Yummy Thursday: iCarly Night.

Spaghetti Tacos

The spaghetti taco, made famous by Spencer on the hit show iCarly, made it's way onto our family's dinner table. It has been my goal to have a "fun" or "themed" meal every Friday night. There are not a lot of places to dine or get take home from and these nights provide variety and a bit of fun.

Nini's face is hilarious. She and her sister were certain that these would be awful. She grudgingly put this taco together, only to find out, that they were actually quite good. They have continuously requested that we have a 2nd iCarly themed night! My spin on the whole spaghetti taco is that it was a surprisingly tasty discovery. You wouldn't think the combination would apeal to anyone's taste buds. Would you like to know how to make them? Click HERE for the link on the iCarly website. You can also submit a photo of your Spaghetti Tacos to this link HERE

Stayed tuned for our next themed meal - Mall Night.

Have you ever had Spaghetti Tacos?

Yummy Thursday: Oven-Fried Onion Rings

Before delving into the joy of a good onion ring, let's talk chocolate cupcakes. They are good and essential for a fun weekend meal at home with the family. Yet, with all that chocolate cupcake goodness, comes fat. Take out the oil and replace it with applesauce. Most cake mixes require a whole 1/2 cup of oil, try replacing it with a cup of non-sweetened applesauce. Now your chocolate cupcake is now a yummy, and much less fattening dessert. .

The fat content on these bad boys was never tallied. However, they are not "deep" fat fried, but fried in a 9x13 oven dish with only 2-3tbsp. of olive oil. The recipe calls for vegetable oil, but I rarely use it, as olive oil tastes better and is much healthier. In other words, if you are going to fry something, fry it in olive oil!

You can find the recipe and instructions here.

These great foods were used as part of our own family's theme nights. One weekend meal is comprised of food items specific to a certain theme. These two food items were used for our "Diner Night". We also have had spaghetti taco's for the show iCarly night, Auntie Anne's pretzels and smoothies for "Mall Night". These meals were fun to prepare and a whole lot easier than taking our caravan out to eat. Next week's theme night: Russia Night (as per the request of Cici and Nini).

Do you have theme nights?
Or Applesauce in place of oil?

P.S. The boys are 7 months old today!

I Dream in Orange.

...in orange sherbet that is. This mix of ingredients makes this low fat shake something out of a heavenly dream. Remember Creamsicles? Do I dare say it tastes better than these yummy ice cream treats? Here's the scoop:

2 cups orange sherbet ice cream

1 cup free cool whip

2 1/2 cups milk ( I used 1%, using skim what make this a fat free dessert)

Blend all three ingredients together.

and PRESTO-

your very own 40 ounces of

I dream in Orange Shake!

Here's the calorie scoop on your 8oz glass (rounding up):

77 calories

31 carbs

.6 grams of fat (unless using skim milk)

This is my first Yummy Thursday edition. If I have time to post, Thursdays will be all about food and sharing some of my tasty ways of cutting the calories and fat from desserts. So raise your I dream in Orange Shake glass to having the time to post Yummy Thursdays!

Tell me if you try it!