Recipes

Michelada
Best Hangover Cure Ever!

INGREDIENTS
Salt, for rimming the glasses
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice, rinds reserved
Ice
1 1/2 cups light Mexican beer, such as Corona
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
2 teaspoons hot sauce, such as Tabasco
1 teaspoon Maggi or soy sauce
Freshly ground black pepper, for garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
Place enough salt in a wide, shallow dish to cover the bottom. Rub the rims of two [...]

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Curried Chipotle Black Beans
with Coconut & Bananas

So, the hubs made this in a pressure cooker. This Christmas I meant to buy him a slow cooker. WIth the arrival of our 2nd bundle of joy I thought a slow cooker would be an easy way to have a hot meal ready when we got home after work. But instead I bought a [...]

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eggplant parm
healthy makeover

i heard that this recipe would send me into labor….and i’m at the point where i will try ANYTHING!!! i did, however, make some healthy changes to it.
i baked my eggplant until tender instead of frying it after i spritzed it with a little olive oil. i also used low fat ricotta cheese, but [...]

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My Lunch Today!
Linguine Alle Vongole

ok, i’m actually using spaghetti…but i am taking the sage advise of my buddy lisa and eating WHATEVER i want WHENEVER i want it during these final days of pregnancy. i would have made it for breakfast, but i actually went to spin class – thankyouverymuch.
this recipe is from the food network’s tyler florence- [...]

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Fruit Guacamole
from Toloache

beofre summer is over, try this amazing recipe from Toloache…we featured this great Mexican restaurant on our show!
Guacamole de Frutas (medium)
Yield: 4
2 Mexican hass avocados
half of a sweet onion, like vidalia, diced
2 tbsp mango, diced
2 tbsp peach, diced
2 tbsp apple, diced
1 tsp of habanero, chopped
salt, to taste
Scoop the pulp out of the ripe avocados [...]

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if you must….
LYCHEE MARTINI

Ingredients
Ice cubes
6 ounces vodka
4 ounces lychee juice
Splash vermouth
2 lychees, for garnish
Directions
In a cocktail shaker filled with ice add vodka, lychee juice and vermouth. Shake until chilled. Pour into 2 martini glasses and garnish with lychees.

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Beat the Heat!
White Wine Sangria Recipe!

All ingredients listed in the recipe are estimates. Add or subtract according to your taste. One of the things that makes sangria so wonderful is its flexibility. Depending on the ingredients used, sangria can be a light thirst-quencher or a potent cocktail that can set heads spinning. Adjust the amounts of liquor according to mood [...]

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Tangerine Rum Popsicles

Tangerine Rum Popsicles
Yields: 6 Popsicles
Prep: 15 minutes
Freeze: 8 hours
2 oz.             Bacardi Select Dark Rum
22 oz / 2 ¾ cup     8 to 10 Peeled Minneola Tangerines
1 oz.            Juice of 1 Lime
1 oz.            Raw Sugar Simple Syrup*
Splash of Lemon-lime soda
8 Popsicle Sticks
Into a blender, add peeled tangerines, lime juice, [...]

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Healthy Mac ‘n Cheese
The Recipe

is it possible? yes it is! made it last night….(i always cook more so we have leftovers…)
1.5 pounds high fiber rotini (smart balance, never tried it before, very good!)
1 cup sargento reduced fat shredded sharp cheddar (1/3 less fat)
1 cup fat free ricotta
1 cup evaporated fat free milk (but i think regular fat free milk [...]

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Apple Berry Crumble
(From Stuff I Had In My Pantry)

So our buddies Lee and Marina invited us over for a little dinner (she made Malaysian Chicken Curry w/Swiss Chard and Feta! YUM!)). But we all knew it was really an excuse for the parents to unwind, have a beer or two, while the rug rats run themselves ragged. And dessert fell in my lap. [...]

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