I’ve been trying to figure out over a year how to have printer friendly versions of my recipes.  I’ve gone on wordpress forums and the explanation on how to do it made no sense to me at all – first off, I don’t know how to write any code so I was pretty clueless from the get go.

I was on a blog yesterday, saw a recipe for Thai pizza and it had a printer friendly link.  Imagine my surprise when I figured out how to do it!  It’s a website called http://www.scribd.com.  You log in with an email and password and that’s it.  I put my recipe on a word document, uploaded it and it gives you an URL to link to.  😀

Breakfast was amazing – thanks to Can You Stay for Dinner I had the best pancakes – Blueberry Lemon Zest Pancakes!  The only difference was that I let my batter sit for 15 minutes to get extra fluffy pancakes.  You can print out a printer friendly version of the recipe here.

So fluffy!  I had three lite sausage links on the side.  Breakfast:  337 calories, 42 carbs, 17.4 protein, 12.2 protein and 1.9 fiber.  While my recipe card says serves one, I only had two of the four pancakes.

Lisa at Jersey Girl Cooks was my inspiration for lunch.  It’s not an exact duplicate because I used what I had on hand.   You can print out my recipe here.

Dinner was pork loin done on the grill.  It was nice hanging out with Tony on the deck while dinner cooked – it almost felt like summer!  And our dog loves it too – so much to see!

I just used a lemon pepper mix on the pork with grilled veggies on the side.

My plate: 3 ounce pork, broccoli potatoes and spicy bbq sauce!

Dinner:  437 calories, 39 carbs, 25 fat, 8.4 protein, 12.6 fiber (thanks to the broccoli!)

Stats for Tuesday:  No exercise (worked through lunch)

BSI is taking a break this week because of Easter – Christina will be our host next week, so stay tuned!

Also, check out my brother’s recap of Fit Bloggin!  So wish I could have been there! 😦

Off to get ready for work – have a great Wednesday!

Since I had so much dough leftover from our pizza party Saturday night, it was inevitable that I would make breakfast pizza again!  This time: 3 oz. dough, 1/4 cup sauce, 1 ounce mozzarella, handful of baby spinach and 1/4 cup egg whites poured over the top.  You can taste the egg whites even if you can’t see them – it kind of blends into the cheese!

When I saw Beth@990’s spicy green beans with tofu, I knew I would be making that soon!   I just made 1/4 of her recipe for my lunch.  I didn’t think that would be filling enough, so I made pork potstickers on the side 😀

I deviated slightly from her recipe – I left out the onions and raisins!  😀

I made Alton Brown’s pot sticker recipe, but added 2 teaspoons of my spicy peanut butter!

Ingredients (printer friendly version)

• 1/2 pound ground pork
• 1/4 cup finely chopped scallions (left out – but subbed in 1 cup of shredded cabbage)
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped red bell pepper
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons ketchup
• 1 teaspoon yellow mustard
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon light brown sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 teaspoons Peanut Butter & Co. Spicy Peanut Butter
• 35 to 40 small wonton wrappers
• Water, for sealing wontons
• 3 to 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, for frying
• 1 1/3 cups chicken stock, divided

Directions

Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.

Combine the first 11 ingredients in a medium-size mixing bowl (pork through cayenne). Set aside.

To form the dumplings, remove 1 wonton wrapper from the package, covering the others with a damp cloth. Brush 2 of the edges of the wrapper lightly with water. Place 1/2 rounded teaspoon of the pork mixture in the center of the wrapper. Fold over, seal edges, and shape as desired. Set on a sheet pan and cover with a damp cloth. Repeat procedure until all of the filling is gone.

Heat a 12-inch saute pan over medium heat. Brush with vegetable oil once hot. Add 8 to 10 potstickers at a time to the pan and cook for 2 minutes, without touching. Once the 2 minutes are up, gently add 1/3 cup chicken stock to the pan, turn the heat down to low, cover, and cook for another 2 minutes. Remove wontons to a heatproof platter and place in the warm oven. Clean the pan in between batches by pouring in water and allowing the pan to deglaze. Repeat until all the wontons are cooked. Serve immediately.

I am submitting this recipe to the Great Peanut Butter Exhibition Recipe Contest.  Thanks Mara for posting  this!

I had the spicy green beans with five pot stickers.  I drizzled the pot stickers with House of Tsang Szechwan sauce – only 25 calories a tablespoon – and a touch of sweet and sour sauce.  This was such a filling lunch!

Whenever my store sells chicken wings for .79 cents a pound, I cannot pass that up!  And what better way to serve them but fried! 😀  I used this recipe for the chicken.   I don’t know what it is, but whenever I soak chicken in buttermilk, it is so tender!

I’ve discovered that if you let the chicken sit for at least 5 minutes after you coat the chicken, it stays on better.

My plate: (I only ate one wing), 1 cup mashed potatoes with gravy and 1/2 cup green beans on the side.

I got mail! Thanks to Jen at Prior Fat Girl – I won new kicks!

I decided these are going to be my new “gym” workout shoes – I won’t use them outside.  I wore them while I was making dinner and it was like I wasn’t wearing shoes at all – and these retail for $65!! 😀  Thanks Jen!

Stats for Monday: 40 minute walk at lunch.  1,429 calories, 185 carbs, 65 protein, 51 fat and 22 fiber.

So excited for breakfast – I made Can you stay for dinner’s lemon blueberry pancakes!  And for lunch I have my version of Jersey Girl Cook’s Stuffed Peppers!  Have a great day! 😀

Who hit the snooze button today other than me?

I’ll be back to regular posting tomorrow – how was your weekend?

Are you a jump out of bed person or a snooze person like me?

We had the privilege of having some of our German exchange students over for Pizza 101!  They had a great time and loved the pizza!

I decided to make my our pizza sauce when I lucked out with these tomatoes!

I sliced them in quarters and generously sprinkled them with salt and pepper while 1 tablespoon of minced garlic was being sauteed in my stock pot with 1 tablespoon of olive oil.

Every batch I make is different because it depends on how the tomatoes are – some are really sweet, some are really tart – these were somewhere in the middle!

Biz’s Pizza Sauce

• 1 pound fresh tomatoes
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 8 to 10 basil leaves
• 1 tablespoon sugar

Cook tomatoes until soft, about 20 minutes.  Puree with stick blender and simmer for up to two hours to reduce.

I had to make the dough ahead of time, because it needs to rise for at least 30 minutes.

Biz’s Deep Dish Pizza Dough

• 3 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
• 1.5 teaspoons sea salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast
• 1 1/4 cup warm water (room temperature is fine)
• 3 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon oil (for the bowl when rising)

Put the flour, cornmeal, salt, sugar and yeast in your stand mixer with dough hook.  Add the water and butter and let the machine knead it for about 5 minutes.  Add to a bowl with olive oil and let rest for 30 minutes.

mix dry ingredients first

Then I add the melted butter to the water and mix that together – 5 minutes in the mixer and you are done!

I set the dough in the corner of my kitchen to rest.  I made WAY too much dough!  I don’t know what I was thinking, because each dough recipe is enough for two 16 inch pizzas!

Then I had my ingredients on the other side:

And I got giant pepperoni from my deli – so good!

I also bought new rolling pins and pizza pans:

Maxi and Eyke were ready to roll the dough:

Larissa had some awesome knife skills!  She sliced up the mushrooms and onions. (Yes, I know, I let an onion into the house!)

Larissa made a mushroom, pepperoni and onion pizza:

putting on the homemade sauce

ready for the oven!

Hannah and Eyke rolling out their dough

this one ended up being mostly mushroom with a little bit of pepperoni and light on the cheese

Eyke also made a tiny pizza with some of the dough – his “mini pizza!”E

Since I baked both of these at the same time – I baked them at 425 for 30 minutes, then 5 minutes off the pan straight on my oven rack to crisp up the crust – they loved it!

While the kids ate, I made a pizza for me and Tony – sausage, pepperoni, green olives, black olives and fresh basil on my side – I ate 2 pieces, or 1/4 of this pizza:

I may have added this to my slices – if anyone likes crushed red pepper flakes, you’ll love this!  When you open up the jar it smells exactly like jalapenos!  Tony found this at TJ Maxx and gave it to me for my birthday last week 😀

For dessert I bought an assortment of butter cookies from our ethnic grocery store.  Um, pretty sure the turtle ones were a big hit!  I only had two cookies left this morning from a pound!

And as a thank you, we gave our German exchange students travel coffee mugs that have the Chicago skyline on it and winter caps with Chicago on it.

Thanks to FoodBuzz for selecting my submission for this months 24, 24, 24!   It was a great night 😀

I had such a non-Biz breakfast yesterday – it reminded me of something Meghann would normally have! 😀

Two Van’s brand multi-grain waffles, 6 large strawberries, 6 ounces of plain Greek yogurt split between the two waffles and 1/4 cup of sugar free pancake syrup.   This plate comes in at 294 calories, 52 carbs, 18.2 protein, 2 fat and 7 fiber 😀

My friend and I walked at lunch again yesterday – there is this spot we walk by, it’s flooded and loaded with frogs – they are so loud!  That is, until they hear us talk and then they all simultaneously stop!  It makes us laugh every time!

It was still pretty cold out – maybe only 40 degrees, but we are starting to see signs of spring!

I loved my lunch yesterday!  I found these chicken sausages – each link is only 100 calories!  I know it says “onions” on the package, but I didn’t see it and I didn’t taste any 😀

My plate – one link, one 80 calorie bun, 1 ounce of sun chips and a new apple to me – it was called Pacific Rose and it was really good!

Lunch comes in at:  393 calories, 53 carbs, 18.7 protein, 13 fat and 6.1 fiber.

Tony and I decided to have sushi for dinner – it’s at this point in the Lenten season that I am all out of ideas for non-meat meals!  We were tired of shrimp, I don’t like many types of fish, so sushi won!  On the way we stopped at World Market to pick up some coffee – so cheap!  We got a 24 ounce bag of Italian roast for only $8.49!

Of course you can never go into a store like that and not pick anything else up.  This may have landed in my basket:

But I did not put this in my basket! While I like spicy things, they have to be flavorful spicy – I think this one would just be too hot!

I almost always get the same thing when we go here – the aged dashi tofu, potstickers and miso soup.  I decided to switch gears and I got the Fire Spice Roll – jalapenos with cream cheese and raw tuna in a tempura batter with a spicy sauce – this was so good!  It even came to the table on fire!

I also got the cucumber rolls:

Tony always gets this – its called Happy Avo and its raw fish on an avocado with the most amazing sauce – we both agree that the sauce makes this dish – I didn’t eat any of the raw fish, but I did have a couple bites of the avocado.

And Tony got his crunchy shrimp head!

And I even tried one of Tony’s rolls – it had raw fish/tuna/avocado and small roe on the side – it was actually really good! Ten years ago I never would have looked at that, let alone try it!

Stats for Friday: 45 minute walk.  1,387 calories, 207 carbs, 58 protein, 22 fat and 15.1 fiber. Calorie Count gave me a C+ for the day because I was low on fat, too high in sodium, and too low in fiber, Vitamin A, Calcium, Iron and Potassium. 😦  Maybe I should start taking multi-vitamins again?!

The girls have already left for a full day of shopping at Woodfield.   I am excited because Food Buzz picked my submission for this months 24:24:24!  I am having some German exchange students over for pizza making 101!  Be sure to stop by tomorrow for that post!

I love this picture of Hannah and Maxi!  It was taken at the ice skating rink they went to last night.

Oh – check out my friend Judy’s giveaway! Her son recently had difficult brain surgery and the prognosis is great!

Hope everyone enjoys their Saturday! 😀