Highlights

Here goes my highlights for this week.


A little Tuesday night visit to this place.

Hello, old friend! It's been awhile.

I vote that queso should be on everyone's weekly highlights!

Getting lost (again) at this beautiful park:

Recreating my fav meal from My Fit Foods, Lemon-pepper turkey!

Brown lean ground turkey
Add LOTS of lemon pepper, fresh spinach, black pepper, fresh lemon juice
Serve with brown rice and baked zuchinni!

And my newest concoction:

Ta-Da! Okay, I'll admit is doesn't look that appetizing (maybe even not at all) but it was still pretty awesome.

Preheat oven to 350
Cook 2-3 eggs (I used 2 egg whites and 1 egg). Leave them a little runny.
Spray pan with non-stick spray.
Put whole wheat torilla on pan.
Spread salsa on whole wheat tortilla. (This is the pizza sauce.)
Add eggs on top of salsa.
Add cheese (I used jalapeno jack) on top of eggs.
Bake for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted and tortilla is a little cripsy.
Enjoy!

It's a par-tay!

Welp, I can officially cross my off my number one goal for the month of August: host a dinner party/game night. :)

Last week, we hosted Alan's birthday din-din and on Friday I hosted a Scentsy party. My childhood bestie asked me to hold it, and since I'd never done anything like that, I gave it a shot. It was fun to get the ladies together again and snack on yummy treats.

Since the party was pretty light, I decided that bite-size finger foods were appropriate. I made up some turkey and cilantro meatballs and some scones (I decided to make the scones the shape of cookie at the end of recipe since I was running short on time. They looked a bit funky, but were still pretty delish.)

Here's the recipe for the meatballs. Thanks to Gina at Skinnytaste.com

Southwest Turkey Meatballs with Creamy Cilantro Dipping Sauce
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes

Servings: 12 • Size: 2 meatballs only • Old Points: 1 pts • Points+: 2 pts
Calories: 67.1 • Fat: 1.8 g • Carbs: 2.3 g • Fiber: 0.4 g • Protein: 10.5 g

1-1/4 lbs 99% lean ground turkey
1 jalapeño, seeds removed (leave some in for spicier meatballs)
2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
3 scallions
1/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1 egg
1 tsp cumin
pinch oregano
salt and fresh pepper
cooking spray

Lightly spray baking pan with oil.
Preheat oven to 400°.

Place jalapeño, garlic, cilantro, and scallions into a small food processor or chopper and
pulsea few times until finely minced.

In a large bowl
combineturkey, chopped herbs, bread crumbs, egg, cumin, salt and pepper. Using your hands,
mix welland measure 1/4 cup meat, then
divide in twoso you end up with each meatball 1/8 cup in size.
Roll and place on a baking pan.

The meatballs and scones are on the platter to the far left.

Mom brought the veggie tray (which I've snacked on all weekend) and my grandma brought the cupcakes. Yum! I ate 2 this weekend before sending them off to where my sweets go to die... the Coach's field house. If they were here, I'd seriously eat them all. When I sent them off with The Coach this afternoon, I asked if the other coaches ever bring in leftovers from their house and he said yes. Glad to know I'm not the only crazy wifey who wants certain things out of the casa!

The saleswoman! Steph and Steph Reunite! :)

Please ignore my nasty hair.. it was a long day and I was exhausted.

And the goods:

We were all a little overwhelmed by all the different scents. Who knew there were so many of those things?

I had fun smelling them all and giving my two sense on each one. It sounded a little like this...

oh, Love that!

This smells just like Alan

Umm, no

I don't like the after smell on that one

Okay that smells like a public bathroom, a clean one but a bathroom nonetheless

Hahaha, no one agreed on the public bathroom one or that some of the samples had "after smells." I'm sticking to it, though.

Hosting parties=complete. Woo hoo!

I'm throwing in the apron

seriously. I give up.

Over the years, I've attempted and completely butchered everything I've tried to bake. For someone who loves sweets so much, I sure suck at making them. I'll call this a "blessing in disguise" since I can't even imagine the amount of sugar I would consume if I was a stellar baker.

My last attempt was on Friday when I tried to make gluten-free chocolate chip cookies to take to the coaches' party. Ashley does the gluten-free thang so I thought I'll be nice and go that route. Fail. Ash, do I still get brownie points for trying?! Apparently GF flour is NOT the same as regular flour and the consistancy was totally off. Since the batter tasted okay, you better believe I ate some (okay, a ton!) of that batter, I figured I was on my way to success. When I put the cookies on the cookie tray I knew I was in t-r-o-u-b-l-e. They literally spread out covering the entire sheet in a matter of seconds. Check it out.

and that was after being in the oven for FOUR minutes

Needless to say, these bad boys did not see the light of day. I'll stick to making smoothie creations like this one:

It's a chocolate strawberry ice cream smoothie. Contains: almond milk, frozen strawberries, cocoa powder, protein powder and ice. I added chocolate syrup on top for an extra kick. They were delicious and Alan and I scarfed these down. And, I may or may not have finished off the pitcher for breakfast in the next morning ;)

I'll definitely be making these again. Super easy. WIN!