October 20, 2014

Cheesecake - Reduced Guilt!

Ingredients
  • Reduced fat Keebler crust (found at any supermarket)
  • Fat free carnation evaporated milk
  • Reduced fat condensed milk
  • 3 egg whites (its more convenient to use from a box)
  • Vanilla 
  • Reduced fat Philadelphia cream cheese
  • Half a cup of regular milk (optional so its less sweet)
Preparation 

Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.


Blend all ingredients together until thoroughly mixed.






Two table spoons of vanilla.





Add ingredients to the pie crusts.


Usually one set of ingredients makes two pies.



Bake for 35 minutes. Turn off the oven and let the pies continue to cook for another 10 minutes.

Remove from the oven and let them cool down for a couple of hrs at room temperature. Refrigerate. Enjoy!




September 24, 2014

Thai Curry Tofu

Recipe courtesy of Dan Chawla.

Ingredients

  • Thai yellow curry and Thai red curry sauce from Trader Joes
  • Firm tofu
  • Stir fry veggies (fresh or frozen)
  • White onion
  • Chile serrano
  • Cilantro
Preparation 

 



Stir fry onion and chile serrano.



Stir fry fresh or frozen veggies.
 



Add bottles of curry sauce (yellow and red).





Cut tofu.


Pan fry tofu.


Let curry boil. 





Add veggies to curry.




Add tofu.



Serve with white or brown steamed rice. Enjoy!



September 12, 2014

Pie Crust Cookies


Ingredients
  • Frozen pie crusts from Trader Joes
  • Chocolate chips
  • Strawberry jam
  • Butter or olive oil
Preparation

Thaw out  crust.



Use a rolling pin to thin out the crust.


Use a class to cut circles.




Add oil or butter to a cookie sheet. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.




Put jam or chocolate chips on cut dough.


Fold it in half.



Bake for 15 minutes or until brown.





Let them cool down. Enjoy by themselves or with ice cream.