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Comment by Courtney on July 17, 2008 at 9:31am

Southwest Turkey Burger

1 pkg. ground turkey meat
1 can. black beans
2 cups of low fat cheddar cheese or mexican mix
or 2pkgs. of WW shredded cheddar cheese.
1 tsp. of hot sauce
1-2 tsp of olive oil (to get in the healthy oils)
*you can add it either to the mixture if you are using a grill or you can add it to the skillet when cooking.

Take the ground meat, black beans (drained and rinsed) and the shredded cheese. Add into a bowl and start to mix ingriedients together. Take the 1tsp of hot sauce and add to mixture for flavor. Once all that is mixed take a the meat and make a ball, about the size of your palm.

Once you've done that add them to the grill or skillet. Cook for about 8-10 minutes.

Each burger is about 7 points worth on WW.

There tends to be extra black beans and cheese so what I do is make a dip.
I take the black beans and cheese, add salsa and hot sauce and put in the skillet to sizzle and serve with veggies or blue corn tortillas.

1/4 cup is worth 3 points. w/o the tortillas.

Hope you enjoy, it's a nice griller on a nice summer day and if you have some extra point lying around it's nice with a bud light lime :)

Comment by Michele D on July 11, 2008 at 11:23am

Shrimp Lo Mein

1/2 package lo mein noodles
2 lbs jumbo shrimp - peeled and deveined
2 broccoli crowns, broken apart
1 c snow peas
1 bunch spring onions, chopped
3 T minced garlic
2 T hoisin
3 T Asian Vinagrette
Soy Sauce (I used low sodium)
Vegetable Oil
2 T corn starch
water

Heat large pot of salted water for noodles. Heat up fry pan or wok and add a few tablespoons of oil. Add broccoli to pan with the garlic and stir fry about 3 minutes, add a few shakes of soy sauce and about 1/8 c of water to pan and cover for two minutes. Remove broccoli from pan and repeat procedure with snow peas.

If water is boiling add noodles, be sure not to over cook! After removing peas from pan, add shrimp and a bit more soy and a splash of water, stir fry til pink, remove from pan.

You should have a bit of liquid left in pan from shrimp, add hoisin and vinagrette and a bit more soy, more garlic at this time if desired. Add spring onions and bring to a boil. Mix corn starch with enough cold water to stir easily, add a bit at a time to pan to thicken sauce.

Drain noodles when cooked al'dente, and return to pot with veggies, shrimp, and sauce....serve hot.

We had this Wednesday night and it was a HUGE hit without all the MSG your local asian place will add in...also with less pasta than they tend to serve and not as much soy in the sauce...very yummy and was great leftover last night!!

Comment by HungryHippos on July 1, 2008 at 1:01am

Tuna Casserole
Serves 3 for 8 points each
1 can drained tuna
4 servings whole grain pasta (about 6 points worth)
1/2 can reduced fat cream of chicken soup
4 oz. 2% velveta cheese
2 tbs. fat free sour cream
1/4 c. milk
42 light fat free pringles sour cream and onion (If you haven't tried these, get some now! You can have 14 for 1 point! Awesome!)

Cook pasta until done. Drain and return to pot. Add all ingredients except chips. Stir and warm until well mixed. You may need to add a little more water or milk if sauce becomes too thick. Now you have two options
Option 1: Serve it up and top with crumbled chips. Each person gets fourteen chips. I did this after I had it on the individual plates, so everyone got exactly 14 chips which is one serving.
Option 2: Pour into baking pan. Top with crumbled chips. Bake for 30 minutes at 350. I did not do this option because I was hungry!

Comment by Kellie on June 27, 2008 at 1:39am

What's the best way to format this group so the recipes are relatively easy to navigate through?

Comment by Tammy on June 23, 2008 at 7:07am

Hi all! I'd like to jump in here and join your group! I love to cook and try new foods, often to my family's dismay. LOL Too bad for them, I say! I easily get bored eating the same old thing. My hubby could eat the same 7 meals on the same day of the week forever and be happy. BORING! Fortunately, he is grateful for anything I make and usually doesn't complain as long as he sees his favorites on the table often enough. So, I plan my weeks meals based on our schedule for week and the weather. Yes, you read that right...the weather. If it's really hot I plan for light, fresh foods with little cooking. If it's cold, or even just kinda gloomy...I seek out a warm, comfort food. It sounds anal, but, I can't tell you how much I love to be in the kitchen and I'm a total foodie. So, I promise to try real hard to share some of my recipes with you and hope to find some new ideas from all of you!

Now tonight it's Target Fireworks night in Detroit. We always go downtown for them. It's also a busy afternoon for the whole family with driver's ed for DD #3, work for DDs #1 & 2, and an optometrist appt for myself and the husband at 6 pm. So, I needed something everybody could cook for themselves when they arrive home. Tonight it's whole wheat pancakes (batter will be prepared in fridge), turkey sausage (I'll precook and they can micro heat), a fresh fruit (strawberries, bluberries, cantelope, pineapple). Yum! We love breakfast for dinner!

Comment by Bran on June 18, 2008 at 2:58pm

The only thing I have thawed is a pork tenderloin,so we will have grilled pork tenderloin with toni's cajun seasoning rubbed in, grilled okra with olive oil rubbed on it and probably some rice I have already in the fridge. Not that exciting, but it will get the job done. I usually make my pork tenderloin in the crockpot, it is wonderfully moist that way.

Comment by aeslin on June 2, 2008 at 7:58pm

Spicy Asian Shrimp Salad with Endamame and Oranges

Per person:
3 oz. cooked, shelled shrimp (thawed)
1/4 cup cooked shelled endamame (soy beans)
1 cup arugula or other salad greens
1/2 small orange, cut into sections (catch the juice in a bowl)
1 or 2 tiny sweet peppers, sliced

For the dressing (adjust to your taste):
1 tsp. sesame oil
orange juice you caught in bowl, plus more if you need it
1/4 sriricha (hot pepper) sauce
1/2 tsp. jarred ginger pulp
1/2 tsp. jarred minced garlic
good pinch brown sugar splenda

About 5 WW points.

Comment by Michele D on May 19, 2008 at 11:58am

I think tonight will be a laftover night for us...there is plenty from over the weekend to use up...I am having a hard time cooking less food...how do any of you tackle this? There are typically only three of us on any given weeknight, and sometimes only two but I always seem to cook too much food.

Comment by Kellie on May 15, 2008 at 10:01pm

Let's see. Tonight for dinner we had kielbasa sausage with potatoes. Not sure on points though. Pretty good however!! :)

Comment by Sarah on May 12, 2008 at 10:05pm

Tonight was smart taste thin spagetti, maranara and ground turkey crumbled. We had fruit and a scoop of double churn sugar free butter pecan ice cream for desert.

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