Pan seared tilapia w/ shrimp, scallops and veggies!

This was a very healthy meal that I literally just threw together. I keep fresh veggies as a staple in my home and I keep all of my meat in the freezer until the day that I am ready to cook(this way the meat does not go bad). So, I saw that I had some great seafood in the freezer and decided to make a seafood "stir fry" if you will. It really was delicious and very healthy!

I started off by taking about 1/2lb- 3/4 lb. of large gulf shrimp and 1 4 oz. pkg of baby scallops, and placed them in a bowl. Seasoned with a about a teaspoon of fish oil, season salt, pepper, garlic salt and crushed red pepper(optional).  I let that marinate while I prepared the rest of the meal. About 20-30 min.

While the seafood is marinating, I cup up my veggies. You can use whatever that you have in the refrigerator. I cut up 3 whole mushrooms, 1/4 sweet red pepper, 1 stalk of celery, 2 small asparagus stalks, 1 parsnip(or carrot), 1 jalapeno(optional), 1/2 sweet onion, 1/2 cup of red cabbage and about 1 cup of broccoli florets.

I know that sounds like a lot of vegetables! That is why I suggest that you just go through what you have instead of buying just for this recipe. That could get expensive! I honestly just chopped up what I had!

I then seasoned those veggies with 1 tablespoon of minced garlic, 2 tablespoon's of lite Caesar dressing, some salt and pepper. I also cut up (2) slices of turkey bacon and mixed well...

I took my slices of tilapia and seasoned with the dry ingredients that I placed on the seafood. Then I heated one pan with cooking spray(i used cast iron, but it is not necessary) for the tilapia and heated a wok for the veggies and the seafood. The reason that I used a wok is b.c that is a lot of food, but if you don't have a wok, I would just use 2 separate pans. One for the veggie mix and another for the seafood mix. So you would have 3 pans going at one time.

If you are using a wok, place the seafood in first. For about 3 min. or until it turns pink. Then add the veggies and stir fry for another 7 min.

For the tilapia.... On med-high heat cook each side for 5 min.(or until flaky).

Place your veggie/seafood mixture on a plate and add the pan seared tilapia and Waaalllaahhh... you have a healthy, delicious meal! Happy eating Y'all!

Chicken, Scallops and saffron rice!!!

This was such an easy dish to make! It was also healthy, hearty and delicious!

I started with taking a can(or 2 cups of water with one chicken bouillon cube) of  chicken stock and placing in my rice cooker(you can use a pot as well) I then added one cup of saffron rice.

Let cook for about 30-35 min. or until almost done (once the liquid has almost dissolved) and add one cup of frozen veggies. I used peas, corn and carrots. let sit in the rice for about 5 min. and that is done.

while you are cooking the rice, take 3/4 lb. of large shrimp(de-veined and tails off ) and 1/2 lb. of scallops(I got the small scallops on sale for 1.99, but I would have used larger ones otherwise) and season. I used a season salt, pepper, paprika, chipolte powder and onion powder. Once seasoned heat up 2 tblspns. of oil in a pan and let get hot. I used grape seed oil(see below).

Then I sauteed the shrimp and scallops for about 5-8 , min. (or until done) topped with the juice of 1/2 a lime as well as the zest, placed on top of the rice and waaaallllaaaahhhhh! So delicious and super easy! Happy eating y'all!