Greek - It's What's For Dinner...

Ingredients:

1lb Chicken Thighs (or breast if you prefer) Boneless and Skinless

1cup Whole Wheat Cous Cous

1cup Water

Salt (optional)

1tbsp Butter

Garlic Oil (to make pan non stick with chicken and to taste on the cous cous)

Lemon Juice (to taste)

Basil (to taste)

Salt Free Greek Seasoning...about 1-2 tsp on chicken only

1 pint grape tomatos halved.

1 container Feta Cheese

Directions:

*Cube your chicken of choice and toss with greek seasoning. Put garlic oil (olive oil infused with garlic) into hot pan and add chicken to stir fry.

*Set aside when chicken is finished.

*In a sauce pan, 1cup water and tbsp butter to a boil and add cous cous stir quickly and remove from heat and cover (NO PEEKING) for 4min. Fluff with fork

*While cous cous is steaming - halve tomatos.

*Add cous cous, tomatoes and chicken and feta to bowl. Now - use the remaining ingredients to taste and toss till coated.

***Kalamata olives would be FANTASTIC in this dish - I didn't use them this time around because hubs dislikes olives, and because of my recent plastics I cannot have the added sodium, lest I swell!

Homemade California Rolls....

You will need:

Sticky Rice

Sea Weed Papers

(I get these in a kit for $3)

Imitation Crab (Or Real if you Can!)

Directions:

Nuke your pre-made sticky rice for 60 seconds. If you are making the rice yourself - then just cook it and let it cool a little bit before handleing. Just remember - regular rice will NOT work. Must be the sticky stuff!

Get out some crab and cut into 1.5 inch strips about the width of pencil. Place crab stick, and half spoonful of rice in seaweed paper, roll and repeat!

This is higher on carbs than I typically like - but I keep these in the fridge for my "grazing" because it DOES have crab meat  which is protein for me!:) And it's fairly filling on just a couple.

S.O.S - Cheap and EASY!

Firstly - forgive the paper plate. I try to do better in my photos - but Mama's very tired tonight and feeling too lazy to do the dishes!

Ingredients:

Bread (pictured is White but this is excellent for your dryer Wheats and Ezekial loaves)

white country gravy mix (with water or half water substituted with high protein milk)

2 pkgs Budding Honey Turkey

Directions:

1. Prepare gravy according to package directions.

2. Cut up Turkey into ribbons and put into gravy and stir

3. Slop it onto a slice or two of bread and serve warm

It's what I grew up calling S.O.S - as my mom always said. But it's also known as "Shit on a Shingle" which means you can literally put any "shit" you want to into it and call it a meal. However, as I learned tonight - Dont refer to it as "Shit on a Shingle" to a 6yr old as they will absolutely REFUSE to go near it then! LOL!

Garage Sale Find!

Found this awesome cast iron pre-divided cornbread pan today! I got it for like... $1! Too cool!!! Now I gotta think up some recipes to share with it!