Recipe 3: Chicken and avacado with sweet pepper sauce 02/05/2013

Chicken with avocado with sweet pepper sauce.

I know I haven't made many items out of the cookbook yet - but this is one that will be in my FOR SURE to make again file.

300 calories per portion.

This came out of Chapter 10 - Cooking for Two.  I only made two portions per the recipe.

Simple but really delicious - Chicken Breast, reduced sodium chicken broth, garlic powder, pepper, bell pepper - any color (I used green), simply fruit apricot spread and 1/4 avacado.

Poached chicken is my favorite, so I looked forward to making this recipe.
The sweet pepper sauce I was apprehensive about. 

After poaching the chicken in the broth, garlic powder, pepper and bell pepper, you take the broth mixture and put it in a blender with the apricot spread and blend.
Cutting slices in the chicken you put a few slices of avocado on top of the chicken and then pour the sweet pepper sauce on top.

I made steamed broccoli to go with the chicken.(not shown in picture) 
I gave this a 9.  My husband was at a soccer game, so he had it re-heated and although he enjoyed it, he felt he didn't get the full experience.   So - we will just go with my rating on this one.

Stay tuned this week - I have scheduled to make Cheese Enchiladas, Pork Chips and Apples and Mini Meat Loaves

Recipe 2 - Rustic Potato Soup 1/29/2013

Sorry, I have been crazy with midterms and haven't had time to update the blog.  I made Rustic
Potato Soup for recipe #2.  It is in Chapter 10 Cooking for Two.
I again doubled this recipe, so we could eat off of it twice.

Calorie Count for one serving according to the recipe was 290 calories.
I used Almond-Coconut Milk in place of the Fat-Free (Skim) Milk. 
1 cup of Almond-Coconut Milk is 45 calories and one cup of fat-free skim milk is 86 calories.
So, I called it - 250 calories per serving for the portion that I had for dinner.

This is a simple recipe and it was really delicious. 
Potatoes, Water, Milk, butter, salt, pepper, green onion and reduced fat cheddar cheese.

I would give this recipe an 8.  My husband gave it a 7.  He is a meat guy, so I wasn't surprised that it only got a 7 from him.  If I had put a little bacon in it - I think he would have given it a 9.  Mind you, he did eat a serving the night I made it and one the next night while I was out.
So - I think he secretly liked it more than a 7.  I would make this again for sure.