Guess #whatsfordinner tonight 5/31/2016 its #Healthy

June is the start of fruit season here in Oklahoma. Finally we can start getting local fresh fruits, berries and vegetables. Some of the first berries that come into season here are strawberries. Is there anything better than a fresh sweet strawberry? We don’t think so.

We wanted a really healthy meal made from real foods tonight. The middle of last week

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Spinach Salad with Cherries

 

This is the perfect light summer time dinner salad. It is a great contrast between sweet and sour.

How to buy a Watermelon

As I mentioned in post about how to buy a Pineapple, “I’m always confused about how to pick out produce. It seems like every fruit and vegetable has its own method.” Water melon is no exception.

There are a lot of theories out there about how to pick one out. Everything from examining the strips on the melon to beating like a drum.

This last weekend we bought a nice sweet one using the following methods.

Guess #whatsfordinner tonight 5/30/2016 its #Chicken

A few weeks ago we discovered a new wine, a lemon wine. As promised we used it to come up with a new recipe. Tonight we came up with this, Lemon Pepper Chicken with Soleil Cream Sauce. – It was a hit with the whole family! I am so impressed with John’s cooking skills with this dish. He cooked and tasted till it was perfect. Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did.

We added a nice tossed salad and bread sticks.

Lemon Pepper Chicken with Soleil Cream Sauce

Recently we took a trip to Stable Ridge Winery located on old route 66. We discovered a new wine, a lemon wine. They call it Soleil . As I sampled it I started thinking of how well this would work in a dish of some kind. This is what we came up with.

How to make delicious Bolognese Sauce Video

This was incredibly  easy. It took a little time but was so delicious. Find the full recipe here

Guess #whatsfordinner tonight 5/29/2016 its #Healthy

We usually eat out Sunday evenings but since last Friday we ended up eating out and Jaque wasn’t feeling well we decided to make the meal originally scheduled for Friday.

We made a healthy home made version of

Bolognese with Pasta

 

This delicious sauce is a true MEAT sauce with a rich wine based sauce. While it does have tomatoes it doesn’t use tomato sauce.

Menu for Week Starting 5/29/2016

Last week we took a little winery trip to Stable Ridge Winery located on old route 66. There, as you may remember, we discovered a new wine, a lemon wine, called Soleil . So this week I am going to try and  use our Lemon Spaghetti with Chicken recipe as a basis for a new recipe using this wine. We will be trying that on Monday. Since it is a holiday here I should have time to think about it. Then on Friday we are going to try a recipe for Swedish Baked Potatoes the description given on the site My Extended Weekend just sounded irresistible.

Organic, Natural or Pure – What’s the Difference? — A Little Detail

Eating right and staying healthy now a days can be very difficult, we are constantly being told what we should and shouldn’t eat, companies everywhere are making different beneficial claims for their products and we can get a little confused in the produce department when we see the words: ‘Organic’, ‘Pure’, ‘Natural’ and ‘Non GMO’. […]

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