As soon as I walked into my office yesterday, someone had brought in two dozen of these:
Does everyone know what these are? They are heaven on a plate – it was paczki day yesterday! This one happened to be filled with boston cream – I brought this one home for Tony and Hannah to share. It wasn’t until someone linked in to my last year post – I forgot I had made baked paczki’s! I am going to have to try those again!
I stuck with my breakfast I brought – eggs in a bread bowl – which I’ve made before, but recently saw on Cathy’s site – and when whole wheat rolls were on the $1 rack, I knew I’d have it for breakfast. Once I scooped out most of the inside bread, my roll ended up being 3 ounces, with 1/2 cup scrambled egg whites with spinach and a tablespoon of bacon bits, topped with 2% pepper jack cheese. I cheated and cooked my eggs separately, then just stuffed and broiled it in my office toaster oven. YUM!
With another grapefruit sent by my MIL.
I am trying to use up stuff we have in the house before going grocery shopping again, so I remembered I had a spaghetti squash to cook up – and decided to make another version of my spaghetti squash spinach lasagna.
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I only cooked three lasagna noodles for the layers – first sauce, then spaghetti squash, then spinach, ricotta cheese, and repeat – ending with the last layer of noodles.
Finish with 1.5 ounces of mozzarella cheese on the top – then bake for 30 minutes at 350.
This makes 4 servings – each serving is only 263 calories! 😀
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My friend and I actually walked outside yesterday for 45 minutes – it got pretty windy at one point, but the fresh air was wonderful! About two hours after lunch though, I was STARVING! Like I hadn’t eaten anything! So I went to my cubpoard in the kitchen at work and came back with this:
An hour later I was STILL hungry!
I just entered my calories in this morning from yesterday – no wonder I was hungry!! Before dinner I’d only had about 750 calories!!
I decided to make chicken wings because we had them in the freezer – on the side I made a cauliflower au gratin, pretty much the only way I’ll eat cauliflower – I’ve tried to make the “mashed” cauliflower, but that tasted like ass – when your mind thinks mashed potatoes, it just isn’t going to taste good!
I used a recipe in this month’s Rachael Ray’s magazine:
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I can’t do the straight mashed cauliflower either. Try adding some real potatoes to the “mashed” cauliflower. It tastes so much better if you use half cauliflower and half potatoes.
Again…your photos are just stunning! Actually I think your breakfast looks much better then the paczki!
I haven’t eaten breakfast yet and this post is killing me!
Beautiful pics! I especially love the ricotta tower!
I’m with you – cauliflower pretty much makes me wanna vom.
& I’ve never seen those baked goods before, or heard of them…maybe they’re not an East Coast thing?
Anddddd I wanna buy rolls just to make your breakfast!
Errign – it’s a New Orleans tradition – don’t know why its so popular in the Midwest, but it is!
Yep – that breakfast is so good – you’ll see I had it again yesterday and I’ll probably have it again today before the rolls go bad! 😀
btw…I thought of you when I saw this: http://dishingupdelights.blogspot.com/2010/02/almost-buffalo-wings.html
Thanks Sophia!!! 😀
So many yummies!!! I love that spinach egg cheese breakfast , that looks really delish! but….in front of that paczki, I probably can’t stick with my breakfast! haha
YUMMMYYY this looks FANTASSSTICCCC!! and by this I mean EVERYTHING!! that cheese tower, YUMMO (love the rachel ray salute?) that cauliflower dish looks so great!
Mmmmm paczki! That’s the polish side of me coming out! I saw on the news that they served over 140,000 of those alone in Milwaukee yesterday. That is crazy!
That sucks that the cauliflower recipe didn’t work. I have one from Cook’s Country that is AMAZING, but I don’t know if you have seen it. If you want it, let me know, I’ll email it to you!
I posted about paczkis today and hardly anyone knew what it was! Us Midwesterners know how to properly do fat Tuesday 😉
I’m going to have to remember that spaghetti squash lasagna! Love the sounds of it!
I totally want a paczki! It’s a donut, basically? Yummy. Also I LOVE the idea of the eggs in bread bowl, sounds delicious.
I’ve never heard of a paczki, but I sure would like to try one!! Looks delicious!!
Your spaghetti squash lasagna looks awesome!!
I am seriously going to have to check out the baked paczki from last year. that looks too good to pass up.
And that lasagna! Amazing. Genius idea to put spaghetti squash in the inner layers instead of lasagna noodles. I really need to use spaghetti squash more, especially when I want to have really decadent sauces.