Great Cooking..

I went to the farmers market last weekend and bought these baby eggplants.I asked the lady how i should cook them and she said to slice them up and saute them with garlic...well, dagnabbit, thats the way to cook them! SOOOO tender and delicious!

We made a light dinner with sauted salmon and grape tomatoes, a strawberry spinach with feta salad and our baby eggplant

I also made a  Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza (Pinterest)

But I made two- One with a pilsbury pizza crust and the second with a Cauliflower Crust pizza, again from pinterest:)

 
 

 Roasted Garlic! This is the best way to have garlic I'm certain of this

Wes' Pizza turned out looking delicious as well, i brushed the crust with a garlicky olive oil to give it some flavor.

Pumpkin Carving and Pinning

We did  pumpkin carving on Saturday, cheapest date night ever!! Pumpkins are so cheap to buy!

First of all- lets just admire Wes' beard shall we......

He says he's aiming for the Brian Wilson look....google SF Giants Pitcher

I didn't get too creative, but i am damn proud of my carving skills!! The entire pumpkin is a little narcissistic of me, i know :)

and Wes was all about the Angry Birds!- its looks neat lit up inside- of course i didn't get a picture of it though..

Roasted my first ever batch of pumpkin seeds too- tossed them in olive oil, added a few dashes of Worshcheserereretire sauce , mixed in salt and chili powder..they were very very tasty

More ideas i got off Pinterest ( and yes i believe I am addicted. i am a pinning whore)

I am in love with cauliflower lateley, because of going no carb for my maintenance phase of HCG, i have to get creative with my food. Did you know you can rice cauliflower? it is delicious. I grated some florets with a regular cheese grater, put a couple tablespoons of water in it, covered it with saran wrap and zapped it in the microwave for 3 minutes. When it was cooked, i fluffed it with a fork and voila!! the texture is like rice! its sweeter than rice, of course- but its nice to have that 'carb' with your meats. 

 
My next move this week is Cauliflower Crust Pizza with roasted garlic and chicken pesto and roasted balsamic cauliflower....

Also, a recipe I got of pinterest was barbecued pulled pork- i made it for Wes.

2 lb Pork Shoulder, one can of Dr Pepper- slow cook for about 4 hours or until pork easily shreds. Drain liquid, shred pork and pour in one 16 oz bottle of barbecue sauce- I used Famous Dave's Rich & Sassy. Stir in well and then i kept it on warm until ready to serve. Wes tasted it and said he had a mouth orgasm.

Obsessions...

I just got done with my last drops of HCG. I've lost a total of 16 pounds!! 10 of that I gained right after the wedding! UGH! I had a total of 33 days on the drops. I was losing my mind the last week and a half. However, it works. The things i ate the most were apples, cabbage and chicken. and then i got totally addicted to cauliflower. I LOVE cabbage though...its so good, in a soup, or just boiled. And then i learned to add apples to my meals...Chicken and Apples, Cabbage and Apples- it was just heaven to me! I also learned to get creative with spices. Below are some of my favorite HCG meals and spices i used a TON!

Put this on just about everything

 

It is true, its great on everything!

 

 

I drank a lot of tea on HCG, Passion Tea was my favorite, iced and a couple packets of sweetener!

PINTEREST-ing....


Okay, I have been serioiusly obsessed with Pinterest! I've gotten so many great ideas, recipes, and some good laughs. I literally spend hours on it after work, probably because i have no energy to do anything else being on HCG. But i am glad they have an app, then I can pinterest while im at the gym! HA HA HA...no, im really serious.

An easy artichoke dip i made for Wes, recipe off of pinterest.

treat idea, also from pinterest

I copied this off my iphone, off the pinterest app...this is my future child...mini-moo!

and lastly, this was snapped off of pinterest as well...finger characters were popular pins for a while, but i thought this one really looked like me and wes...haha

OH Wait....THE BEARD OF ALL BEARDS

to tie the finger characters to Wes...this has been his project the last month and a half 

We have some funny moments together...Wes loves to watch ESPN and he cries when there are specials about little kids....AWWW. He is such a sensitive soul...but i had to share this iphone text...I really am the handy one around the house.

A while ago we went to Panda and look at this fortune...what are the odds?!

and lastly i just wanted to share some of my mother-in-law's recipes, I snapped a couple of her recipe cards i found in her kitchen one night haha

Fall in Logan

This weekend, Wes took me to my first ever Aggie game. Tons of Fun, and the Aggies beat the Cowboys 63-19. Happy Aggies=Happy Husband. No Joke.

Fall in Logan- Sherwood Hills

Utah State University

Wes went to The White Owl, had a 'big dawg' and a cheeseburger for old times sake, and was able to visit in the Pike house. We also did some tailgating with a couple of his old Pike-ys.

The game was exciting, the Kettle corn was even more so :) i missed out on the infamous Aggie ice cream, but there's always next time.