Yummy in my Tummy Food Week

Happy Weekend everyone! And happy almost-birthday to America, who will be 234 tomorrow! Who has a 3-day weekend? Me! Me!

The latter half of this week has been awesome in terms of what I've been eating... Allow me to illustrate:
Wednesday evening Raine and I made nachos. I found some organic non-GMO blue corn chips on sale for $1.99 and pounced on them!
And thus was born:

slathered with vegetarian refried beans, and topped with chopped romaine, bell pepper, green onion, tomatoes, and extra hot salsa.
And if y'all know me at all you know I had to have a margarita with this:

I used Bethenny Frankel's Skinny Girl margarita recipe. It was not very good- it needed a little something sweet! I added a few drops of Stevia and all was well.


Please insert lots of apples, carrots, broccoli, and leftover tempeh enchiladas here.


Thursday evening my boyfriend and I got the sudden urge to go to Schlotzky's for a sandwich. I hadn't been there in years!
I ordered the veggie on wheat with no cheese.

with a few rogue drops of Louisiana hot sauce on the side! I love their olive-y sandwiches.

Please insert a banana, broccoli, grapes, cashews, and even more leftover tempeh enchiladas here.

Yesterday after work my boyfriend and I hit up the grocery store to pick up a few items necessary for pizza night. Pizza nights always turn out to be so fun! We need to do those more often. 

My blank slate:

thin crust!

With organic Muir Glenn tomato sauce, and sliced cherry tomatoes:

I also forgot to take a picture of the item that made this pizza... Thank goodness for internet! I found it here.

It is an organic sweet basil pesto packet- you know, the kind you add oil and water to make the sauce. Instead of going that route, I sprinkled a few pinches of it all over my pizza sauce and it was amazing.

I also added a small amount of cheese before sticking it in the oven.

Then, I got some of this out:

mmm I love arugula! I rarely get it because it costs so much...but as I was debating over this at the store Raine said to me, "well, you'd pay that much for a drink, right?" And he was right. So the arugula was purchased :)

I took the pizza out of the oven a few minutes before it was done, added several handfuls of arugula and put it back in to bake for longer.

and topped it with a bit of parmesan when it was complete!

It was a masterpiece! Until disaster struck... 

After cutting up the pizza I absent-mindedly unscrewed the lid of the crushed red pepper instead of flipping the cap open... 

I probably dumped about half a cup of the hot stuff all over the pizza! I had to remove most of the arugula and I was was very upset :( 

It was nothing a little sparkling wine couldn't fix, though!

Raine to the rescue

love him :)

The fridge looks so small in this picture! It's like one of those illusions where the room looks super tiny compared to the human...

ah yes, the Ames Room

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I remember learning all about this in a psychology class now...

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Funny, I don't think our house has slanted walls...

I digress- let's get back to the incredible pizza:

ooh yeah

it was still a little spicy, but very good.

But wait, that's not all! I have had my eye on a recipe from No Meat Athlete for a Very Long Time. 

Black Bean Brownies

Recipe here!

I almost had another disaster with these... The batter was not wet enough so I added extra water, and thankfully I had the foresight to taste the batter before I stuck it in the oven- and blech! I had forgotten the sugar! I added the sugar and all was well.

and thankfully, the recipe is very forgiving- good for klutzy cooks like me- the added water made no difference.

The only modification I made was to half the recipe because I didn't have a 9x13 pan- this is an 8x8 pan. I also subbed pecans for the hazelnuts because all I had was pecans, and because I thought it would be the Texan thing to do.
I cut it into 15 pieces, and dug in:

These were soooo good! In the words of Christine, "I don't think I can accurately express over the internet how freakin awesome these brownies are!  I said it before and I'll say it again:  these are better than ANY brownie I've had, including the ones laden with tons of butter and eggs."

Make these now. 

Alright bloggies, I'm off! But before I'd go, I would love to know what new recipe you have tried recently that you love?