Great healthy recipes!

I just have to share what I have been up to this weekend. Yesterday I prepared a beef stew and let that cook low and slow for several hours for us to enjoy for supper. I also took the time to do some prep so that our week is easier at eating healthy. I chopped up some carrots, celery and pepper, and then made a very delicious dip for those veggies.

I got this recipe from Eat better, Fell better by Giada. So glad I decided to try it, cause it's really good! She says to put the entire sweet potato in the oven and bake it for like an hour, and I didn't want to take that long to get the sweet potato soft, so I cut it into chunks, and instead of pan cooking the garlic, I added 2 cloves into foil and baked it with the potatoes. I put it in the oven at 400 for 20 minutes and the sweet potatoes were soft enough and the garlic was nice and roasted as well

 

 

 

The ingredients did go in the food processor and I did try it and it was delicious! I cleaned up my mess after and I was done for the day, I was feeling quite tired, so today I finished my fun in the kitchen.

This morning I made a quiche, which we of course enjoyed for breakfast this morning

Yes mine got a bit burnt but it still tasted really good! I got this recipe from the Clean Eating magazine. It took a long time to prep and get it cooked but it was really good. Once I added everything to the pan, it said to put it on medium heat for 15 minutes. Well I put mine on medium low, and only for 12 minutes, so I'm glad I made that adjustment. I used a cast iron pan and I know it holds it's heat really well and warmer so that's why I made that change. We flipped it like it suggests, yes hubby helped in the flip cause a cast iron pan is heavy, and then let it cook for 5 more minutes and we both really enjoyed it.

I did take a bit of a break to eat, and then not long after I got the next recipe going, which started with baking 2 bananas. Which is a first for me, but the recipe is really good! I started to watch this new cooking show called Simply Giada, and when I saw these cupcakes, I had to try it and glad I did. We both really love it.

While the bananas were baking I got to relax for a while and then once I took them out I had to let them cool for a bit. Then I got the other ingredients together. You can get the recipe here.

I have been wanting to try making vegetarian sandwiches. I love sandwiches but meat doesn't like me too much cause of endo, so I finally tried a recipe, which you can get here on Joyous Health.

This mix is really tasty, I got to try it for lunch, along with some veggies with the dip that I made yesterday. The quiche did need some grated jicama, so the rest of it I sliced up to enjoy with the other veggies and dip.

It was a perfect and delicious lunch cause it also ended with half a cupcake, and gave my hubby the other half to try it out. For supper I want to try out another new recipe that I also got from Clean eating magazine, which is a mushroom stroganoff. I'm excited to try it, and glad I have some healthy food on hand for the week.

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend!