Thanks for all your well wishes for the Foodbuzz Food Blogger Contest! I went to Food Buzz to see my competition, and it will be a miracle if I make it to the next round. Voting begins on Monday so I’ll be sure to let you know then how to vote – thanks!
I have Allison to thank for introducing me to the savory oats last year. As soon as I saw her putting Frank’s hot sauce on oats I was sold!
I believe I have kicked it up a notch this fall though. After the oats cook for 1 minute, I remove from the heat, add Frank’s hot sauce and a 1/2 ounce of cheddar cheese. On the side I cooked egg whites with ham, spinach and the other 1/2 ounce of cheese, then put it all together.
The oats are so creamy because of the cheese, and I may have added Tabasco to the top of my eggs! It’s filling and delicious!
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I decided I am going to walk outside at lunch for as long as I can – our winters seem to last forever and there will be plenty of hours in the gym when its cold and snowy!
Lunch was the very last of my simple tortilla soup – with cheese and tortilla chips on the side.
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In this month’s Food Network magazine, they had a chile rellenos burger that looked interesting. I didn’t follow the recipe exactly, but I grilled a poblano pepper until it got charred, then chopped it up with a chipotle pepper, fresh cilantro, lime zest, salt and pepper with 4 ounces of ground sirloin.
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Stats for Wednesday:
- 1373 calories, 118 carbs, 96 protein, 57 fat and 13 fiber
- 37% of calories from fat
- 50 minute walk
Suggestions needed: We are having an open house at my Mom’s 70th birthday on Saturday night and I am still trying to figure out some appetizers to walk around with. I’ve already decided I am going to make bite size quiches, but need a couple more – any ideas?
Oh, and one more feature of my camera I just discovered! I have a selection of ten frames I can add to my pictures. Um, you may be able to see Hannah’s new Monroe piercing in this pic!
p.s. There may be a 1991 video of our Oprah show appearance on tomorrow’s post! Tony is going to try to figure it out today. 😀
A friend of mine made a dish with puff pastry and green olives for my bridal shower. They were so good. I think she got dough from pillsbury and just wrapped it around olives and baked. YUM!
Hannah’s piercing is awesome, love it!
That’s interesting! Not a huge fan of olives but maybe everyone else is?
Ahh can’t wait to see the Oprah video! hehe Go Tony!
Love Hannah’s new piercing – they’re both so beautiful and accentuate her face!
Let me think on the appetizers and I’ll shoot you an email. Right now my mind seems everywhere haha.
I am DEFinitely going to vote for you! I love your blog, and the recipes of yours that I’ve tried are DELICIOUS. You make everything look so easy and mouth-watering!
Hannah is absolutely beautiful! I really love nose piercings like hers. If I were younger, I’d have one myself! 😉
Cheering you on for Foodbuzz!
I’m like “no she can’t possibly!” but then you did it anyways! I never would have though of putting hot sauce or cheese on my oatmeal. Got to admit I’m not sure I want to try it.
Would love to see that video!!
That breakfast sounds kind of strange but who knows…maybe delicious!
Well, plus that and I’m a bit *ahem* old to have facial piercings, lol!
Your burger looks fantastic! And I am crossing my fingers that Tony can work his magic and get the video to work!
Pretty picture of Hannah – the facial piercings would worry me because I touch my face too much…I’d be sure to accidentally pull them out.
I love the picture frame! And if you get that video up, I’ll laugh so hard!
Awesome breakfast! I’m “borrowing” your idea! 🙂
I’ve got a good recipe for Chicken Puffs…it’s basically a savory cream puff filled with a delicious finely chopped chicken salad (recipe includes a couple tablespoons of white wine but you could omit that.). If you’re interested, I could email you the recipe.
BTW, that breakfast looks luscious…and the piercing is adorable on Hannah.
Oooh, that spicy burger has my name written all over it. Good luck with the contest!
Thanks for your anniversary wishes on my blog — happy 10 to you this winter! Also, these burgers look delicious. Yum!
I love the burger! (Why is it always such a pain to visit your blog? ;-))
I noticed Hannah has cut her hair, the new cut (and piercing) looks really good.
My favorite is bacon wrapped shrimp. I always pull up a chair to the table with the bacon wrapped shrimp. (In this case, I’d follow the lady with the platter of bacon wrapped shrimp!) Yummmmm….
I’ll have to work up the courage to try savory oats sometime. It just goes against everything I knew growing up about oatmeal!
Happy Thursday, Biz! 🙂
WOW – I’m sure that if I took one bite out of that breakfast it would become my favorite too. Looks super delish.
biz – i am ACTUALLY DROOLING over that breakfast concoction! You, young lady, are GENIUS! 🙂 NOW – can you come on over to Cleveland and make that for me for breakfast every morning? 😉
god i LOVE thick burgers. but i won’t turn my nose up at a thin one, either.
i was just going to say that Hannah’s piercing looked cute, but that’s probably NOT the word shes looking for.. it looks COOL! I am not brave enough to get one of those.. lol kudos to her!!! i see so many girls getting those these days.. i could never do it myself!
I make a flatbread “pizza” that is always the hit of my cocktail parties and it’s easy to make a lot:
1 flatbread
spread with pesto
sprinkle mozzarella over all
put fresh thinly sliced tomatoes
Bake at 400 for 5 or so minutes. Let sit for a minute then cut up into small squares.
There’s a photo of it on my blog here