Teriyaki Kabobs

Finally A Food Post! 

It has been a while since I posted a recipe, mostly because all of my meals lately have been pretty basic and I have been working on getting the healthy eating down and now that I have a better understanding of nutrition and health I will hopefully be posting more foods. Now I am no expert and I am not a calorie counter so none of them will have calories and nutritional value information however I can say that they will be made with much more natural ingredients and much less sugar and little to know processed food. This also does not mean in any way shape or form that I am paleo I am just aiming to avoid processed garbage as much as possible and eat more organic although I realize the expense makes it hard those are just my general goals to eating. 

Now on to todays recipe is Chicken ( or steak ) Teriyaki Kabobs 

These were delicious! 

What you'll Need 

- 1 Package of Chicken (or Steak) 

- 2 Zucchini 

- 1 Green Pepper 

- Bag of mini potatoes

- 3 Onions

- Teriyaki Marinade 

- Olive Oil

- Salt or a seasoning

What to Do 

- First Chop up the vegetables in to manageable chunks 

- then add oil and seasoning to the vegetables 

- Marinate the Chicken for about an hour with Teriyaki Marinade 

- Then its time to stick it to em! 

- We first wet the Sticks this helps to keep them from burning too much on the grill it also puts moisture inside the stick to help cook through every thing. 

- while putting the meat and vegetables on kabobs be careful! I poked my self a few times and it was actually pretty painful 

- Cook them on the grill for about a half hour but be at the grill to watch them rotating to make sure that no one side burns and they are cooked through 

- Now enjoy! 

I really loved this recipe it was some work but it was worth it! 

Let me know if you try out this recipe and what you think of it in a comment below! 

Stephaniexx

Chicken Pesto Pizza Bites

Tonight I decided to try something new, and one of my favorite foods to eat is chicken pesto pizza, but seeing as I have made the pizza before I was looking to do something alittle more creative with it. So after deliberation I came up with these. They are cheesy and delicous pizza bites. I did both pesto chicken bites as well as two with pasta sauce and cheese. 

Ingredients: 

- 3 flower tortillas ( I used Tostitos0 

- 3 chicken breasts grilled

- Pesto you will end up using like 5 tbsp atleast 

- Mozzarella cheese about a cup 

- If you want to make the regular pizza one you will need some type of pasta sauce 

Directions: 

- Grill Chicken with seasoning of salt and pepper, I do this on a george forman but you could do it on a regular grill also

- While the Chicken is grilling cut out the tortillas by using a large mug and cutting around it in a circle shape, if they arent perfect thats okay

- spray a muffin tin with cooking spray and place the circle tortillas in it.

- the tortillas will not fit perfectly, and will likely rip but don't worry they will still turn out okay just try to avoid the tearing of them

- Once the chicken is done cut them in to small cubes

- Combine the small cubes with pesto and mozzarella in a small bowl mixing them thuroughly

- Line the tortillas in the muffin pan with pesto a very thin layer

- Then fill the tortillas with the chicken pesto and mozzarella mix

- Sprinkle some mozzarella on top after you add the chicken

- then bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees

If you want to use just regular sauce then I put a small layer of mozzarella on the bottom of the tortilla and then added about a tablespoon of sauce and topped it off wiht more mozzarella 

I hope you try out this recipie and truly enjoy it. Let me know if you like this recipie and how it came out if you decided to try it for yourself! 

Stephanie xx

Brown Rice Chicken Stir Fry

Now going on with my healthy food kick I made stir fry with brown rice and vegetables. This is probably one of my favorite meals right now to make, its very simple, doesn't take much time, and is delicious. I also will make enough so that me and eddie will get more than one meal out of it (which by the way it taste pretty good cold too so I was able to take the left overs to eat for lunch the next day) 

What you'll Need: 

- 2 cups of rice

- 1 medium zucchini

- half a red pepper

- one medium onion 

- about a quater cup of teriyaki or stir fry sauce 

- 3 peices of chicken 

First grill the chicken I used my george forman but you can use a normal grill, while grilling the chicken start making the rice as instructed on the box, also chop up the zucchini onion and pepper for the peppers I like to cut them in to cubes and I use thin slices of zucchini becaus they cook quicker when they are thinner, then the onions I chopped into alittle smaller than the pepper (or should I say Eddie chopped because lets be honest I can not chop and onion with out crying and when I say crying I don't mean a few tears but a hysterical cry. I really hope I'm not the only one). 

I then put the vegetables in to a frying pan on meadium heat with some olive oil, I cover it with a lid to let it seam and leave it alone for about 3-5min after that I check it periodically stiring around the vegetables until they are all cooked thuroughly. 

Once the vegetables are all cooked I add the chicken and the Teriyaki sauce and let it simmer for another few minutes. I also add a little bit of teriyaki to the rice. 

Then mix together the rice and the Vegetables and Chicken in a large bowl and serve, I usually will take about half out before I serve and put it in to a tupperware container so that I already have that out and saved  to put in the refrigerator for the next day. 

If you have any suggestions for other ways to make a stir fry or different vegetables that you use let me know in a comment below, I am always willing to try new things! 

Stephanie xx

A day of Healthy Eating

For the past few weeks I have really been trying to eat healtheir and consistantly healthy throught out the day , yesterday I had a particularly good day of eating (probably because I was at school from 8:30 to 6:30 which doesn't leave much room for snacking) so I decided that I would go through what I ate. I came up with this idea because I was thinking about what snacks to bring for my day and I really struggled, so in this struggle I thought there must be other people who experience the same feeling. So here I am to give some of my snacks and meal ideas to those who are contemplating what should I eat today? 

Breakfast

8:00 AM

- 1 whole egg and 2 egg whites scrambled with some pepper

- 3 large strawberries 

Mid Morning Meal

10:00 AM

- Pear Chobani

and alittle abnormal psychology 

Lunch

12:00 PM 

- Spinach Leaves, half a cucumber, about a handful of low fat feta cheese, and low fat italian dressing

sorry the pictures blury

Afternoon Snack

2:30 PM 

now you may question my palette on this one

- Peanut Butter and Carrots 

I use JIF because they come in nifty little packs :) but I understand people may not be fans of peanut butter and carrots so if you want replace with your favorite carrot dipping condiment, or go just plain carrots which I do some days. 

Dinner

6:30 

- Stir fry with Chicken, Brown Rice, Zucchini, Red Peppers, and Teriyaki Sauce 

Hopefully you can take away a few ideas for you meal and snack plans, let me know if you like this idea/ style of posts in the comments below!

Stephaniexx

Pesto Caprese Chicken

Lately I have been trying to eat healthier (the struggle... I want to bake something chocolatey). I am not trying to crash diet or anything because that is horrible for your body, but me and eddie are trying to incorporate more vegetables and a healthier lifestyle. So one of the new recipies I decided to try is this Pesto  Caprese Chicken. 

What you'll need: 

- 2 medium to large Chicken breasts

- about 2 tbls. of Pesto 

- 2 medium tomatos 

- Mozzarella Cheese  

- Salt and Pepper to taste

- Grill/ George Forman

Instructions: 

- Turn on George Forman to 350 degrees and preheat oven to 350 degrees 

- Add salt and pepper to the chicken to personal taste then place on the George Forman and Cook for about 10 minutes or until cooked thuroughly ( may take less time depends on chicken thickness ) 

- While chicken is grilling slice the tomatos in topretty thin slices

- Once chicken is done spread about a table spoon of pesto on each peice of chicken

- Next add the slices of tomatos on the pesto

- Finish by adding mozzarella to the tomato later for this add as much as you like I know eddie likes his very cheesy so I added more for him

- Now place them in a casserole dish or on a baking sheet and place in the oven 

- Bake for about 10 min or until the mozzarella is well melted 

- durring this time I made some chopped spinach or you could be making another vegetable or some whole wheat pasta

This was delicioius and the perfect size dinner for me tonight, eddie had a few chips because he wasn't quite full but next time were going to make some whole wheat pasta to go along with it. 

Hope you enjoyed this recipie and let me know in a comment below if you try it out!

Stephanie xx 

My Week! 2/18-2/24

So this is the start of a new series of posts that I am going to try to do every week it is going to be just a review of my week what I did, my favorites of the week and such. Hopefully soon I will have a set of questions that I will answer everyweek but Since im just starting it this will be a rough draft of questions Im going to be asking lol so here goes nothing!!

Question 1: What are my Inspirational Thoughts?

"In the Last Year I have come so far and I feel I have grown so much an I like the person I have become. This improvement seems to make me more sure that my future is headed where I want it to and I will only continue to becoming a better Person"

"Sometimes I feel that I try to rush into growing up and becoming an adult that I am missingout on whats in front of me I want to better grasp whats at hand and love more in the present than in the future" 

Question 2: Did I Do Anythign Exciting?

Yes!! I went to New York City yesterday with my friends Courtney and Missy. Missy was going on a date so me and Courtney decided we would go act like tourists in times square we went to olive garden the hersey and m&m stores then toysRus and lastly sephora where we walked around sampling makeup for about an hour lol 

Train time!!!

Potato Parmesean Crusted Chicken OMG delicous 

Chocolate Mouse ;)

easter bunny m&m 

Picstich of our random ToysRus adventure 

Question 3: What did I struggel with/ Could improve on? 

My time management is a constant struggle for me :/ and not being forgetful of things that I need to do like writting this just reminded me I have to go do something lol

Question 4: Favorite food/snack?

 Pretzel Crusted Chicken!! So I went to cheesecake factory to meet up with my parents this week and my mom saw this on the menu and was like we need to try these and I completely agreed so we did and they are delicious if you ever go to a cheese cake factory I endlessly recomend them. Its like the perfect combination of salt with chicken and it comes with like a dill ranch dipping sauce. They were fantastic!

Question 5: Favorite Drink? 

Now if you are under the age of 21 continue on to question number 6 lol sorry... 

Chilis Mango Presedente margarita... is delicous and for nation margarita day I couldnt pass up the opportunity ;) 

Question 6: Favorite TV Episode?

Biggest loser this week was great so full of drama and I dont want to seem like a horrible person but Im glad francalina( hope i spelt that right) went home, I think she should have gone home last week and she didnt so I was glad she went home this week 

Question 7: New Suggested Products, Movies, Ect.?

Nothing I can think of at present time I know I have bunch of things in my need to try section of where all my make up is so once I try them out and stuff I will have one probably for you guys. 

Question 8: What am I hooked on on netflix?

WALKING DEAD omg i went through 5 episodes yesterday alone.. none today yet but im sure its in my future for the evening

Question 9: Favorite app? 

Dead yourself.. the walking dead app is so awesome and entertains me for a good hour atleast. 

So this is about all I have for this week!! But hopefully I will have some more/ better questions for next week and I hope you all enjoyed!! 

Chicken Parm Pizza

PIZZA PIZZA!

Today I decided to make chicken parm pizza now this is super super easy and delicious me eddie and my roommate downed it all lol. So are based on personal opinions or desires we are cheese lovers so we made it super cheesy.

Ingredients:

 

- 3 Skinless boneless chicken breasts

- Italian Seasoning (I used Progresso I beleive) 

- parmasean Cheese Just a handful

- 1 egg 

- Olive Oil (enough to coat the bottom of a pan)

- Pasta sauce which ever desired brand

- about 1 cup of mozzarella cheese 

- Pilsbury Pizza Crust

To start I put olive oil in a frying pan on medium heat until the oil is hot while waiting for it to warm up I mixed italian seasoning with parmasean cheese an egged the defrosted chicken and then covered it with the italian bread crumbs and parmasean cheese. By then the oil is easily hot so I place the chicken in the frying pan flipping about half way through cooking and the amount of time depends on the thickness of the chicken breast

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F and roll out pizza dough on to cookie sheet press out with your fingers until it almost completely covers the cookie sheet once the oven is preheated put the crust in alone for about 8 min. 

Take out the ough and layer with sauce chicken and cheese bake for about 5 more min and enjoy the cheese goodness :)