Buffalo Chicken Bowl

My S.O. has been raving about this "buffalo chicken bowl" from the Protein Bar.  I love everything with the word "buffalo" in it so I decided to make my own out of jealousy.  It satisfied by chicken wing craving while still being healthy!

Ingredients:
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast chopped into bite size pieces

1 cup Franks Red Hot
Pinch of pepper
Pinch of crushed red pepper
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 cup quinoa
1 stalk celery, chopped
2 green onions, chopped
Sprinkle of Blue cheese
Sour cream (or I used greek yogurt)

Combine the chicken pieces, Frank's, garlic, pepper, and crushed red pepper in a sauce pan. Let it simmer for about 10 minutes (or until chicken is cooked through). Prepare quinoa as directed on the box.  Top the quinoa with chicken, celery, green onions, blue cheese and sour cream.  Drizzle a couple tablespoons of Frank's over the top.  Sooo easy yet so delicious!

Roasted Veggie-Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I went a little crazy at the fruit market and ended up with 3 bags of vegetables.  Since I had made stir fry vegetables just about every other night for the past week, I decided to go the sandwich route.

Ingredients:
1/2 of an Eggplant
1/2 of a Squash
Handful of Mushrooms
1/4 Onion
1 Bell pepper (any color)
6 Garlic cloves
1 Chicken sausage
Extra virgin olive oil
1/8 cup white wine
1 roll
1 slice mozzarella cheese
Feta cheese

Start by chopping all your vegetables and chicken sausage into bite size pieces. Chop two of the garlic cloves and leave the other 4 whole.  Spread the vegetables and sausage out on a baking sheet.  Toss the vegetables with a light coating of extra virgin olive oil and white wine.  Season the vegetables with a sprinkle of salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme and oregano.

Roast vegetables for 20 minutes at 350 degrees, tossing at the 10 minute mark.  For the sandwich I used a whole wheat focaccia mini loaf. I put a layer of feta cheese on the bottom, then stacked the veggies and sausage, then topped it with mozzarella cheese. Put it on a panini press for 5-10 minutes - just long enough to melt the cheese. 

With the leftovers I made a salad for lunch :)