I have two ladies to thank for my lunch and dinner yesterday – but I’ll get to that in a minute! One of things I got in my BSI win from Megan was Trader Joe’s cranberry instant oatmeal – I loved it! You can’t tell from this picture, but its in the bottom! I had 4 ounces of diced honeycrisp apple (on sale for .99 a pound!) and 1/2 ounce of smoked almonds. This held me surprisingly well!
Peggy posted a recipe for Buffalo Chicken Soup and I thought the idea was genius! I adapted it slightly, as I didn’t toss the chicken in flour before cooking, and I added another cup of broth to make each serving 1.5 cups, and I reduced the Frank’s hot sauce to 1/2 a cup which was the perfect amount of heat. I think Allison and Marissa will approve of this soup!
Buffalo Chicken Soup
Ingredients
8 | ounces chicken breast |
1 | tablespoon butter |
1 | tablespoon olive oil |
6 | ounces carrot |
6 | ounces celery |
4 | cups chicken broth |
1/2 | cup hot sauce |
1 | cup noodles |
Directions
- Heat olive oil in stock pot. Add diced chicken and cook until almost done. Remove chicken and add butter. Saute carrots and celery for 10 minutes.
- Add chicken broth, hot sauce and noodles and cook until noodles are done – about 10 to 15 minutes. Add chicken back in and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Serve with sprinkled blue cheese
Makes four 1 1/2 cup servings: Each serving: 270 calories, 10 fat, 16 carbs, 2.4 fiber and 25 protein.
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I had a spinach and cheddar quesadilla on the side and two clementines
I was on my own for working out. I had every intention of doing Bob’s Boot Camp workout, but when I got to the gym I realized I left it on my desk. I looked in my bag and saw that I had Jillian’s Fat Banish DVD and decided to do that. It said on the back it was a 45 minute workout, so I thought, no problem – that will still leave me time to shower and get back to my desk.
Well it seemed like the never ending DVD and I soon realized why – the 45 minutes was the “core” of the routine, with the warm up and cool down, it was a 55 minute tape! Needless to say I took the quickest shower of my life – another bonus of being low maintenance! š
For dinner I have Angel in the Kitchen to thank. Tony and I had been talking about Greek chicken since seeing it on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. When I saw her recipe I knew it would fit the bill! Best part? I put together the marinade on Sunday so all I needed to do was pop it in the oven when I got home – perfect! Since I followed her recipe to a T, click on her link above for the recipe. It was probably the juiciest, tender bone in chicken I’ve ever made. While I thought the lemon would maybe over power, there was just a hint of it.
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While the chicken was looking I was trying to figure out what side to make when I saw three small baked potatoes in the fridge. I quartered them and fried them in the deep fryer – so crunchy on the outside but tender on the inside!
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When figuring out my calories for dinner, I added 1 tsp. of oil between the marinade in the chicken and the deep fryer. Best part about the deep fryer is that it holds the right temperature – I don’t think we’ve made anything that tasted greasy (but I do need to put it back down in the basement so it isn’t in plain site!) š
Stats for the Day: 55 minute Jillian DVD
(side note – for those of you keeping score at home, you need to add about 150 calories to my day – for the peanuts I ate after dinner!)
Alright, time to get the coffee going and pull my green eggs and ham out of the oven. You’ll have to come back tomorrow to see how it turns out.
Still waiting for last weeks host to pick a winner for Parmesan cheese and choose a host for this week – hopefully I’ll be able to update that tomorrow.
Oh, and both Tastespotting and Foodgawker accepted my bread picture from yesterday – how cool is that! š
Who’s excited Biggest Loser is on tonight??!!
Wow…buffalo chicken soup, why haven’t I thought of that??? I love wings (although I know they are BAD for you), I will have to try this one!
hot sauce, yum!
The soup is a super great idea but smoked almonds on oatmeal?? Yup sounds good to me- I bet that really added a nice layer of flavor on your oatmeal.
Andrew and I would love that soup!! Anything with Frank’s is a winner!! š
Those potatoes are making me drooooollllllll!
I’m going to have to try that soup and get some Frank’s Hot Sauce! Thanks for the recipe.
Congrats on the A-! The smoked almonds on your oats sounds like a great combo – I’m going to have to remember that one! Have a great Tuesday!
First off..everything looks great.
That chicken looks so moist and flavorful. yum!
Did you like that Jillian Michaels DVD? I haven’t tried that one yet.
Have a great day!
I like her style in this one better than the 30 day shred, she’s a bit more positive instead of saying “your legs should be screaming right about now!”
That being said – its hard – its six circuits back to back to back. I was a bit sore today so I just walked for 50 minutes outside to kind of stretch out – I don’t think I could do it two days in a row. š
I definitely want to try the buffalo chicken soup! You are my new role model, that food looks delicious and healthy! ( I hope you don’t mind I wrote a blog post about our grocery shopping conversations)
Not at all – we’ll make you a cook in no time! š
Thanks for the soup recipe! I can’t wait to try it!
And congrats on getting your photos accepted! Awesome!
Man, I am all over that soup this weekend. Gotta get my soup jones out during these last few weekends of not-insane-heat. Hope it’ll come out as good as yours!
Love how you call Frank’s “Liquid Gold” – you are so cute! That soup looks wonderful!!!
And YES, I am excited about the Biggest Loser coming back on – I need my fix, lol!
My husband would go ga-ga over that soup!
YUM! That soup looks awesome. I can’t help drooling over your potatoes. Deep-fryer make life good š
Mmmm – I never get tired of looking at different soup recipes! Yours looks very tasty. š
I forgot all about the BL starting again! I’m babysitting tonight but I’ll definitely be tuning in after the boys go to bed.
That looks like a hearty soup. I love soup.
I was waiting for you to put the review up for the soup. I love anything with buffalo sauce. This soup looks filling and tasty. I may need to make this after lent, so I can enjoy it for a full week.
That soup looks interesting and simple enough for me to try to make myself. I’m not excited about BL but I’ll watch after badminton tonight.
CAN I COME OVER NEXT TIME YOU MAKE THAT?!?!?! š
Absolutely!! š
I’m making that soup! We are very lucky to live in an area where there are quite a few Greek families, thus Greek churches. We live for the couple times a year when they do their food festivals. Oh my! I don’t know why you’re surprised that your bread photo was accepted – it was fabulous.
Buffalo chicken soup?! You are brilliant! That sounds absolutely delicious!