Inspired by Hungry-Girl

Howdy Folks, Happy Friday.
If you haven’t been influenced by Hungry-Girl and her incredibly amazing recipes, prepare yourself.
I was feeling bored with my normal “go to” foods and boredom can lead to wandering off the beaten path to an over-eaten path… We don’t want that.
Sometimes I like to take my cookbooks (all 25 of them) and scatter them onto the floor, i sit in the middle of them all armed with a highlighter, some post its and a notepad and I get busy planning or getting ideas. This week was a major success as I am going to share two recipes from the first Hungry Girl cookbook that have really impressed me… and hopefully you too!
The first thing that caught my eye was the veggie Scramble.
one Dr. Praegger’s Veggie Burger ( i used the Tex Mex flavor)
2 egg whites or 1 egg or 1/4 cup of egg substitute

Heat or defrost veggie burger and crumbled into a pan of egg whites. You can either make an omelet or a scramble. i chose scramble since i was in a hurry.

I topped it with lite mexican cheese…

and served it taco style on a whole wheat tortilla. This was amazing! Like a veggie huevos rancheros! I am keeping this EASY recipe in the vault (aka my brain) for later uses! this hearty mama jamma was about 200 calories!

take that!

Next up I decided to try hungrygirls Buffalo Chicken Salad… its an easy one too.

One chicken breast- cooked any way you please. I chose to grill it.

Next, slice it, dice it, and pour 2 tbsp of Franks red Hot and 1 tbsp of parm cheese on it and mix up.

Mix it up and heat for 45 sec in the micro… careful- this smells like some crazy good buffalo wings minus the grease…

Serve it on a bed of chopped romaine and carrots. I drizzled mine with low fat ranch.

this salad was amazingly satisfying and easy to make. I love salads but the regular ol‘ chicken salad can get boring. this is a great way to add variety to your foods without adding tons of fat and cals. yes, this one is going in the vault.

After behaving all day, i came home to this.

Fajitas.

By.

The.

Pound.

Oh me, oh my!

2 Fajitas and I called it a day… stay tuned for lots of mexican fare in the next posts.

Just a note on how much i love Hungry Girl. Her recipes are easy because they are meant for usually one to two people and consist of ingredients that you have in your cupboards already.

Do you have any healthy mock ups of your fave foods that you would like to share with the class???

Blue Cheese Chicken Burgers

Ever since I read Sarah’s post with the recipe for Blue Cheeseburgers, I have been craving blue cheese like nobodies business. So after reading her post, I went to the grocery store after work and picked up these three staple ingredients.
Reduced fat blue cheese, Franks Red Hot, and Ground Chicken. I REALLY wanted lean ground beef because beef and blue cheese seem to just go really well together but i opted for chicken for two reasons: 1- I ate way too much beef when I was in Texas and 2 – what kind of grocery store runs out of Ground Beef?? You know, if they had it in stock reason number one would have been complete crap. So I got chicken. Recipes are recipes because people try new things… I’m trying it with chicken (I’m alive as we speak so can rule out food poisoning and death)

In my big mixing bowl, I added a pound of ground chicken, 1/2 cup of reduced fat blue cheese, 1/4 cup of italian bread crumbs, one egg, 1/2 a red onion roughly chopped, salt and pepper, and some hot sauce (woot)!

Get your hands dirty and go to town on this mix. Make sure all the dry ingredients are well distributed in the ground chicken. Next, steal Rachael Rays Idea and score the meat in 4 sections so every burger is the same size. With slighty wet hands form each section into a ball and flatten. Place a thumbsized dimple in the patty to ensure that it doesnt puff up while its cooking. Place patties on a slightly greased grill pan.

I grilled them on High for 4 minutes on each side. The apartment smelled like blue cheese which makes Peter gag and me swoon (from the cheese!- not his gagging)

When you flip them they will have a lovely golden crusty color! I made an itty bitty one for “quality assurance” and ate it open face with a leaf of Romaine Lettuce as my bread topped with Hot sauce. I might have changed the recipe by adding all the hot sauce and unknowingly made the best burger ever…Buffalo Chicken Blue Cheese Burgers. Like a Hot wing… without the bone… on a bun.

*Bows*

ENJOY!!!