Yep, I won prize for best/scarriest costume at my office party – I give you . . . Guy Fieri!
Pretty much everyone knew who I was – except one person wanted to know if I was Jimmy Buffet! It was a fun day – hey, any time I can grill at work I am a happy camper!
We recently hired another attorney at our office (who came dressed as Dexter – it was great!). So someone dressed up as a combination of all the people that didn’t get the job, a total of six people – you kinda had to be there, but one of the things on her costume killed:
Not joking, two candidates lied about their education – really??!!
One of my co-workers is the best baker – I had a small slice of her pumpkin coffee cake – holy smokes this was good – just imagine a pumpkin pie stuffed into a coffee cake. I am calling this piece 6 points.
I made Thai burgers, regular burgers and hot dogs, and it was pot luck after that. So.Much.Food! I think I did pretty good – I ate one Thai burger, salad, about 1/2 a cup of cheezy crock pot potatoes, and I had to go back for 1/2 a cup of buffalo chicken dip and 10 Fritos. I am calling my lunch 19 points just to be on the safe side.
It was about 52 degrees, sunny and breezy – not too cool to grill! My feet did get a bit nippy though!
I wanted to do an alternative burger, and took my inspiration from this recipe – it won $50,000 in a Build A Better burger contest in 2007. Can you imagine winning 50k for a burger??!! I did modify it though – I ditched the cilantro mayo and I couldn’t find Thai sweet chili sauce – all the Thai chili sauces I found were just spicy, so I added hoisin sauce to the burgers to get the balance.
Biz’s Thai Beef Burgers – Makes 6, 4 ounce patties with slaw – 320 calories, 22 fat, 7 carbs, 1 fiber and 20 protein – or 8 WW points – you need to add the points for the bun you choose – our buns were 3 points so my burger comes in at 11 points. Not bad!
For the burgers:
- 1.5 pounds 80/20 ground beef
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons Thai chili sauce
- 1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
Mix together the burgers and grill to desired temp.
For the “salad” topping:
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1 tablespoon peanut sauce
- 1/2 cup chopped carrot
- 1/2 cup chopped English cucumber
- 1/2 cup of bean sprouts
Toss salad mixture well. Divide salad mixture evenly over the Thai burgers.
I really loved these burgers – the contrast was great – spicy burger with crunchy flavorful slaw on top. I’d definitely make these again. (for me Tony – don’t worry!)
And we had so many desserts: apple pie, red velvet cheesecake, butterscotch rice krispie treats – and this truffle – pudding, crushed Halloween oreos, whipped cream – how I didn’t stick a spoon in this I’ll never know!
The afternoon went by fast – I wish I could say that I was looking forward to getting home to give out candy – but we hardly get any trick or treaters – the houses are too far apart so the kids walk up to the neighborhoods so they can score more loot. I miss that!
When I got home I waited by the front door for 45 minutes waiting for a trick or treater. Tony and I went back and forth on what to have for dinner, finally settling on cheezy beefs. It’s great with leftover beef – just thinly slice the leftovers and simmer it in beef broth with 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning.
I only had half an open face sandwich and 1/2 a cup of rosemary potatoes – 9 points.
The final picture didn’t turn out, but dinner was good! And at 8:45, after having lost all hope of any trick or treaters – I got two! Who were lucky enough to split 3 bags of candy – I let them take it all! š
Stats for Monday:
- 38 points
- no exercise
- average blood sugar 134
Okay, go ahead and make me jealous – how many trick or treaters did you get?
Love the costume! And Dexter rocks– yay new attorney! Although I have to say I don’t think mentioning a bible study group should be a negative during a job interview. Lying about a job? Yes. Mentioning your religion? No. EEOE and all…
We didn’t have any trick or treaters last night. I wasn’t expecting any since we’re a lone winter rental vacation home, surrounded by vacant homes for the season and really far back from the road. I didn’t even buy candy! So we went to a friend’s house for dinner. They didn’t get any trick or treaters either, so we all munched on the candy bowl to console ourselves. haha
Congrats Biz!
We had no trick or treaters…we were flying home from Florida last night! The flight attendants on the plane did dress up though š
I absolutely love it. MOST awesome costume. I knew you would pull that off beautifully. I do like that list of “Interview Fails” too. Wow, that’s funny.
I thought of you last night at 3 am when I couldn’t sleep. I decided to make bagels – and although I have never made them before I found this really cool & easy recipe on allrecipes.com and asked myself “What would Bizzy do? Why, make bagels of course.
They ROCK! I think I even impressed the family. heehee
Then I went to sleep for 6 hours š
Thanks again for the inspiration!
I am more excited that you got 6 hours sleep – woot! But I am glad the bagels turned out!
great costume, Biz! i love it š
haha, that costume is AMAZING!!! i love when people really go for it. congrats on the win biz! š
– Beth @ http://www.DiningAndDishing.com
Ahahaha!! I would NOT have known who you were but that’s hilarious!!
BIZ! I made that gumbo (from your post yesterday) this morning so we could have it tonight. HELP! I need the directions for how to NOT EAT IT ALL BEFORE HUBS GETS HOME! DE-freaking-licious!
Glad you liked it Pam – still not sure its an authentic gumbo, but it was tasty! š
Wow you looked amazing! What a fun office you work in Biz.
No trick or treaters we went out to eat and to a movie!
You look awesome! I was telling my husband about your costumes last night, and told him I was excited to see the picture for this year. You didn’t disappoint!
We didn’t stay home for trick-or-treaters – we took the kids out to another neighborhood where there were better houses (I don’t live in the ghetto, but I’m not in the best area either.) By the end of the night we were on a street that hadn’t gotten hardly any trick-or-treaters, so they were just putting handfuls of candy into the kids’ bags. They had a good night.
We had a bunch of trick or treaters this year – easily over 100. Some years it’s not as good, but this was a fun one, plus lots of cute costumes and sweet kiddos.
Congrats on winning the costume contest! You looked authentic, especially since you were cooking, too!
Lying to your education to a bunch of lawyers….what where they thinking???
Your costume rocks!!!
We live in a small, but Halloween friendly neighborhood so we always get more than we can count. It was lighter this year, but we still got rid of 2 Costco size bags of candy! š
I love your costume! I’ve been watching DDD for hours..haha and I definitely think you did a good job on making yourself look like Guy!
Love the costume! Especially the facial hair!
I had 200 pieces of candy and ran out 1 hour before trick or treating ended and I gave 1 piece of candy to each person – so we had a TON of trick or treaters! It was so much fun
Love your costume! We didn’t get many trick-or-treaters at all compared to the last few years!
That is awesome!!
Awesome costume!!!
The top 5 interview errors are pretty funny. It’s really strange to me that people lie in interviews about their education or other things that can be so easily verified…
Your costume ROCKs, Biz!! What a great work spread – love the Thai burgers, too!
I live at the top of a big hill, so I don’t get a ton of kids, but I try to make it worth their while by giving them lots of candy when they walk up! š
Great costume!!!! Did you put the sunglasses on the back of your head when you weren’t wearing them on your face? Lol.
We had 4 trick or treaters. Seriously. 4. And not 4 groups, just 4 kids. Can you tell we live on a dead end street?
Yep – stood at the copier for 2 hours with shades on the back of my head! š
Back home, we got our FIRST trick or treaters last year, after living there for over 10 years – and they were only because the neighbors finally had kids!
The costume rocks! It poured down rain all evening here š
I saw this and thought of you….http://ittybitsofbalance.com/2011/07/26/challenging-running-interval-treadmill-workout/. I’m going to try the beginner’s version š
Thanks Kim – I’ll go check it out! I just got my six week plan from my personal trainer – lots of strength training too – yikes!