Rowing, sailing or floatin', you still gotta eat, right? So, what is it today?

Hi gang!

This recipe looks really good. In fact, it looks good enough for company, but quick enough for a weeknight.

It comes from Lowfatlifestyle.com.  Check out the site, there's a ton of great ideas there.

Cheesy Chicken Rolls
Serve with fresh green beans or asparagus..

Servings: 4

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• 4 (about 1 1/2 pound total) boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
• 1/2 cup (4 ounces) fat-free cream cheese
• 1/4 cup finely chopped red bell pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon snipped fresh rosemary*
• Nonstick cooking spray
• Coarsely ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
• 2 tablespoons dry white wine**
• 1 tablespoon non saturated fat margarine
• 1 tablespoon snipped fresh chives
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch

Place each chicken breast half (boned side up) between 2 pieces of plastic wrap. Pound lightly with a meat mallet until chicken breast is very thin (about 1/8 inch thick). Remove the clear plastic wrap.

Top each chicken piece with 2 tablespoons of the cream cheese and 1 tablespoon of the chopped red bell pepper. Sprinkle with the rosemary. Fold in the sides. Roll up, jelly-roll style, pressing the edges to seal. Secure the rolls with wooden toothpicks, if needed.

Coat a large skillet with nonstick cooking spray. Cook the chicken rolls over medium high heat for 3 to 4 minutes or until lightly browned, turning to brown all sides. Remove to an 8 inch square baking dish. Sprinkle with coarsely fresh ground black pepper. Bake, uncovered, in 375 degree F oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.

While chicken bakes, in a small saucepan, combine the chicken broth, wine, and cornstarch. Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in low saturated fat margarine. Serve over chicken rolls. Garnish with the snipped chives.

*Fresh Tarragon may be substituted for Rosemary if you prefer. May use 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary or tarragon if fresh is not available.

** For a lemony sauce, substitute 1 tablespoon lemon juice for the wine.

Per Serving: 242 Calories; 4g Fat (15.3% calories from fat); 1g Saturated Fat; 45g Protein; 4g Carbohydrate; trace Dietary Fiber; 101mg Cholesterol; 363mg Sodium. Exchanges: 0 Grain (Starch); 6 Lean Meat; 0 Vegetable; 1/2 Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.

I'm hoping today is a better diet day, but Gary has really been wanting pizza. There's a great pizza place not far from home that has Chicago style thin and crispy crust pizza that I hope we'll order instead of the thick crusted stuff. Funny, used to be the other way around. The thicker that crust the better. Not any more!

latte
protein coffee

mini quiche

leftover lamb stew. Well, really, about 2 oz lamb, 1/4 carrot and 3 chunks of potato

protein coffee

probably pizza  thin crust, canadian bacon, pineapple and green pepper. New place, won't be going back. :(

Hope everyone has a wonderful day. Mine is a short, four hour one, so I'm a happy girl!

Those sound heavenly!  Wish I wasn't still restricted.  Can't have "real" meat until 5 months out.  But I've saved the recipe and will enjoy it then. 

Thanks for sharing. 

Good morning Susan......;this recipe sounds heavenly!!!

B-scrambled eggs with bacon and cheese

L-????? traveling about

D- crappies and  mixed veggies

S-protein bar and ???

Have a great day....love ya...hugs....connie d

Oh my, this recipe sounds amazing.  Going to have to get the ingredients to make it. I love anything with cream cheese.  Even if it is just on my finger..lol

Today I got up late so I am looking to get in my vitamins and liquids for the day.

Coffee

B- small omelet with sausage, green peppers and cheese.  YUM
s-
L- cheese and two slices of pepperoni..)
S- ?
D- Hamburger patty and a salad with some veggies and crumbled bacon
S- either a protein drink or an atkins bar.  Leaning towards the protein drink to make up the protein for the day.

That is it!

Peace

Susan,

I was going to post on the What's New but one posting a day is about all I've got in me.

I started the morning with cottage cheese and blueberries...
Tall Pike in a grande cup w/ 1/2n1/2
1/2 chicken cordon bleu (trust me, it was dry as heck and I threw the rest out)
Tall iced coffee w/ 1/2n1/2.

That's it so far... and I'm not hungry but sure could do another iced coffee.

Son and family came over and scalped my yard, swept, and cleaned out my shed... I've got hanging baskets and stuff now..

Jan would be impressed. As would Candy... I've got butterfly somethings that are blue... but can stand full sun.. darn things were $9 a piece...  hope they live... said minimal watering... boy, that works for me.... close to silk or plastic maybe.

Well, stinky me will head for the shower...

I'm all energized!!

Janet

Wow, If Jan or Candy aren't impressed, I sure as heck am!  I'd love to be able to afford to hire a landscaper to help us with the back yard. It still looks just like it did 5 years ago when we moved in....grass, weeds, and nothing else.

Hmmmmm, wonder what the two sisters would charge???

Yeah, can't do dry chicken. Never stays down. Someday I'll learn and stop trying.

Hugs!

Susan,

I normally don't discuss what I pay for anything.. but I had a good idea of what I wanted done.. and it was very simple... I had a company come out give me an estimate.... $1,900.  I choked.

I pretty much had figured out what I'd have to take out of savings and it wasn't $1,900....  I work with real estate agents all day long and had one in Dallas that I  had them get someone to do some landscape work on a house so we could sell it... I saw what he charged my agent... and I drove by one day after work to see it firsthand.. so I called him... he came out and gave me a price.. $750... He is going to take out 3 18 year old red tip photinias, 2 crepe myrtles, 2 Rose of Sharon, and wax leaf ligustrum (dig them out and cut the roots), dig a 19.5 foot x 5 ft flower bed and take out the dirt and replace it with new top soil, plant the shrubs I bought today, mulch and plant some little flowers and put in metal edging. That's the front yard.  In the backyard, he's cleaning out my brick planter by the patio and refilling it with good soil and planting the little plants I bought today.  He's going to finish up my walkway that I didn't finish... and he's leveling out under my bathroom window, laying some old brick down and putting the big pot with my rose bush in it under my bathroom window.  I think that's all...

You do the math..:)

Janet

I don't even know what kind of a budget to work with. All of the plants here are as foreign to me as if I  was living on the moon. Nothing that I grew in San Diego grows here.  then, there's the whole "annual/perennial" thing. I just don't think it's right to plant something only to yank it up again in 6 months.

I really need someone with some ideas, then I'll have a better handle on what I need/want to do. This is why there hasn't been anything done in 5 years. Since we're not moving, I guess I'd best get it going. Another problem? I can kill a silk plant. Seriously! Then, we have Baxter in the back yard.

See? I need a sistah! Or, a sitter. You choose.

Hugs

Susan

Maybe I'll become "the Sistahhood of the traveling PLANTS"!  Perennials don't have tp be yanked out every year.  They need a bit of care the first few years, but once they're established, they're usually good for a long time.  I plant almost no annuals, as my growing season is only about 5 months.

The biggest problem with established perennials is the weeding. 
I try to do a littele every week, so it doesn't  get away from me.  \

Fat chance!

Candy

Janet

Good price, $750.  Trust me.  I have to hock my soul to pay someone to do outside work for me, if I can even find someone to do it.

Candy