First Dish from the Now Eat This Diet!

Today I made my very first dish from Rocco Dispirito's "Now Eat This Diet"!  (complete with many amazing recipes, instructions, & cooking advice)

I first heard about Rocco's diet perspectives on Rachael Ray.  I loved how he combined healthy eating with the reality of wanting food to taste good and fill you up.  I loved that he didn't take the how to's of healthy eating and complicate them, but stuck to basic, scientific principles that keep metabolism cranked up and hunger simmered down.

So back to my first dish - "Blue on Blueberry Silver Dollar Pancakes".  SO easy to make.  I couldn't believe I was making a sauce in a saucepan (just like on Food Network) popping the blueberries just as they heated up and turning the syrup a very purply purple.  The syrup was FANTASTIC.  The portion was perfect.  AND I had leftovers to pop on the skillet tomorrow morning!  Now onto lunch...

This is the "Now Eat This Diet" recipe for "Ginger Sweet Chicken and Broccoli Stir-Fry" - with brown rice!  I sauteed the chicken and broccoli together with soy for savory, apricot preserves for sweet, and chili sauce for some sPiCe!  So yum.  Who needs takeout?  Deleting the number for my local chinese takeout...NOW :)