This recipe is another one of my favorites from my mom. It is a great recipe because it is super easy, quick, and highly adaptable. You can create many variations of this dish based on what you have available in your kitchen. The recipe I am going to post is for tilapia, but it also works well with chicken, substituting orzo for meat, or a variety of vegetables and spices. Just make sure to adjust cook times accordingly.
Ingredients:
1 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp minced garlic
4 tilapia filets
1 cup thinly sliced red onion
3 tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 cups fresh spinach leaves
1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese
Cooking Instructions:
-In a 10 inch skillet, heat the olive oil and garlic.
-Add tilapia filets and red onion. Cook over medium heat until lightly browned; approximately 3 minutes per side.
-Add 1 tbsp of vinegar, then alternate adding spinach and the rest of the vinegar until spinach is wilted. (3-4 minutes.)
-Sprinkle with feta cheese while still hot, and serve.
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Recipes from Mom: Zucchini "Boats"
This recipe starts a new series of posts that will be mixed in with the recipes I find in my research...recipes from my mom! My mom has been a working woman all of my life and is also an amazing cook. She has a lot of quick, easy, healthy meals that I can't wait to steal!
This first one is called "Zucchini Boats." I have made this before and I love it because it is so easy, and also healthy.
The ingredients you will need are:
-1 lb ground turkey
-1 medium-sized onion, diced
-1 tbsp minced garlic
-2 medium-sized tomatoes, diced
-2 medium-sized zucchini
-4 oz. reduced fat shredded mozzarella cheese
-a couple pinches of oregano
I sized these ingredients for four servings because my fiancee and I like to have leftovers to bring for lunch the next day. You can adjust the servings pretty easily with this recipe based on how many people you want to feed.
Cooking Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Place the ground turkey, onions, and garlic in a frying pan. Cook until browned. Add tomatoes to mixture once finished cooking.
-Slice zucchini in half, lengthwise. Cut out the soft interior portion, creating a boat-like exterior piece.
-Place zucchini "boats" on a cookie sheet. Fill them with the turkey and tomato mixture. Sprinkle with shredded mozzarella and oregano.
-Bake in the oven until zucchini is soft, about 30 minutes.
Enjoy!!
Thanks Mom. :)
This first one is called "Zucchini Boats." I have made this before and I love it because it is so easy, and also healthy.
The ingredients you will need are:
-1 lb ground turkey
-1 medium-sized onion, diced
-1 tbsp minced garlic
-2 medium-sized tomatoes, diced
-2 medium-sized zucchini
-4 oz. reduced fat shredded mozzarella cheese
-a couple pinches of oregano
I sized these ingredients for four servings because my fiancee and I like to have leftovers to bring for lunch the next day. You can adjust the servings pretty easily with this recipe based on how many people you want to feed.
Cooking Directions:
-Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
-Place the ground turkey, onions, and garlic in a frying pan. Cook until browned. Add tomatoes to mixture once finished cooking.
-Slice zucchini in half, lengthwise. Cut out the soft interior portion, creating a boat-like exterior piece.
-Place zucchini "boats" on a cookie sheet. Fill them with the turkey and tomato mixture. Sprinkle with shredded mozzarella and oregano.
-Bake in the oven until zucchini is soft, about 30 minutes.
Enjoy!!
Thanks Mom. :)
Monday, March 29, 2010
Good Reasonably Priced Wine
Another topic I plan on covering with this blog is any good, reasonably priced wines I come across. I love having a good glass of wine with dinner, and often bring wine to parties to share, so it is important to find good quality vintages that won't break the bank. I found this 2007 Joel Gott Cabernet Sauvignon yesterday at Binny's and have been very impressed. Binny's gave it a rating of 91 points (out of 100), and the price for members is currently $12.99 a bottle. (Membership is a free rewards program.) It's not my favorite Cabernet I've ever had, but I think it is a great wine for the price.
http://www.binnys.com/wine/2007_Joel_Gott_Cabernet_Sauvignon_815_18738.html
http://www.binnys.com/wine/2007_Joel_Gott_Cabernet_Sauvignon_815_18738.html
Slow Cooker Chicken Mole
This slow cooker chicken mole is going to be the next recipe I try. I like to make chicken, turkey, or vegetarian dinners to keep meals light, but I find a lot of chicken and turkey dishes can end up tasting dry or boring. For this reason, I am always looking for interesting, flavorful ways to cook chicken and turkey. I saw this All Recipes Slow Cooker Chicken Mole, posted by user "Avrienne," and thought it would be a good one to try. I love cooking with slow cookers, because you can put the ingredients in the crockpot in the morning and come home to a ready-to-eat dinner after work.
I am going to adjust the recipe, because this is one of the recipes that falls under the too many ingredients for two people category, and also the reviews from other chefs have pointed out some things they would have changed. It might not have the same flavor as the original, but since I have not made the original, I imagine the flavoring will still taste good and different to me, and I will not notice any missing pieces.
The following are the ingredients that I am going to use in my chicken mole:
1 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup craisins
2 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 tsp chile powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground cinnamon
5 teaspoons cocoa powder
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp hot pepper sauce
1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
1 can chicken broth
3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Although this seems like a lot of ingredients, many of them are non-perishable spices that I keep in the house already.
I will put these in the slow cooker and cook on low all day while I am at work. I will then pair the chicken mole with black beans and beets.
I will write again to let you know how it goes!
The full recipe from www.allrecipes.com:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Chicken-Mole/Detail.aspx?src=etaf
I am going to adjust the recipe, because this is one of the recipes that falls under the too many ingredients for two people category, and also the reviews from other chefs have pointed out some things they would have changed. It might not have the same flavor as the original, but since I have not made the original, I imagine the flavoring will still taste good and different to me, and I will not notice any missing pieces.
The following are the ingredients that I am going to use in my chicken mole:
1 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup craisins
2 cloves garlic, minced
3/4 tsp chile powder
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground cinnamon
5 teaspoons cocoa powder
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp hot pepper sauce
1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
1 can tomato sauce
1 can chicken broth
3 lbs boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Although this seems like a lot of ingredients, many of them are non-perishable spices that I keep in the house already.
I will put these in the slow cooker and cook on low all day while I am at work. I will then pair the chicken mole with black beans and beets.
I will write again to let you know how it goes!
The full recipe from www.allrecipes.com:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Slow-Cooker-Chicken-Mole/Detail.aspx?src=etaf
First Recipe - Pear and Prosciutto Pizza
The first recipe I'd like to share is a recipe that I found on http://www.allrecipes.com/. For those of you who aren't familiar with All Recipes, it is a wonderful site, with many different kinds of cooking and cuisines represented. My favorite part as a beginning chef are the reviews. You can read reviews from people who have tried the recipes, and see how they liked them and what they would recommend changing. A lot of the reviewers consider themselves to be "Intermediate" or "Expert" cooks, so they have great ideas for how to improve recipes.
The recipe I'd like to share today is for Pear and Prosciutto Pizza, and was written by All Recipes user "bostoncook."
I have made this recipe and absolutely loved it, and it is fairly easy. It is a little high on the ingredients side, but you use up most of the ingredients in the pizza, so none of my ingredients went to waste.
I made this recipe on a store-bought wheat pizza crust, and I cooked the garlic and the pears in the oven at the same time as some reviews had suggested, to save time.
This entree is a little high in calories at 618 calories for a quarter of the pizza. If you are watching your calories, you could either eat one slice (1/8 of the pizza), or a better solution would be to make it without the prosciutto, which I suspect would be equally delicious. You could also keep the prosciutto in and substitute more swiss cheese for the fresh mozzarella...this would probably cut more calories, but I myself am a sucker for good cheese!
Hopefully you guys love this recipe as much as I did.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pear-and-Prosciutto-Pizza/Detail.aspx
The recipe I'd like to share today is for Pear and Prosciutto Pizza, and was written by All Recipes user "bostoncook."
I have made this recipe and absolutely loved it, and it is fairly easy. It is a little high on the ingredients side, but you use up most of the ingredients in the pizza, so none of my ingredients went to waste.
I made this recipe on a store-bought wheat pizza crust, and I cooked the garlic and the pears in the oven at the same time as some reviews had suggested, to save time.
This entree is a little high in calories at 618 calories for a quarter of the pizza. If you are watching your calories, you could either eat one slice (1/8 of the pizza), or a better solution would be to make it without the prosciutto, which I suspect would be equally delicious. You could also keep the prosciutto in and substitute more swiss cheese for the fresh mozzarella...this would probably cut more calories, but I myself am a sucker for good cheese!
Hopefully you guys love this recipe as much as I did.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Pear-and-Prosciutto-Pizza/Detail.aspx
Welcome!
Hello everyone, and welcome to my new blog "Working Woman Meals."
I would like to preface this blog with the following: I am nowhere near an expert on cooking, nutrition, budget grocery shopping, etc...
The reason I am starting this blog is because I am a woman who lives in the city of Chicago, commutes to the suburbs for work (anywhere from an hour to a two and a half hour commute), have grad school two nights a week, and am gone most weekends. Did I mention that I am also moving into a new house and planning a wedding?! Therefore, I have very little time to cook, but I enjoy good food and try to eat on the healthy side. I am also just beginning to learn how to cook and enjoy trying new recipes, but I have found that a lot of them have 10+ ingredients...when you are cooking for two people and don't have a lot of disposable income, making dinners with 10 ingredients or more is often not practical. You have to ensure that the ingredients you use are either ones that you can use frequently in other recipes, or are non-perishable (usually not as healthy).
I have decided to gather recipes and ideas for meals that are for the working woman...quick, healthy, delicious, and practical. Also, this blog is not only for working women. It is also for the ones who help support the busy working women! My fiancee asked me once to give him a list of easy meals that he could make while I am busy doing the dreaded commute. He was part of my inspiration for starting this blog and publishing my findings.
I know many of you are in the same boat as I am...enjoy good food and don't have a lot of time to devote to making it. I hope this blog can help some of you out. Enjoy and happy eating!!
I would like to preface this blog with the following: I am nowhere near an expert on cooking, nutrition, budget grocery shopping, etc...
The reason I am starting this blog is because I am a woman who lives in the city of Chicago, commutes to the suburbs for work (anywhere from an hour to a two and a half hour commute), have grad school two nights a week, and am gone most weekends. Did I mention that I am also moving into a new house and planning a wedding?! Therefore, I have very little time to cook, but I enjoy good food and try to eat on the healthy side. I am also just beginning to learn how to cook and enjoy trying new recipes, but I have found that a lot of them have 10+ ingredients...when you are cooking for two people and don't have a lot of disposable income, making dinners with 10 ingredients or more is often not practical. You have to ensure that the ingredients you use are either ones that you can use frequently in other recipes, or are non-perishable (usually not as healthy).
I have decided to gather recipes and ideas for meals that are for the working woman...quick, healthy, delicious, and practical. Also, this blog is not only for working women. It is also for the ones who help support the busy working women! My fiancee asked me once to give him a list of easy meals that he could make while I am busy doing the dreaded commute. He was part of my inspiration for starting this blog and publishing my findings.
I know many of you are in the same boat as I am...enjoy good food and don't have a lot of time to devote to making it. I hope this blog can help some of you out. Enjoy and happy eating!!
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