Monterey Chicken

This is a dish I used to always get at restaurants.  Eventually it dawned on me that it would be easy to make at home!  I hadn't made it in a couple of years now, but it was just as delicious tonight as ever!

Ingredients:

1 lb chicken breasts - I usually get the thin sliced, but the regular were on sale so I used them and just cut them in half so I ended up with 4 pieces instead of 2
1/2 c. barbecue sauce, divided
1 green onion, green parts sliced, white part discarded
1 c. reduced fat cheese, divided (A cheddar or mexican cheese would be preferable.  I used a monterey-cheddar blend.)
4 slices bacon (I used the pre-cooked that you just zap in the microwave)

On grill, cook chicken on one side for about 3 to 4 minutes.  Flip, then pour 2 T. of barbecue sauce over cooked side of each breast.  Lay your cooked bacon over the sauce, sprinkle with the green onions and 1/4 c. each of the cheese.  Cook about another 3 minutes.  Remove from heat and allow to rest at least 5 minutes, preferably 10.

1 piece of chicken is 8 WW Points+.

Tonight it was raining, so instead of an outdoor grill, I used our George Foreman grill to cook this.  I served itwith frozen peas and a knorr pasta mix.

Slow Cooker Chicken

Tonight is a busy night for my family so I wanted something easy that requires as little prep as possible.  Before work this morning I quartered an onion and put it in a slow cooker with a whole oven-roaster chicken.  I let it cook all day on low.  When we were ready to eat, I made some instant potatoes.  And that was it.  I was a bad girl and didn't make a veggie tonight.

I pulled the rest of the chicken and it will be put to good use in a recipe on Friday night.

Cheeseburger Casserole

I made this for dinner on Friday night.  My husband LOVES hamburgers!  This was a way of having the flavors of a hamburger, but on a lighter scale.

Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 onion, chopped
1/2 c. ketchup
1 c. cheddar cheese

2. frozen french fries

Recipe:

Preheat oven to 450.  In a large skillet, brown the ground beef with the chopped onion.  Drain the liquid.  Add the ketchup.  Pour mixture into the bottom of a 1 1/2 qt. casserole dish (ungreased).  Sprinkle cheese over the top.  Arrange french fries on top of casserole so that they create a single layer.  Bake for 20 minutes, or until french fries on top are done.

Makes 6 servings.
If made with 93% lean ground beef and reduced fat cheddar, each serving is 4 WW points+.

Chicken Sausage with Spinach Fettuccine

Well...the title for this post was supposed to be "Chicken Sausage with Spaghetti Squash" but the spaghetti squash took 2 hours to cook instead of the 1 hour it was supposed to take, and the hubby and I were hungry so I just made some spinach fettuccine we had on hand instead.  It was still good, but I wish I had gotten to try the spaghetti squash!

Anyway, I sliced some Roasted Pepper Asiago chicken sausage into rings and sauteed it in a pan with 1 T + 1 t. of garlic-flavored olive oil.  For myself I just put the sausage rings on top of my pasta, but for my husband I also added 1/2 c. of pasta sauce.

This is what my plate looked like:

And this is what my husband's plate looked like:

 And just 'cause he's cute, here is a picture of my boy enjoying some chicken sausage: