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Here’s a list of very quick and easy dishes that you can prepare in minutes:

Grilled Chicken Tenders with a Side Salad

The grill pan comes in GREAT. All I had to do was pick up chicken tenders at the grocery store. Season them with a rub or celery salt and grill them. VERY lightly spray the pan with olive oil spray. No butter. And a quarter of a second is a portion of oil so keep it very low! My portion was 3 or 4 tenders. One package usually fed two of us because Chris got the extras. On the side I’d have a cup of lettuce and a cup of chopped veggies from the list. The dressing recipe is on the website, but basically it’s: 3 parts water, 1 part vinegar and 1 package of stevia (or a part of a pack). Whiz in your blender and voila. Balsamic vinegar is a good choice to start. Then experiment.

If you grill extra chicken tenders you have them for Zola To GO! You can eat them cold at your desk or heat them in the microwave. Or use a few to make a small chicken salad.

Grilled Sirloin Burgers

Buy high quality meat for this and you’ll have great burgers. I just take 2 pounds of ground sirloin and cut it into 4-6 sections. Make patties and put them in little ziplock bags in the freezer. Thaw and grill them in your grill pan. Or you can grill them and re-heat them as part of Zola To GO! Lightly spray the grill pan with olive oil. Just a teeny squirt is all you need. Season your burgers before you put them on. Salt and pepper is just fine. Sometimes, I use a rub.

Horseradish Burgers

These are a big hit at my house. Buy sugar free horseradish and put about 2 Tbl in a pound of ground sirloin. Smush it around. Add some garlic powder if you want. Or even chopped onion. Make burger patties and proceed as above.

I often have just a couple of slices of big, beautiful tomato with my burger or I add a slice of onion – or I grill an onion and add that. You can add a bit of balsamic to your onions and have caramelized onions. The onion string recipe I have goes well, too.

Grilled Shrimp

These are fun too. You can use some of your Bragg’s Aminos and give them an Asian feel. Remember you can have any rubs that have no sugar in them so you can look for an Asian rub or just use any other rub along with a sprinkling of the Bragg’s Aminos.

Little Salads

I often chopped tomatoes and added a bit of chopped shallot. You can grill green onions and flavor them, too.

Wilted Spinach Salad

You can wilt spinach by putting it in a sauté pan and add a bit of garlic (fresh or powder). Add a teeny splash of water and just toss the spinach with a tong for less than a minute. When the first bit of spinach begins to wilt, turn off the heat and begin moving the spinach to your plate. The heat you’ve gotten to the spinach will continue to cook it.

I could go on and on…. and I will. Stay tuned!

Enjoy!

Cheers,