Thursday, November 10, 2011

Easy Comfort Food to Keep You Warm

With temps dipping down to 29 degrees, burrr!!!, I'm always concocting low calorie, inexpensive comfort food.
Here are a couple of recent dinners:
The first one I can not take credit for, I got it on Guy Fieri's show, DD& D. Then I did it my way. It's Haluski, a dish after my half-polish heart!
Lori's version of Haluski
1 head of cabbage, boiled in water for 5 minutes, then juliened.
1 stcik of butter (I susbstituted 4 TBSP butter and 4 tables olive oil
2 lg onions julienned
1 lb bacon, cooked drained and crumbled (I used just 3 slices)
1 TBSP garlic salt divided
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/2 lb lasagna noodles or wide egg noodles (cooked to el dente)
Boil Cabbage in a large stock or pasta pot, then remove to drain and add noodles to the same boiling water until cooked, drain and set aside.
cook the onions in the butter and oil on medium heat. Let them sweat but don't brown them. Then add the cabbage and sprinkle with 1/2 the garlic salt. Add crumbled bacon, white wine, noodles and rest of the garlic salt. Saute until everything is glazed, about 3-5 minutes. Serve with steamed Keilbasa and mustard! Yummy!

The next dinner was a pantry whip up. I had everything in the pantry.
Pink Penne
1 lb penne pasta
1 can salmon- skin and bones removed, then break up into bite size pieces
2 cloved minced garlic
1/4 cup dry white wine
1 jar lite alfredo sauce
1 jar (about 6-8 oz roasted red peppers, break up peppers into bite sized pieces
1/4 cup grated parmesean cheese
Cook pasta according to directions, drain and set aside.
In a very large skillet or saute pan, add 1 tbsp oilive oil and two cloves of minced garlic. saute for 2 minutes, add salmon chunks, white wine, roasted red pepper and alfredo sauce, mix until smooth. Add Penne and saute until pasta is heated through, then sprinkle cheese and serve. I served it with garden greens in a vinaigrette.

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