Rosted Squash with Potatoes

One of these days I had a mini calabaza squash at home and I wanted to make something with it. It was the first time ever I cooked this kind of squash and I gotta say it tasted delicious. It is not easy to find this kind of squash around in NY state ( at least not where I leave), but this recipe goes really well with butternut squash too if you want to substitute it.

This squash recipe goes really well with the roasted beef recipe I posted before, or if you feel like going vegetarian just have the squash as an appetizer as it is good by it self.

Ingredients:
1 mini calabaza squash (or one small butternut squash)
2 golden potatoes
1 chili pepper (no seeds and chopped small)
3 gloves of garlic
Olive oil
Cumin
Thyme
Dry basil
Salt
Black pepper
Parmesan cheese

Instructions:
Pre-heat the oven at 350ºF.  Chop the squash and potatoes into medium cubes, and then chop the chili pepper into small pieces taking out the seeds. Add the potatoes and squash  and chili pepper into a wide pan, then add a good amount of olive oil, salt, black pepper, the gloves of garlic (without the skin), a little thyme, cumin and basil. Shake everything well so it season well the squash and potatoes.

Then put it to roast for around 15 minutes, then take it out, give it a little shake so the squash and potatoes don't stick to the pan, add some parmesan cheese over it and get it back to the oven for more 20 minutes or until the squash feels soft inside. Depending on your oven it can take a little longer for the squash feel soft.

Enjoy!

Healthy Lemon Dressing for your Salad

Today's recipe is for those who feel light and healthy. It is an awesome recipe for those who like to season their salad with lemon juice but don't know how to measure the amount of lemon and then the dressing or get too lemony strong (urgh!) or too light. With this recipe you will learn how to balance it and the best part is that you won't need to buy those dressing in the bottle, since this one is SO fast and with ingredients that you will always find in your kitchen. =]

Ingredients:
1 lemon juice and a little of zest
6 table spoon of olive oil
Salt
Black pepper
1/2 chili pepper with no seeds chopped really small (you can use powder if that's what you have, it's only to give a little spiciness)

Healthy Chicken with Pesto

You know when you feel like having some chicken and want to do something healthy, tasty and easy but you can't stand that grilled chicken anymore. Well, when I get sick of the grilled chicken, this is what I do. It's fast, easy and is always delicious!

Next time you get visitors for dinner, you should definitely think about this option, since it is really beautiful on your plate and tasty.

Ingredients:
1 Chicken Breast Fillet
1 Table spoon of pesto
1 Lime juice
Black pepper
Salt
Olive Oil

Mustard Dressing for Salads

I believe that for a good salad all you need is a good dressing. It doesn't matter if you get the best ingredients in the world, if the dressing is bad, it will ruin the whole salad. So, thinking about this, i decided to give to you guys this recipe for a delicious dressing made with mustard, that way you can vary a little bit more then the basic vinegar + olive oil. You have in your kitchen a lot of possibilities for great dressings, all that is stopping you is only your creativity! So let's work!

Usually when I make the dressing for my salads I don't have exact quantities for the ingredients, it varies according to the quantity of salad I have or the taste I have on that day, so even that I put the quantity here please keep tasting your dressing while seasoning it to make sure it is according to your taste.

Ingredients:
Salt
Black pepper
Olive oil
Vinegar
1 table spoon of dijon mustard (in case you don't have the dijon option, you can use the regular mustard with honey and a pinch of mayonnaise)
1 garlic glove chopped really small

Berry Awesome Cake

Today I’m going to post another recipe from Jamie Oliver that is my favorite chef ever (so be aware that more of his recipes will appear here). This is a healthy, light and delicious cake that is really fast to make with some kind of fresh berries.

I really enjoy to have it with a little ice cream, you will see that the blueberry cake + ice cream is the best combination ever.

Get ready to fall in love with this cake!

Ingredients:

Butter and flour to preparer the cake pan

4 eggs

1 ½ of brown sugar

1 cup of melted butter with no salt (make sure to melt it first so isn’t hot when you to use it)

½ cup of olive oil

½ cup of milk

1 tea spoon of vanilla extract

3 ½ cups of whole-wheat flour

2 tea spoon of baking powder

a pinch of salt

zest of 2 lemons

zest de 2 oranges

4 cups of a mix of berries (I used blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)

Mediterranean Salad in Pita Bread

This is a delicious salad recipe that I learned from the grand master Jamie Oliver, you guys will love it. This is one of my favorites salads and I'm pretty sure you will be able to enjoy it as well. But in this case, because I was hungrier then a salad can take care of, I transformed it into a kind of sandwich with a pita bread (feel free to use a different kind of bread, but try to use one that is hard enough that won’t get soak with the salad dressing).

Check it out how it is ease!

Ingredients:

4 leafs of lettuce (make sure to not have too much lettuce in your salad)

1 big tomato

A handful of cherry tomatoes

1/2 cucumber

1/2 purple onion

½ Red chili pepper with no seed

2 table spoon of cottage cheese

3 black olives with no seed

Basil

Black pepper

Salt

Olive oil

Balsamic vinegar

One pita bread

Healthy Soy Hamburger

 

Alright guys, today I'm going to post a recipe that I didn't plan. It only happen because when I opened up my fridge today it was missing so many ingredients to make something more elaborate that I needed to cook something real simple and fast

No, I'm not against buying frozen food I just prefer food that I make on my own, but for this time where all I had in the fridge was beer, some tomatoes, cheese and lettuce, I have open my freezer and check out what I have there. In my case I have some soy hamburgers, but you can use regular hamburger if you don't like this, or even a steak if you are lucky enough to have one.

This recipe is awesome for you to kill your interior fat kid that is dying for a hamburger but you don't wanna give up on your diet. So why not take some calories out of the way and make it without the bread. Don't worry you will love it and feel good after eat a hamburger.

Now put your skinny self in the kitchen and let's cook!

Ingredients:
1 Frozen soy hamburger
2 Slices of buffalo mozzarella (or just a regular cheese you may have home)
1 Tomato 
1/2 Red chilli pepper chopped small with no seeds
Some lettuce
Black pepper
Salt
Basil
Olive oil
Parmesan cheese (if you want)