Tomato and Mozzarella Tarts

These Tomato and Mozzarella Tarts taste like mini pizzas, a fun Superbowl appetizer if you're having friends over!

You may recall me mentioning I am guest posting for Better Homes and Gardens blog, Delish Dish this month! I'm really enjoying testing out some of their recipes and adding my own spin. 

These are really simple to make, using only a handful of ingredients: frozen puff pastry, Parmesan cheese, mozzarella, tomato and fresh basil. I didn't change their recipe much, my only changes to make them a bit lighter was to use shredded part skim mozzarella in place of slices of fresh mozzarella, and I used a little less than the original recipe called for. My husband was home when I was making them and he LOVED them!

You can easily double this recipe to make more if you're feeding a crowd.

Tomato and Mozzarella Tarts

Servings: 9 • Size: 1 tart • Old Points: 2 • Weight Watcher Points+: 2

Calories: 77 • Fat: 5 g • Carb: 7 g • Fiber: 1 g • Protein: 3 g • Sugar: 0 g

Sodium: 45 mg (without salt) • Cholest: 4 mg

Ingredients I used:

• 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed (I uses 4.5 oz total)
• 1 1/2 tbsp finely shredded Parmesan cheese
• 2 oz shredded part skim mozzarella cheese 
• 1 large OR 2 SMALL roma tomato, thinly sliced (9 slices)
• Kosher salt and ground black pepper
• 9 small fresh basil leaves

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Lasagna Soup

Everything you love about lasagna – all in one bowl of soup! Loaded with chicken sausage, lasagna noodles, marinara and cheese. It's easy, filling, hearty and perfect for a cold winter night.

This soup is SO darn good! Very family friendly – my kids love it! The dallop of ricotta on top really makes it! I used chicken sausage which gave it such great flavor.

Some of my favorite soups are those that are adapted from classic meals. A few examples of this: my Stuffed Pepper Soup, Baked Potato Soup, Chicken Pot Pie Soup, Slow Cooker Chicken Enchilada Soup, and in my cookbook my yummy stuffed cabbage soup.

What I love about turning classic dishes like lasagna into soup is that it's a great way to enjoy those dishes with less calories and it's all made in one pot meal!

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Chicken Zoodle "Lo Mein" For Two

This faux lo mein dish is made with zoodles (zucchini noodles) in place of noodles and the results are DELISH (and bonus under 300 calories)! Each bowl is loaded with chicken and vegetables in a savory sauce. If you want to make this meatless, tofu would also be great in this dish. Start to finish this takes about 20 minutes to make... quicker than waiting for your take-out to get delivered!

To make the zoodles you can use a vegetable spiralizer such as the Paderno Spiral Vegetable Slicer or a mandolin fitted with a julienne blade although the spiralizer is so much easier and safer.

Since zucchini releases a lot of water as it cooks, I use it to my advantage and purposely leave the sauce a little thick. Once the noodles cook and release their liquid (I only cook them 2 minutes TOPS) the liquid from the zucchini thins the sauce and it comes out perfect.


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Poached Pears with Yogurt

These poached pears are simple and wonderful, whether you want to serve them for breakfast or dessert.

I gently poached them in a combination of apple and pomegranate juice along with a cinnamon stick and an orange rind. No additional sugar needed  – so easy and delicious!

My aunt recently had to stop eating dairy for health reasons, so when Silk approached me about their new dairy-free yogurt alternative I was excited to try it. My Aunt was super excited because she wasn't happy with the flavor and texture of two other brands she tried (Trader Joe's and Stonyfield's). I bought them all as well to do a taste comparison and hand down, Silk Dairy Free Yogurt Alternative had the best flavor and texture, it's delicious!

This recipe is also naturally gluten-free, vegan and vegetarian. These best part about these pears is that the can be made a few days in advance, and kept refrigerated until ready to eat.

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Honey-Lime Meatballs

These mini meatballs, made with a combo of lean ground beef and spicy turkey sausage are browned in a skillet (or you can bake them) then finish cooking in the slow cooker. After they are cooked, you pour a delicous honey-lime sauce over them and watch them dissapear1

I mentioned last week that I'm guest blogging this month for Better Homes and Gardens! The task was simple, test out a few of their recipes adding my own spin to share on their blog, Delish Dish.

I was intrigued by these meatballs since the superbowl is around the corner! The orginal sauce used molasses, but honey was all I had and it worked out great. This makes about 60 mini meatballs.


Honey-Lime Meatballs
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Servings: 15 • Size: 4 meatballs • Old Pts: 3 • Weight Watcher Pts+: 3
Calories: 136 • Fat: 4 g • Carb: 10 g • Fiber: 1 g • Protein: 14 g • Sugar: 5 g
Sodium: 265 mg  • Cholesterol: 61 mg

Ingredients:

For the meatballs:

• cooking spray
• 1 1/2 lbs 95% ground beef
• 7 oz uncooked hot Italian chicken or turkey sausage links, casings removed
• 1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 large egg whites
• 1 cup finely chopped green onions 
• 4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
• salt

For the sauce:

• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup reduced-sodium soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons lime juice

Directions:

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BLT Salad with Avocado + The Skinnytaste Cookbook and OXO Giveaway

I LOVE bacon – who doesn't? And I love a BLT sandwich. This salad, featured in The Skinnytaste Cookbook has all the flavors I love in the sandwich without the extra calories you get from eating it on bread! Plus it's easy – only FIVE ingredients not counting s + p!

OXO sent me these Chopped Salad Scissors which made chopping the lettuce in the bowl easy. Although I only chopped the lettuce for this salad, they are also perfect for chopping anything you would eat in a chopped salad – cooked chicken, cucumbers, peppers, onions, etc.

And I'm excited to share that OXO and Skinnytaste have teamed up to bring you an awesome January giveaway!

We are giving away 10 copies of The Skinnytaste Cookbook, Chopped Salad Scissors, Healthy Portions Scale and 2-in-1 Salad Servers to TEN LUCKY WINNERS! If you want to enter, simply fill out the Promo Simple form below! Giveaway ends next Monday January 19th, US only.

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Bangin Good Chicken Salad

Here's an EASY dinner solution: tender chunks of chicken, breaded and baked until golden topped with Bang Bang sauce. I served this over mixed greens and swooned with every bite!

This is a fun spin on Bangin Good Shrimp recipe. My friend posted her dinner the other day on facebook and it basically looked like this, it looked so good I knew exactly how I was going to make it. I basically modified my Healthy Baked Chicken Nuggets and topped it with this banging good sauce. Results... AMAZING!! And it's SO easy to make, I promise! You can easily halve the recipe for two.


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