You can make a thick veggie/bean soup and add your favorite spices plus hot sauce or sriracha sauce.
Start off by sauteeing onions and garlic in olive oil (add the chopped garlic during the last 3 minutes of sauteeing or it will get bitter). Place in large pot and add a quart of chicken broth, a 15 oz can of whole tomatoes and all your favorite veggies like chopped spinach or kale, carrots, string beans, cabbage or whatever else you love. Add a can of your favorite beans (rinsed). Bring to a boil then reduce heat and cover leaving a little space for steam to escape. Simmer for an hour then enjoy. Don't forget to spice it up as much as you like. You can even add pieces of skinless boneless chicken for extra protein. So delicious, hearty and filling! You can freeze in seperate containers if desired or keep the pot in the fridge and eat some each day!

Most spices have little to no calorie content so feel free to spice your stuff up as much as you want. I love topping steamed veggies with just a dash of parmesan cheese. Yum.

One of my faves is a gluten free pizza. I was having them with a skim mozzarella, sauteed portabello mushrooms and onions - of course, you could put your peppers on there too. :) You could probably use the Bob's Red Mill Biscuit and Baking mix. I grind my own rice and mix it with cornstarch and some almond milk. It's kind of tricky to bake but I really enjoy the stuff. I even bake some to have with my breakfast on occasion.

I've complicated things though. Now that I don't eat dairy or mushrooms anymore, I had to chop up some spinach and mix it with some olive oil and spices and cover my crust with that and some sauteed veggies. Was pretty good but I'm still refining my recipe. I'm going to mix some chicken broth and more spinach next time. :)

Dr. Perricone has some tasty recipes too. My boyfriend loves spicy foods and he enjoys some of those recipes. We were making ground turkey patties and Perricone chile (before I stopped eating legumes).

If you like seafood, we make a pretty tasty shrimp boil - New Orleans style. You can either get the "Zatarain's" seasoning or make your own. :)

Just a few ideas. Hope they help.

I make chicken lots of different ways. With lemon and garlic and parsley. You could easily add peppers to that. With pesto, which is usually made with basil, garlic, olive oil, and pine nuts, but you can make it with basil, garlic, and chicken broth and less olive oil and skip the pine nuts. The more fresh raw garlic you use, the hotter it will be. I made some recently where I accidentally overdid it on the garlic and it burned my mouth when I ate it. Pesto freezes well - if you make a big batch of it, you can freeze it and then chip off what you need to put on top of chicken or fish or whatever as you need it. I also make a cilantro and lime sauce - you can blend fresh cilantro, fresh lime juice, salt, and just a dash of olive oil. It is really good - I stir it into rice and it jazzes it up.

Ground turkey is one of those foods that will adapt to whatever you cook it with - I make turkey meatballs and simmer them in tomato sauce - you could make the sauce as spicy as you want. Throwing in a can of tomatoes with jalapeno peppers can work there. I have recipes for a couple of kinds of turkey burgers that are really good, one uses cilantro and the other one has cranberries in it - you could add chilis to either one. I'll see if I can dig those out and send them to you. Turkey or vegetarian chili is also really good, and you can make that as hot as you want it, too.

I think you could also make a chili-based relish and put it on grilled fish, along with some grilled vegetables on skewers or cooked in one of those baskets you put on the grill, or baked or broiled fish. You could use hot little green peppers, they are called serrano peppers here in California, or the red ones, chili peppers (I grow those in pots), raw onion, and something like mango or pineapple diced in pretty small pieces, and cilantro if you want an even more seasoned taste. I would definitely investigate some of the spicier ethnic foods - spicy Indian or Thai dishes would really jazz things up. Also, if you learn to make different kinds of spicy sauces, you could put them on any kind of lean protein. Yogurt based sauces are good, too - plain yogurt with a lot of raw garlic in it - I don't know why you couldn't put chilis in it, too.

I search online for healthy recipes amd eating healthy can be far from bland. What I learned is you just us spices! Do a online search and you'll come up with many options:)

I just got an iPad for Christmas and have been adding cooking apps. I like Cooking Light. The recipes are more complex, which seems to equate with using more dishes but they have so much flavor. I love everything I have done so far. Spark People has an app to or they are a free site online for weight loss etc. they have some great recipes. I'm finding the more I use natural ingredients, nothing processed, the better my food tastes.

I agree with MegKO5. I like to add Italian spice blend to many foods, plus sometimes diced onion and garlic, course ground black pepper, and fresh chopped cilantro.

You are welcome to check out my blog too: www.theworldaccordingtoeggface.com I've been blogging what I eat for the past 6 1/2 years. High protein, low carb (complex only, no pasta, rice, bread, white potatoes, chips, added sugar), moderate fat.

Hope it gives you a re few new ideas.

Spices and hot sauce are free foods on a diet! You can use as much as you like and put it on everything. Look for hot spice mixes like Emeril's and cover that chicken breast with it before you cook it.... add hot sauce to soup or vege's, do a stirfry and add a couple of diced jalepeno's, make a salsa with lot's of peppers in it that you can top eggs with.... the spice is free! Use liberally on just about anything.