Skinny Asian!

Skinny Asian day!!

Yes- those people are so damn skinny...

If I ate Chinese food every day, I would NOT look like that...

I LOVE Chinese food...like LOVE!!!

The inventor of Lo Mein is a dang genius.

But it's SO GREASY! UGH!!!

Want to have a quick, delicious, take-out worthy HEALTHY dinner tonight?!

I threw this meal together in less than 30 minutes-

YUP, move over Rachel Ray...

I already had all of these ingredients lying around the house.

Grab:

1. A box of whole wheat or veggie sketti. (I used veggie 'guini)
2. Low Sodium Soy Sauce (Don't have that lying around?? Use Dale's...it's the same dang thing...)
3. Hoisin Sauce
4. 1/2 a chicken bullion cube
5. Fresh garlic
6. Chicken breast (sliced and cooked...go buy that boxed stuff in the lunchmeat isle...or, like me, use your left over fajita meat from Chillis...)
7. Veggies (I ONLY like onion, so that's all I'm using...but go ahead and grab some brocolli and those little mini corn thingeys...)
8. Oil (You're supposed to use dark oil like sesame, but who has that lying around?? I went EVOO..)
9. Crushed or ground red pepper

So, OBVIOUSLY...the first thing you want to do is cook your pasta.

Go ahead- boil the water...add some EVOO and make your noodles...

I'll wait...

Are you still cooking??

Hurry up...

Attention: If your meat and veggies ARE NOT precooked- heat up your wok with EVOO and START NOW.

OKAY- Now that your noodles are almost done, throw some oil in a WOK.

"S, you forgot to give me any measurments?!"

NO, I didn't...I don't measure. Just pour in enough oil to cover the bottom.

Wait until that oil gets hot...the secret to cooking in a wok is HOT HOT HOT.

Next- I toss in my garlic. I DID NOT use enough garlic in this recipe. I would mince up at least 6 cloves because I am using an entire box of pasta.

Once the garlic browns, toss in your meat and veggies

For a little pop of flavor, I added half of a chicken bullion cube (that's solid chicken broth) and a small amount of water to liquify the bullion.

Mix in about 3T of Hoisin sauce and almost double the soy sauce.

Like heat? I do!!! ---Add some red pepper. As much as your heart desires

TOSS AWAAAYYYY...

TOSS TOSS!!!

OKAY- everything hot and steamy? Take it off the heat and toss it occasionally. Let it soak up the liquids

OMG- how GOOD is that?!?!?!?!

Do you know how many calories are in that?!

Neither do I...but you can't go wrong with those ingredients!!

YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!

Until next time!!

<3 S

Minnie Mouse Low-Cal Cupcakes?

Kids only turn one once...

Well- you only turn every age once, but that's neither here nor there

So, when my girlfriend told me that she was having a birthday party for her beautiful little girl, I was eager to contribute!

In search of savings, she found these cute little minnie mouse invitations on sale at the store and sent them out...

Now- Minnie mouse has become the theme, even though that was never the plan...

Her main request? Try and make the cupcakes "healthy"

Which is impossible, but it is possible to lower the calorie content.

This post is filled with CRAZY cool baking tips that may change your life!

They changed mine...

A few days before the party, I started the fondant bows

You want to roll out some pink fondant

((I'm a HUGE Marshmallow Fondant (MMF) fan!

1 pack of little marshmallows, melted

1/2 bag of powdered sugar

Lots of elbow grease and crisco))

Using a pizza cutter and a bakers mat, I cut 3 inch strips of pink fondant

Using an old make up brush and some water (it works as glue on fondant) I brush the tips and the center of the strip

Fold the moist ends into the center

Use a very small strip of pink fondant to cover the ends and wrap around the center.

ALSO- buy yourself some mini oreos.

HERE IS WHERE I BLOW YOUR MIND...

Wanna go Low-Cal with cupcakes?

Grab a box of cake mix

and ONE CAN of diet soda...

ANY flavor of diet soda will suffice. GET CREATIVE!

Drop the two ingredients into your mixer, turn it on, walk away

SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DIET SODA AND CAKE MIX ARE REALLY THE ONLY INGREDIENTS?!

Yes. And it will come out moist, fluffy, DELICIOUS

LIVE CHANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Add Diet orange soda to yellow cake for creamcicle cupcakes

Add diet rootbeer for rootbeer float cupcakes

Add diet sprite for completely normal tasting cupcakes

NO EGGS

NO MILK

NO BUTTER

NO OIL

This moment just happened....savor it.

Okay- moving on...

Want to get no-mess even sized cupcakes everytime?

Pour your batter into a large ziplock

cut a corner

squeeeeeze away...

That was LIFE CHANGER number two!!

Pipe on your icing...

I live in Florida...

Add a mixture of cornstarch and milk to your icing recipe to make a

high humidity

icing.

It'll hold up in our lovely weather

Add vanilla AND almond extract to taste heaven

Using a straw and some old purple fondant, I cut out a thousand little dots to make polka dots on the cupcakes and used mini oreos as the minnie ears

HOW CUTE!

ENJOY!!!!

There's another look at the finished little guys...such a delicious, lower calorie HIT!

Not your Grandma's FATTY meatballs!

Yummm...meatballs!

Everyone loves a good juicy (meat)ball (<-----haaahahah I couldn't resist!)

But- seriously people! It's 2012- and with the US getting fatter all the time...

Grandma's greasy, fatty meatballs are NOT cool!

SO- here's a perfect yumylicious HEALTHYLICIOUS

way to make those juicy balls. (<--- I did it again!)

1.  STEP ONE- Put on your sexy apron and pour yourself a glass of wine! (Mom, if you're reading...take a tylenol too!)

   



Now- Gather some supplies- I don't believe in limiting your portions.

EYE BALL IT!

Ground turkey

S&P (or ADOBO if you're like me)

4 cloves of garlic (MINCE it!)

Red pepper (I went powdered)

Bread crumbs (Get whole grain if you can)

Parmesan OR low fat grated topping

Egg

Oregeno

Parsley

Pack of dry onion dip mix

 Toss them in your mixer and mix until it's a thick, not too wet, lump

Grease a pan and start rollin!

I used extra light EVOO on the pan...just enough to coat the bottom.

My boyfriend loves pesto sauce and it's much healthier than alfredo

I use VEGGIE pasta. It's my new favorite because I hate veggies!