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Healthy Superbowl Recipes: Tuna & Shrimp Kebabs

Date: February 6, 2011 • By • Comments 0

Gameday is finally here, and if you’re not prepared for the party I have a few more quick and easy recipes that’ll keep your partygoers satisfied without over-indulging. Fitness Guru David Kirsch gave us two great recipes for Healthy Fat-Free Homemade Hummus and Roasted Red Pepper and Almond Dip last week and today I have a few more you can whip up just in time for the kickoff!

TUNA AND SHRIMP KEBAB

This is a really fun party dish packed with protein and can easily be adapted to serve more people.

· 1/2 small eggplant

· 2 medium shrimp, peeled and cleaned

· 1/2 medium-sized, yellow bell pepper

· 1/3 cup water

· 4 ounces skinless tuna steak, cut into four 1-inch cubes

· 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard

· 1 teaspoon chopped fresh dill

1.  Preheat oven to 400°F.

2.  Cut eggplant in half lengthwise, then cut diagonally into 1/2-inch pieces; set aside.

3.  Cut pepper into quarters; remove seeds and stem. Cut each piece in half.

4.  Bake peppers and eggplant in foil packet for 20 minutes. Remove and cool.

5.  Place peppers and eggplant on skewers.

6.  Place tuna and shrimp on skewers, alternating tuna then shrimp.

7.  Place all skewers in a large shallow dish.

8.  Combine water, Dijon mustard, and dill in a small bowl. Mix well and pour over kebabs. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Remove kebabs from marinade; discard marinade.

9.  Spray grill rack with nonfat vegetable cooking spray. Place kebabs on grill. Grill tuna/shrimp skewers 2 to 3 minutes each side and veggies 4 minutes on each side.

Enjoy!

Who are you rooting for in today’s big game, the Packers or the Steelers?

 

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Valentine’s Day Chocolate-Covered Oreos

Date: January 28, 2011 • By • Comments 3

The Oreo® is undoubtedly “America’s Favorite Cookie”, there’s really no debating it. The only thing better than that cookie with a glass of milk, (because it’s also “Milk’s Favorite Cookie”) is one of those cookies covered in chocolate and decorated for Valentine’s Day. You know I’m right about this one.

If you’re on a budget and you want to something literally sweet for a special someone, these tasty treats are easy to make, look gourmet and are way more thoughtful than a box of chocolates. (Bonus: make them together!)

My total cost: $14.74 Chocolate-covered Oreos from Chocolate-Covered Company $44.95

Once again these were a big hit at the office, with one of my coworkers proclaiming, “I think I want to marry you.” If only more men felt that way about me and my treat-making skills, I’d be in business!

I melted one bag of milk chocolate chips and one bag of semisweet chocolate chips (separately) in a double boiler. I had mini chocolate chips, Valentine’s Day colored M&Ms, Valentine’s Day colored sprinkles and nonpareils (purchased for $2 each at Homegoods), Butterscotch chips, White Chocolate chips and crushed pecans on hand for coating the cookies and I used one package of Double Stuff Oreos®.

Put the different coatings in deep bowls (with the exception of the M&Ms, those should be added by hand). Once chocolate has melted in double boiler, submerge the Oreo into the chocolate. Dip, in desired topping, coating the entire cookie. Place on a wax-paper lined baking sheet. Repeat in the two different kinds of chocolate until you’ve used all the cookies.

With leftover chocolate, drizzle chocolate across the tops of cookies, if you’d like. I melted an 1/8 of a cup of butterscotch chips to drizzle over some of the cookies, and 1/8 cup of white chocolate chips which I dyed pink with 2 drops of red food coloring.
Let the chocolate harden and enjoy!

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Whoopie Pies

Date: January 15, 2011 • By • Comments 0

Wednesday, when I was snowed in, I (along with my coworkers, via email) decided it was time to whip a little something up! I was totally clueless as to what I should bake next, since the Peppermint Patties might be a little hard to top. “Something with peanut butter!!” was suggested and so I went on a hunt for something that looked delicious and didn’t use a ton of peanut butter, because I’m not sure if I mentioned this: I was snowed in. (We got almost 30 inches of snow at my parents’ house in Massachusetts…eeeek!)

So I happened upon this recipe. I had all the ingredients in my house and just enough peanut butter to make them. Who doesn’t love whoopie pies? A childhood favorite of mine, there are only a few variations that I truly love (besides the original), which include pumpkin whoopie pies and red velvet whoopie pies…and now these!

Half cookie/half cake, the chocolate tops and bottoms are the perfect way to sandwich the creamy, sweet peanut butter center.

Best of all, this recipe is super quick and because the cookies don’t flatten out as much as normal cookie when you bake them, you can put them closer together on the baking sheets.

Bake, cool, assemble and enjoy with a cold glass of milk!

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Peppermint Patties

Date: January 5, 2011 • By • Comments 1

In case you haven’t noticed my recent obsession with all things chocolate and peppermint…

This actually isn’t a post-holiday treat that I wanted to create, but rather, the need to recreate a treat that I found to be so much better when I was a kid. After taking a bite into a York peppermint patty a couple of weeks ago, a candy that I used to favor as a child, I was totally disappointed. The rich dark chocolate, wasn’t well, rich…and the peppermint filling…a severe disappointment…not the minty cool burst that I remembered.

I immediately hopped on the computer in search of an easy recipe I could use to try make peppermint patties that tasted as good as I used to remember them, but it wasn’t an easy search. There were tons of recipes with strange ingredients or weird instructions, but then I found this one, originally from December 2007 Gourmet.

Easy to make, simple ingredients, and the only thing I was missing was the paddle attachment for hand mixer, so I used the dough attachment instead, which worked just as well. (Oh, and the round cookie cutters I had were not quite the right sizes, but I made do!)

I brought these into my office today (I get in around 8am) and by 9:15am, half of them had disappeared from sight. I heard things, such as, “Oh my GOD, these are so good,” and “MMMM delicious!” and I have to admit, they were also exactly what I was looking for, to replace that childhood memory of what York used to taste like.

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Homemade Peppermint Marshmallows

Date: January 1, 2011 • By • Comments 2

If you know me well, then you probably know that s’mores and fluffernutters are two of my favorite treats and by default, I love marshmallows. I always wondered how on earth marshmallows were made and then I came across this recipe. I also am a peppermint fiend–I keep peppermint gum and candy in my handbag at all times, I steal the mints from restaurants, and I brought home every prepared peppermint treat I could find at Trader Joe’s this year! (Ahem, Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate covered Peppermint Joe Joe’s, and their chocolate peppermint whoopie pies!)

These peppermint marshmallows are easy to make, super minty, fluffy and light… parfait in a mug of hot cocoa on a chilly night. I searched around to see if I could find any other recipes for peppermint marshmallows, and found Emily’s take on the same recipe from Martha Stewart that I wanted to use, so I used her decorating idea for inspiration.

Beware though, the first step of the instructions is incorrect: you should line the pan with plastic wrap AND THEN grease the plastic wrap with nonstick cooking spray…I had a lot of fun pulling those sticky marshmallows away from the plastic wrap, since I didn’t notice the mistake until after I had put them in the pan! They were worth it though, perfectly flavoring one of my other true loves, hot chocolate.

 

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Happy New Year …and, I’m going to (try to) post every day in 2011!

Date: January 1, 2011 • By • Comments 1

Happy New Year to all! I hope that 2011 brings you all the health, success and happiness that you desire.

As for me, I hope 2011 is the best year yet for Shoes, Shirts & Other Sh!t. I started this blog in 2010 and it brought me the most amazing opportunities, connections and some of the coolest people I will ever meet. Which is why I’ve decided that I want to blog even more in 2011. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. (No really, I am because, well, I’m writing this.) I will be (attempting to) post on SSOS once a day for all of 2011.

I know it won’t be easy, but it might be fun, inspiring, and will bring you even more amazing fashion, style, beauty, recipes and lifestyle news. I want to travel and expand this site beyond New York City…to the entire East Coast, Boston, D.C., Miami, towards to the Midwest—Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati; to the south in some of my favorite cities–Savannah and New Orleans, and all the way west, towards L.A., San Diego, Seattle, and Portland….and everywhere in between. I already have tons of amazing Canadian readers (thank you!) and I think I’ll worry about expanding out of North America in 2012. (SSOS is already being read in 30 countries all over the world, which is so amazing).

Therefore I’m promising to make use of The DailyPost, WordPress’ new campaign, and the community of other bloggers with similiar goals and interests, to help me along the way, including asking for help when I need it and encouraging others when I can. I will vow to read and comment on other blogs like mine to help develop our community of fashion, style, beauty and lifestyle bloggers! As I was once told, (and firmly believe): we are the future of fashion journalism. I’ve even installed the WordPress app on my brand new Droid (which I have no idea how to use by the way, I feel so technologically illiterate for the first time ever) so I can blog anywhere, anytime.

If you already read my blog, I hope you’ll encourage me with comments and “likes” (a recent WordPress feature at the bottom of my post…I get a nifty little email congratulating me if you hit it!), and good will along the way. Ask me questions; I have a brand new contact form on my “Contact” page and I personally answer every email I receive. You can communicate with me on Twitter and on Facebook as well.

What do you like or want to see more of? What do you wish I would stop doing? Tell me! This site is as much yours as it is mine.

Want to guest blog? Send me an email.

No, seriously.

Let’s make 2011 the best year yet.

 

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Hugs & Kisses,

 

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