Posts Tagged ‘vegetable’

Healthy Recipe, Contest, and Product Review

Here is a three in one post for a bit of Friday Fun!
Product Review: GLAD® is promoting their SimplyCooking™ Microwave Steaming Bag, and since steaming is very a healthy way to cook I just had to blog about it. The steaming bags make it so easy and no mess. Any recipe that calls for steaming [...]

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Low Fat Garden Vegetable Wraps

Heavenly Recipe
By Chef Tom: Summer is almost over, but there is plenty of time to enjoy the fresh flavors from the earths harvests ! The title says low fat, but that does not mean low flavor. This is a simple recipe that goes great for lunch or dinner. Feel free to experiment by adding some [...]

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Lean Mean Green Chick

Here is a new heavenly recipes I came up with this weekend for the crock pot I call Lean Mean Green Chick – lean because it only has 3 grams of fat per serving, mean because it has a ton of garlic and a dash (or more if you like) of red pepper flakes, green [...]

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Cucumber with Yogurt Dressing

Great summer recipe, this is a very cool and refreshing salad to make for lunch or dinner, as a side dish or toss in some lean protein (left over chicken breast or tuna packed in water) and you have a meal. It’s one of my favorites.
Cucumber Trivia: Cucumbers are one of the oldest cultivated vegetables, [...]

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Rigatoni with Braised Squash & Swiss Chard

Heavenly Recipe
From Chef Tom: This is a great summer recipe using summer squash, Swiss chard and whole wheat pasta. You can make this vegetarian by using vegetable stock instead of chicken stock.
Summer Squash are harvested when immature and the rind is still tender and edible. The name “summer squash” refers to the inability to store [...]

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Zucchini Madness

Zucchini Madness – what to do with all those zucchinis?
Summer time means truckloads of zucchini will showing up every where – what do we do with them all? We here at the Diet Pulpit have the solution.
Donate some to homeless food shelters.
Find cars with unlocked doors and deposit a few inside, along with a good [...]

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Spicy Zucchini Soup

S-S-S-Spicy Zucchini Soup with Rice and Lime by Chef Tom – Who says you can’t have soup in the summer ? A great low fat soup that is not too heavy but it still eats like a meal. Spice this one up nicely and you will be sweating for sure!
2 Tbs vegetable oil
4 garlic cloves, [...]

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Vegetable Rolls

From Chef Tom: Napa Cabbage is the most popular family of Chinese cabbages seen in the supermarkets on the West and Orient. Napa cabbage has long, oblong-shaped leaves that are flat and wide. They are a pale green tending towards greenish white in the centre. Napa cabbage resembles a head of Romaine lettuce, only more [...]

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Low Fat Potato & Spinach Comfort Food

I have a new favorite comfort food! Yesterday I had my stress test, plus I was very tired from the wonderful concert I went to the night before (got in after 2 a.m.) so I was feeling in the need of comfort food. And to my surprise I was able to find something from ingredients [...]

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