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Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes Cottage Cheese

Stuffed cherry tomatoes are a healthy dream snack.

When you add a filling with a great flavor pairing, that’s all you need for a moment of delicious joy.

These are good low calorie bites that you can snack on daily. You can pop or stuff in your mouth, a cherry tomato without feeling stuffed.

They flavor burst squirt the tomato juice so effortlessly and why kids can love them so easily because they’re a form of eating entertainment.

And if that’s mouth-entertainment you avoid, when you stuff them, you remove the squirt effect because you remove the inside juices.

The juicy inner parts are also the most sour tasting that you can save for a tomato sauce. An easy way to remove the center is to use a large round baker’s piping tip with open jaws or a star-shape one. ⭐️ Twist and scoop out the inside.

And then in its juicy place, add cooked quinoa (or cous cous would work and is even quicker).

Here with quinoa you get a nice bite that’s also a pseduo-grain that will help make it a filling protein snack.

Because quinoa is filled with the essential amino acids that are building blocks of protein.

And then add a small dollop cottage cheese topping (or your fave healthy creamy cheese) if you want to keep the healthy bite vibes.

You gotta love the micro healthy bites that help keep you tied over until dinner (instead of chocolate or salty bag snacks)!

And then finally to top it all off, add a green, fresh earthy bite that balances the acidic sweetness in tomatoes. 🍅

You can add asparagus or leafy herbs like mint or basil work well to give a 3rd dimensional taste. It’ll also give a color pop to the plate. 🌱

That’s what makes these stuffed cherry tomatoes, appetizer worthy: unique shapes, colors, and textures 🌿

There are a variety of tomatoes each season to deliver on their promised natural abilities. And maybe you experienced their abundance in your garden this year or discovered a new tomato in your store.

Another variety that’s similar in sweeter taste and juicy-ness is a plum tomato.

You can substitute cherry tomatoes with plum tomatoes if you want to do more stuffing as they’re larger. They look like new deviled eggs.

These below are filled with cous cous and gorgonzola creamy blue cheese protein.

You can make these snacks in minutes and I like that they look homemade and not like perfect little catering appetizers.

They’ll get gobbled up in seconds in a delicious and healthy way.

Tomatoes are full of Vitamin C, A, some B vitamins, fiber, and lycopene that’s anti-inflammatory (and even good for sunburns).

…Well, when you put it that way! 😊… maybe you’ll give them a try too.

Between carrots and tomatoes, you can have your healthy, low-calorie orange snack anytime of day. 🧡

Btw, you can take any tomato seeds and grow a plant. I started one a week ago and it has a green sprout 🌱 about 2 inches tall. Maybe growing tomatoes are the easiest produce plant to grow… as I’ve been told, have seen from others, and who knows?… maybe will see my own. 🤞

Stuffed Cherry Tomatoes Cottage

These are like mini build-a-snack bites that delight.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American

Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Equipment

jumbo jaw piping tip

Ingredients

cherry tomatoes
cottage cheese
asparagus or fresh green herb

Instructions

Cut cherry tomatoes in half with a serated knife so they cut cleanly without squirting juice. An easy trick to remove the seeds is to use an open jaw or star piping tip. Swirl around and put the seeds aside and save them for a sauce. Or grow a tomato plant.
Add cooked quinoa (or grain substitute).
Add a dollop of cottage cheese.
Add green veggie zhugh for flavor and color!

Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse – Gluten Free (No Baking)

Chocolate pumpkin mousse is a healthy dessert that’s so easy to make in 5 minutes with no baking!

Is it delicious? …Of course!

But make no mistake this is a luscious creamy dessert scoop THAT NEEDS NO added sugar. Recipe below. 🧡

You can use anti-inflammatory unprocessed cocoa and pumpkin from a can or 100% pumpkin that’s pureed in with A-B-C vitamins and fiber. 🎃

Pumpkin is one of those holiday ingredients that reminds us of fall when we see PUMPKIN EVERYTHING.

Plus, this chocolate pumpkin mousse dessert snack has almond and coconut flours that are gluten-free.

If you want, you can make your own almond flour easily with whole almonds that you add to your chopper tool or food processor.

Almonds are a food kind of healthy fat, so you can have synergistic nutrition absorption with the pumpkin-almond healthy duo (since pumpkin’s Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin that btw, is good for eyes).

…And is a tasty duo with pumpkin-chocolate flavors, using cocoa for the recipe.

Or cacao that’s not a typo for cocoa. 😊

It’s the raw, unprocessed version of cocoa.

But if you can’t find 100% cacao that’s anti-inflammatory healthy, you can use any unsweetened cocoa that’ll be almost as good.

Besides pumpkin that’s the star ingredient for this mousse, another fall flavor incorporated is tart cranberry… thanks to another later American holiday where you can give more thanks to the feast on the table.

And cran-pumpkin together is a glorious pairing in both sweet and sour taste, and punchy fall vivid colors.

Dried cranberries (or Craisins) that are commonly used in salads, are low calorie and high in Vitamin C.

You could use juicy whole cranberries for flavor, but they would make this recipe too wet, and then we would have to add more dry ingredients or flours.

With mostly dry ingredients, you don’t need much flour.

You can adjust the coconut flour based on the creamy perfect mousse texture you want… even though you can’t go wrong here!

After you pull together and hand mix all your ingredients, take an ice cream scooper (or spoon) and test the texture thickness of your choc-pumpkin mousse that can be like soft ice cream scoops.

Your eyes can get big because you’ll want a bite. 👀

And when you get the textures to liking, you can let the glorious and healthy flavors melt in your mouth.

This site is all about happy and healthy living and eating ways and inspiration. If this is your first time here, I encourage you to find out more about me and this healthy recipe blog.

Chocolate Pumpkin Mousse

This is a creamy no-bake mousse that is full of anti-inflammatory healthy ingredients.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Equipment

ice cream scooper (optional)

Ingredients

2 tbsp 100% pumpkin from a can (or pureed pumpkin)
1 tbsp 100% cacao, unsweetened (or any cocoa)
1 tbsp dried cranberries, chopped small
2 tsp almond flour
almonds, chopped (optional)
coconut flour (about 1 tsp for texture)

Instructions

Use a spoon to mix your ingredients together and enjoy!

White Fish Broth Soup In 15 Minutes

White fish broth is a tasty, light, and healthy meal in itself. You can make this delicious bowl of healthy white fish soup in minutes from frozen fish and spices that can please your taste buds.

White fish filet is one of the easiest fish to source all around the world, and you can find priced and stocked reasonably in grocery stores.

Cod, haddock, flounder, and tilapia are a few of these common white fish choices available around the world. Even though wild fishes like salmon are healthiest (touted for Omega-3), it’s often more pricey and sometimes hard to find.

You can almost always catch a white fish healthy deal and meal to feed a table tonight that’s loaded with protein, vitamins, and minerals even if you don’t live by the coast.

Considering other dinner and meal alternatives, it’s good healthy value.

In choosing white fish, you may not notice fish taste differences in fish coming from packaged frozen fish sections that are usually mild tasting, compared to the fresh seafood counters that have a fresh and more distinct-to-type fishy taste.

Wherever you go, the most important healthy choice is choosing the “wild” factor.

Wild fish is the healthy choice over farm-raised fish.

Emphasizing wild fish, then you can use the organic skin for flavorful fish broth.

Fish broth has type 1 collagen, that’s especially good for skin and hair. And, who doesn’t want that?

When I was younger, I was told to avoid the fish skin, but that’s because we ate wild card fish sources that weren’t wild fish. 🎣

But like most white fishes, the white flesh is still a good source of protein, Vitamin D, and Omega-3 healthy fats.

White fish is also a good lighter choice if you’re trying to lose weight.

And if you’re looking to make quick, easy meals… you can pull frozen fish out from the freezer and have a meal like white fish broth soup in minutes.

A zestful soup with so much flavor with tastefully paired spices and spice blends like tarragon, coriander, and my seafood favorite…

I grew up with memories driving to the Maryland beaches, where Old Bay spice is a nostalgic and distinct taste favorite… and for many others who experienced the layer of strong Old Bay celery salt, paprika, and cloves scent in the already salty ocean air. 🌊

A whiff of the spice reminds me of the middle and end of August before Labor Day when the season changes. That’s also back-to-school time. And it was for me too as an 80s teen growing up in the more simple, and happy-go-lucky years.

Carrying the carefree spirit into back-to-school college years, I returned for summers and even worked at Phillip’s Seafood in Ocean City, MD one summer.

Those were the innocent (as in I didn’t know what I didn’t know) days with an unexpected whole new world ahead. We didn’t spend time on smart phones or the internet that didn’t exist.

…We focused on the physical 3-D life in front and around us and played physical arcade games and enjoying all-you-can-eat crabs as entertainment. 😊

And this 3-D person came home from work smelling like a seafood boil festival.

On the shore, they douse Old Bay on everything… and all seafood. 🍤 Like shrimp, scallops and corn…

Old Bay is also great in fishy broths like the white fish broth (recipe below).

Just adding the seafood magical blend, you’d think you were having a soup from a Maryland seafood restaurant.

And because I planned DC parties in Mediterranean and Spanish cuisine restaurants, I especially like the fishy spice combination with the Spanish spice saffron.

It’s often found in a Paella dish that is not a quick meal, but you can make a saffron white omelet in minutes.

As another idea, you can serve that up with your white fish broth soup.

White Fish Soup in 15 Minutes From Frozen Fish

This is a delicious restaurant-quality fish soup that's flavorful, light, and healthy. And for wild fish broth, you can get collagen good for aging.

Course dinner, lunch

Cuisine American

Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Ingredients

wild white fish, frozen
Old Bay
saffron threads
salt and pepper to taste
tarragon
shrimp, cooked and frozen (optional)
extra virgin olive oil
oyster crackers and lemon wedge (garnish)
coriander (optional)

Instructions

Add a drizzle of oil to a pan and add frozen fish.
Cook fish using frozen package instructions.
Pour fish juice into bowl. Add fish and spices.
Add cooked shrimp and any other seafood desired.
Serve with oyster crackers.

Apple Smoothie Milkshake with Sweet Potato

Apple smoothie is a healthy fall-ish color drink you can smile about… and when paired with the balancing tastes of sweet potato and carrot, you’re also getting a trifecta of anti-inflammatory goodness with vitamins and beta-carotene that’s the orange rainbow compound good for eyes. 🌈

Plus these ingredients are easy to find year-round and is great for season transitions where hot and cold (life on ho-ld) meet. 😊 So that’s pretty much year-round for a year-round beverage option!

For a great breakfast smoothie, it’s as simple as cooking a sweet potato and 2 medium peeled carrots until soft.

Let them cool and then blend with milk and a chopped apple.

…Oh yeah, the apple is the star ingredient.

I chose a Red Delicious apple because it’s a bit more sweet than a green apple.

Red apples are the ones with quercetin that is buzz talk (or you may have heard of).

But green apples, like a famous tart Granny Smith is one of the most anti-inflammatory apples.

…So either red or green, you can’t go wrong when comparing apples to apples. 🍎🍏

And if you want to kick it up a notch, you can add a ‘lil cinnamon to give a better version taste like in cinnamon cereals, but without the added sugar.

…That’s huge!

And you can do the same tasty and anti-inflammatory goodness intentions with an apple smoothie milkshake (recipe below 🧃).

This drinkable shake is a breakfast meal (inside a drink) because it also has eggs.

apple milkshake with cinnamon and sweet potato. — An apple milkshake is all natural with real apples, eggs, sweet potato and cinnamon.

It’s a egg protein shake that’s bordering on ice cream for breakfast… that puts a smile on old faces especially when it’s hot enough outside. 😋

…Which btw, when you make homemade ice cream… it can be healthy with a few healthy ingredients.

So if you’re looking for a satisfying cool refreshing snack, this could be one to try that meets your hotter moods and sweet tooth.

…I remember as a child when I came home from the dentist after having cavities filled because I ate a lot of sugar… and I didn’t mind because I was always excited to have ice cream for dinner. 🍨

That was the sugar freak in me and still is today in a healthy living way.

And, maybe that’s what it’s like for you or someone in your household situation who wants to enjoy sweet, but lower the sugar intake.

I know I wouldn’t have liked a sophisticated (aka grown up) milkshake taste like apple-sweet potato.

But a vanilla milkshake… oh yes! or maybe even a Vanilla Cinnamon milkshake that’s closer to familiar common ice cream flavors that the little people like. 👧🏻

And then maybe grow up one day wanting to try other flavors they never liked before.

And if that’s what we’re up for, then adding a hint of natural peanut butter enhances the body’s absorption to an apple and sweet potato milkshake dessert snack-meal loaded with fat-soluble vitamins… plus another taste dimension!

Now that’s something to wake up for 🍎

And for a little detox kick, add a little ginger for a natural energy jolt⚡️to your souped up apple smoothie.

You can visit these links for more smoothie beverage recipe ideas and simple and delicious anti-inflammatory recipes.

Apple Smoothie Milkshake with Cinnamon

Ingredients

2 medium or large eggs
1 cup milk
1 medium apple
cinnamon to taste
1 tbsp peanut butter
1 small sweet potato, cooked soft
cardamom
ginger to taste (or zhugh on top)

Instructions

On low to medium stove heat in a pot, constantly stir eggs and milk until almost boiling (small bubbles). Then let cool in the refrigerator until cold.
Blend all the ingredients together. Then freeze.
Bring out to room temperature and enjoy! It's best to freeze the milkshake so it sets, and then add any leftover in the refrigerator if you do not finish.
If you want to build a (second) layer of the sweet potato, after you freeze the first layer, you can add the second layer. Easy peasy and you get to mix and enjoy all the flavors together when it has melted some.

Coffee Milkshake with Cold Brew (3-Ingredients)

Coffee milkshake is a nice option along with many coffee drinks out there… coffee lattes, macchiatos, cappuccinos… and the list keeps growing as coffee interest grows. ☕️

I was a late coffee bloomer if there’s such a thing… starting a morning routine decades into life.

It was a bitter acquired taste to my younger self.

But I realized after some years into the happy habit, around the 7-year switch (like allergy changes), that my gut couldn’t keep up with my cup o’ java demand… so I switched to homemade cold brew coffee.

Because I didn’t wanna give up my new healthy routine.

Afterall, black coffee is a healthy plant-based antioxidant beverage choice. Tea has its own special place in my drink world, but after noon. 🕛

…And with a cold brew coffee milkshake, you don’t have to choose, you can enjoy anytime of day!

It’s a great treat option (…yes/maybe?) especially when it’s still warm temperatures outside. And that can be closer to year round in these climate change days.

…So why not?

A coffee milkshake like this one is different because it has soft serve-style ice cream, and cold brew coffee.

Cold brew takes minutes to make or “brew.”

And just seconds if you’ve been on the cold brew coffee bandwagon for a while, and have your setup and coffee grounds available.

…I could make you a nice cup in a minute and it’d be ready to drink in that same minute. 😊

I started making cold brew daily in 2019.

That’s when I discovered that I could not have a regular morning coffee routine because of the acidity. Whether it was the fasting day next morning or it was breakfast time, my stomach needs water and food first!

…Maybe yours is like that too.

But I can enjoy cold brew coffee at ease with some small food (like a banana, yogurt, or some fiber) in the gut.

So if you have a sensitive gut or lining, that’s something to consider… and maybe you don’t have to give up a coffee habit or coffee morning routine if you don’t wanna.

…And this light creamy coffee milkshake is a nice complement.

You can keep adding cold brew to your milkshake that can be a breakfast shake (or more like a light cappuccino). 🧋

And it’s a healthy breakfast dessert drink because it’s light but also has egg protein. 🥚

With a plant-based milk like almond milk added, this does your body good. 🌱

Since cold brew coffee is less acidic in the process, you can start your morning with any ground coffee that you can sift through the coffee filter, that is “the brew” process in cold brew.

You can use light, medium, or dark black coffee grounds. Whatever suits your fancies.

And to top it all off, the optional sweet zhugh is chocolate shavings. If you use dark chocolate then you gain some additional healthy polyphenol anti-inflammatory points. 🎉

That’s all the sugar needed in this coffee milkshake drink, if any.

It’s not loaded with sugar like so many cool coffee beverages you buy that give even my inner child a sugar skin crawl attack just looking at how many grams of sugar. 😮

This milkshake can have no added sugar and be wickedly good!

…And not only is this a low-sugar beverage, you gotta love that this is 3-ingredient easy shake steps… where you focus mostly on the drinking enjoyment!

Coffee Milkshake with Cold Brew

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Ingredients

⅓ cold brew coffee
⅓ milk (unsweetened almond milk recommended)
⅓ cup scoop of ice cream

Instructions

Hand mix ingredients. Enjoy!