Tony thinks I am absolutely crazy to call my blog readers my friends. I’ll say
“My friend Shelley just ran a race in Hawaii!”
“My friend Christina makes dog treats called Corky Crisps and sells them at craft fairs!”
My friend Jen just got back from a trip to Italy!”
“My friend Helen jokes about how her husband wishes it was party pizza Friday at their house ever week!”
I could go on and on, but I really do consider you guys my friends. Am I crazy to think so?
Please leave me a comment if you think I am your friend! (I need to have bragging rights that I am right!)
My breakfast yesterday was so good – and I thought it would be a great breakfast to put together over the holidays. You can make it ahead, its good hot out of the oven, or even at room temperature.
- 3 ounces of Canadian bacon
- 1 cup egg beaters
- 1 medium zucchini, shredded, squeezed dry
- 1.5 ounces of cheddar cheese
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- salt and pepper
Heat the oven to 375 (I originally had it set for 350, but time was running out so 375 worked just fine).
Mix together egg beaters, zucchini, cayenne, salt and pepper and divide between 3 muffin tins – top with 1/2 ounce of cheddar cheese and bake for 15-20 minutes, until eggs are cooked through.
My plate:
My friend and I walked 45 minutes at lunch – I used 4 pound hand weights. Our Chicagoland weather has been unreal this week, with temperatures pushing 70! Sadly, I know its all too real that we could have two inches of snow on the ground next week. 🙁
Yesterday morning I was trying to figure out what to make for lunch – I saw I had a green pepper and I had chicken defrosted for our dinner, so I made chicken fajitas in lettuce wraps with 1 cup of my ancho chile soup (my picture yesterday made it on Tastespotting!) Lunch comes in at 505 calories, 20 carbs, 54 protein, 22 fat and 7.7 fiber.
Yesterday was a busy stressful day, so I came home and Tony and I relaxed for about 30 minutes before I even started making dinner – that is so not like me, but it was great to just decompress. I made chicken parmesan – this time omitting the panko bread crumbs and just using grated Parmesan cheese to coat the chicken. Tony doesn’t like sauce on his though! And I had zucchini pasta!
And Tony likes when I get the cheese nice and crispy:
These chicken breasts were huge – we both ate about 2/3.
And later in the night I had mixed nuts: 202 calories, 8.6 carbs, 5.9 protein, 17 fat and 3.1 fiber.
Stats for Wednesday:
- 1540 calories, 54 carbs, 174 protein, 69 fat and 13.9 fiber
- 40% of calories from fat
- 45 minute walk with 4 pound hand weights
Alright, I have to finish making my chicken tikka masala for lunch – I am going to have it over spaghetti squash – can’t wait for lunch!
Make it a great day FRIENDS!
I know I’m late on this, but you are definitely my friend, friend!
You are ABSOLUTELY 100% POSITIVELY my friend. Sometimes I feel even closer to my blog friends and will tell them secrets even my IRL friends don’t know. You can tell Tony you have a very good friend in Boston too 😉
I call online buddies my friends all the time! Fortunately, my husband has lots of online friends too, so no argument here 🙂
I’m late on this one, but you’re totally my friend!
I know you already won! 🙂 But, yes, YOU ARE MY FRIEND! 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Of course we are friends, just haven’t met in person, just in heart! It is funny to say friends but I think it is true. I do the same thing here. Have super great weekend! RS
Yeah I totally think of you as my friend, it’s funny because when I bought our Christmas paper for this year I was like Beth will love this! (All different styles of snowmen)
I can’t believe I’ve been going for years without knowing that.
oooh! How tempting! I’m sorry I don’t think I can get there in time! I am so enuivos! Have a wonderful time together. Maybe next time for me. Hugs from Canada!
Of course you are my friend. And I hope we get to meet in person one day.
This is a really intelligent way to answer the question.
Filalny! This is just what I was looking for.
Normally I’m against killing but this article slaughtered my ignorance.
I missed this post, but YES, ABSOLUTELY, we’re friends. The Canadian bacon, egg, zucchini thingie looks fabulous!
i’m late to comment but i had to because YES, you’re my friend who sent me this awesome salsa that i’m using on everything! i wouldnt eat something that a random stranger sent me, so by that logic, you HAVE to be a friend, right?!
I totally do that to, with a similar reaction from my husband 🙂 But I definitely think of you as a friend for sure!
You’re a friend that makes me hungry. All. The. Time.
I’m a friend!!! And I insist on being a triplet – me, you and Jen! We all don’t have to look alike, right??? 😉
Ha ha! Evan, my bf, and I BOTH have blog friends, so fortunately, we don’t have that debate in his house. He’s been better than I have about meeting such friends in person though.
So YES, you’re my friend. Who else but a friend would share recipes, laughs and provide motivation to stay healthy 🙂
Of course you are my friend! If we lived in the same city and you needed help I would give it if I could.
My husbands like yours he doesn’t get the whole blog thing of course he doesn’t have his own blog…
Have a great day and a nice weekend friend!
I say the same thing to Spence, “my blog buddy is doing this or that…etc.” He just laughs.
Jen
Just found your blog. Love your pictures of what you are making with food. You are showing us the way to better health with these. Thank-you, I will be back, Michele
Definitely you are my friend! I talk about my blog friends to Johnny and other family and friends all the time! My whole family knows “Biz” and I have heard from so many people that make your pizza dough. A lady that I was her flower girl 22 years ago even called me to ask about “Biz’s pizza dough” haha! Plus, we’ve met in real life so that counts DOUBLE! And thank you so much for the shout out, I really appreciate it! I’ve been having a hard time getting support!
I loved your egg bakes last week so I made my own – in muffin cups too! I still need to post abuot them, though.
Oh and that cheesy crispy stuff looks SO GOOD. Like heavenly cheese lace! mmm
Hell yes! I think of other bloggers as my friends too! We put so much of ourselves out there and offer support to one another it’s hard to think of other bloggers as not our friends. Your breakfast looks quite tasty by the way!
Here is what I copied as the definition of friend:
1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter.
3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?
It does not say that you have to engage in personal face to face contact. I consider many bloggers friends. Maybe not ones that I go shopping with or get together with on the weekend but many who share a common bond of some sort. Tell Tony to get his own blog and go meet some friends! 🙂
I want one of those zucchini shredders! 🙂
well if I am not your friend then I need to stop calling you mine!
Your bacon egg muffins look so good to me right now. I think I will be making them soon! 🙂
I agree with you about the weather. I’m in Milwaukee and it has been beautiful outside. Sadly, I know this weekend I could be stranded in my house to due snow. Oh, the Mid-West!
The worst is when you meet bloggers in real life and strangers ask how you met. AWKWARD 😛
Love those bacon egg muffins! What a cute idea. I’m always looking for transportable breakfast as I sometimes have to eat on public transit on my way to work!
You are most certainly my friend…I think you were my very first blogger friend and for that I am very thankful. I look to you for diabetic influence within my own life, thank you for everything you do!
Of course you are my friend – I do the same thing to Jeff, but since he’s gotten to meet one of my bloggy friends (Happy Texan Kelly and her husband), he knows you all are real. I like the pen pal analogy – and yes, I did have a pen pal (Linda McGregor, from North Carolina) and we did meet about six years after we started corresponding. And I have no doubt that one of these days you and I will meet up and start talking like we’ve known each other for years! 🙂
Took me time to read all the comments, but I truly eyjoned the article. It proved to be Very helpful to me and I’m positive to all the commenters right here It’s always good when you can not only be informed, but also entertained I’m sure you had fun writing this article.
love ya biz….I am always…Biz made this….Roni did this….Tina made this last night..lol
There are definitely different levels of friendships. I think foodelmundo was dead on about the pen-pal reference. I mention my blog friends to my husband and he totally understands. After awhile, he’s actually starting to remember who everyone is too. 🙂
Tony, with your wife’s personality, I’d think you should be surprised if she didn’t have any blog friends! She’s quite a special lady! 🙂
Omg what a cute post, thanks for stopping by…
I also call my bloggie girls friends…it seems we get to know each other so well..
Tastespotting cool,
I love your breakfast , little cups of heaven and crsipy cheese is always a winner
sweetlife
I definitely consider you a friend, Biz! I tell Andy about my “friends” all the time. He used to tease me but now he gets it. I feel closer to my blog friends than people I’ve know for years. A lot of bloggers have said that, we’re definitely 100% friends!
Hell yes, Tony!!! Biz is my friend! In fact, I think of her every time I see hot sauce, and sometimes talk about her with others as thought they already know who she is. Hahaha. 😀
it’s an odd world we live in. I look in on about 50 blogs a day. Most are just a glance to see if I can steal a recipe, but about 10-15 are ones that I try to read daily.
I always look forward to seeing the incredible “diet” food you have. I am concerned that concern yourself with diet lifestyle instead of healthy lifestyle. But, you know more than I do about such things, and I try not to nag.
So, I visit often, I look forward to our visits, I am concerned for you and I respect you…
Sure, I am your friend
Dave
i totally consider you all friends! i feel like there are several food bloggers (like you) that i could sit down to lunch with and chat like old friends. it’s so much fun. yes, we are definitely friends! 🙂
love the cheesy chicken, yummy!
I call my blog friends my friends too, because after a while, you know who they are with, who their kids are, what’s going on in their lives, etc!!!
Question Biz, do you cook the zucchinni for the pasta first, or is it raw??
Of course we’re friends! 🙂 I’m always wishing we were “in person” friends, too. (Darn that hunk of land between SF Bay Area and Chicagoland!)
When it comes to blog buddies, I can’t help but think of the scene in the movie Julie & Julia where Julia and Simca are in the station, waiting for Avis, and Simca is greatly surprised that Avis and Julia had never actually met. And like Avis must have to her family with Julia’s letters, I’m always waving my phone under my husband’s nose and saying, “Hey, look what Biz made today!” (And yes, I think it’s a guy thing: I think he thinks I’m a little nuts about the blog scene. Then again, he spends a lot of time in the comments section of our local paper, which is a pretty splenetic scene. Go figure!)
Mmmmm, I do like the look of those fritata cups! I’ll have to make those sometime. And we, too, are fans of the crunchy cheese.
Friends, most definitely!!! I think the guys are all just jealous.
Blog friends are absolutely real friends!! I have met some really awesome people through blogging – you included Biz!!
– Beth @ http://www.DiningAndDishing.com
My hubby agrees with yours- and he thinks it’s nuts that I think of people as “friends” when the likelihood that I am ever going to get the chance to meet up with the people that i visit in blogland is very minimal. But it’s nice to know that people are reading and that they check in on you!!
That is SOOOooo funny because I’ve had the same conversation with my husband. I said, “I got this recipe from my friend Biz.” WHO??? What so these people are you friends now? Yep. We talk everyday. That’s a friend.
You are totally my friend and I am yours too 🙂
See it works double with me because I’m a close personal friend and we both have widely successful blogs.
My step-son commented!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love you Joe! 😀
Miss you!
Definitely blends! (Blog Friends) 😀
I think when you follow someone’s blog you get to know them. And you do create friendships when you comment back and forth. I wouldn’t ask you for money, but I’d feel comfortable asking a food or diabetes question! So yes, friends indeed 🙂 And for the record, I only ask for money from the hubs 😉
To me a friend is someone you could call when you need help and they would drop anything to help you. Not someone who posts blogs. I wonder how many of these “friends” would be there if you needed help moving.
In my life only have a few friends, but I have a lot of acquaintances.
Of course we are friends!! I tell my peeps all the time “My friend Biz made this dish, or she is exercising more than me”! I love reading your posts every day, and if you missed one I’m sure I would stalk you until I found out why!! 🙂
I call people friends. It feels just too weird to refer to someone as ‘my blog reader.’ I mean, what is that anyway?? LOL. I sometimes call people blogger friends, as opposed to those I see in person, just to keep things clear.
I totally do this! I am always telling someone what my “blog friends” are doing. I do consider my blog friends real friends. So yes – you win the arguement! 🙂
Um, yes, you are so my friend!! I love surfing over for our “chats” every day to see what you, Tony and Hannah are up to and what delish goodies you’re eating that day!
It must be that kind of day today where we are all feeling all warm and cosy in friendship *smile*. I know I don’t always comment but yes you are my friend. I love coming and seeing your yummy pictures and love reading what you have to say. Tell Tony he needs to come to grips that he has to share you *smile*.
I woldn’t come and check on you every day to see what you are up to if I didn’t consider you a freind! We may live 1000+ miles apart and never met in person but I feel like I know so many people just thru blogs!!! I think it is a guy thing. My husband felt the same way until I was able to meet a few people that I read their blogs. Women are just more open to friendship of all sorts I think.
I’m always talking about my friends online 🙂
Good morning, FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
The breakfast and dinner look awesome! And that lunch…wow! The picture is stunning! No wonder it was on Taste Spotting!! 🙂 Tikka masala over spaghetti squash sounds perfect…the tikka is so powerful, it just needs something simple to pair with!
I consider you my friend too. 😉 It’s just easier to say it that way! Blog love! <3
Gee whiz, and I thhugot this would be hard to find out.
Those muffin tin eggs look awesome. Every time I think about deprivation and South Beach, I just have to look at your meals, and remember to think about what you CAN eat, not what you CAN’T eat. While I haven’t tried South Beach, most of my carbs this week have been of the beans and fruit variety, with a tiny bit of rice, maybe a homemade muffin here or there.
On to your question. I don’t think you are crazy. About 11-12 years ago, when my company was ailing, I found myself on a message board for a job search website. I “met” some regulars there. We branched off, formed our own “talk room”, and are still friends today. And we’ve met, though we live on opposite coasts and in the middle of the country. Strangely, my friend on the East Coast is married to a guy who is really into old classic cars. They go to car shows. My brother in law is also into the same thing.
5 years or so ago, I realized that they were both going to be at the same show. I mentioned it to my friend Terry. She sought out my sister at the show, now they are fast friends, hang out at ALL the cars shows and are facebook friends. All because of an internet job search board.
I use the phrase “my friend” ALL THE TIME!! Ha! Love this!
I do the same thing!! Anytime I am telling Big Man about one of you, I say “my friend” and Biz, you are my friend…I tell Big Man…ya know my friend with diabetes and all the awesome recipes I try!
much love!!
your friend, jen
That is so funny! I was just stopping by to get the link to your blog because I mentioned you as my friend.
Gotta make those zucchini egg muffins. Yum!
And excuse me, but did I read tikka masala? My favorite. Set the table for an extra guest please. 🙂
lol I also say MY FRIEND when I am talking about a fellow blogger. I think when you come back day after day to see how each other are doing & to see what you are cookin- Yes, YOU ARE MY FRIEND! 🙂 I have met a few blogger peeps in person- and yep they are my friends too! 🙂
I am so with you. I think about you friends all the time. I hesitate when I put it out there because not everyone knows I am in this blog world. But, yes, isn’t it a funny thing? And, I share more with you friends than some of the people I see every day.
Amigos//
Bizzy – you are one of my Tadpoles – and that, in and of itself, makes you my friend.
I know the blogging world doesn’t allow all of us to ever meet – but it is my wish that someday I get to where I need to be to meet [at least some of] my Tadpoles/friends – because that is what you and they are to me.
I am sure it is a little different with you and others that you have a job and outside friends you can visit on a regular basis – mine come to me…heehee – but I do consider every single person on my blog roll that supports and encourages me to be my friend. You all are people that I would do anything in my power to help if you needed it. That I am sure of – no doubt.
I don’t comment just to have something to do. I come around because you and my friends interest me, I want to know what is going on and I like being part of your world too.
Love and hugs. [and Tony, sorry bub – you are wrong on this one.]
Oh please count me in as being your friend. My husband too thinks I’m as nutty as a fruit cake saying this person likes to cook this way, or this person lost this much this week or this person just made a bag I have to try. He’ll say where in the world did you meet so and so. He knows I work from home and forgets about my bloggy friends. He just shakes his head and goes to his farm tractor forum and will tell me about so and so just like that person is his best friend. Same as me if you ask me but not for him.
I love your eggs this morning. I made mine with green/red peppers, onions, 2 turkey links, 1/4 cup shredded cheese and two farm fresh eggs. YUMMM!!! A banana and juice and I’m ready to face my day.
You go girl, I love getting your posts in my mailbox every day. Take care my friend and have a blessed day today.
I love what foododelmundo, “blog friends are like penpals.” SO TRUE!
I totally agree, I call everyone my friend! In fact, I’m trying to convince Carlos to drive cross country with me so that I can stop in multiple cities and meet everyone!
I think of a “friend” as someone who I look forward to being with, and communicating and sharing with. While it may not be in person, you tell Tony that you are absolutely my friend and that I look forward to having some time with you every day! You can also tell him that just the other day Mr. Helen said to me in a very exasperated tone. “I can’t even keep straight which of these people you talk about is real and which is your fake online friends!”
I do that all the time. My husband thinks I’m crazy too.
And that breakfast looks really good!
Sister~
Blog friends are what pen-pals were a bazillion years ago. So tell hubby, until he has his own blog, “no comments from the peanut gallery” because OBVIOUSLY he has no idea what he’s talking about!
Your Friend in the blogosphere,
Mary!
P.S. – I love to get cheese crackly crisp like that. The whole family loves it.
We are BFFs! I do the same thing all the time, talking about various “friends” who are blog buddies. We get to know each other well enough here that it really is a broadened definition of friendship.