Sleepover

Good Evening all!  Tonight is a very special night because my best friend is having a sleepover with me!!!  She's been gone for a while but she's back now and we are partying!

Aren't we cute?  I told Julia that if she was very good and listened to Gma all day, that she could sleep in my bed tonight.  Gma said she was an angel and so we having a fun night!

I made us pizza with ground turkey, sweet peppers, goat cheese and whole wheat crust a la Biggest Loser Flavors of the World Cookbook .  It was pretty tasty. 

While I was making the pizza, Julia was hard at work creating armor for us.  At first she was making us party hats but somehow decided body armor was better.  She created wrist bands, arm bands, finger shields, toe shields and boots.  Here are her fancy boots:



Once dinner was finished, we made the world's smallest sundaes.  Two teeny spoonfuls of ice cream, a little chocolate magic shell and a dollop of whipped cream.  Mmmm...  What's the perfect pairing with ice cream?  A Disney movie!  We watched the first thirty minutes of The Incredibles :) 

I will have to get to bed now because there will be some repentance HIIT tomorrow at 4am!

Good Night!

~Andrea

What in the Rooster???

Good Saturday Morning!  I hope your day has been going well.  I had quite the surprise this morning:

Mr. Rooster was in my neighbor's yard across the street!  What?!  I have always been able to hear the  and the rooster in the distance but he has always sounded further away.  This morning, Alex went out to take some recycling out and the cock-a-doodle-doo was much louder.  He started looking around and there the rooster was in the neighbor's yard.  You can't just have a rooster running around on the loose, right????  I called animal control but apparently they don't work on the weekends.  I was told I could capture the rooster myself and they would send someone to pick him up.  No, thanks.

Instead of catching myself a rooster, I made myself some breakfast instead.

It was time to clean out the veggie drawer so it was a veggie loaded omlet.  I put in spinach (of course), mushrooms, peppers, onions, parsley, and tomatoes.  I mixed in a slice of ham plus flax seed and topped it all off with some goat cheese.  It was perfection!

I received something else that was very exciting today:

I bought these with my workout reward money :)  I bought the original Biggest Loser cookbook many years ago and I have always loved their recipes.  They are always really flavorful and different from what I usually imagine healthy food to be. 

I bought these from half.com and didn't pay much.  In total, I paid $30 for all three, including shipping!  I'm most excited for the flavors of the world book.  I'm so excited to plan my meals this week using these cookbooks :)  As always, I'll let you know what I make and how it tastes!

Do you have a favorite cookbook?

~Andrea