In the kitchen with Elise

Nick named the Soup that will help you go. This soup is full of green vegetables and will help you have a flowing digestive system. Really delicious and filling and excellent for a light launch or dinner. Minimal work all you are doing is putting everything in a pot and letting it cook while you do other things Hearty Chicken Soup Servings: 10 servings Prep Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Source: Elise Jackson Ingredients 1 bag lentils 4 stalks of collard greens or a big bag of already cut collard greens chicken breast or thighs pre cooked 1 butternut squash or sweet potato 1 cup broccoli 1/2 cup peas seasonings: onion powder, garlic powder, lawyers, salt, pepper to taste Directions Rinse your lentils and put it into a big pot filled to the top with water. Add in your collard greens and pre cooked chicken and cook on medium high heat for about 45 minutes to an hour. Leave it on medium high heat and stir every 15 minutes more or less. Add in your b...

Very delicious and quick to make, low calorie and a great grab and go dessert or afternoon snack for your sweet tooth. Its so hard to find a dessert that you can enjoy and indulge in without having that guilt of it being to high calorie. Just this past weekend I had a carrot cake from cheesecake factory and had to throw half of it away because of the guilt of all the calories and how sweet it was. You want to be able to enjoy something sweet but without putting on a full 5lbs just by eating that delicious dessert. Its just not worth it sometimes. Note: For those of you who do weight watchers, this delicious dessert is only 3 points. Important: Those of you not doing weight watchers you don't need to be so specific with the measurements. You can do the same and put as much or as little as you want. This recipe is formulated specifically for those on the weight watchers diet. Strawberry Shortcake Cups Servings: 12 servings Prep Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes So...

Gooey and creamy textured desert on a platform of its own, comparable to nothing that I can put my finger on. Really delicious especially for chocolate lovers. The inside is soft and chewy while the outside once set is a soft chocolate crust with fresh pieces of strawberries centered in between the two. Looking for a dessert to make that won't keep you in the kitchen for long. Heres your winner. A crowd pleaser and simple to make.  Chocolate Strawberry Cream Truffle Servings: 12 Servings Prep Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 20 minutes Source: Elise Jackson Ingredients 2 tbsp margarine 2 cups heavy cream 2 cans sweetened condensed milk 200g milk chocolate 1 box of fresh strawberries, washed and sliced In a small pot on low heat put your butter and condensed milk and cook stirring constantly until you see it starting to thicken and bubble and it begins to slide off of the bottom of the pan. This will take about 15 minutes. The key in this step is to c...

A dense cake with a sugar cookie crust and a cookie butter filling, The best way I can describe it is like a white brownie. It has the softness and gooeyness of a well baked brownie, and the texture of a cake with the taste of cookies that combination of deliciousness is an explosion to your taste buds. Your mouth doesn't even know what to call it, except Give Me Some More... Goes excellent straight outta the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top or even on its own with a nice cup of tea or coffee. Cookie Butter Dump Cake Servings: 10 servings Prep Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Source: Elise Jackson Ingredients 1 can sweetened condensed milk 1 container original cookie butter 3 eggs 2/3 teaspoon cinnamon 3/4 cup melted butter 1 pouch (17oz) Sugar Cookie mix (By Betty Crocker) Preheat oven to 350F, Lightly Butter a small pyrex and set aside. In a mixing bowl mix together the sweetened condensed milk, cookie butter, eggs and cinnamon until sm...