Avocados!

Yum! Avocados are one of my favorite fruits ever! Most people think that they are bad for you, but they are not! Woot! Hass avocados are extremely healthy, full of fiber and other good stuff. It's recommenced to only eat about 1/2 cup as a serving at a time. one of my favorite recipes with avocados are as follows:

1 grilled chicken breast
2 pieces of multi grain bread, toasted
3 tomato slices
some green leaf lettuce
a small smear of mayo
3-4 slices avocado

Put together and enjoy a wonderful sandwich!!!

Curried Carrot Bisque

• 1 cup chopped sweet onion
• 1/4 cup butter, cubed
• 4 1/2 cups sliced carrots
• 1 large potato, peeled and cubed
• 2 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken broth - low sodium
  
• 1 1/2 tsp curry powder
  
• 1 cup half and half
• 1 cup milk
  
• 2 TBSP freshly chopped chives, or more if you like chives
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper

In a Dutch oven, saute onion in butter until tender. Add carrots, potato, broth and ginger. Cover and cook over medium heat for 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Cool for 15 minutes. Transfer to a blender or food processor in small batches; cover and process until smooth. Return all to the pan; stir in the milk and half and half, curry powder, salt and pepper. Cook over low heat until heated through. When serving, garnish each bowl with chives. You may omit the milk and half and half and just add a bit more broth to make the texture smoother if you want to cut out the extra calories.

Citrus is the Bomb!

I found this great recipe on www.allrecipes.com for a citrus salad! I added some grilled chicken, subtracted the black olives (yuck) and also added in some sections of clementines and moro blood oranges! What a nice refreshing salad, especially with citrus being in season! Yummy!

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Arugula-Fennel-and-Orange-Salad-2/Detail.aspx

My Favorite Snack

Ok, so maybe it's not my very most favorite snack, that being chocolate, but I am trying to be good, so this one is my favorite being good snack:

Yogurt and Granola

1 serving strawberry yogurt
1 serving favorite granola
1 kiwi, peeled and sliced
1/2 c strawberries, cored and quartered

Place yogurt in bowl, then layer fruit on top of yogurt and sprinkle granola on top! Simple, easy and very satisfying! I also like to do this with vanilla yogurt, granola, and tangerines and oranges. Very easy to mix it up, just make sure you keep your serving sizes in the right range!