Vegetable Stew

Ingredients

- Shredded large carrot
- Fresh chopped tomato
- 2 chopped zucchinis
- 1/2 Red Bell pepper
- 1/2 onion
- Fresh chopped garlic
- 1 Basil, Tomato can
- Vegetable broth
- Salt & Pepper
- Italian blend seasoning
- Cumin

Directions

Chop up all veggies, put them in pan; cook them with spices and broth. Serve and ENJOY!

**I served this with brown rice YUMMY**

Fun Veggie Bow Ties

Ingredients

- Spanish Olives
- Fresh chopped tomato
- Baby Spinach
- Chopped red bell pepper
- Chopped onion
- Fresh Garlic
- Vegetable broth
- Splash of white cooking wine
- Parm Cheese
- Olive Oil
- Salt & Pepper
- Italian seasoning spices
- Cumin
- Whole wheat bow ties pasta

Directions

Chop all veggies, put them in pan let them all cook and blend together, add spices; salt, pepper, cumin, italian seasoning, wine, broth.

Cook pasta while veggies are cooking; once cooked; remove and mix them with the veggies. Add parm cheese for serving and ENJOY!

**I prefer not to give out mesuraments, since some might cook more than others**

Sweet Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

- 2 Sweet Potatoes
- 1 can of garbanzo beans
- Parm cheese
- Salt & Pepper

Directions

Peel and boil sweet potatoes, once these are cooked; put it in food processor with garbanzo beans. Once processed, put them in food bowl, add salt, pepper and parm cheese. Serve and ENOY!

**This is my daughter's new favorite dish!!**

Baked Broccoli

Ingredients

- Broccoli
- Fresh garlic
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Lemon

Directions

Cut up the broccoli, put them in bowl, mix them with olive oil, garlic, salt & Lemon.
Put them in bakin sheet, bake for 10-15 minutes at 350 degrees, serve and ENJOY!

Crab Cakes

Ingredients

- Fresh crab meat
- Bread crumbs
- Chopped Red Bell Peppers
- Egg whites
- Dijon Mustard
- Splash Worcestershire sauce
- Mayo
- Salt & Pepper
- Cumin
- Fresh Parm cheese

Directions

Mix all ingredients in a bowl, make patties and fry them. Serve and ENJOY!

**I served them with Baked Broccoli, check out separate recipe for this**

Spanish Fettuccine

Ingredients

- Spanish Olives
- Mushrooms (any kind you like)
- Red Bell Peppers
- Fettuccine
- Olive Oil
- Garlic
- White cooking wine
- Parm Cheese
- Salt & Pepper
- Oregano
- Italian seasoning

Directions

Cook pasta; chop up all veggies (olives, mushrooms, red pepper). In a pan cook veggies with olive oil and garlic.

Once veggies and pasta are cooked, mix them together in same pan where you cooked the veggies, add a splash of cooking wine and a splash of more olive oil, then add the spices and parm cheese. Serve and ENJOY!

Banana & Honey (dessert)

Ingredients

- Banana
- Honey

Directions

Cut up banana, and pour honey.

**This is my favorite dessert when I want something sweet, but yet healthy!**

Fish Burrito

Ingredients

- Can of black beans
- Small can of kettle corn
- Whote wheat tortilla
- Fish (I used tilapia)
- White rice
- Salsa (pre-made from store)
- Guacamole (pre-made from store)
- Mexican shredded cheese
- Salt & Pepper
- Cumin

Directions

Warm up the beans and corn, on a seperate pan cook fish with salt, pepper and cumin. Press on it until is fully shredded, fish is soft enough for you to do this. Cook rice.

Once all ingredients are cooked, warm up a tortilla add cheese, rice, beans, corn, fish, salsa and guacamole, wrap it up and ENJOY!

Zucchini- Veggie Lasagna (no noodles)

Ingredients

-          5 Zucchinis

-          2 large shredded carrots

-          ½ of red bell pepper

-          ½ onion

-          ½ cup of broccoli

-          Fresh minced garlic

-          Hand full of baby spinach

-          2 tomatoes

-          Chunk of mozzarella cheese

-          Shredded 2% Mozzarella cheese

-          Fresh shredded parmesan cheese

-          Can of tomato sauce

-          Your favorite pasta sauce

-          Salt & Pepper

-          Cumin, Oregano and Italian seasoning

Directions

Chop up all veggies, and cook them in pan like if you were to make a regular pasta sauce; this includes, Onions, garlic, tomatoes, broccoli, red bell pepper, carrots, spinach, tomato sauce, and pasta sauce.

While sauce is cooking, cut zucchini in shape of lasagna noodles, we are using zucchini as substitution of lasagna noodles.

In baking sheet add a layer of zucchini, and then add sauce on top with chunks of mozzarella cheese and shredded parm cheese, then another layer of zucchini, until whole baking sheet is full.

Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees, remove from oven and ENJOY!!!

**WAY HEALTHIER THAN TRADICIONAL LASAGNA, NO MEAT AND NO PASTA!!**

Tuna & Peas Casserole

Ingredients

-       2 cans of tuna

-       1 can of mushroom soup

-       Frozen peas

-       Salt & Pepper

-       Minced garlic

-       ½ chopped onion

-       ½ cup of fat free mozzarella shredded cheese

-       Splash of milk

-       Whole wheat pasta

Directions

Cook pasta; while that is cooking, in a small pan cook onion with garlic until golden.

Once pasta is cooked; put pasta in mixing bowl, add mushroom soup, peas, cheese, milk, salt & pepper, and cooked onion with garlic. Mix it all up, put in baking pan and bake at 375 degrees for 30-40 minutes, serve and ENJOY! 

Broccoli & Quinoa Casserole

Ingredients

- 1 cup of cooked quinoa
- 1 cup of cooked broccoli
- 1 can of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup of cheddar cheese
- 3 tbsp of Mayo
- Splash of fat free milk
- Salt & Pepper

Directions

Cook quinoa, and cook broccoli. Once they are cooked put in a mixing bowl, and mix it with mushroom soup, mayo, cheese, milk, salt & pepper.

Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes, serve and ENJOY!

Veggie Burrito

Ingredients

- Zucchini
- Tomatoes
- Onions
- Cilantro
- minced garlic
- Wheat tortilla
- Fat Free Mozzarella cheese (or mexican mix)
- Salsa (optional)

Directions

Chop veggies, cook zucchini, tomatoes, onions, garlic in pan. Once these are cooked, add them to tortilla; roll thight enough so veggies will stay inside tortilla.

Put burritos in a baking sheet, sprinkle mozzarella on top of burritos, bake them for 10-15 minutes until cheese melts at 375 degrees. Remove from oven, add salsa(optional) and cilantro on top and ENJOY.

Sausage & Peppers

Ingredients

- Sausage (italian or tofu, those are the ones I used)
- Can of Tomantoes, with Basil and Oregano
- Red Bell Peppers
- 1 Onion
- Chopped garlic
- Marsala Wine
- Vegetable broth
- Olive Oil
- Salt & Pepper
- Splash of red cooking wine

Directions

Slice red pepper, and onions, put them in frying pan. You can also choose to bake this, but I was in a rush and had to cook it in pan :).

Put all ingredients together, and cook. If you choose to cooking it pan, this process is fast, if you choose to bake it, you can bake it at 375 degrees for an hour. OR you really have time you can throw it all in crockpot! (which is better if you ask me) . Serve and Enjoy! :)