comfort food with a healthy twist

So it's Friday night, TGIF!  We made it through another week.  Let's re-evaluate how it went, dinner-wise.  I would have to say pretty good.  Here was my basic menu:
Sunday: chicken with brocoli and twice baked potatoes
Monday: tilapia with white beans and rosemary
Tuesday: tacos
Wednesday: pot roast in the slow cooker with cous cous
Thursday: shrimp with left over cous cous from Wed. and roasted vegies
Friday: beef barley soup (with beef left over from Wed.) and salmon.
Wow, when I review, I see that Wed was a great left-over potential dinner night. 

Goals for next week: make a meal with beans (you know what they are good for!haha)
                                have another great LOP meal (left-over potential)

Flavor Flavor everywhere!

Boy do I love those flavored butters and oils!  They are packed with flavors that you don't have to do anything to achieve!  No extra chopping,cutting or anything!  Tonight"s dinner is white beans with zucchini, sauted on a flavored oil that has garlic and rosemary in it.  How good does that sound?  I decided to add beans to this dish cuz I think I should be eating more beans.  HAHA and, I had some in the cupboard, of course...since I have a well stocked cupboard!  I am also making tilapia with a garlic herbed butter!  Easy and sooo flavorful!

I would have taken a pix but my camera sucks and is more frustrating to use.  So until I figure out what's going on with that, no pix.  This meal happens to be a fav cuz it is so easy, doesn't take long (when you bake tilapia, it only takes 13 minutes at a 400 degree oven!  Whoohoo!!) and believe it or not, my favorite son, who happens to be a picky eater, will actually eat this fish.  It doesn't get any better than that!

Back in business

 I haven't posted in a very long time.  It hasn't been because I haven't been cooking!  Oh the opposite!!  In fact, I have been so busy cooking that I didn't have enough time to blog.  Well, not so much cooking but baking.

  We did a master tailgate at PSU with favorite daughter, Lauren, at PSU...THE tailgate college.  I made so many cookies and chicken wings I stopped counting. 

Tailgating

Tailgating

 Then, the next week I was invited to a party and asked to make the desserts.  (hmmm, it just occurred to me: was I invited JUST to make the desserts???)  Anyway, back to dinner.  It still comes around, everyday, regardless of other activities!  Here is a delish dinner I made that is super easy and soo good.   It's a new recipe and actually got rave reviews from my family.  It will definitely be incorporated into "the rotation"!  And I always have the ingredients: lemons, olive oil, garlic and white wine! 

lemon/garlic chicken with parmesan crusted potatoes and garlic brocolli