Meg's Low Fat High Fiber Cookbook

For anyone who is interested, I made an online cookbook of my some of my favourite recipes altered to be healthy.  Feel free to try them out and leave comments. 

Meg's Low Fat High Fiber Cookbook

I have even calculated the amount of WW points per serving.  Hope it gets used.

Smokehouse Quesadillas

When I first moved to Calgary my favourite restaurant was Moxie's. They had this great appetizer called the Smokehouse Quesadilla. Well a few years later they changed their menu and would no longer make them. My mom and I were both disappointed so I decided to try to make it myself and I succeeded. So here is my recipe.

Meg's Smokehouse Quesadillas

3 fully cooked chicken breasts
2 cups shredded colby and Monterey Jack cheese
6 8 inch flour tortillas
2 127mL cans diced green chilies
2 tablespoons chopped green onions (2)
1 cup Bull's-Eye Bold Original BBQ sauce
jalapeno peppers (optional)
sour cream (optional)
salsa (optional)

1. Chop the chicken breasts into bite-size pieces place in a small bowl and mix in BBQ sauce. (Of course you can try other brands of BBQ sauce but I'm sticking with Bull's-Eye.)

2. Sprinkle 1/3 cup cheese over half of each tortilla. Top with 2 tablespoons green chilies, some green onion, jalapenos (if desired), and 1/6 of the chicken breast mixture. Fold tortilla in half , pressing gently.

3. In a 10 inch skillet cook quesadillas, 2 at a time over medium heat for 2-3 minutes or till lightly browned, turning once. Remove quesadillas from skillet; place on a baking sheet. Keep warm in 300 degree oven. Repeat with remaining quesadillas. To serve, cut into wedges. If desired serve with salsa and sour cream. Makes 6 appetizer servings.

Try it out. That's what we are having for dinner tonight. Oh and for anyone who is a fan of the Broccoli and Cheese Soup at Moxie's I found the recipe for it at allrecipes.com: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Broccoli-Cheese-Soup/Detail.aspx

Homemade Irish Playdough

I would like to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day. As my brother often reminds me I am not Catholic and therefore should not celebrate this holiday. Steve Cali and I will make orange playdough on Orangemen's Day on July 12th. Hey maybe we will be in Nova Scotia then!

Anyway to celebrate Cali and I made green playdough. This was her first time playing with playdough. I can't believe that I didn't think about trying this before. My brother and I used to spend hours with playdough as kids. Anyway I found this great website with a few different recipes to try.

http://www.creativekidsathome.com/activities/activity_8.html

My friend makes the kool-aid playdough and her kids love it. Cali and I just made the plain old flour, salt, and water. It great because I don't have to worry about her eating it because I know for sure all the ingredients are safe.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Potty Training in Progress

So today I decided to get serious about the potty training. I went out and bought reward stickers and a reward album. Cali is all about the stickers. I am pleased to report that we now have six stickers of progress in our book and one accident. I think that's pretty good; I will continue to report our progress. I found a great link to a few potty training songs if anyone is interested:

http://ca.pampers.com/en_CA/learning/pdf/LyricSheet_PPTDayCr_v1.pdf

They are pretty cute! Anything to motivate our little ones, right?

I am terrible at making banana bread, absolutely horrible! So today I decided to try a new recipe courtesy of allrecipes.com. It turned out lovely! Nice and moist with a soft top as oppose to my usual crunchy brunt one. I did burn the bottom though... but that's because I got distracted while it was in the oven. What a surprise getting distracted with a toddler in the house :) Anyway here is the link to the recipe:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Banana-Sour-Cream-Bread/Detail.aspx

I will be sure to add more recipes that I like. I think that we could all use a few more good ones! Thanks for the feedback Chantelle!

Here are some new pictures from this year. Just click on that cute little picture below to get the slide show going.

Feb 09