Easy Healthy Recipes

Juicy ripe organic peaches are the main ingredients in this traditional summer favorite.

Creamy Peach Cobbler

Filling
1 cup organic sugar
2 organic eggs
2 TB all purpose flour
1/2 tsp nutmeg
4 cups organic fresh peaches (4 to 6)

Cobbler
1 1/2 cups organic all purpose flour
2 TB organic sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/3 cup softened butter
1 organic egg, slightly beaten
3 TB organic milk
3 TB organic sugar

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Peel and slice peaches. Stir all filling ingredients together (except for peaches) in a large bowl. Then, gently mix in peaches. Pour into a 13 x 9 inch pan. In a medium bowl, stir together all the dry cobbler ingredients. Then, cut in butter until crumbly. Stir in egg and milk until just moistened. Crumble cobbler mixture over peaches and sprinkle with 3 T sugar. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly around edges. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.

I first learned to cook using Watkins Products and their easy to follow recipes. Even though Watkins company started back in 1868, their recipes were still tasty in the 1990’s when I first discovered them. Now, I’ve re-discovered the simplicity of using their award-winning ingredients and I thought this blog would be the perfect place to introduce them to you.

No time like the present to get started. Here’s a recipe using Watkins Onion Soup base and Beef Base and spices.

Fabulous French Onion Soup

1. 5 medium onions
2. 3 TB/45 ml butter or margarine
3. 1 1/2 quarts/liters water
4. 1/4 cup/60 ml Watkins Beef Soup & Gravy Mix
5. 1 TB/15ml Watkins Onion Soup & Gravy Mix
6. 1/4 tsp/1.2 ml Watkins Black Pepper
7. 1/4 tsp/1.2ml Watkins Cayenne Pepper
8. 1/4 tsp/1.2ml Watkins Organic Thyme
9. 6 slices French Bread
10. 1 cup/250 ml shredded cheese (Swiss or Cheddar)

Peel and thinly slice onions. Heat butter in a heavy 3 quart/liter saucepan over low heat; add onions and cook slowly. Stir until golden in color, about 10 minutes. Gradually add in water, soup bases, and seasonings. Bring to a boil; cover and simmer about 15 minutes. Meanwhile toast one side of the bread under oven broiler until golden brown. Butter untoasted side and sprinkle slices with 1/4 cup cheese. broil until cheese is melted. To serve, spoon hot soup into ovenproof bowls or mugs; float french bread slices and sprinkle with remaining cheese. broil until cheese is bubbly and brown.

This tasty recipe for Soy Seared Tuna is paired with a delicious orange sauce that gets it’s zip from a variety of different flavors from habanero peppers to yellow squash.  Enjoy this flavorful healthy dish with friends and a nice bottle of white wine.

Soy Seared Tuna with Orange Sauce and Green Beans

1 tuna steak

1 onion, sliced

1/2 cup soy sauce

2 TB sugar

1 TB ginger

1 pound green beans, trimmed

1/2 cup chicken broth

1 teaspoon curry powder (1 to 2)

1 orange

1 habanero peppers, diced small

1 yellow squash, cut in half lengthwise and sliced into half moons

Olive oil

Salad greens

Boil soy sauce with sugar and ginger for glaze. Place green beans in boiling water until color ripens, then remove. To chicken broth, add curry powder and juice of the orange into broth. Add diced habaneros to broth. Saute onion until browned and caramelized. Add sliced squash to caramelized onions.

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Saute tuna in olive oil 5-8 minutes on each side, then pour soy glaze onto it before removing from pan. Sauce plate with orange sauce first, then place squash and onions on a bed of greens, the tuna steak being the final addition. Serve with the green beans.

Eating shrimp and scallops is a great way to get your recommended amount of essential fatty acids. Garlic is heart-healthy, too, and adds a great deal of flavor without a lot of fat. Continue reading Garlic Shrimp and Scallops

Eat your artichokes and you will reap huge health benefits.  For one thing, they are an excellent source of magnesium, fiber and chromium. Also, you’ll get lots of Vitamin A, C and folic acid from eating this unusual and tasty vegetable.  Paired with steak, it tastes great! Continue reading Sirloin Strips with Lemon Sauce and Artichoke

Chinese Broccoli and Beef made with lean ingredients provides
a delicious combination of protein and fiber that will be filling and satisfying.
Consider serving with brown rice for a truly healthful dish.

If you don’t care for the way corn starch affects the texture of some dishes, you can substitute arrowroot to thicken the sauce. Continue reading Chinese beef and Broccoli

Chicken Veronique is a delicious recipe but not generally thought of as healthy or even easy. But just read the recipe thoroughly before starting and you’ll see it’s simply a matter of sauteing and simmering. You’ll be surprised how well this recipe comes together in one pan. What could be easier than that? There’s instructions for using the low fat substitute Continue reading Chicken Veronique with Low Fat Half and Half

Why choose organic chicken? What’s wrong with non-organic or natural chicken? There’s a big difference between organic and conventional chicken because of it’s living conditions and what it’s been given to eat. All of these things affect the overall health of a chicken so the healthier it is, the healthier you are when you eat it!

Garlic is a healthy ingredient to add to your cooking because of it’s heart-healthy properties and it’s tasty, too! .

Enjoy this delicious chicken recipe no matter what kind of chicken you choose to cook.

Chicken Vermouth 
 

2 split Chicken breasts

4 TB Oil

4 TB Butter

1/4 cup sweet vermouth

40 cloves of whole garlic; peeled 

Melt butter in frying pan and then add oil.  Brown chicken

well on both sides before removing chicken from pan.  Add garlic and

saute for one minute.  Add dry vermouth and stir. Place

chicken back in the pan on top of garlic. Cover and

simmer for one hour, turning chicken every once in a

while. When fully cooked, serve chicken with cloves of garlic.

Use Garlic as a spread on hot bread or eat it 

with the chicken.  

Easy healthy recipes are made even better with organic ingredients. You might think that any recipe that uses organic fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, fats or dairy would automatically be organic but in the recipe needs to include spices, sweeteners and condiments that come from organic sources, such as flour or sugar, to be a truly organic recipe.

So, depending on how organic you want your recipe to be, look for organic versions of all the ingredients in your favorite recipes. Continue reading Organic Foods Recipes Stuffed Tomatoes

The only thing that makes this recipe slightly on the fattening side is the parmesan pasta. But you can cut the calorie count down a bit if you use whole wheat noodles. Also, watch your Continue reading Chicken Primavera with Parmesan Pasta