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Healthy Football Season Food

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“Football Food” Dishes…in honor of the first OU FOOTBALL GAME! If you know me, you know I sure do love watching football…and how it has nothing to do with friends, food, beverages, and festivities 😉

Football season usually means beer and heavy football food. I like to find and make some healthy alternatives that will still be a festive option,  minus the overly greasiness that creates an uncomfortable stomach. Nothing quite ruins festivities, beverages and football with an untimely tummy ache.

This pulled barbecue chicken was an easy dish that tastes naughty, but is more nice. This barbecue sauce is simply mouthwatering! I had to force myself to let it finish cooking the whole time. It’s quite aromatic!

Simply place chicken breasts into the crockpot and salt and pepper to taste. Cook on low for 5 hours.


Then make some healthy barbecue sauce! Put it on top of the cooked juicy chicken, with about 30 minutes of cooking time left. Then, the chicken should easily shred apart. You can put on buns, salads, or just eat it plain!

Healthy Barbecue Sauce

Ingredients:

1 Onion, diced
1 Garlic Clove, minced
1/4 Cup Cider Vinegar
1/4 Cup Dijon Mustard
1 1/2 Tbsp Brown Sugar
2 Tbsp Honey
1 Tsp Pepper
1 Tsp Worcestershire Sauce
1/2 Teaspoon Ground Red Pepper

Directions:

Saute onions, garlic cloves until soft and tender. Combine the other ingredients into a bowl. Ready!
And a baked potato just goes well with anything!! Cheesy goodness!

Check out some other healthy options for Football season!
Skinny Margaritas 
Spicy Black Bean Dip

Who will you be cheering on this weekend?

Flourless Guiltless Dark Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

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When you want chocolate, you want chocolate. Succumb to your desire with these Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins!

When my boyfriend jokingly asked me the last day that I hadn’t consumed chocolate, I had to think a moment… I’m a choclahoclic. I truthfully answered, I have absolutely no idea!

I was unashamed to say I can’t remember! I have been having chocolate every day for… let’s just say a long time. Dark chocolate is good for you… within reason of course! Sometimes I may just have a couple squares for dessert, or other days I’ll make myself treats, like the glorious recipe below. But looking forward to a square of dark chocolate every night isn’t a crime 🙂

And why not sneak in some undetected healthiness?! Zucchini is perfect and blends in sneakily. It’s taste is easy to override with cocoa. Seriously, I had my unenlightened reliable taste testers try the muffins. They had no idea until I told them there was zucchini in it. You can definitely detect something different than all the usual chocolate muffins, but trust me, it doesn’t disappoint.

You can even get by with a little less honey, but I wanted to be satisfied so added a bit more than was probably necessary. Oops.


Dark Chocolate Zucchini Muffin Ingredients:

1 Cup Zucchini

1 Cup Nut Butter

1/2 Cup Raw Honey
1/2 Cup Unsweetened Cocoa

1 Tsp Cinnamon

1 Tsp Baking Soda

1 Egg

1/4 Cup Shredded Coconut

1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips

The consistency should be similar to normal batters. However, if it is a little more liquidy, don’t worry. This was finger licking worthy too!

I made some with coconut and some without because some people don’t like coconut. But I love it! The coconut texture really added some fun and unexpectedness!

Dark Chocolate Zucchini Muffin Directions:

Chop the zucchinis and blend in the blender until a liquid consistency. Stir all the ingredients together and pour in the zucchinis. Simple as that.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. Sprinkle on some coconut on top for presentation.

A delicious chocolate baked good with a lot of protein, no sugar, no gluten, and serving of veggies?! That’s a win-win! Chocolate for all!

How do you sneak in healthy ingredients?

Ooey Gooey Smores Dessert

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Smores are such a guilty pleasure of mine! I mean what’s not to love about marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers coming together in perfect harmony?

And what better excuse to make my favorite Smores dessert than National Smores Day?!

These treats are a great way to get the Smores campfire taste sans campfire. This delightful chocolatey, marshmallowy, graham crackery dessert is perfect  to bring to outdoor gatherings or football game tailgates. Trust me, they’ll be sure to be a hit and gone quickly.

I originally used this recipe from Rachel Schulz post on Baked Smores Bars and have since then made a couple adjustments based on my own personal preferences.

How could you not make these delightful treats after looking at these pictures?!


Ingredients:

Crust


1 egg
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 cups flour
3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt

Insides


2 Delight Baking dark chocolate bars
1 1/2 cups Ricemellow creme

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream the butter, sugar, vanilla and egg together.

Mix the flour, graham cracker, salt, and baking powder.

Combine the two mixes.

Then split the crust into two. Put a layer of the crust down, then the marshmallow cream on top. Place the the 2 Delight baking bars on top. Then, use the remaining crust and smooth on top.

Bake for 30 minutes, or until there is a golden brown.

The hard part is waiting for them to cool before cutting into this mouthwatering smores dessert. The aroma from the oven makes you want to take it out immediately and get it into your mouth. However, try to control yourself so that it cools properly before cutting into, or marshmallows will be everywhere (yes, I’m speaking from experience.) If it’s just staying in your kitchen, it won’t be as much of a problem but if you are bringing separate bars to an event, make sure it cools long enough!

Now, get to baking! You’ll immediately want smores of these treats! <- See what I did there?

How do you celebrate National Smores Day?

30 Minutes to an Impressive Lemon Orange Roughy Dish

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Fish is super delicious and healthy for you! It’s a great alternative to other meats while still getting the necessary protein for your body. Fish is high in protein, low in fat and has a large range of benefits for your body!

White fish (like orange roughy) is lower fat than any other protein from any animal.  Eating fish provides your body with the essential omega 3s. Your body can’t make enough of this particular essential nutrient by itself so…let’s eat more fish!

This recipe is super simple and delicious! The fancy look will fool any dinner guests that you were in the kitchen sweating for hours! But between you and me, it’s complete and on the table in about 30 minutes.  You could make this in a complete daze and it will still taste heavenly.

But be careful, watch the fish! Nothing ruins fish like overcooking. If the fish cooks too long the texture becomes too rubbery. You want to have a flakey texture.

Serve hot! Be sure that everyone is actually ready to eat before you serve. Or you could end up with some very cold fish which is never good.

This dish is a lot about your preference. I have added cilantro as a special fun taste to the fish. But I love cilantro, so it makes sense! If you don’t, skip it and it will still be delish!

Ingredients::
1 Pd Orange Roughy
2 Tsp Olive Oil
1 Lemon
Sprinkle of Scallions
Grape Tomatoes
Sprinkle of Salt
Cilantro*

Directions: 
Place orange roughy in pan and drizzle the olive oil over it
Chop the scallions, tomatoes, lemon and cilantro*
Cook orange roughee at 375 degrees for around 30 minutes

Black Bean Brownies

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Chocolate is the source of my added fluff. So to be able to eat rich chocolate brownies guilt-free is pretty awesome. After biting into these delicious gluten free Black Bean Brownies I knew my dessert experience was forever changed. These were so scrumptious, moist, chocolatey and low-cal!


I have been wanting to make these brownies for a while now and figured that a lazy Sunday afternoon was the perfect time to experiment in the kitchen with unlikely ingredients. Black beans instead of flour sounds quite funky but trust me, you can hardly tell. Don’t roll your eyes at me, I promise. If you are challenging me, make them and be amazed with their chocolate goodness.

I used the recipe from one of my favorite food blogs, the Minimalist Baker. I made a couple alterations to their take on the brownie. First, I swapped most of the white sugar to brown sugar and then, added Nutella. Because, why in the world would Nutella not be included in this decadent brownie?!

Ingredients:
1 Can Black Beans
3 Tbsp Coconut Oil
3/4 Cup Cocoa Powder
1/4 Cup Brown Sugar
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 Tsp Vanilla
2 Tbsp Nutella
1/4 Cup Choc Chips
1 Tsp Baking Soda
Sprinkle of Salt

Directions:
Combine all the ingredients (besides choc chips) into the blender. Then, blend until smooth! Mix chocolate chips in. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees. So simple!

The batter was even delicious!

Bon Appetit!

Chocolate lovers – Please make these, you won’t be disappointed!