Yesterday morning I had a desperate craving for a McDonald’s sausage biscuit. I kept telling myself “it’s only $1, you can swing by the drive thru on the way to work.” I was putting my stuff together for my Souper Friday lunch at work (for any new readers I bring soup on Friday’s for the office), got dressed and ready to go.
And then I saw my smoothie blender on the counter, and realized I could make a smoothie in a matter of a minute. No coffee in this one, I had another travel mug for my coffee.
My lower back has been aggravating me lately. My run felt fine on Thursday, but yesterday I decided to ride the bike to alleviate some of the stress on my back.
Since I am going to be spending the day with my family, I’ve decided today is going to be my rest day and see how my back feels tomorrow.
One of the partners at the firm I work at LOVES my buffalo chicken chili. I always tell her first when I decide to make it and bring it in.
I had this in the crock pot and by 11:30 it was heated through so I sent an email that “soups on” and then went to the gym. When I got back, I almost thought there wasn’t going to be enough for my lunch! I had this bowl, and there was about 1.5 cups left out of the whole batch – winning!
I decided to make cheddar corn muffins on the side. This is a full metal jacket corn muffin, and while delicious, I am going to play around with lowering the amount of butter to make it lighter. I didn’t figure out the calories until this morning, and my boss said she ate three!
Cheddar Corn Muffins
- makes 12 – each one: 213 calories, 12 fat, 20 carbs, 1 fiber and 5 protein
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups flour
- 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1/2 cup butter (1 stick), melted
- 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Spray your muffin tin. Mix dry ingredients together, then add 1/2 of the cheese and mix well.
In another bowl, mix the butter, milk and egg. Combine wet into dry, mixing only enough to incorporate the ingredients. Do not overmix.
Fill the muffin tins 3/4 full. Divide the remainder of the cheese over the tops of the muffins, press the cheese down just a bit, and bake for 20 minutes.
These were delicious! The outside texture had a bit of crunch to it, but the inside was light, tender and fluffy.
And guess what last night was?? Party Pizza Friday! While it’s been a while since I’ve made my own pizza, Tony picked up a 10 inch $5 dollar pizza when he was out running errands. We added some cooked bacon, a bit more cheese and I had goat cheese added to my side. I had three delicious slices.
Speaking of goat cheese, I scored and got a 16 ounce log for only $5 on the discount rack. Do you have any recipes using goat cheese? I think its my favorite cheese. Check out this recipe I found – serves 1! I could make a meal out of this baked goat cheese in an ancho chile sauce:
I am off to make some artisan bread to take to my Mom’s house, I think I’ll make the rosemary salt and one with cheddar cheese:
Hope you have a great weekend! I will try to enjoy our 40 degree weather before a cold snap comes through – starting tomorrow and a few days after that, we’ll be lucky to make it to 10 degrees! I’ll still take cold over snow any day though.
See you Monday!
I always get hungry when I come over to visit you. I shouldn’t be because I just ate. Everything looks amazing, Biz.
Good job skipping Micky D’s for something healthier at home! I need to make that chili. I have been trying new chili recipes and loving the variety.
Great post – love all the recipes and updates! Those corn muffins look wonderful! Perfect with chili.
This is the second blog I have seen chili on today. Now I am getting a hankering for it!
Sausage biscuits from McDonald’s are my weakness…I have to talk myself out of them often! 🙂 Your smoothie looks so much better than a biscuit though!
mmmm, the chili and muffins sound amazing! Enjoy your family time!
Weird, I don’t see my comment. Maybe I left it on another blog by mistake! lol
Let me check my spam folder, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you left it on another blog – ha!
Oh how I love corn bread/corn muffins. I never make them though, which is silly. And I still need to try out that artisan bread recipe. If only I had more hours in the day.
You know have the perfect pot Marianne! Let me know when you make it – I have more dough rising on the counter as I type this!
i’ve been having lower back pain lately too, such a pain huh!
we had pizza night last night too, Papa Johns. yours looks better, love the bacon!
Believe it or not, we’ve never had Papa Johns – isn’t it kinda like Dominos?
Goat cheese for $5 bucks!!! That IS a steal!
For your back try squatting and stay squatting for 5 minutes. Congrats on no mcd’s. That stuff is bad!!
I’ll give that a try Jody – I’ll let you know 😀
Happy Weekend!
I love goat cheese! My favorite easy appetizer is mixing goat cheese with salt, pepper, & chives (not sure if you eat chives however,since you don’t like onions…). Spread the mixture on some crackers and sprinkle with shaved Parmesan cheese. So simple, yet so good. Leave it up to add cheese to cheese… 😉
Nope, can’t do chives, but other than that, it sounds amazing! Thanks Andrea 😀
Have a great weekend BIz, enjoy your family! That rosemary bread is calling my name!!! 🙂
I don’t work in the office…I work from home…but I wish you were working with me on Fridays so I could eat your soup ;). And those cornbread muffins? gah! Want want want! This whole post makes me hungry
I’d definitely make you some corn muffins Erica!! 😀
Enjoy the warmer weather! Those muffins looks so yummy…. 🙂
I bet those muffins went awesome with the chili. I need to make that combo (maybe after you healthify the muffins)!
Good score on the goat cheese! I like it on pizza and in a sandwich with some walnuts and a little honey. YUM.
Yep, I knew you would be impressed with my cheese score! 😀
Can’t wait to see you today Biz!!
Me too!!
Have a wonderful weekend Vat. Hugs.
I have got to try your buffalo chicken chili one day.
At work, we have four shifts (12 hour shifts). There is one shift, C shift, that cooks almost every day they are there. We have two rice cookers and two crock pots, and they cook a big meal and eat together. Their shift of 4 has turned into more like 10 people who all share lunch (our “lunch room” table only seats 4). It’s really cool. I took them lasagna once.
Maybe I’ll make the buffalo chicken chili one day and fire it up.
It makes a lot Marcia – so it would be perfect. Let me know! 😀