Happy Friday! I made a wonderful dinner last night after an intense Total Body Conditioning class! I introduce to you….Veggielicious Whole Wheat Pasta!
Ingredients:
- Ronzoni Healthy Harvest Whole Wheat Pasta
- Prego Red Sauce
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Mushrooms
- Red/Green Peppers
- Squash
- Lettuce
- Cucumber
- Carrots
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic Powder
- Italian Seasoning
I started off by boiling water and adding the noodles. I used half of the box so that I could have some leftovers.
I then poured the red sauce in a pot and added some salt, pepper, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning.
3. I sliced up the peppers, squash, and mushrooms and cooked them over the stove. I added some salt, pepper, and garlic powder to give them some flavor.
Daisy and I waited patiently for the pasta and veggies to cook.
While waiting, I made a salad to have on the side of the pasta. I topped it with carrots, cucumbers, and balsamic vinegar.
5. After about 10 minutes, the pasta was ready! I poured some in a bowl and topped it with red sauce and veggies. I sprinkled a little Parmesan cheese on top.
There were lots of extra veggies so I topped the rest over my salad. Yum!
Can’t forget the wine!
Daisy wanted a glass!
And dinner is served!
Everything turned out delicious. The whole meal only took me about 15 minutes which is always nice since I get home so late! I was only able to finish about 1/2 of the bowl of pasta since the salad turned out nice and big. Lots of leftovers for the weekend 
I watched the Secret Life of Bees with the roomy and drank some more wine after dinner! I completely forgot that I read the book when I turned on the movie. After about a half hour of watching it, I realized I knew everything that was about to happen! It was very good!
We both wanted some dessert during the movie! I decided it was time for her to try some banana soft serve!
I brought out 4 frozen bananas. Last time I made this, the bananas would not blend in my horrible blender. Everyone recommended adding some milk to get things going! The only milk I had in the house last night was Kefir. I am going to talk more about why I bought Kefir in my next post but it definitely helped the bananas blend a little better.
I still had to turn my blender on and off maybe 5 times to stir in more milk. The Kefir is thick so normal milk would probably work a little better.
The finished product turned out great! It was nice and thick just like fro-yo. I added some vegan chocolate chips to satisfy my chocolate craving.
The roommate loved her bowl as well! Success!
1) What is your favorite healthy dessert?
2) What is your favorite unhealthy dessert?
1) Banana soft serve!! I also love baked apples with cinnamon, pumpkin butter, and carob chips!
2) Cookies N’ Cream Blizzard from Dairy Queen! Oh how I miss those! They were a party of my daily diet as a child. Not good!
It is lunch time so I better go! Have a great weekend!
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omg i have yet to try banana soft serve but i would love to soon!
my favorite unhealthy dessert would definitely have to be the peanut butter cup blizzard from DQ
jenna
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I don’t even like veggies and your pasta dish looks so good. Favorite healthy dessert would probably be something with some pb and a tablespoon of chocolate chips. Favorite unhealthy? Oh my. Let me count the ways…
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I love adding lots of veggies to my pasta but I have never used cucumber! Interesting…
I have never tried banana soft serve because I’m not sure my magic bullet could handle it, but I’ve gotta try it soon!
My favorite healthy dessert is vitamuffins and unhealthy would have to be cheese cake. Have a good weekend!
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Favorite healthy? frozen fruit with low fat vanilla ice cream
Unhealthy? Ice cream, with chocolate. Lots of it
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The pasta looks fantastic!! Top Chef material
I am eating that EXACT kefir from your picture, right now! Actually it’s one of my favorite healthy desserts, with chocolate powder and Stevia mixed in. I also like it with a chunk of my 85% dark chocolate.
I love DQ blizzards, and my favorite is the Reese’s PB cup one. That would HAVE to be my favorite non-healthy dessert! Or, any ice cream with pb and chocolate.
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I loved that movie!
1. frozen yogurt? warm cinnamon apples?
2. anything with lots of chocolate and peanut butter. I ove the chocolate extreme blizzards too!
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i really wanted to see that movie but i never got around to it & that pasta looks absolutely amazinggg
& chocolate cake
1) froyo– duhh!
2) omg i looooove blizzards, mcflurries, etc.! deliicous
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my fave healthy dessert is my “cookie dough” =)
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mmmm- your pasta meal looks SO good!! I love meals that are yummy AND quick. I’m STARVING by the time I get home from work/the gym!!!
Hmmm…favorite healthy dessert would probably either be warmed apples + cinnamon, or greek yogurt with a little Kashi.
Unhealthy? That’s hard! LOL I have so many. I’m gonna have to go with Coldstone’s Cake Batter Ice Cream with Cookie Dough and Graham Cracker Pie Crust. OMG. It’s been too long…
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Dori Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Ever had Cold Stone’s cake batter ice cream with brownie and chocolate sauce?? AMAZING.
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I love frozen fruit for a healthy dessert, but if we’re talking unhealthy I think a couple of fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies topped with cookie dough coconut milk ice cream would be the dreamiest
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no joke daisy looks exactly like my friend britt’s cat murphy. love their squishy faces! SEE YOU TOMORROW GIRLLLLLL <3
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OOOOHHH, I must try that banana soft serve. That looks wonderful, thanks for sharing!!!
My fave healthy dessert is banana, peanut butter, and choco chips.
My unfave dessert: salted warm chocolate cake
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that should of read my fave unhealthy dessert (whoops)
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I really need to try banana soft serve! I’ve heard so much about it.
fave healthy dessert?? chocolate vita top
fave non healthy dessert? all of them. I don’t discriminate!
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ohh now i wana banana soft serve!! i didnt know you could make it in a blender? all this time ive been waiting on a food processor!!
LOVE your dinner.
fav healthy dessert-edys tart frozen yogurt on cake cone
fav unhealthy dessert-any type of Gelato..pref. Peanut butter flava!
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Dori Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Katie – I make the soft serve in my blender alllll the time. And I just bought a hand blender to make it even easier!
Missy – Sorry for responding to all your comments as if this were my blog
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Haha I love when you respond to other people. It’s good to get the convos going! I agree, my little hand blender makes it easy too!
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Gotta have the wine!! Unhealthy – Tiramisu! Healthy – oatmeal or Vita parfaits
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How come I can’t think of a healthy dessert? Does ice cream count? I really like soft serve. I guess that probably counts towards the non-healthy dessert.
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Glad to see no spoons were harmed! I made mine with water last time and it tasted the same.
That pasta is so simple and it looks delish. I’m glad Daisy got to get her drank on!
My fave healthy dessert is vanilla chobani with chocolate chips. I zap the whole thing in the microwave for ten seconds. It sounds weird, but the chocolate melts and the yogurt gets all warm…
Non healthy dessert would be a tub of frosting and a spoon
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Love your quick dinner! And Daisy trying to steal your wine!
Here’s a hint – peel the bananas before you freeze them, they toss them in the blender straight from the freezer they’ll blend a lot better.
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Dori Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Oh Gd yes Missy that is what I assumed you were doing! You have to peel them, cut them into big chunks and freeze them in a ziplock or tupperware!
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Missy Maintains Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I’ve heard that before but wasn’t sure if I was supposed to wrap them in tin foil…tupperware…ziplock…! Haha I’ll do that from now on. I was freezing them for a day and then taking them out about an hour before making them to defrost.
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WW pasta looks delicious!!! Love adding tons of veggies to it!
favorite healthy dessert: kabocha
favorite unhealthy dessert: kabocha
so, moral of the story: eat or not eat? that’s the one million question for me right now!
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we did a great whole wheat pasta mac n cheese the other day
and the kids did not know it was even good for them lol
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ah Missy! I have no idea what happened — I was wondering where you’ve been! you haven’t been popping up on my google reader
wahh! I’ve missed you! the new site looks incredible!
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Yumm….pasta looks good!! So does bananas!!! My fave healthy desert— lets see…i love a good bowl of rasin bran! lol….And TCBY!! White Chocolate Mousse yougart is sooo good!
Un healthy desert—definetly a seven layerd chocolate cake i had a couple months ago at a wedding rehersal dinner!
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