The Best Garden Salsa You'll Ever Make Recipe ~ Healthy, Delicious, Low-Cal, Vegetarian

The Best Garden Salsa You'll Ever Make Recipe

(Makes about 6 Cups)

When you live in Arizona, knowing how to make an excellent Salsa is a must! We are Mexican food lovers and eat delicious fresh and Baja style Mexican food many times per week! Our family calls this our "secret recipe", it's been in our family for years. (Although it's not much of a secret we are always sharing this recipe with friends whenever we get a chance! :) Try it!, I think you'll love it! We prepare it for nearly every family party or gathering we have. If you're looking for heat this wouldn't be the ideal recipe, but if you're looking for a seriously tasty tortilla topper or side, this is it! This delicious chunky Garden style salsa recipe is really fresh and is sure to please. It's very simple to make and won't disappoint!

Ingredients:

3 14.5oz Cans Hunt's Diced Fire Roasted Tomatoes with Garlic (Hunts brand is a must)
1 4 oz can diced/chopped green chilies, drained
1 4oz can diced/chopped jalapenos, drained (strain seeds for very mild salsa)
1/4 bunch Cilantro, chopped
1/2 bunch green onions chopped,
1 Medium white onion, diced
1 clove garlic minced
Large pinch of Cumin
Squeeze of Lime & Lemon juice
Salt and Pepper to taste

In a large bowl, pour in all 3 cans of tomatoes. Add the garlic, chilies, jalapenos, onion, green onions, and cilantro and stir. Add dash of cumin, lemon or lime juice and salt and pepper to taste and stir. Enjoy immediately or cover and refrigerate.

Tip: Let the salsa refrigerate so the ingredients can marinate. It tastes even better the next day! Each half cup of Salsa only contains about 35 calories, plus you're getting a great serving of raw veggies, onions and garlic. So healthy! If you happen to make this recipe, I'd love to know what you think! :)

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Sunny Side Up Shamrocks! ~ Eggs Made With Green Bell Peppers! St. Patty's Day Breakfast

I seen these cute "Shamrock" eggs on Pinterest and made them on St. Patrick's Day. They were a little difficult to make without the proper non-stick spray but if you use something non-stick you'll have a cute breakfast presentation for St. Patrick's Day! 

To make 4 Shamrocks, all you'll need is 4 Eggs, Non-Stick Cooking Spray and 2 Green Bell Peppers. 

After washing the Green Peppers, turn them on their sides, and slice vertically near the top of the pepper. The bottom of the pepper has 3 sides but the top has 4. Interesting right? That's why you might need 2 peppers, so you can get 4 four-sided slices. When choosing Green Peppers, try to choose the most curviest four-sided tops for more Shamrock appeal!

Place Peppers on a nonstick pan and fry peppers on each side to heat them up and give them great flavor. When cracking egg into pepper, be sure to hold down the pepper cutout to prevent the egg from spilling into pan. (Mine spilled a little.) If your egg spills beneath and throughout the pan, it's okay too, they just won't be as clean cut when taking out. 

About two minutes later and a little Black Pepper...

After about 6 minutes remove from pan and discard the 'extra' spillage. Place on plate and 

Voila~!

Sunny Side Up Shamrocks!

They're super healthy and low in Carbs and Calories! The Green Pepper has a fajita like taste and tastes great with the eggs!

If you happen to make these, leave a comment below and let us know how it turned out! We'd love to hear from you! :)

Happy March Everyone! 

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Tilapia & Lemon Kale Beet Salad ~ Delicious & Healthy Low Calorie Eating ~ Easy Meal Idea

It's Tuesday and that means I've been on my 'super healthy eating' diet plan for 5 Days! So how do I feel? One word; Amazing! I know, I know, people always say that right? But really how else would be feel after eating what nature intended our bodies to eat, live food bursting with nutrition and enzymes! I have so much energy! Seriously! It's definitely an awesome feeling. 

Earlier I was thinking to myself...why is it that I like to eat a bag of cookies or munch down on so much junk food or fast food when I can feel like THIS? And I thought to myself, maybe it's because I always forget how THIS feels. I never allow my body enough time to get to this point and to experience what a healthy body and a lot of energy and clarity can really feel like. And it's true that once your 'hooked' on junk food, alot like smoking, it's hard to stop, or want to stop. Now that I've 'detoxed' the yucky out and got over my migraines (from sugar I'm guessing?) I don't want to stop this eating plan. My boyfriend brought home a pizza yesterday and though normally I'd be on it like a vultures on a...well it just didn't seem very appetizing! Or edible for that matter. All that grease and all that bread. Bread is my favorite food so please oh please don't let me lose my will! My boyfriend is pretty sure something is wrong with me for not wanting anything to do with his Pizza. :) 

This month grocery stores around here were having great sales on Seafood because of Lent. I made sure to stock up on a lot of fish and put it in the freezer. One of them being Tilapia! Though it's a white fish and it's not quite as flavorful as Salmon, there's a lot you can do with it. Normally when I'd buy Tilapia I'd bread it and made a fish fry or my favorite, put the Tilapia in flour tortillas with slaw, homemade salsa, guacamole, tangy sauce and fresh cilantro for Fish Tacos! Yum! 

For lunch I baked Tilapia with pepper and fresh lemon and made a great salad from Kale and Beet! 

This salad turned out really delicious! It was very easy to make too. Normally I'd use the regular more foliage Kale as it's less tough to chew in salads but I had a veggie mishap at the grocery store and needed to find more uses for it. :)

I used:

♥ 3 leaves of Flat Leaf or Regular Kale, remove stems, hand tear into bit size bits

♥ 1 Beet, washed and grated with a cheese grater (the pigment can stain your skin, you might want to use some gloves)

♥ juice of a 1/2 lemon

The Lemon is important because it brings out the sweetness of the Beet and breaks down the toughness of the Flat Leaf Kale. :)

I also wanted to share a really great Tarter sauce from Whole Foods! 

It's from Whole Food's 365 brand. (My Mother works for Whole Foods so she tells me about their training on their brand and store policies) You can always trust the ingredients from the 365 brand and it's almost always just as affordable as say, Target brand, ect. Great ingredients in this Tarter sauce, unlike the High Fructose Corn Syrup and Hydrogenated Oil Tarter Sauce I often find in stores. 

Full of Good Stuff

 I added a little on my Tilapia while eating and it tasted so good! The extra bit of calories the tarter adds is definitely worth it a little treat  ;)

Let me know if you try this salad, I'd love to know if you liked it :)

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Four New Year's Eve Drinks Under 200 Cals! Fancy, Fruity & Bubbly!

I have a few solid plans for tomorrow night (New Year's Eve) and they are to Eat, Drink & be Merry! Those would be most people's Holiday plans but I didn't get to celebrate Christmas so I'm making up for it on New Years Eve. It's still technically the Holidays anyway right? :)

I've also been making great progress on some weight loss that I don't want to blow so I did some digging to find some great drinks us ladies watching our calories can indulge in. Fancy, fruity and bubbly, a drink for every taste: 

Fancy:

Pomegranate Martini

A 4oz serving made with pomegranate vodka and pure pomegranate juice (about 50/50) only has 185 calories! Delicious and full of antioxidants. 

Red Wine

A glass of red wine boasts 120 delicious calories per 5 ounces. Remember a jumbo glass can hold 10 ounces or more so remember glass half full ;)

Fruity:

Strawberry Daiquiri

You can whip up your own low calorie daiquiri using frozen fruit with no added sugar. Strawberries make a perfect choice because they're naturally sweet. Mix three partially thawed berries in blender with ice, half oz lime juice and one and half shot of Rum. Add a little water to blend and you're set for 195 calories!

Bubbly:

Champagne

Pour Champagne into flutes and add a few raspberries. Pretty, delicious and only 100 calories per 5 ounce glass. Your best drink option! You can also make your own spritzer with club soda and ice added to white wine. 

4 Delicious drinks under 200! I'll toast to that!

Happy New Year Moxie Beauty Friends! :)

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Craving Chinese Takeout? Eat This Instead! Lunch Under 200 Calories!

Today I had a huge craving for some Asian chow so I made myself an Asian inspired lunch that was wonderful and under 200 calories! Lunch consisted of Mandarin Orange Chick'n (meatless), Kale Salad with Cranberries and Pine Nuts (recipe to come soon!) and delicious Miso Soup! Mmm Mm yummy! 

Go ahead and have Seconds! 

Even though these portions look small we can eat all the Miso soup and Kale to our tummy's desire without packing on much calories. Make sure to buy Low Sodium Miso soup because the regular version is packed with Salt which can make you retain extra water!

The instant Miso soup I use can be found here, I recommend it for you Miso soup lovers out there and I will be doing a full review on it later!

I really loved this light lunch and it satisfied my crazy craving for Chinese takeout! I might have just saved myself thousands of calories! :)

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Really Good Rataouille - Vegan Too!

Ratatouille, is it French or Italian? Technically it's a French dish but you've tried it and said 'That's Italian!', then you're right too! Ratatouille first originated in Nice which is present day France but long ago used to be Italian territory. South of France & Italy share many of the same food staples. Maybe that's why both environments are both equally amazing, beautiful, and jaw-droppingly gorgeous? Makes sense! 

Ratatouille used to be a peasant dish made by Farmer's summer Vegetable Harvest. Now it is a world wide beloved French dish with nearly as much a following as the French Bread. Be sure to serve delicious Ratatouille traditionally over Polenta or Pasta, fresh bread, and a glass of robust French Red. If you're looking for a Low Carb option, you can eat the Ratatouille alone like I prepared below. It's still just as satisfying. I've also thought of putting Ratatouille over Spaghetti Squash! 

There are many ways to prepare Ratatouille. In the past Ratatouille didn't contain aubergine or Eggplant but most modern recipes include delicious Eggplant. This is my go-to Recipe from my Mom. Bon Appetit!

Ratatouille 

*Click Photo*

Ingredients:

1 large onion, coarsely chopped

3 cloves garlic, minced

3 tablespoons olive oil

1 small eggplant

1-28oz can crushed tomatoes

1 teaspoon dried basil

1 teaspoon dried marjoram

1/2 teaspoon dried oregano

2 fresh tomatoes, cut in chunks

2 tablespoons of dry Vegan red wine

1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley

salt and pepper to taste

Saute the onion and garlic in the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat until the onion is transparent.  add the eggplant, crushed tomatoes, basil, marjoram and oregano. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the zucchini and peppers and cover and simmer for an additional 10 minutes.Add the fresh tomatoes, wine, salt and pepper and summer for 10 minutes more or so, until all the vegetables are tender. Stir in the fresh parsley and serve! Serves 6. 

I hope you all enjoy this easy to make Recipe. Let me know how it turns out! :) 

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Spinach, Walnut & Cranberry Salad

This salad was a quick fix, something I threw together in a hurry but turned out tasting so delicious I figured I needed to share the ingredients combination! The calories per serving in this salad are on the higher side, however it is only because Walnuts are full of the awesome amazing, Omega-3 fatty acids, which make them worth every calorie! This is one salad that will not be leaving you feeling hungry or tummy 'unfulfilled'. 

Spinach Walnut & Cranberry Salad

1 Serving / 320 Calories

2 Cups Organic Baby Spinach

1/4 Cup Walnuts, chopped or whole

10 medium sized Snow Peas

1 Cup Broccoli florets

1/4 Cup dried Cranberries, unsweetened

About 5 organic Herbed Croutons

2 T Red Wine Vinaigrette

Wash all ingredients, Toss & Enjoy!

It was a gorgeous day outside so I ate my salad and took the photo while I was enjoying some sunshine. :)

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Easy Southwest Scramble

Easy Southwest Scramble

Serves 2 / 185 Calories & 3 Carbs Per Serving

4 organic/free range Eggs

1/4 cup White Onion, diced

1/4 - 1/2 cup Tomatoes, diced (scoop/drain liquid)

1/4 cup chopped Cilantro

4-6 drops Tabasco Smoked Chipotle sauce (My 'secret' ingredient for nearly everything!)

1 T low fat Milk (optional) (I use plain Almond Milk)

Dash of Garlic Powder

Black Pepper

Salt to Taste

Lightly spray frying pan or skillet with non-stick (Organic) spray. Crack all eggs into small bowl and lightly whisk. Add onions, milk, hot sauce, garlic powder, salt, and freshly cracked black pepper and use whisk or fork to stir ingredients together. Pour mixture into frying pan or skillet on Medium heat until egg bottom becomes slightly solid. Add in tomatoes and use a spatula to turn eggs, solid side up. Scramble eggs continuing to turn and stir about 2 minutes. Just before eggs finish cooking add in Cilantro.

Place cooked eggs onto plate. Pepper and Hot Sauce to taste and garnish with Cilantro sprig.

If you less restrictive with calories, add in 1/4 cup shredded Cheddar Jack or Pepper Jack cheese with Tomato's for a yummy Cheesy Egg twist!

 Enjoy!

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