Today has been filled with some delicious eats! We started off the day with a Green Monster
That I made using Enriched Vanilla Rice Dream. I had been buying the regular vanilla but I read on Tina’s Blog that the Enriched version had much better nutritional information – so I traded up!
Next up – some french toast made with Pepperidge Farm Whole Wheat Cinnamon Raisin Bread.
Drizzled with a little maple syrup of course.
For lunch I had the rest of my Squash a la Shannon from last night. Sadly it escaped my camera.
Around 5:30 pm, Matt and I started working on dinner – we made Shrimp and Grits from Cooking Light. We followed the recipe pretty closely except we used skim milk instead of 2% and water instead of broth (didn’t have any veggie broth).
It looks kinda gross but I promise you it is delicious! It is amazing how creamy this dish is using only skim milk, a little parmesan cheese and reduced fat cream cheese. The herbs give this dish a great flavor. An added bonus – it makes enough for lots of leftovers.
With our Shrimp and Grits, I had a salad with mixed greens, broccoli slaw and craisins. I dressed this salad with a little olive oil and champagne vinegar.
The best part of the meal was churning while we were eating dinner
Vanilla Frozen Yogurt. We followed the same recipe we made a few weeks ago and use one container of Oikos Vanilla Greek yogurt. This time we added about 1/3 of Scharffen Berger Dark Chocolate Mocha bar (heaven in the form of chocolate) and 2 chopped up Newman’s Own Organic Chocolate Newman-Os. Drizzled with some caramel sauce
Love this frozen yogurt. Takes only 20 minutes in the ice cream maker and produces a delicious dessert!
Desperate Housewives is on soon and I think we are going to DVR Jamie Oliver’s new show Food Revolution. Are you planning on watching it?
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Love the trade up!
I have the same ice cream maker and I love it…..your dessert looks awesome!
That is a beautiful dessert! I think I may have some ice cream w/newman’s ginger o’s:)
I have always wanted to make my own ice cream! And I LOVE Oikos Greek Yogurt. I will have to try that!
WOW i must try this! that sundae looks AMAZING girl!
next time you come to visit, that ice cream maker and recipe better be coming with you! bring the shrimp and grits one too…
i watched it and was mortified!!! i havent had the chance to blog about it yet, but will…
and i am so making the shrimp and grits! well once Lent is over and i can have some semblance of meat again.