Sauteed Cucumber w/ Tomatoes & Avocado Veggetti

Thursday's Treat!!!

On this special Thursday the day of my Birth I would like to say Happy Birth Day to me and say thank you to the powers that be for bringing me to this present moment full of such peace and gratefulness.

I am blessed to share this day with you all and I want to say thank you for your support in my dream.

You may say what is Veggetti? Well only the cutest tool to help us eat healthier. Just to be clear, I am not a paid spokes person, the company who made this did not contact me, I just saw, liked and bought.

I am a gadget girl! I love kitchen gadgets! I saw this in a commercial and was hooked. I didn't order it online Walgreens carries this.

So what it does is take Cucumbers, Carrots, Zucchini and Squash and turn it into Spaghetti!!!

Healthy pasta, hot or cold.

I bought this last week decided to use it on Saturday night.

Ingredients:

-Veggetti

-cucumbers

-1 medium avocado

-plum tomatoes

-garlic heads

-basil leaves

-olive oil

I drizzled olive oil in the skillet and heated on medium till hot, added 2 garlic heads and cooked down for a few minutes. When the garlic was tender I added the cucumber pasta. I moved it around a few times so all the strands would get a good coating.

As that cooked I cut up the avocado and tomatoes. I used 1 medium avocado half for me other half for my daughter and 2 plum tomatoes 1 for each of us as well. Set it aside.

I cooked the Veggetti for about 5 minutes tossed it around and cooked for another 2 minutes. Done

I transferred it to a plate, sprinkled some basil leaves, added the avocado and tomatoes, dinner was served.

All under 30 minutes start to finish and as always easy clean up.

The options this little gadget offers is great so I plan on trying many different meals in the next few weeks. You can even make dishes with potatoes!

The meal was a success, we loved the taste, the texture and variety of it.

I am including link to site for a peek and it does come with a mini recipe book.

veggetti.com

Now back to me lol. 

Again thanks for visit hope you enjoy the share. Today I plan on enjoying a nice Sushi dinner with my loved ones AND of course some type of Red Velvet treat. This was a mini preview of what is to come given to me by my sweet friend!

to ME!!!

Always stress free xo

Eggplant Parmesan Chips

Dolls as always I am about stress free, easy fixes and living, loving and laughing. I came home yesterday exhausted and hungry. I didn't want to make a big production out of dinner time after all it is just my daughter and I to feed at the moment. So I looked in the fridge and the pantry and decided to make Eggplant Parmesan Chips. I am calling them chips because I used the baby/small Eggplants and cut them into pop in your mouth chip like sizes.

I didn't really measure much I just eyeballed but from the pictures I think you will be able to make good judgment :)

I used 3 small eggplants

1 egg whisked and added seasoning of my liking (Goya Adobo)

1 and 1/2 cups of breadcrumbs plain or preseasoned depends on your mood :)

Pasta sauce again to your liking. I prefer to put a little in beginning then when done add some more.

Mozzarella cheese or any cheese that melts cut into small pieces that cover chip

1 cup Parmesan cheese added to breadcrumbs and if you like another 1/2 cup to sprinkle on top when done.

As the pictures will show you slice the eggplant nice chip like size, you dunk in egg then breadcrumbs coat nicely.

In skillet with some oil, enough to fry evenly place the chips for about 5/7 minutes depending on how quickly they begin to get some color. Make sure you flip to other side so cooks evenly.

Remove from oil, do not place on napkin to soak oil or you will remove the breadcrumbs but instead just shake off lightly, it will be fine.

Place the chips on an oven friendly bake tray spray or paper towel some olive oil or none stick PAM on tray so the chips won't stick. Add your sauce if you like and bake for about 20 minutes, remove add the mozzarella cheese and sprinkle the parm cheese if you like. Return to oven till cheese is melted.

Remove let cool and serve!!! My daughter served herself seconds said it was delicious and fun size to eat.

Hope you enjoy as we did and that it’s as easy a treat for you as it was for me :)