Shrimp Creole

My mom came across this recipe a long time ago when we lived in New Orleans. Now, since I have acquire her cooking skills I know prepare it.  This Shrimp Creole taste divine.  The Cajun spices blend in with the wonderful shrimp flavors.  This dish is so amazing your guest will be asking for seconds.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes
Money Savings: $15.00
Approximate Calories per serving: 315

Ingredients:
1 ½ -2 lbs large-XL shrimps
4 slices of thick bacon cut into small pieces
2 tbsp blackening seasoning
1 cup diced tomatoes
¾ cup white wine
2 tbsp Crushed red pepper flaxes
½ cup scampi sauce 
1 lemon
¼ bunch parsley
2 tbsp minced garlic


Directions:
Place shrimp in a bowl and sprinkle with blackening seasoning. Set aside.
Place bacon in a large pan on medium heat 5-7 minutes or until bacon is almost done.
Add shrimp to bacon cook for 1 minute.  Stir in tomatoes, wine, garlic, and pepper flaxes. Cook for about 2-3 minutes or until shrimps turn pink.
Stir in the scampi sauce and lemon juice top with parsley.

Tip:
You can serve it with angle hair pasta or white rice.

Salmon With Peanut Sauce

This is a magnificent dish. The peanut sauce bring out a swirl of flavors in your taste buds.  The mildness of the salmon contrast perfectly with the peanut sauce.  It actually takes about five minutes to get the fish ready and in the oven.  The sauce is very easily  prepared as well.  Your diner guest will talk about this perfect dish for days.  It is definitely a winner.

Serving size: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 minutes
Money Savings: $20.00
Approximate calories per serving: 294

Ingredients:
Adobo
Complete Seasoning
Garlic Powder
4 8oz. Salmon Fillets
1 tbsp olive oil

Sauce ingredients:
2 tbsp smooth peanut butter
2 tbsp soy sauce
1-2 cloves garlic thinly chopped
¼ cup water
1 tbsp brown sugar
Juice from ½ lemon
1/3 cup green onion thinly chopped

Directions:
Sprinkle adobo, complete seasoning and garlic powder on to salmon. Place the salmon on a grilling pan/backing dish.  Squirt olive oil on top of the salmon and place it in the oven for 350 for 15-20 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine peanut butter, soy sauce, garlic, water, sugar, lemon into a saucepan and bring to medium heat until peanut butter has melted and sauce has thicken.  Pour sauce over salmon and garnish with green onions.

Healthy Tuna Sandwich

Healthy tuna fish sandwich is not only healthy, quick and easy but it is delicious.  This is a great open-faced sandwich that’s been a favorite of my family for years.  This has been our Saturday lunch menu hopefully you’ll make it yours.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Money savings: $4.00
Approximate Calories per Servings: 102

Ingredients:
1 can 6 ½ oz tuna drained
½ cup chopped green peppers
½ cup chopped onions
½ cup chopped tomatoes
1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon
Salt and black pepper to taste
2 egg white
3 tbsp grated parmesan cheese
4 slices of pumpernickel bread/whole wheat

Directions:
Combine tuna, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Beat egg whites until stiff and fold in the parmesan cheese.
Fold egg white mixture into tuna mixture.
Divide mixture among the pieces of bread slices. Placing it the center of each slice of bread.
Place each piece of toast on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake in over for 450 for ten minutes or until top is lightly browned.

Salmon Francese

I wanted to feature this wonderful Salmon recipe even though it’s the same recipe as the Chicken Francese.
This is such a delicious dish I just didn’t want to leave it out. The Francese sauce really adds zest to this delectable fish dish. This spectacular fish goes well with brown rice, a side of bok choy or spinach. It could also go well with Alfredo Fettuccine. Your family would absolutely love it.

Serving size: 4-6
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 20 Minutes
Money savings: $15.00
Approximate calories per serving: 324

Ingredients:
4 Salon filets
Complete Seasoning
Mrs. Dash Seasoning Blend
½ cup flour
2 tbsp butter
1 chicken flavor bouillon cubes
1 cup of water
Juice of 1½ lemon

Directions:
Sprinkle complete seasoning, and Mrs. Dash Seasoning Blend on the salon.
Cover the salmon completely with flour.
Place a skillet on medium heat with butter let the butter melt. Place the salmon on top of the melted butter fry on both side.
While the salmon is frying: on a small cooking pot bring the water, the bouillon, the lemon juice to a boil making sure the bouillon has well dissolved.
Once the chicken is well fried on both sides bring the heat to low pour in the water mixture on top of the chicken for about five minutes or until the water mixture is glazy.

Ceviche de Pescado

Ceviche de pescado is a beautiful raw fish marinated in lime. Many people think this delightful dish is raw fish when it has actually been cooked within the citrus of the lime.
It is funny how I get nostalgic when tasting this great ceviche. I could always remember when I was a little girl and when visiting my aunt house she would prepare this delightful dish because she knew how much we enjoyed it. I loved it then as much as I love it now. It is refreshing full of flavors just mingling around your mouth to wake up all your senses.

Serving Size: 6-8
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 3 hours
Money saver: $12.00

To double serving size just double ingredients
To reduce size just reduce the ingredients

Ingredients:
1lbs of Tilapia Fish fillet d-boned cut in cubes
1 cup of lime juice
Dash of salt
Dash of pepper
1 medium tomatoes cut into cubes
1 medium onion cut into cubes
1 medium green pepper cut into cubes
5 leafs and stem of cilantro thinly chopped

Directions:
Take the fish place in a large bowl pore in the lime juice. Dash of salt and pepper to taste let it sit in the refrigerator for about two hours After that take the fish out and place the rest of the ingredients in the bowl then set aside in the refrigerator for one more hour then take it out and its all ready to eat.

Tips:
You can do the same raw shrimp, or with other raw fillet example corbine, sea bass and halibut fillet.  

Fish with Mango Salsa

Mmmm mouth-watering tilapia fillet with some mango salsa it a delicious and healthy meal. When I was young my mom would prepare the tilapia, but she would deep fry it and with flower and like a typical Spanish household she would accompany it with rice and beans which would defeat the purpose of healthy. Now I prepare it so that it would be healthy and yummy.

Serving Size: 4
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Money Saving: $12.00

To Double serving size just double the ingredients
To reduce size just use ½ of the ingredients

Ingredients:
4 tilapia fillets
Adobo
Complete Seasoning
Garlic powder
2 cloves or garlic crushed
3 tbsp. of Olive Oil
1 small onion
1 small green peper
1 small tomato or 1 plum tomato
4 stems & leaf of fresh Cilantro
1 small mango
¼ cup of fresh lemon juice
Salt & pepper to taste

Directions:First you season the fillets with the Adobo, Complete Seasoning, Garlic Powder, and the cloves of garlic. Poor in the oil on medium heat on a frying pan then wait for about 4-5 minutes waiting for the oil to get hot (you’ll know the oil is hot when you sprinkle water and it and it’ll start popping) when the oil is hot then you can put the fish to fry. Fry it until brown in both sides.

SALSA:
Thinly chop the onion, pepper, tomatoes and the Cilantro. Peal and cut the mango in small cubs like size. Mix all in a bowl, poor in the lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste.