Take A Bite. Enjoy. Stay Awhile.

I've said it a million times, but I really am behind on all fronts of life right now.  And I was just posting some pictures on Facebook when I came across some recent food photography.  Summer-food photography to tide my friends over while I get caught up. Oh, yum. I love food. I love Summer.  I love food especially during Summer.

These two dishes were inspired to one of our favorite food publications, Cooking Light. We're trying to move away from the (albeit yummy) comfort foods lathered with my favorite cheeses and filled with delicious processed carbs and onto quick, fresh, less processed-food laden meals. Score 100 points for M.'s fresh soft-corn tortilla tacos with queso fresco, fresh lime juice, chicken or steak, and fresh grilled veggies. And this mama gets a few points for a fresh salsa, lemon-juiced green and wax-beans dish, accompanying easy-peasy cumin-seasoned flank steak, recipe here.

Then there was this . . . 

Maybe our fanciest Monday-night dinner ever (find it here). We're talking beef tenderloin filets with a mushroom-rosemary-red wine sauce and a simple wedge salad. And, horror of all horrors, I prepared the filets on a non-stick pan and dinner was ready in a jiffy (the baby portabellos soaked up the yummy sauce quite nicely!).

The goal is to continue cooking the 'Quick & Easy' or 'Five-Ingredient' Recipes from CL for the time being. It's the one little thing we can do to improve our health for now without taking up more time out of an already-limited schedule.  As always, if you have any similar recipes to share - by all means, please do so.

Oh, and for those wondering - we are so not dieting.  Have I told you about our nightly mint-chocolate chip-ice-cream-on-a-cake-cone ritual?  Yeah. And after 9PM, no less.