Showing posts with label Skinny taste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skinny taste. Show all posts

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Another skinny taste dish - Sante Fe Crock Pot Chicken!

So I tried another Skinnytaste.com dish, this one was the Crock Pot Sante Fe Chicken, and it was supposed to look like this:


Hmmm...well I took a few photos during and then the final result, which you will see in a minute.  *And looks nothing like this photo*  We decided to do ours as a wrap, rather than over the rice...perhaps a mistake.

Here is what it looked like in the crock pot, following the exact recipe;


Harumph.  I was not intending on making soup, but it became very soup like.  Way too much broth..way, way.  It calls for a 14.4oz can, I would add half of that & then add small amounts if needed.  I though it would get better once we shredded the chicken & re-added it.


Still waaaayyy too much liquid, it was all very runny.  And not very appealing to look at either. 
But we went with it, adding the filling to flour tortillas & making a wrap of sorts, that turned out like this; 


Notice the liquid?  I didn't use a slotted spoon, which would have been better.  Either way, this recipe was a big miss.  There wasn't enough seasoning, way too much broth, not enough texture so even over rice I can't imagine it would be any better.  Needed cheese, needed green onion, needed some heat...needed not to have bothered, in case you weren't picking up on that.  

So far 1 hit, 1 miss from Skinny taste.   I think next we'll try one of her top recipes from 2010, the 
Asian Glazed drumsticks.  Here's hoping it tastes as good as this looks!




Sunday, September 25, 2011

So here's the skinny...

Ever have one of those moments where you read something on someone's blog and you think, 'it's like she read my mind'.  I had one of those moments this week.  April over at dot...dot...dot posted about a website full of 'skinny' recipes.  I had just been tossing & turning the night before reading this, thinking I need to really get serious about losing some weight, eating healthier, moving more.

It's not just about joining another diet program...I've done that, Lord knows I've done that.  It's about me doing something for me, finding what works, being more aware of what I'm eating, making a plan to be more active...just making a change.  I started looking thru old Weight Watcher stuff, wanting to apply some of their points plan into my menus.  I took a bit of break to jump on and read some blogs when I came across April's post about a recipe website called Skinny Taste.  And it was like she was calling my name.  This website has some Weight Watcher recipes, with old & new points values already calculated.  So here's the plan.  We're going to try a few of the recipes this week and then take some photos & do some reviews of the recipes along the way, you know like a Julia & Julia kind of thing.  A very amateur version of that anyway. 

So here are the recipes from this site that I plan to try for this week: 



I don't plan on doing rice with the Santa Fe chicken, I'll be making this into more of an enchilada.  



Let's hope our results taste as good as these photos look.  It will be interesting to see how close we can re-create them.  Interesting might be code for stressful, I'll let you know that as well.  

Anyway I know this isn't a beauty post so for those of you who only come here for that, I apologize but I do have some beauty posts coming including a hits & misses from my recent shopping haul.  

So wish me luck, we're off to the grocery store list in hand!
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