I would like to think I’m not one to brag about my cooking. You shouldn’t catch me saying something about making the best anything. If I have, I probably couldn’t stop eating whatever it was and maybe, probably, I was riding high on the ego of me, myself and I.
What I am is having fun. My Knight presented me with The Biggest Loser Cookbook (Alexander, Devin. Rodale, 2006) for Christmas and I can’t stop cooking from it. Since December I have made,
For breakfast:
- Boston-Cream-Peanut-Butter Breakfast Banana Split (best breakfast so far)
- Warm Pumpkin Pie Cream of Wheat (a little on the weird side)
- Better Blueberry Pancakes (with Maine blueberries!)
- Energizing Bacon & Egg Breakfast Burrito (I’ve made this a thousand times before the cookbook)
For Snacks:
- Thin & Crispy BBQ Chicken Pizza Snack Wedges
- Gourmet Roast Beef Rollups
- Erik’s Veggie Tuna Snack Wraps
For Lunch:
- Almost Fast Food Burger
- Creole Turkey Burger
- Sexy Joes (as opposed to “sloppy”)
- Chicken Cheese-Steak Wrap
- BBQ Pork Sandwiches
- Pork & Black Bean Verde Stew (kicked up)
- Thai Ground-Chicken Salad
For Sides:
- Dana’s Spinach & Feta Brown Rice
- Melinda’s Holiday Spinach
- Strength Builder’s Stuffed Mushrooms (really, really good)
- Thai Ground-Chicken Salad (made with ground turkey -still excellent)
For Dinner:
- Spicy Meatballs with Fiery Chili Sauce (not diablo enough for me)
- New-Fashioned Meat Loaf (I’m a BBQ freak so I’d rather use that than ketchup but we stayed true to the recipe)
- Rosemary Grilled London Broil
- Sweet & Spicy Pork Tenderloin
- Competitor’s Chicken Curry
- New Orleans Rubbed Chicken with Apricot-Mustard Sauce (loved, loved, loved this!)
- Lori’s Lean Lemon Chicken (excellent)
- Southwestern Chicken Pileup
- Heather’s Mexican Rollup
- Muscling Up Meatballs (with includes a recipe for pasta and one for sauce)
For Dessert:
- White Chocolate Strawberry Pie-lets
- Lisa’s Frozen Gramwiches
- Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
Here’s the thing. Every recipe is fantastic. I have enjoyed making every single one. My biggest loser complaint? The so-called spicy meals don’t have enough heat. Okay, okay. Not everyone pours the Tabasco on almost everything they eat. Not everyone wants the chipotles in adobo sauce swimming in their stew…but I do. I like it hot, hot, hot.
This morning I made the blueberry pancakes (again). This time I warmed the maple syrup with allspice and cinnamon. I wanted to kick it with cayenne but…
~*LunaSea*~ 