S3 Winners Eating Ice Cream

Sizzlin’ Summer Slimdown otherwise known as S3 successfully ended with many losing weight and making life-long changes. Winning our team challenge, the 6:15 crew in Epsom, enjoyed a cookout complete with summer’s favorite dessert – Ice Cream.

The menu they enjoyed looked like this:

Grilled Chicken

Marinated Steak

Greek Summer Salad

Watermelon

Spinach Salad with Cranberries

Veggie Platter

Peach Melba Sundaes

While they enjoyed being pampered with a meal Dean and I fixed, you can also enjoy these same foods. Don’t tell them, but this cookout was simple recipes. (What you can do though, is ask how it tasted. 🙂 )

Grilled Chicken

• 3 pounds chicken breast
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1/4 cup rice vinegar
• 1/4 cup McCormick’s Grill Mates Montreal Chicken seasoning
• I put this in a ziploc bag for 2 hours before Dean put it on the grill

Marinated Steak

• 2 pounds Steak
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil
• 2 Tablespoons balsamic vinegar
• 2 -3 Tablespoons McCormick’s Grill Mates Montreal Steak seasoning
• This too went into a ziploc bag for 2 hours before Dean took it over on the grill

Greek Summer Salad

• 1/2 red onion, cut into small rings
• 1 tomato, diced (I use cherry tomatoes, cut in half)
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• 1 small zucchini, thinly sliced
• 1/2 cup feta cheese
• 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
• 2 Tablespoons olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon basil
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• Pepper to taste

In a glass bowl combine the onion, tomato, zucchini, and feta cheese. Add in vinegar, oil, basil, oregano, salt and pepper. Stir and then refrigerate to allow the flavors to develop.

Spinach Salad with Cranberries  (this is one of my favorites, Thank you Helen from FLAG)

Salad:

In a large bowl, toss together:

• 10 cups baby spinach
• 1 ½ cups sliced celery
• ½ cup dried cranberries
• ½ cup chopped walnuts, toasted

Dressing:

Whisk together:

• ¼ cup cider vinegar
• 1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard
• ¼ cup olive oil
• ¼ tsp. each salt and pepper

I served the dressing on the side but you can toss it lightly to coat if you’d like. Good news is that I now have this fabulous dressing for other salads! It made a ton.

Serves 4.

Peach Melba Sundaes, without any guilt!

• 1 cup of 1/2 and 1/2
• 4 cups of ice
• 3 scoops of vanilla UMP
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla