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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!

Italian Bean Salad with Gorgonzola Cheese

Italian bean salad is inspiraton from one salad dish I used to make every day. 🥗

That was in my teen years when I worked in the pantry of an italian restaurant with marble floors where you could hear silverware drop like a drum band.

…Those young years, I was responsible for lunch salads and desserts served at the tables that I could see from the open-style kitchen.

While the job was a summer one, the salad is one that stuck with me for many decades later when I became a food service professional… and can be one that you make.

It’s loaded with Italian ingredient greats… like gorgonzola, radicchio, and arugula that have distinct flavors.

Those are common in big American grocery stores where you can play a version of Guy’s Grocery Games 😊 as they’re usually hiding among the salads, produce, and cheeses.

Maybe see how long it takes you to find them camouflaged amongst the greens… and cheeses. 🧀

No green cheese, but blue healthy moldy cheese. Penicillium Roqueforti is mold that gives the blue veining easy to point out.

That makes it easier to find the cheese in the grocery store.

…And as for time, shopping will take the longest from sourcing (or farm) to table as salad prep can be quick and I think is relaxing, even though this Italian bean salad has 11 ingredient types to add.

If you can’t find radicchio, you can also substitute for Belgian endive, and blue cheese or a French cheese for gorgonzola.

Then you’d have an Italian-French salad.

They are worth the hunt as their flavors add interesting variety.

And eating variety is healthy for our microbiome guts. As you peruse, you’ll probably explore different sections of your grocery store than just around the perimeter for the staples.

And some may be right under your nose (like it was for me in my shopping adventure)…

I got lucky as there was a big gorgonzola cheese wheel that looks like a cake.

…So it wasn’t likely to be a miss. 🎂

Packaged up, you can’t smell the cheese… but imagine if it were open 🤔, that would have also attracted attention.

This good moldy cow’s milk cheese is a milder blue cheese. It doesn’t have such a funky aroma like a strong smelling blue cheese that purposefully smells rotten (but is healthy).

The cheese is named after the Gorgonzola northern Italian town it came from that’s famous for the blue veined cheese.

As a creamy cheese (almost like a cream cheese texture but not quite as creamy), it blends in with all the flavorful ingredients of this bean Italian Salad.

The beans are what make this Italian bean salad pennies per bite.

Added cannellini beans are the white beans…

And like most beans, they are high in protein and fiber good for losing weight and a healthy diet.

Beans are almost always great adds for soups and salads.

These cannellini ones are used in main Italian soups like Tuscan Ribollita and is one you can substitute in an everyday minestrone.

Beans can sometimes be boring, but you won’t be missing any bites in this salad as each one is flavorfully loaded.

It’s great for intuitive or mindful eating to slow down and lavish the flavors.

You’ll also get more flavors from the walnuts and apples (or pears). This is a fully nutritious bowl that’s a mouthfully fun experience to chew on…

You get bitter (arugula, radicchio), slightly sweet (onions), citrusy, herby (pesto), acidic (balsamic) and balanced (spices).

You get soft (beans), creamy (gorgonzola), salty (capers), and crunchy (apple, walnuts) textures.

Ready to make this flavorful Italian bean salad? 🥗

Italian Bean Salad

In an Italian restaurant I worked in as a teen pantry helper, my job was to prepare salads and desserts! This one is inspired by that restaurant with great Italian ingredients you can find in most big grocery stores.

Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Ingredients

arugula salad
radicchio
cannellini beans (white beans)
gorgonzola cheese (milder blue cheese) crumbles
pesto sauce (basil, pine nuts)
balsalmic vineger
oregano, lemon pepper, coriander, parsley
white onions (Vidalia or cipollino onion)
apple or pear (diced or sliced)
walnuts (optonal)
capers

Instructions

Add a bed of arugula.
Fill a radicchio leaf with a mixture of beans, cheese, capers, and onion.
Add fruit and walnut on the salad. Drizzle with balsamic vinegar (or light vinegar of choice as an alternative) and pesto. Flavor with spices.

Vanilla Milkshake with Cinnamon (Low Sugar and Low Fat)

Vanilla milkshake is a plain shake, but made doubly delicious with cinnamon. And to shake it up even more, it can be enjoyably healthy.

In fact, there’s no room for high-fat or sugar as this one is filled with egg yolk nutrition that’s full of vitamins.

Jump to Recipe

vanilla milkshake mixed with cinnamon and zhughed up. — Recipe for this low-fat and low-sugar vanilla milkshake below. 🧡

And it’s only about 150 calories for an 8 ounce glass.

That’s not your usual fast food milkshake, that can often be 500 calories or more.

Plus fast food milkshakes are usually loaded with 60 plus grams of sugar (that’s over 15 teaspoons).

Also on healthy notes and Ayurvedic terms, vanilla calms and cinnamon is Vata balancing and Kapha calming, so this is a healthy drink in more ways than one!

…But it tastes anything BUT healthy.

In case you’re wondering what Ayurveda is and why it matters here is that your body knows sometimes before you do, if you’re feeling balanced… and where happy, calm, and peaceful are healthy.

You get clues through your 5 senses.

How this milkshake helps to give you clues… when you smell cinnamon or vanilla, you’re attracted to the aroma and that means adding more is balancing! That’s an example of Ayurveda in a nutshell.

Another sure-fire sign: you don’t make a sour face and maybe you turn a frown upside down into a smiley face. 😊

And an interesting fact about cinnamon is it has been around since B.C. times long before vanilla that dates to modern A.D.

Cinnamon is referred in the Bible as a precious spice and anointing oil. Cassia is mentioned as cinnamon (that’s our common modern cinnamon spice in the markets).

Cinnamon is a symbol of love, prosperity, and abundance.

So in those ways, adding cinnamon is good luck in life blessings.

Cinnamon as variety to vanilla milkshake pleases Vata. And cinnamon is also great in an ice cream cousin like this cinnamon ice cream baked into Baked Alaska

…But, that’s getting dessert steps ahead, as Baked Alaska may be a step or two more work… and maybe one to try on another day or as a baking project where you clear out your freezer.

But making a milkshake doesn’t involve all that work.

It’s simple steps and you most likely already have the milkshake ingredients in your kitchen stash.

So let’s get started…

You don’t need to have an ice cream maker but that will make your milkshake making life easier.

Without an ice cream maker, you can freeze, and after 30 minutes stir up the icicles. And then freeze for another 30 minutes or so (or until slushie ice cold before you bring out and enjoy.

Part of the fun experience is watching your dessert melt in front of you.

And waiting builds up excitement!

…Ready to milk shake it up? 😋

Vanilla Cinnamon Milkshake

Author Brandy @ Healthy Happy Life Secrets

Equipment

ice cream maker

Ingredients

3 egg yolks
2 cups unsweetened almond milk (vanilla)
1 tbsp cinnamon (common or Cassia cinnamon)
pinch of sugar

Instructions

Beat egg yolks with a whisk. Add a pinch of sugar to help emulsify.
Heat milk and cinnamon on medium heat until small bubbles form, stirring constantly.
Add heated milk to egg yolks while stirring constantly for at least 30 seconds.
Refrigerate until cold.
Add to ice cream maker for about 15-20 minutes.
Add to glass and freeze. Enjoy!