.

I haven’t been blogging for long, but today I want to review just a few recipes that might be good to make for you and your loved one.

Here is my recent slow cooker recipe..chicken pot pie, yum! Put this on in the morning, let it cook all day while you and your someone goes out and come home to a warm meal!

chicken pot pie

Serve this dessert up with some light whipped cream and berries...

A light dessert  

You could also do breakfast in bed with these two recipes...

Ham and Cheese bake

Breakfast Frittiata

Soups on! A lightened Clam Chowder so you can save more room for dessert!

New England Clam Chowder

A rich dessert so good you will be screaming for more!

Black Magic Cupcakes

A little Ice cream for dessert.

Two ingredient Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Pesto chicken...Yum-O 

Pesto Chicken Dinner

So there you go! A few recipe to choose from. Enjoy!