Appetizer,  Healthy,  Vegetables

Mini Tomato-Parmesan Bites

February 4, 2013 /

Did you all have fun with the Superbowl? In all honesty…I thought it was kind of boring.

I wasn’t interested in either team in the game, although I have to say that I was routing for the niners, because I utterly dislike the Ravens (and no, just because my name is Raven, I don’t love the Ravens haha).

The thing I was most looking forward to was Downtown Abbey…

Any watchers out there?? Holy amazing stories that show has going on. This season has been craaaaayyy-craaaaayyy! I won’t say anything about anything in case any of you haven’t seen last night’s episode or any of the seasons for that matter.

If you haven’t ever checked out the show, please do! It is completely captivating!

Seems like it keeps gaining in popularity, but anyways. That is what I was looking forward to and then the niners comeback at the end of the game…at least they made a good run for it.

Some of the commercials were pretty cute as well. I would have to say that over the years the commercials have been going down in my book.

Here were a couple of my favorites:

Don’t Tell Mom:

Budweiser – The Clydesdales Brotherhood:

Prom:

Epic Playdate:

God Made a Farmer:

I have to say that the commercials I liked the best were definitely the car ads. I think they had the best ones this year. I didn’t post the VW commercial, I thought it was funny. Apparently some thought it was racist…really people?

And this one is still by far my favorite from last year and this year even…

Darth Vader – VW:

Enjoy this little snack that my family and I enjoyed during the big game this weekend.

Original Recipe from Cooking Light can be found here.

Ingredients for Bites:

  • 1 1/2 cups finely chopped tomatoes, tomato on the vine is what I used
  • 1/4 cup minced shallots
  • 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon dried basil
  • 2 teaspoons champagne or white wine vinegar
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 20 phyllo pastry shells
  • 2.5 ounces grated fresh Parmesan cheese (about 2/3 cup)
  • 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

Preheat oven to 400º

Mix together the tomatoes, shallots, olive oil, basil, vinegar, & pepper in a small bowl. Make sure they are completely coated.

Line your baking sheet with the mini pastry shells. The original recipe actually called for pastry dough, but I used what I had on hand and it actually will save quite a few calories from the original for the same serving size. On top of that it will minimize your overall baking time. Which, helps in a pinch.

Fill each shell/cup with the filling and then lightly sprinkle the salt and Parmesan over each little cup.

Now, I would have loved to use the original recipes call out for herbs, but unfortunately unless you want to pay a fortune at the grocery or bring bugs into your house with outside plants. Fresh herbs are hard to get a hold of in the east during winter.

I used the basil in the mixture and I rubbed it in between my palms into the mixture so that it would be more fragrant and more tasty.

Cook the cups for about 8-10 minutes and then serve.

Total calories for 2 with my modifications I think would be around 85 calories and about 2 grams of fat. Not too shabby 🙂

Have a great start to your week everyone!

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25 Comments

  • Patrick

    February 4, 2013 at 12:09 pm

    I liked the Bud commercial; who knows we probably saw those same Clydesdales last year when we went on the tour. Pretty manimals 🙂

    But I would have pigged out on the giant ice cream bowl in the Don’t Tell Mom one too lol

    • RavieNomNoms

      February 5, 2013 at 8:02 am

      You know I actually didn’t see it myself either, but saw it as a commercial the next day and just had to share it.

  • Priscilla | ShesCookin

    February 4, 2013 at 5:35 pm

    Of course, we had to watch, even though hubs team (NE Patriots!) didn’t make the cut because of the RAVENS! But they totally deserved to be there after the poor showing the Pats had in that game. Anywho, don’t know what happened but I missed several of these commercials… thanks for posting a few of them. I liked the Farmer commercial for its meaning and, of course, the baby Clydesdale got us all teary eyed 🙂 Your little parmesan bites are a perfect snack. Oh, and that cake your mom made is AHmazing!

    • RavieNomNoms

      February 5, 2013 at 8:04 am

      I agree, the Pats did have a pretty poor showing, but I still would have rather seen them than the Ravens. I am not a fan haha

      I know isn’t that cake amazing? Shes outstanding. I am lucky to have such a good role model 🙂

  • Priscilla | ShesCookin

    February 4, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    P.S. We just started watching Downton Abbey – Don even likes it, I was kind of surprised about that. We need to buy 2nd season I guess, because its not on Netflix, so thanks for not being a spoiler 🙂

  • Liz

    February 4, 2013 at 10:08 pm

    I was so uninterested this year, that I missed almost the game and most of the commercials! I would be happy to eat your little tomato yummies, though!

    • RavieNomNoms

      February 5, 2013 at 8:04 am

      I hear ya Liz, I had talked to a few people about how this year’s game was just not of interest at all

  • Ramona

    February 5, 2013 at 7:06 am

    What a fresh and yummy treat. I don’t like the Super Bowl game.. but my husband does. We had a crowd over and most of them were cheering for the purple team. 🙂 The commercials are my favorite part too. 🙂

  • Anita at Hungry Couple

    February 5, 2013 at 10:19 am

    What a great little snack. I watched the game because the Mr. wanted to watch but I kept us well supplied in food and drink to make it bearable. 🙂 I agree with you about the commercials and the GoDaddy one was particularly repulsive. Yuck. In general, the level of talent has gone down dramatically! Yes, yes and yes to Downton Abbey. We were late to jump on the bandwagon so we rented seasons 1 and 2 from Netflix. But now we’re all caught up and I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself when this season is over and I have to wait weeks and months for the next one! 🙂

    • RavieNomNoms

      February 5, 2013 at 10:30 am

      TELL ME ABOUT IT!!! I waited for like 10 months for the new season this year and there are only 3 more episodes!! GAH! I am going to have to get the presale of Season 4! haha

      And completely agree, GoDaddy needs to stop.