Hungry Girl’s Fruity Bruschetta Recipe

Hungry Girl is at it again! The oh-so-popular diva of calorie reduction has a book out called Happy Hour . It’s a book of entertaining snacks for entertaining. For years I’ve let Jenn feed me delicious recipes she’s snagged from the HG books, so I figured it was time for me to go on ahead and see what yummies I could whip up. So I pulled out the Sassy Veggie Egg Rolls and the Fruity Bruschetta to give them a whirl.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE me some Hungry Girl recipes, but those sassy egg rolls had attitude I didn’t really care for. There is nothing worse than spending time in the kitchen — chopping and mixing, tasting and baking — only to produce something that only the trash will like. I know…ouch.

I realize I’m one of those gals who wants to have her cake and eat it, too, but I don’t think it’s asking too much to have food that’s both healthy and delish. The egg rolls tasted like watery soy sauce crunch. Maybe if I were an intuitive chef I could have saved my  hard kitchen work, but alas, I follow recipes to the T because I don’t have one cooking-guru bone in my body. Therefore, this little happy hour treat gets two forks down from me.

The fruit bruschetta on the other hand: Two forks up and click ’em together! There needs to be a new word for tasty stuff that’s healthy. I mean, my eyes rolled back in my head, and I wiggled. I don’t wiggle often. They were super easy to whip up, too. (They took me less than 20 minutes!) I’ve made the bruschetta five times since trying the first batch, and every time I’m the wife/friend of the year when I mention that two slices of the heavenly stuff are only 78 calories. I like dishes that earn me cool points. (And I totally forgot about the egg roll boo-boo.)