What's for dinner tonight?

Monday is always soup and salad here..tonight the soup is "baked potato soup" from skinnytaste.com
http://www.skinnytaste.com/2011/02/baked-potato-soup.html?m=1

Nobody but me knows it has cauliflower!

We tried meatless Mondays for awhile and it went well. Need to go back to it! Good luck I love the website emilybites.com and skinnytaste.com

Steak, rice and green beans.

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Tonight it's chicken korma from the Hairy Dieters cook book. Only 294 calories per portion.

http://www.hairybikers.com/recipes/chicken-korma/1615

https://sites.google.com/a/aglugofoil.com/a-glug-of-oil/linguine-with-prawns-chorizo-sun-dried-tomatoes-and-chilli

This!! It's ridiculously yummy. I scrap the oil and just use the chorizo oil to fry in, and then think about portion control

I love skinny taste. So many great recipes and low in calories. I like the Santa Fe Chicken and the Parm Chicken recipes the best!!!

Pulled pork(made in the crockpot) quesadilla's.

Was meant to be homemade Quorn cottage pie with veg, but now it's cod rogan balti from M&S as it needs to be eaten!! I'll have it with tenderstem broccoli, and Greek yoghurt for dessert.

Pasta with Spicy Sausage, Baby Spinach and Creamy Butternut Sauce
Skinnytaste.com
Servings: 5 • Size: 1 1/4 cups • Old Points: 7 pts • Points+: 9
Calories: 362 • Fat: 8 g • Carb: 55 g • Fiber: 5 g • Protein: 20 g • Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 419 mg (without salt)

Ingredients:

11 oz (4 links) spicy chicken Italian sausage
1 lb butternut squash, peeled and diced
1 tbsp light butter
10 oz casarecce, or pasta of your choice
1/4 cup shallots, minced
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups baby spinach, roughly chopped
2 tbsp fresh shaved parmesan cheese
4 sage leaves, sliced thin
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste


Directions:

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add butternut squash and cook until soft. Remove squash with a slotted spoon and place in a blender, blend until smooth.

Add pasta to the boiling water and cook according to package directions for al dente, reserving at least 1 cup of the pasta water before draining.

Meanwhile, in a large deep non-stick skillet, sauté sausage over medium heat until browned, breaking up with a spoon as it cooks. When cooked through, set aside on a plate.

Reduce heat to medium-low and melt the butter, sauté the shallots and garlic until soft and golden, about 5 - 6 minutes. Add pureed butternut squash, season with with salt and fresh cracked pepper and add a little of the reserved pasta water (I used about 1 cup) to thin out the sauce to your liking. Add baby spinach and stir in parmesan cheese and sage.

Toss in cooked pasta and sausage and mix until well coated.

Serve with additional parmesan cheese on the side if desired.

Makes about 6 cups.

I plan most of our meals ahead of time so I'm not doing multiple trips to the grocery store. So excited for dinner today! I'm making chicken and black bean stuffed poblano peppers and white rice with peas, red onion, cilantro, jalapeno. Can't wait!

Grilled chicken, steamed potato, and salad. Yum!

Meatloaf muffins w/ mashed potatoes and green beans

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/diner-meat-loaf-muffins-10000001160601/

I changed the recipe up a little and use green pepper and mushroom instead of chopped carrot. And I use reduced fat ritz instead of saltines. NOTE - it is vital that you pre-cook the veggies - if you don't all their water content will come out during the baking and make a complete mess. I also lighten it up a bit more by using closer to a pound of hamburg. And sometimes jazz up the flavor by using BBQ sauce instead of ketchup or do a mix - ketchup in the mixture, BBQ sauce on top.

Thinking of sauteing broccoli with garlic and kalamata olives, finishing it with a squeeze of lemon and a drizzle of my good Sicilian olive oil.

I usually have heavy lunches and for dinner I just eat greek yogurt with granola or a protein shake,

i will be having baked lemon/pepper tilapia and a salad.