South Beach Diet Phase One Recipes Round-Up for January 2012

How could I choose just one favorite Phase One Recipes from a Month of Daily Phase One recipes?  Pictured is Tuna Salad Lettuce Wraps with Capers and Tomatoes, Ham and Cauliflower Casserole Au Gratin, Vegan Heart of Palm and Avocado Salad with Lime, Green Onion, and Cilantro, and Quick Sriracha Beef Lettuce Wraps.

We just finished a Month of Daily Phase One recipes, which means 31 delicious Phase One recipes have been featured on the blog this month!  That alone guarantees that this will be a big round-up of Phase One recipes, and you can bet plenty of other bloggers were also featuring diet-friendly recipes during January as well.  I always post only Phase One recipes during January, but this was the first year I committed to doing a Phase One recipe every day, and truthfully it was a lot of fun.  I also heard from lots of people who loved seeing the Phase One recipes I spotlight from past years, which made me think maybe that's something I'll do a little more often, maybe as a Friday night feature.

Recipe for Baked White Fish with Pine Nut, Parmesan, and Basil Pesto Crust

This Baked White Fish with Pine Nut, Parmesan, and Basil Pesto could be a special Phase One dinner.

(Let's finish out the Month of Daily Phase One recipes with this fish recipe from 2010 that produces results so spectacular that no one would possibly imagine it's diet food.  Serve this with a lovely salad of baby spinach and some type of roasted vegetable and it would be a perfect Phase One dinner for any special occasion.)

I love hanging out in the kitchen, and I don't mind spending time on projects like making homemade chicken stock, making slow roasted tomatoes, or roasting bell peppers, but I'm not the kind of cook who wants to spend hours on a fussy recipe. I especially love recipes that are easy to prepare but have interesting ingredients with lots of flavor, and this recipe for baked white fish with a crust made of chopped pine nuts, Parmesan, garlic, pesto, and mayo certainly fits that description. I made this with fillets of halibut, but you can use cod, tilapia, grouper, or any type of mild white fish. This is easy enough to make for dinner after work, but if you make it for dinner guests, they'll probably never guess how easy it was to throw together.

Recipe for Amy's Amazing White Chicken Chili

Amy's Amazing White Chicken Chili is perfect for the Superbowl!

(Tomorrow's the last day of the Month of Daily Phase One recipes, and this is also count-down-to-the-Superbowl week, so I decided my sister-in-law Amy's Amazing White Chicken Chili was a perfect Phase One Recipe to spotlight.  I promise, whether you make this for Phase One, or for the Superbowl, you won't get any complaints.)

Superbowl Sunday is one of the biggest chili-eating days of the year, and if you haven't picked your chili recipe yet this white chicken chili from my sister-in-law Amy is one of the best chilis I've eaten for a long time. If you don't make this for the Superbowl be sure you try it some other time, because this is a chili recipe you don't want to miss out on. In fact, when you hear the story about how I came to have the recipe, you'll see this is a chili recipe I was meant to have!