Fish tacos with a mango chutney

The other day I was in the mood for some fish tacos and man oh man! are these things absolutely incredible! they are healthy and super tasty as well!  Enjoy! Happy eating!!!


Ingredients
 Fish
4 pieces of any white flaky fish ( I used tilapia)

Salt and pepper to taste

4 tablespoons Soy sauce

1 fresh juice of lime

vegetable oil

white tortillas

Marinate fish in in soy sauce and lime juice and then cook fish on medium heat for 3 minutes per side add fish into tortillas (for additional texture serve with chopped cabbage or romaine lettuce).  For additional flavor add the marinade in the pan to be cooked along with the fish.


Mango chutney

1 ripe mango cut in small square pieces

1 red pepper chopped

1/2 red onion chopped

1 handful of cilantro chopped

2 cloves of fresh garlic

3 leaves of fresh mint chopped

1 juice from a lime

salt and pepper to taste

Mix all the ingredients into a bowl and then serve over fish tacos

Lime sauce

1/2 cup of plain yogurt

2 tbsp of mayonnaise

1 juice from a lime

1/4 cup fresh cilantro chopped

1 fresh garlic minced

salt and pepper to taste

mix all ingredients into a bowl and serve on top of fish tacos

Fried Ravioli

I was a little intimidated when I decided to make this.  Just the shear thought of fried ravioli sounded hard to me, but come to find pout it's super duper easy!!!  All you need its a few ingredients, which is always, a plus for me!  Enjoy! and happy eating!

1 package of fresh ravioli ( you can find it where your market has the fresh pastas)

2 cups of Italian bread crumbs

2 eggs (beaten)

1 cup of half and half

vegetable oil

1 jar of store bought marinara sauce

Pour about 2 cups of vegetable oil into a deep pan, heat the oil on medium heat.  Meanwhile while the oil is heating begin the breading process for the ravioli.  Dip the ravioli into the eggs and half and half and then dip ravioli into the bread crumbs until the ravioli's are covered completely   Then put a few raviolis at a time into the oil, and they will be ready when outside of the ravioli turns golden brown.  put fried ravioli on a plate that has a paper towel on it so that the remainder of the oil from the ravioli drains   Then heat you sauce and serve it on the side for dipping the ravioli.  Eat and enjoy!  Happy eating!

Monster cookie dough dip

We had a typical get together the other day, and I was making the usual fixings for Hor d'oeuvres such as the veggie sticks and chips and dip.  But I really wanted make something different, so while browsing around I cam across this monster cookie dough recipe.  Now I'm going to warn you that "you will not be able to stop eating this!"  I recommend that you serve this with graham crackers or sliced apples....or you can just take spoonfuls of it like we did!.  Happy Eating!

Source: http://www.skiptomylou.org

8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
1/2 Cup Butter, softened
1 Cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
3 Tbsp. Brown Sugar
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 Cup Oats (regular or quick)
1 Cup    Plain M&Ms
1 Cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
1/4 cup of sprinkles on top


With a hand beater, beat cream cheese, butter, and peanut butter together.  Next add powdered sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla, slow add and mix in with hand mixer.  Then add the oats slowly until you have reached your desired thickness, and then mix in chocolate chips and M&Ms add sprinkles on top for more color, serve with graham crackers or sliced apples.  Eat and enjoy!

Game day buffalo chicken nachos

This past Sunday was game day....however I really don't follow it like the rest of my family does.  My mom, my hubs, and my son were all watching the Dolphins verse.....I think the Jets, I'm shocked that I even knew that! and they were all "starving" "withering away to nothing" so they said! So I whipped up something easy peasy for them.  This is when I threw open my fridge door and found some leftover buffalo chicken that we had picked up from the market, and saw some tortilla chips; and then I had an epiphany to make the nachos.  These are super easy to make and take very little effort.  Put it this way...if your able to slap some things on top of some chips, well then this one is for you!.  Enjoy! Happy eating!

Ingredients:

1 bag of Tortilla chips ( I used blue tortilla chips)

Pre-cooked buffalo chicken from the market (  the chicken already warmed through preferably )

1/2 cup Buttermilk ranch dressing

15 ounce can Black beans

30 ounce can of re-fried beans  (drained and rinsed)

1/2 Diced sweet onion

Sour cream  (a dollop; which is about 1 tablespoon)

1 Diced tomatoes

4 Chives

2 cups of shredded Mexican cheese

Hot sauce of your choice (Just a drizzle)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Coat bottom of pan with re-fried beans. Next put tortilla chips on top of the re-fried beans.  Scatter onions and black beans on top of chips then scatter cheese. Next top chips and other ingredients with cut up buffalo chicken strips. Then drizzle the ranch dressing and hot sauce over the chicken and chips.  Next place the pan filled with the chicken, chips and all the fixings inside the oven to bake at 400 degrees for about 10-15 minutes; to warm through beans, onions and ranch dressing.  When you are done warming the nachos, top with a dollop of sour cream,  chopped chives, and  diced tomato.  Serve hot and enjoy.

  

Sunday Salad

My parents came over today for what is known as "linner" this is lunch and dinner combined "our unrefined version of brunch", and one of my family favorites is a caprese salad.  It's super easy to make, takes minimal effort, and is ready in minutes.  Sometimes I will just make this for my dinner and I'll be good to go.  But today this was our appetizer prelude to "linner".  Create and enjoy!  Happy eating!

Ingredients:

4 tomatoes (I used heirloom)

1 lb of mozzerlla cheese

Basil

oil

 Balsamic vinegar

Salt and pepper to taste

Cut tomatoes and make sure you cut them thick.  Then cut up mozzarella cheese thick as well so you can place them on top of the tomatoes. Take individual basil leaves and place them on top of the cheese (see picture).  Top with a drizzle of  olive oil and balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper to taste.  Enjoy! 

Tomato basil soup

Today was super gloomy, not much sun shining today and we were all just hanging out watching movies and the hubs asked me to make some tomato soup.  It's a really quick easy recipe which is also loaded with major flavor!! I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!.  Happy eating!

Ingredients

1 32 ounce box of chicken stock

24 ounces of crushed tomatoes

1/2 cups of  half and half

12 fresh basil leaves chopped

1/4 cup parmigiano cheese (fresh)

salt and pepper to taste

Add chicken stock, and crushed tomatoes to large pot.  Turn the heat on the stove to medium.  Add half and half, fresh basil leaves and parmigiano cheese and salt and pepper to taste.  Let ingredients come to a rapid boil, then turn on medium low heat.  Serve and enjoy!! Happy eating!!

Cake batter chocolate chip cookies

Today I made cake batter chocolate chip cookies.  I never really realized that you could make an amazing cookie from cake batter.  What  I will say is that the cookies are super light, moist, and doesn't give you that heavy feeling in your stomach after you eat them.  But the only bad thing I can say is that you may want more then 1 or 2! I hope you enjoy these as much as we did! I made 2 dozen and I have zero left! Enjoy! Happy eating!

Ingredients:

1 box 18.25 ounces of yellow cake batter

1 tsp of baking powder

2 eggs

1/2 cup of vegetable oil 

1 cup of milk chocolate chips.

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees

Add all ingredients into bowl mix together until you have a dough like consistency.  Spoon the dough onto a greased baking sheet (I used non stick spray) but butter will work just as well.  Cook for 10-15 minutes until cookies are golden brown.  When cookies are baked transfer them to a metal cooling rack.  Then eat and enjoy!! Happy eating!!