Healthy Fudgy Brownies

I have been working on lowering the fat in a lot of the items I bake and with a few subs I can usually pull it off. I had a big craving for chocolate and these brownies hit the spot. As well, it makes a small pan for less temptation!
Sarah’s Healthy Fudgy Brownies
Ingredients:
4 egg whites [...]

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Pesto Sausage Rice

One of my ‘what do I have in the cupboard’ dinners It can be fun to see what I can come up with in a few minutes time!
Pesto Sausage Rice
Ingredients:
1 cup long grain rice (I used Jasmine)
1 large sweet onion, diced
3 chicken sausages, cubed small (I used sun dried tomato/provolone cheese ones)
2 cups [...]

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Lower Fat Banana Cupcakes

I played around with a recipe and was quite happy with the results. Just enough fat that they don’t taste “low fat” but enough other items added to be really moist. Be sure to watch the time – don’t let them over bake.
I did not frost mine, though a simple cream cheese frosting would be [...]

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Food Review: Kashi GoLean Waffles

I do realize that Kashi products can be a bit too healthy for some – before I had braces put on I loved eating Kashi cereal….though it took forever to eat a bowl of it..chew chew chew!
They have though produced more consumer friendly foods in the past couple years, from frozen entrees to tasty cereal [...]

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Slightly Healthier Gingerbread

I found this recipe in Betty Crocker’s Healthy Home Cooking: Over 400 Fast and Flavorful Recipes. I am not sure where my copy came from, maybe from my mother – but I have started trying recipes out of it to see how they turn out.
It pulled together fast and was in the oven in a [...]

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Dinner Out – Everytime A New Place

Kirk and I had joked about our needing to stretch a bit when eating out and our goal has been to try a new place now when we go out. Too easy to just drive down a mile and go to the local Mexican place (which don’t get me wrong serves great food….but still!).
So tonight [...]

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Really Quick, Really Veggie Soup

I did the usual of “a little this, a little of that” to pull together this soup. We had it with a small loaf of Asiago cheese bread – the crust was perfect for soaking in the broth. I don’t salt my soup, so fair warning….to those who like salt this will need some.
Really Quick, [...]

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Commercials From The Past

These have me laughing hard…..oh to have been a housewife back then.
Honey your coffee is undrinkable!

Frank is crabbing about my coffee!

Fred Flinstone and Barney on the little wifey’s working hard….I sure hate seeing them work so hard! Lets go round back so we can’t see them!
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