Big Fat Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry muffins are a total weakness for me. Luckily, HG has an awesome recipe for low fat, blueberry packed, muffins.

I love these muffins. They taste amazing; sweet, but not too sweet. And they are jam-packed with blueberries. Yum!

Apple Pie Oatmeal Bonanza

This recipe was taken from Hungry Girl's 300 Under 300 cookbook. I made it for breakfast a few days ago, and it was really good. I did have to add some more Equal, since I have an insane sweet tooth, and I poured a little more sugar-free syrup on top to make it pretty ;) This recipe made an absolutely HUGE bowl of oatmeal. Overall, it was a good recipe. It kind of reminded me of the Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal I made before, but just a bit different.

Too-EZ Mac 'n Cheese

My friend saw this recipe on Hungry Girl's cooking show, and we decided to try it out the other day. Broccoli + pasta + cheese = OMG GOOD!!! We halved the recipe, except for the Laughing Cow, and added some parm topping at the end. So yummy. Its really filling too.

Filet Mignon with Garlic Cream Sauce

Getting fancy over here today! This was made by my mom (I helped making the sauce), since I am incapable of cooking meat. She used a recipe from the Weight Watcher's 5 Ingredient Cookbook.

The serving is actually quite large (for 6 points), I was just using a giant plate. This was sooo good. I don't eat red meat very often, so this was a treat. The cream sauce was soo garlic-y and yummy. Asparagus was the perfect side, too.

Peachy Maple-Caramel Crunch Parfait

I made this parfait for breakfast today. Its from Hungry Girl's 200 Under 200 cookbook.

This could, quite possibly, be the ugliest thing I've ever made. After adding the syrup, the yogurt was too thin to make nice defined layers. But this tastes amazing. And its really filling. I could only finish half of it.

Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal

I've been on an oatmeal kick lately, I just can't get enough! I was getting tired of the maple brown sugar oatmeal, so I created my own apple cinnamon oatmeal this morning. It makes a huge bowl of oatmeal, which is 5 points, and completely filling.

Again, why does oatmeal have to be so ugly and unphotogenic? Anyway, here's the recipe

• 1/2 cup oats


• 1 cup water


• dash salt


• 1/2 tsp cinnamon


• 1 small apple, cut into bite-sized chunks


• 2 tsp splenda brown sugar


• Optional: additional equal packets

Mix together oats, salt, cinnamon, and water in a medium bowl. Microwave for 1 1/2 minutes. Mix. Return to the microwave for 1 minute. Stir in brown sugar and apples. Add additional equal if needed.

Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal

I was craving oatmeal like crazy after my workout today, but I didn't want to waste points on something that wouldn't fill me, or would use too many points. A google search later, I found this recipe and decided to try it out. Sorry for the not-so-pretty pic, but its hard to get a nice picture of oatmeal. I decided to nix the raisins/craisins, and used splenda brown sugar and sugar-free pancake syrup. All together, this huge bowl is around 4 points. Not bad at all. It turned out really nice. I did have to add a packet of equal since it wasn't sweet enough for my crazy sweet tooth, but other than that its awesome. I'm so used to the over processed instant oatmeal that this is a nice change.

Super Bowl Sunday, Pt. 2

And the other HG recipe that I made for the big game was her Saucy Chick BBQ Nachos which can be found here, on her website. I did make some changes this time. I mixed the entire half cup of bbq sauce in with the chicken since drizzling it on top can get gloopy. I also didn't put scallions or sour cream on top because I don't think it needs it, and its amazing as it is.

Super Bowl Sunday, Pt. 1

My friend came over for the big game and she, my mom, and I made a whole bunch of snacky stuff to eat while watching. I'm only going to post 2, but my mom also made reduced-fat pigs in a blanket (fat free hotdogs wrapped in reduced fat cressant rolls and thinly sliced), and Sam brought some chocolate marshmallow cupcakes, shrimp cocktail, and carob fudge. This post is for HG's Rockin Resturant Spinach Dip from her first cookbook. I made a double batch of this because it is just that amazing. There used to be a resturant around where I live called Bugaboo Steakhouse, and this dip is just like the one that they served. This is the perfect combination of spinach, cheese, garlic, and onion. Yum!

Splurge - Chocolate Chip & Raisin White Cake Mix Cookies

Okay this next post is defintely NOT HG, but I had to post it anyway. My great grandma used to make these cookies when I was a kid. They were these amazing, soft, chocolate chip and raisin cookies. A few weeks ago, I started craving them, and my mom informed me that they were made with cake mix! Cue a week and a half of searching the 'net for recipes, and coming to terms with the fact that I was about to make something full fat and sugar. The recipe that I used was, apparently, taken from the back on a Duncan Hines cake mix box back in the 70s. I did add about a cup of raisins since that's how my grandma made them. These are SO GOOD. They taste exactly like the ones my grandma used to make. I might try modifying the recipe later (e.g. applesauce for oil), but I wanted to just make it straight the first time so I could have these cookies again.

I just figured out the calorie total for each cookie, and it ended up being 196 for 1 large cookie. Not good, but not too horrible either.

Honey Chicken

This recipe was a disaster, when I tryed to make it. But mom stepped it and made it all okay. I've said it once, and I'll say it again...I am a baker, not a cook. :) I mixed two recipes together to make this chicken; HG's Sesame Chicken and BlogChef's Honey Chicken.

I followed HG's recipe to make the chicken - baking it in the oven - and BlogChef's to make the sauce. I completely failed making the sauce. Our garlic was all dried out, so I used garlic powder, which burned when I added it to the oil. It was bad. Luckily, Mom actually knows what she's doing in the kitchen, and made another - perfect - batch. According to her, she did tweak the recipe a little bit. She added a bit more rice wine vinegar and almost doubled the honey.

This chicken is soooo good. The Chinese buffet near my house shut down recently, and I was lameting the fact that I could no longer get their honey chicken. Thank god I found a suitable replacement!

We served the chicken with white rice, and steamed broccoli with stir fry sauce.

HG's Perfect Pumpkin Bread

Its been a while, but I'm back with Hungry Girl's pumpkin bread, which can be found on their website. I wanted to get rid of some of the canned pumpkin we had lying around, so I made this for my mom (pumpkin pie spice is sooo not my thing). I did add some walnuts and chocolate chips in addition to the raisins.

It came out looking nice, and my mom claims that its awesome! Yay!!