Stuffed Peppers

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Its been a while since a 'No Big Deal Recipe' has been prepared... But tonight I made stuffed peppers (I took a picture and will post it soon)

What you need:

2 tsp. Minced Garlic

2 Onions

1lb. Ground Turkey

1 Jar Healthy style spaghetti sauce

Cooked Brown rice

6 or 7 Bell peppers

How to do it:

Start by chopping the onions and cooking them in a pan with the Garlic. Add the ground turkey and brown (I threw a little Italian Seasoning in at this point). When the Turkey is cooked, add the rice and about 1/2-3/4 of the jar of sauce. Mix thoroughly.

Cut the tops off of the peppers and clean out the seeds. Stuff the peppers with the goodness that you just cooked. Then place them in a glass oven-safe dish, and pour remainder of sauce in the bottom of the pan. Bake until Peppers are cooked. ENJOY!

Chicken Stir-fry

I have a turkey stir-fry recipe on here, and this is very similar except I used Chicken instead.

Stuff:

Chicken breast

Peppers

Onions

Minced Garlic

Low Sodium Soy sauce

Low Sodium Teriyaki sauce

Oriental hot sauce

2 Tablespoons of Orange juice

Brown Rice

Start off by tenderizing the chicken and cubing it.  After that, pour the orange juice over the chicken along with the soy sauce, season with spices (see previous post about spices).  Place that in the fridge to marinate for a while.

Cut up the peppers.  This time I used two red, one green and one yellow, but use what you want (or what is on sale).  I then placed them in my pan and cooked them with the soy and teriyaki sauces and spices.  When the peppers are almost all the way cooked, dump them into a bowl to keep them off to the side.

Then cut up your onions and place them in the pan with the garlic and maybe a bit of spray butter.  After the onions and garlic cook for a while add the chicken and all of the juice that is left from the marinade.  Cook all of it until the chicken is a few minutes from being fully cooked, then add the peppers back in, and cook until it is all finished cooking.

While the chicken is cooking put the rice on in the rice cooker.  After you have finished cooking the rest of the stir-fry, and have dished it out, add the rest of the juice left in the pan to the rice cooker, it will give the rice a sensational taste.  If you dont want to try to time all of that correctly you can just add some of the soy or teriyaki sauce to the rice while you cook it.

I made 6 large meals with this, And combined the 6 meals have about 115% of your daily allowance of sodium.  While that seems like a lot, these 6 meals will last me 3 days!

Spices

Since I usually use all of the same spices when I cook, I decided to mix them all together so that I only have to open one container when I cook.

I mixed equal portions of:

red pepper flakes

black pepper

cayenne pepper

mrs. dash extra spicy

coriander

paprika

chili powder

portion and a half of:

seasoned no salt

cumin

and half a portion of:

all spice

I used the cuisinart to chop up the bigger stuff, and then mix everything together.  So far... I love it!!

Pudding

I was watching The Food Network, and Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee to be exact.  She made pudding and added a scoop of instant coffee to it.

I use fat-free sugar-free instant pudding, and I decided to give it a whirl.  So I got some skim milk and the chocolate pudding mix and a scoop of instant coffee.

IT WAS DELICIOUS!!

Also I put a dollop of Cool Whip Free on it, it made it even better.

No new recipes...

Sorry that I haven't posted any new recipes, I have been making my old ones recently.  I have also been spending more time in the gym.  I am doing more cardio in the morning, and on my days off I try to spend atleast 2 hours in the gym.  Also we qualified for a free 6-month membership to the YMCA, and we have been going to work out as a family (we dont actually work out together, we just travel there and back together).

Although I haven't posted any new recipes, I have been adjusting old recipes.  Basically just using different amounts of spices and using new spices.  I have been using more cumin and more coriander.  Also I found some 'Seasoned No-Salt', a no sodium seasoned salt, it doesn't taste just like the good stuff, but it still adds some good flavor.

If you have a recipe that you would like to see a healthier way to make please let me know!  I will see what I can come up with to try and make it healthier.