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Ingredients

  • 1  teaspoon honey
  • 1/2 teaspoon fresh lime juice
  • 1/2 cup reduced-fat sour cream
  • 4 (8-inch) flour tortillas
  • 3/4 cup (3 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeño peppers
  • 1  cup chopped skinless, boneless rotisserie chicken breast
  • 1  cup thinly sliced peeled firm ripe peaches
  • 4  teaspoons chopped fresh cilantro
  • Cooking spray

Preparation

1. Combine honey and lime juice in a small bowl, stirring well with a whisk. Stir sour cream into honey mixture; cover and chill until ready to serve.

2. Place tortillas flat on a work surface. Sprinkle 3 tablespoons cheese over half of each tortilla; top each tortilla with 1/4 cup chicken, 1/4 cup peaches, and 1 teaspoon cilantro. Fold tortillas in half.

3. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Place 2 quesadillas in the pan, and top quesadillas with a cast-iron or other heavy skillet. Cook 1 1/2 minutes on each side or until tortillas are crisp and lightly browned (leave cast-iron skillet on quesadillas as they cook). Remove quesadillas from pan; set aside, and keep warm. Repeat procedure with the remaining quesadillas. Cut each quesadilla into wedges. Serve with sauce.

Nutritional Information: Calories: 364 Fat: 15.8g (sat 7.4g,mono 5.8g,poly 1.4g) Protein: 21.3g Carbohydrate: 33.5g Fiber: 2.2g Cholesterol: 68mg Iron: 2.1mg Sodium: 485mg Calcium: 235mg

Source & Image:  cookinglight.com

 

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Hot Hats for Cool Temps

Sep 9th, 2010

Have you seen the latest Target commercial with the lady looking at hats and dreaming of a fantasy life to match the hat?  It’s so true.  Hats are so sexy and very transformative.  I own dozens but mainly because it’s the easiest way to cover my personal burden of perpetually flat hair.  So thrilled that the fedora is back this fall. I can seriously rock any fedora.  Another trend I am seeing this season is the cloche hat – think 20′s flapper era.  Here are a few of my favorites….

jcrew tweed fedora  $58

Classic and simple but what else would you expect from jcrew?  Perfect with a creamy cable-knit sweater.

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Ingredients

  • CRAB CAKES:
  • 2  tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
  • 1  tablespoon chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 1/2  tablespoons light mayonnaise
  • 1/2  teaspoon grated lemon rind
  • 1  tablespoon fresh lemon juice
  • 1/4  teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/8  teaspoon ground red pepper
  • 1  large egg
  • 1/3  cup panko (Japanese breadcrumbs)
  • 1  pound lump crabmeat, drained and shell pieces removed
  • 1  tablespoon olive oil, divided
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Name: Tanya Sharkey

Kids: Gavin (9) Adelaide (7)

Occupation: Photographer, specializing in children and pet portraiture.

Hometown:  St. Petersburg, FL

H&H Interview with Tanya:

1. What are the top 3 items in your grocery cart?

Fruit, mostly blueberries and peaches right now. Organic Eggs and a variety of beans.

2. What are you reading (honestly)?

Just finished Eat, Pray, Love and have moved on to Life of Pi.

3. What is your guilty pleasure when you get a break from the kids?

Goofing off on the computer researching, looking stuff up, reading.

4. What would we be surprised to find in your purse?

Not much, I have a tiny purse most of the time.  I always have at least 3 different lip glosses though.

5. What is your favorite reality TV show?

Survivor (I will be on the show one day!!!, hopefully:-) and Top Chef.

6. What is your cocktail of choice?

Dark Beer mostly, stouts, porters.

7. What is the funniest thing your kids have said or done lately?

They amaze me daily.  Lately though I’m cracking up at my daughter checking out her bum in the mirror, she’s only 7!!   My son loves listening to music and puts on his headphones in his room and sings loudly!  Love it!

8. What is your favorite quotation?

“find life experiences and swallow them whole. travel. meet many people. go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. try everything. exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.” -Lawrence K. Fish.

9. What are you currently working out to on your iPod?

Working out, hmm.  When I do, it’s Salsa, Hip Hop.  I love Shakira “Hips don’t lie”.

10. Who is your favorite celebrity mom and why?

I don’t really keep up with celebs much, but I would have to say Madonna.  She’s incredibly passionate and I like that.

11. What is something most people don’t know about you?

Hmm, I’m an open book really.  I have 8 cats and would have more if my hubby didn’t cut me off:-)

12. What is your secret to staying Hot & Healthy?

Drink a lot of water, never touch a towel to my face (I air dry or use paper towel), keeping positive, being friendly, being silly and ok with it.

*Please check out some of Tanya’s fantastic work at tanyasharkey.com*

 

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