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Lunch! 10/27-10/31

Comments (0) | Sunday, October 26, 2014

So this week is steak which I grilled on my grill pan on the stove (seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper and a bit of Worcestershire sauce), Mac and Cheese and green beans. This got interesting because the Mac and Cheese recipe called for evaporated milk but all I had was sweetened condensed milk. As a result the Mac is a little sweet tasting but surprisingly not in a bad way! Who knew?




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Breakfast 10/13-10/17

Comments (0) | Tuesday, October 14, 2014

This week's breakfast is a pilsbury biscuit with an egg inside topped with some jalapeño jack cheese. Yum! Squish the biscuit flat and put it in a muffin tin to create a bowl for the egg. Crack the egg right into the biscuit or scramble it first if you'd like. Shred some cheese right on top and bake at 325 for about 15 mins or until the egg is set and the biscuit is golden brown. You can add anything else you'd like to this as well - chopped up bacon or sausage, veggies, etc. Very customizable.




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Lunch 10/13-10/10/16

Comments (0) | Sunday, October 12, 2014

Short work week - short ribs! Cooked up some short ribs in the crock pot this week for lunch. Mustard, garlic and salt for the first 6 hours and Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce for the last 2. A bit of extra sauce on the side along with oven roasted garlicky green beans and fresh pineapple.



No recipes this time just winged it since it was pretty simple.


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Dinner of the Week 10/6-10/10

Comments (0) | Monday, October 6, 2014

Baked chicken meatballs with a light creamy tarragon sauce over rice, garlic and feta roasted asparagus.




http://www.gonnawantseconds.com/2014/04/roasted-garlic-asparagus-with-feta/

http://www.hungrycouplenyc.com/2014/08/chicken-meatballs-in-creamy-tarragon.html?m=1


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HBotW 10/6

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Canadian bacon, (mostly whites) egg patty and a squirt of spicy mustard on a whole wheat English muffin. Healthy Breakfast of the Week 10/6-10/10




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HLotW 10/6

Comments (0) | Sunday, October 5, 2014

Spinach artichoke and mushroom pasta, green beans and grapes. Healthy Lunchbox of the Week 10/6-10/10


http://www.thelocalvegan.com/blog/spinach-and-artichoke-pasta-with-mushrooms

Changes: Used regular milk, doubled the artichokes and spinach.


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HBotW 9/29

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Sliced bananas on a cinnamon raisin bagel thin with a little smear of peanut butter! Healthy Breakfast of the Week 9/29-10/3


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HLotW 9/8

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Cracked black pepper turkey, mini Babybel cheeses, black olives, cherries, carrot chips and homemade ranch dip. Healthy Lunchbox of the Week 9/8-9/12


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HLotW 9/15

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Baby ranch potatoes, garlic roasted broccoli, maple BBQ salmon! Healthy Lunchbox of the Week 9/15-9/19



http://www.averiecooks.com/2014/03/maple-barbeque-glazed-salmon.html

Changes: don't remember, this was so long ago!

http://www.spendwithpennies.com/pepper-ranch-roasted-potatoes/

Changes: none


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Southwestern Bacon Cheeseburgers and Tex-Mex Mashed Potatoes

Comments (0) | Sunday, August 21, 2011

Today I went grocery shopping!


Okay, that's not super out of the ordinary since I typically go every Sunday, but today I had a mission! I was in the mood to cook something new and yummy, and so I needed the appropriate supplies. Today's meal was Southwestern Bacon Cheeseburgers and Tex-Mex Mashed Potatoes. Sooooo original for me, right? Okay maybe I do a lot of potatoes, but THEY ARE DELICIOUS SO STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT.

Okay, anyway. The potatoes! They were really frikkin' good! They were a cool twist on a standard favorite. The burger was great too, juicy and flavorful.

Ease of Preparation: 1.5 Burgers / 1.5 Potatoes
Taste: 3 Burgers / 3.5 Potatoes
Feeds: 5 Burgers / 10 Potatoes

This meal is a cool way to incorporate southwestern/mexican food flavor into a typically very american dish. In order to turn the regular burgers from the linked recipe into super awesome southwestern burgers I topped them with Monteray Jack cheese, bacon and my delicious guacamole. I put some mayo with taco seasoning on The Parents' burgers but not mine since I have a strong distaste for mayo.

Overall very good. I think these burgers were about 500 calories total (which is pretty damn good for a bacon cheeseburger if I do say so myself).

The mashed potatoes were quite good as well. Just a little bit of crunch from the veggies in them, and very creamy and flavorful. 

Suggestions / Changes

Other than my southwestern additions to the burgers that I mentioned above, I did made several other changes - particularly to the potatoes. Instead of milk I used about 3/4 cup sour cream in the mixing of them. I find this yields a creamier mashed potato. Also, I mixed in about 1.5 teaspoons of Mexican seasoning (the kind you use to make taco meat). That gave them some really great Mexican food flavor and color. I didn't add any salt because the Mexican flavoring added enough on its own.

As for the burgers, the only change that I made to that recipe was that after 15 mins of cooking time I put the cheese on top of the burgers, then I let them cook for the last 5 mins. Nice and melty!

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Awwwwwwwwww Yeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

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