Start Your Summer!!

What is the first thing avid Weight Watchers do when it comes to a three day weekend?  Why we plan the menu of course!  Day one: Burgers; Day two: Barbequed Chicken; Day three: Ribs.   And yes, you can have all of that on Weight Watchers, although it's not quite advisable that you drink a bottle of wine while you're preparing it.  So Julie, my sister, and I poured ourselves a bourbon and gingerale instead.  We actually decided to spread the meal out over a couple of hours by eating in courses.  Here's a recap of our Friday night feast:

For appetizers, we made stuffed cherry tomatoes.  This is a WW recipe that we tried for the first time last week and we loved it.  Scoop out tomatoes, fill with a teaspoon of crumbled bleu cheese and then sprinkle with finely chopped bacon bits and chives.  Two stuffed cherry tomatoes or one stuffed cocktail tomato is only one point.  Absolutely delicious.

For the second course, we made a caesar salad of sorts with baked shrimp.  We took romaine leaves, very lightly dressed them with a combination of bottled caesar dressing (Girard's) and low fat italian.  I like combining the two, as the dressing is not so thick.  Then we shaved parmesan cheese on it and served it with little cheese toasts.   For the baked shrimp, we marinated it in lemon juice, garlic and a little olive oil.  We drizzled about 2 tablespoons of clarified butter on it and  baked it in 400 degree oven for about 7 minutes.  Again, this was really delicious.

We never quite got to the hamburgers even though that was supposed to be the star of the show.  We had planned on makinng little sliders.  But honestly, we just weren't hungry, so we stopped.  Now that is a novel idea!!!!  Half an hour later we did have a bit of blackberry fool.  But it really paled by comparison to the other dishes.

Happy Memorial Day, everyone!  Let's all take a little time this weekend to remember our troops!  

Oh, and stay tuned.  BBQ Chicken and Corn tonight!