After numerous requests from some of my readers, I am thrilled to announce that LaaLoosh now has an exciting new feature! You’ll notice that each recipe now has a “Save Recipe” button. This button allows you to save all of your favorite recipes from LaaLoosh to your own, personal online recipe box. You can even save recipes from other websites too, so no more hunting from site-to-site to find your most loved recipes. Additionally, this feature lets you save the ingredients to each recipe to your own online shopping list. And if you already have some of the ingredients, you can easily remove items or change the quantities of others. You can even indicate if you have a coupon for a certain ingredient, or specify if you need to go to a special store! How fabulous is that!??

In order to bring you these new, helpful tools, I’ve partnered with ZipList. They are the superstars responsible for powering the online recipe boxes and shopping lists that you’ll see on many of the web’s biggest cooking sites and blogs, including MarthaStewart.com, The Joy of Baking and The Daily Meal.

So here’s how the new Recipe Box feature works: Once you create your free online recipe box with ZipList (yes, I swear, it’s totally free), you can start saving your recipes and shopping lists right away. And you can access your recipe box and shopping list from LaaLoosh, from ZipList.com, and from their free mobile apps so you have what you need on hand in order to plan your meals and grocery shop wherever you go. These features will help make it easy for you to keep all your favorite Weight Watchers recipes organized and easy to find. With the ability to have all your favorite recipes in one place, plan your menus, and add the items you need for those recipes to your shopping list with just a few clicks, healthy cooking should be a breeze!

Additionally, you’ll see that I’ve also added a Pinterest button at the end of each recipe. This tool helps you quickly pin your favorite recipes to your boards and share them with your followers. If you aren’t familiar with Pinterest, go and check it out asap. But be careful — it’s addicting!!

I’m really looking forward to hearing what you all think about these new features, and I hope it helps make your cooking/shopping/recipe planning a little easier :).
Thanks to all of you for your helpful suggestions and input, and here’s to a happy and healthy 2012!!!

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Baked Kale Chips

If you haven’t tried a Baked Kale Chips Recipe yet, you are really missing out! When you are craving something crunchy and salty, this is a MUCH healthier alternative to potato chips, Pop Chips or popcorn. I admit that I was a bit reluctant to believe that roasted kale would actually taste good, but I was pleasantly surprised and I’ve been a fan of baked kale chips ever since. I also love that these are a kid friendly veggie. My 3 year old son gobbles these down, which says a LOT! If a picky toddler eats them, then they’ve got to taste good, right? They are easy and cheap to make, and each 1 cup serving is just 1 Points +. Which means you don’t have to fee guilty about mindlessly eating them while watching TV at night :). So the next time you are thinking about grabbing a bag of potato chips, just make this Baked Kale Chips Recipe instead, and save yourself a ton of Weight Watchers Points Plus, while still feeling satisfied.

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Bell Pepper and Goat Cheese Frittata

Breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day. Start your morning off right with this deliciously healthy Bell Pepper and Goat Cheese Frittata Recipe. Each serving is just 3 Points + making it an ideal low calorie breakfast recipe to help get you off on the right foot. Pair it with some 0 Points + fruit and/or a slice of high fiber, whole grain bread, and you’ve got yourself one tasty way to start a morning! Though frittata sounds like such a fancy word, it’s really just a baked omelet. Which is made even more fabulous by the fact that you don’t have to deal with flipping it (I am AWFUL at flipping omelets). Each frittata recipe serving is very nicely sized and all the protein makes it super satisfying. This quick and healthy breakfast idea is a must try!

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Oven Roasted Cauliflower with Gruyere Cheese Sauce

Happy New Year, everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful, safe, and delicious holiday season. But, the party is over – it’s 2012 now, and there are no more excuses to avoid getting back on track with healthy eating. Sorry for the delay in recent recipe posting, but I was slammed with holiday gatherings and then spent a few days in Vegas chowing down at some fabulous restaurants and getting inspired to make some devilishly delicious new dishes this year! Though I ate way more than I should have in Vegas (um, hello buffets), I am ready to get back on the bandwagon, get back to my Weight Watchers meetings, and start shedding some serious pounds. And to start this new year, I’m sharing a new and easy low calorie side dish recipe for Oven Roasted Cauliflower with a creamy Gruyere cheese sauce. I’m from the school of thought that anything tastes good with cheese on it. So if you need a tasty way to get those veggie servings in, this dish will do it. You get a nice 1 1/4 cup serving for just 3 Points +, so it’s very satisfying too. Enjoy!

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Braised Brisket with Root Vegetables

photo credit: cybele pascal

Braised Brisket has always been a traditional Hanukkah recipe, so it’s certainly something I plan on making each year. Brisket is notoriously a fatty meat, but I’ve altered the traditional Braised Brisket recipe to make it a lot leaner and healthier. The key step is getting the flat, first-cut section of the meat. It’s a great way to trim a good bit of fat and calories without sacrificing the flavor. Serve this juicy braised brisket with some deliciously tender root vegetables and the white wine and mustard based sauce, and you’ve got yourself one divine, low calorie Hanukkah dinner! Enjoy.

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Goat Cheese and Fig Muffins

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Need a healthy idea for something to serve on Christmas morning? Well these amazingly delicious Goat Cheese and Fig Muffins are not only tasty and festive, they are just 5 Points + each. Each healthy fig muffin is stuffed with a rich, creamy honey and goat cheese filling. They are moist and fluffy, and oh-so yummy! The combination of the sweet figs and honey combined with the tangy goat cheese make for a wonderfully decadent treat. These yummy muffins also make a great gift to bake for your friend, neighbor, or child’s teacher!

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