Okra Hash with Eggs WW Blue 0

Okra Hash with Egg

Okra you know, that one vegetable that comes in like abundant in the summer, and I can hear it now...ewwwwww it is soooo slimy.

Well I am a fan of okra, always have been. I like it in succatash, gumbos, and love it fried. I love the ones at the restaraunt that have the breading. I have tried numerous times to make the them at home, from the frozen version but that was a nasty mess. I think they need lots of oil to get that to be like a restaraunt. 
I have figured out a healthier, tasty way to get my okra and even get that little corn meal crunch that we all love.

I am making a hash with the okra in this recipe, but you can eat it plain, I sometimes even add a little more cornmeal and some real avocado oil and get a nice brownish crunch going. 

But at the moment I am trying to keep with the WW blue plan and those oils can eat my points up. So between me and you I use them sparingly.

The Menu:

Okra Hash with Egg

The players:

10-15 okra (dice into little disks)

Pam spray

onion powder

garlic powder

salt 

pepper

paprika

slap yo mama just a little spice

2 tablespoons of corn meal

2 eggs

The Game:

Take a nice little fry pan and generously spray with a non stick spray and put in diced okra (at this point if you have diced onion? pepper? garlic? - I myself had some roasted garlic I didn't want to waste)

Start to Sautee, add the spices, just a dash of them, and mix around, flatted everything down in the pan.

Take your non stick spray and give it a quick nice spray and then sprinkle your 2 tablespoons of corn meal on top. Stir up and continue to sautee, until getting crunchy and brown, and everyone is on the verge of done.

Make two wells in the hash and crack two eggs, cover and cook until you get your eggs how you like them.

Slide entire has out onto a plate or I have a nice flatish bowl I like.

I had this with a little ketchup (be sure to count your points for it) and two pieces of the great value whole wheat toast for 2 points

This meal for me was 0 points as the hash and eggs and 2 for the toast on WW blue.

It was so filling and yummy.

Okra is one those underrated vegetables. Lots of vitamins and fiber. 

WW Blue Notes

This was a really satisfying. The okra was perfect.

That is one of my ww blue hacks to stay on my journey. 

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Scotch Eggs ww blue

Scotch Eggs

First let me explain. I am trying to use what I have at home with a normal family. So some of the items I use will be higher in points.

For this one you can use other meat to wrap around the egg.

The Butterball Turkey breakfast sausage is 2 points for 2 oz 

The Jennie O is 3 points for 2 1/2 oz

The Jimmy Dean Pork breakfast sausage is 7 points for 2 oz

One more option which would be to purchase the leanest ground turkey and add to your own breakfast spices for sausage. I found some at the Amazon.com. If I had all this, then this would be what I would have used. 

This is for the blue plan. and boiled eggs are 0 points.

 The choice is all yours and your plan and your points. 7 is still okay for me, because I only eat one and it is filling enough. The are good cold also. So matter what meat you use it is all the same technique. 

The Menu:

Scotch Eggs   (ww blue - this recipe and with the jimmy dean - 7 points an egg)

The players:

1lb of jimmy dean breakfast sausage ( I doubled mine)

8 hardboiled and peeled eggs.

Pam spray

The game:

Cut the sausage up into 2oz portions.

Spray your hand with a little pam spray or non-stick, makes it easier to mold onto egg.

Take 2 oz and patty down a bit in your hand and lay egg in it. 

Carefully squoosh and mold it like a cover on the egg.

It will make 8 with the 1 lb, but I double it for a large family. Plus they are very good cold. 

Spray air fryer and drop in 6 and cook 360 for 10 min. (go in once and turn over gently)  If you want browner, then step up the heat to 400. for another 2-4 minutes.

** make sure all of the egg is covered.

If you do it in a regular oven, spray pan, or parchment, or foil and the lay in eggs, Bake 350 for 20 minutes and turn over in middle also.

The reward:

There are such a hearty fast quick pack of protein. What could be better than sausage and an egg.

These also are a great idea for meal planning. You can trim the points down and add a little fruit and you have a complete meal. 

WW Blue Notes

This was a really satisfying. I used my instant pot to make 24 eggs at one time. I will post on how easy that can be. I love just a hard boiled egg and a cheese stick.

That is one of my ww blue hacks to stay on my journey. 

Living your best life and doing what feels good for you is the secret.

Keep it simple, Stay well and safe. 

welcome to my journey

Louise

*** If you do not make them right away, make sure to store in fridge to keep the sausage from getting warm and melting a bit. 

Sweet Potato Avocado Egg Toastie

 

Sweet Potato Avocado Egg Toastie

Ingredients

ITEMS NEEDED	AMOUNT NEEDED	WW BLUE POINTS
Large Sweet Potato	1/3  (cut in half-2 slices)	1/3 =3
Eggs	2	0
Tostitos Avocado Salsa	Little shy of 2 tsps	0
Everything Bagel Seasoning		0
Salt and Pepper		0
Pam Spray		0

 Total = 3 ww blue

Instructions

I took my sweet potato and cut it into 3 thick slices. (then I cut them again into two thin slices each)

Put slices in a baggie and squirt a little pam spray in and salt and pepper. Toss around.

Lay on a sprayed sheet pan (oven 375 for 20-25 minutes-check for tenderness/ air fryer is what I use I put a piece of parchment on my tray and I do 375 for 15 minutes, flipping and then finish with 400 for the desired brown and crispiness I would like)

Meanwhile in a small pan on stove, make two sunny side eggs. (I have a small pan and a lid to put on top. I spray it with pam spray and then put the eggs in, and season and put a lid. This makes it so I do not have to flip. My lid is see through so I can see how my eggs and how I like them. )

When the sweet potatoes are ready. I take 2 of them and spread a little shy of 1 tsp of Tostitos Avocado Salsa, then top with a sunny runny egg (you can make them the way you like, I just like the richness of a warm yolk on it all.) and then a little everything bagel seasoning.

this is the tostitos

**the other 4 slices, I let cool and lay in a container, separated by the parchment paper (I use the one that I cooked them on. Just keeps them from getting too mushy. Then the next day, I can just pop in the airfryer and refresh and start over again.

WW BLUE NOTES

*I found this to be good, but I could have skipped the avocado salsa and the everything bagel seasoning. The egg was so rich on the sweet potato that you really didn’t need the extra, and I think I am just a salt and pepper kind of gal.

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