The Husband Wanted Waffles

What do you do when you don't have the instant pancake/waffle mix at home (which is not so good for you anyway)? You improvise and luckily, this recipe I found on 'Serious Cooks' does the trick.
As long as you have the most basic of basic baking ingredients, you can make these healthy waffles. Guess what!? They taste good. Your family will never know that there's no butter, no buttermilk, very little oil and very few eggs. Do you have flour? check. Do you have milk or soymilk? Check! Just one egg? No prob.

Dust off that waffle maker from the cupboard. Plug it in, brush a little olive oil on it and follow the recipe in this link. You can also double it or cut it in half and it still works great! Bananas, strawberries or other fresh fruit to put on top make them even better.

Healthy Waffle Recipe

Different Take on My Dad's Salmon w/Onions, Tomatoes & Garlic

Dinner tonight = good. Not as flavorful as last night, though I will try this again and add more spices and a little more salt. Not much, though! Salt isn't good for you in large amounts. See photo below.

My dad has always made this salmon dish in a frying pan. He adds fresh tomatoes sliced up, several cloves of garlic, an onion chopped up, a handful of fresh basil and white wine. Sometimes he's added lemon slices which I'm not a fan of. Anyway, tried that this evening with white fish we have that you get in large frozen packs from Costco or somewhere like that. It's economical and they defrost quickly.

Defrost the fish, or use fresh fish. Do everything like my dad does to the salmon above on high heat. Make sure you have a little olive oil in the pan. Put the fish in the pan, then add all your vegetables, except the basil. Put that in when you have 1 min. cooking time. Also add about 1 tsp salt or Kosher salt, tsp oregano, dash pepper.

Served this over bow tie pasta, but you can use whatever pasta works for you, even orzo rice. That would be good. Make sure the fish and veggies are very flavorful in the pan when you try them. The pasta tones this mixture down considerably.

This is good, easy to make and healthy. yay! 

1st Post - Vegetarian Spin on Asian Stir Fry

Hi! So I'm really starting this blog and my first post tonight. However, the stuff I made for dinner yesterday was really good - I thought so and my husband thought so. My dog would probably think so but he didn't get any ;) This is an all vegetarian dish and includes protein, lots of vegetables and carbs in the form of brown rice.
Roughly 350 calories, very little fat, lots of flavor and approx 13g protein.

Start with cooking brown rice. Typical serving is 1/4 cup per person.
    1 container extra firm tofu (try to press as much water out if it as possible)

1/4 cup soy sauce

1/2 cup water

1 tbsp fresh ginger, minced

3 cloves garlic, minced

1  tbsp olive oil

put all this stuff in a bowl and mix together. After the tofu is pressed, get a shallow bowl and put the tofu in with the marinade. I was only able to marinate it for about 15-20 mins. Might take on more flavor if you let it sit longer. 

Heat oven to 425 F. Bake for tofu for 30 mins and don't forget to add the marinade. It will bake into it. Yum! 

For veggies, I used a couple stalks celery, 3 carrots, 1 onion and 4 cloves garlic. Oh, and 1 block of frozen spinach. Chop all the fresh veggies up, put some olive oil in a frying pan and sautee all veggies, including the frozen spinach. It's good. The water from the spinach hydrates the other veggies. Pour lite soy sauce over veggies as they cook - about 1 or 2 tablespoons. 

You can serve the rice, veggies and tofu separately, or put them all together in a bowl. That's what I did and the flavors melded together great ! 

All told, this took about 35 mins. Will post photo of this next time I make it ;) Enjoy! 

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