Turkey Meatloaf (7 WW+)

When I went to the grocery store on Monday I stocked up on chicken and ground turkey.  Well, I needed to get on top of using some of that turkey and G has been yapping about meatloaf for a little while now.  I'm not necessarily the worlds largest fan of meat loaf.  I've had one too many "be careful the dryness might choke you to death" meatloafs in my lifetime.  So I went a hunting and found a recipe that looked quick and easy enough (I'm still not feeling 100% so tonight needed to be easy).

When I was finished mixing everything together I was somewhat skeptical, I mean it felt downright soggy, but guess what, it was actually pretty delicious.  I mean I could barely taste anything because of the stuffies, but it seemed good and G really liked it.   I also served it with a bit-o-potatoes.  There are two things I will do differently next time.
1) I will chop the onions smaller ... they kind of got in the way ... I just didn't care enough when chopping
2) I'll hold back a bit of the ketchup, mustard, brown sugar sauce for dipping.  It was yummy, but I wanted more of it.

Ya, it doesn't look appetizing, I love taking pictures, just not of food and I've been too lazy to take my super duper wide angle lens off my camera which just makes the food look wonky

Turkey Meatloaf - 7 Points Plus Values
Adapted from Weight Watchers


Ingredients

	1 Tbsp olive oil
	3/4 cup(s) onion(s), finely chopped
	1/4 cup(s) green pepper(s), finely chopped (I used red because G is a bad listener and things Red sounds like Green)
	2 clove(s) (medium) garlic clove(s), minced
	1/4 cup(s) low-fat shredded cheddar cheese, sharp
	1/4 cup(s) seasoned bread crumbs
	1 1/2 tsp italian seasoning
	1 tsp ketchup
	1/2 tsp table salt
	1/2 tsp black pepper
	1 large egg(s), lightly beaten
	1 1/4 pound(s) uncooked ground turkey breast
	1 spray(s) cooking spray
	1/2 cup(s) ketchup
	1 Tbsp unpacked light brown sugar
	1 tsp mustard  (I used 1tbsp mustard powder) Instructions  Heat oil on stove and add onions, pepper and garlic.  Cook for a few minutes until they get all delicious smelling.  Take them off the heat and let them cool for a minute or two Combine the next bunch of ingredients, from cheese through eggs, into a bowl.  Then add in the onion mix and mix it all up.  Add in the turkey and mix until blended. Put the turkey mix into a loaf pan sprayed with cooking spray and cook for 35 minutes at 350 degrees. Then combine the ketchup, sugar and mustard in a little dish.  Once the loaf is done pull it out, slather with this deliciousness and put it back in the oven for 5 more minutes.   Eat it.  Yum.  A serving is 1/5th of the loaf

General Tso's Chicken

Dinner tonight was delicious and I feel like I need to tell the interwebs about it.  I had my weigh in tonight and was down another 2.8lbs ... go me.  The problem with meeting nights is that I don't get home until 7:30.  I ate a blood orange during our meeting, but by the time I was home I was hungry and as per usual, I still had a boatload of points to use (Banana for breakfast, 8 point chicken wrap lunch, 2 point yogurt and an blood orange for snacks aka 19 points left).

I went off browsing the WW site for something to make with the chicken I have in the fridge and found 7 point recipe for General Tso's Chicken, but I didn't exactly have everything I needed so I just made substitutes.  I definitely ate more than one serving because I could, I was half assed measuring and ate about 1.5 servings and was stuffed to the gills which felt really nice.

General Tso's Chicken 7 points (adapted from WW)

Ingredients
3/4's cup reduced sodium chicken broth
1.5 tbsp corn starch
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp reduced sodium soy sauce
1 tbsp red wine vinegar (recipe said use white wine vinegar)
1/2 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp extra virgin olive oil (recipe said use peanut oil)
1/4 of a huge ass onion chopped (recipe said two scallions ... close enough)
2 garlic cloves minced
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 lb 99% fat free boneless chicken tenderloins (recipe said boneless skinless breasts)
1 package of microwave brown rice from Trader Joe's (Recipe says 2 cups white rice)

Instructions
Mix broth, corn starch, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and ginger together in a bowl. Make sure the corn starch isn't lumpy and is fully mixed in then set it aside.

On the stove, heat the oil and add in onion, red pepper and garlic.  Cook for a few minutes until the onions have softened up a bit.  Toss in the chicken and cook until the chicken is pretty much done.  Then add the sauce you made earlier making sure to remix any of the corn starch that may have settled at the bottom.  Cook for about 3 minutes until the sauce has thickened.

Notes:
*According to WW a serving is about 1 cup of the chicken/sauce and 1/2 cup of rice.
*None of my changes affected the point value ... larger amounts of peanut oil are slightly less than extra virgin olive oil, but for the amount used they are the same point values
* I took a picture with my phone, I was hungry, it looks like shit, I had already started eating.  Oh well.

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Edited 3/3/2011

CB here. I just made this tonight and O-M-G it's really good. I followed the original recipe pretty closely. The only thing I changed was adding some steamed broccoli florets. Oh and I did brown rice instead of white rice.

Rating: 5/5

Here's my picture b/c Nikki's was... ahem... not clear.



I love you Nikki.