When Pizza Happens To Good People

When Pizza Happens To Good People



So has some of you may know, I am doing The Biggest Loser at my work. Basically we weigh in on Monday and pay $1, at the end of the 15 weeks whoever has lost the most weight gets the pot of money and gets to look all hot.
I'm tryna win that shit, This week when I had my weigh in I had lost 4lbs!
YAY!
Cue Party Music.

HOWEVER.....
My boyfriend likes to sabotage me.
He ordered pizza.
Not only did he order pizza.
He ordered my favorite Philly Cheesesteak Pizza.
ommmmmmmmmmmmmg.
I ate it.
A lot of it.
Womp.
Now at first I felt all awful and depressed and guilty.
And for a split second I even thought about not eating for a day to make up for my bad behavior.
But then I realized.
Pizza Happens.
And Pizza SHOULD happen.




(So Should Cream of Crab soup)
 




90/10 Rule Man.
90% of what goes in my body is good and happy and healthier, and 10% is junkfoody-delicious-crap.



Now...other than that moment of gluttony
I've been quite good!

Here is a round up of some of this weeks healthier choices:


Banana Chips!
So good!
I got this bag at Trader Joe's awhile ago and it's lasted quite a bit.
They are great when I'm needing something to tide me over till lunch.




 
Portion Control!

At least two of my lunches this week have consisted of a half cup of Trader Joe's Chicken Fried Rice.
Its so delicious and actually does a great job of filling me up!
I usually pair it with either hummus and veggies, or cinnamon applesauce.




I've got a new Tilapia Recipe so hopefully I'll be able to post that up here by the end of the week!

Pad Thai Like A Boss

That Time I Made Incredible Pad Thai

Now first things first. I am not claiming to be a master chef, or even properly trained.
Nor am I claiming that my so called Pad Thai is how you are actually supposed to make it...so if you make it and it sucks, I am not responsible, or if you are from Thailand and think I'm an idiot, I apologize.

Step One:
Spend a crap load of money on ingredients that you will only use once a year.
(Just kiddddddding, I plan on using these at least twice a year)

Now...I'm going to make some suggestions, the rice noodles that I got were not ideal, it would be much better to get rice vermicelli noodles.
 

Ingredients:
2 tbl Sesame Oil

1 tsp Fish Sauce
2 tbl Sirracha
1 lb Rice Noodles
1 Can Baby Corn
1 can Water Chestnuts
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 cup Seafood Stock
1 tsp Chili Powder
1 tsp Ginger

1 tbl Garlic
1 tbl Red Pepper Flakes
1 lb Baby Shrimp

First thing I did was separate all my ingredients into different bowls, when preparing this dish you have to be super organized because the sesame oil does burn more quickly then traditional cooking oil.

(It helps to have as many cute kitchen utensil's as possible)

Basically, you want to soak the noodles in 1 cup of water and 1 cup of seafood stock for about an hour, and then I literally throw them in the pan with the sesame oil, fish sauce, sirracha, and garlic into the pan with the noodles. I let that all simmer together into a nice sauce, and then I slowly add the chili pepper, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, and ginger till it's the right taste. Some of you will like it hotter than others, so adjust the amount of spice to suit your own lil tastebuds!

At the very last minute I toss my shrimp, water chestnuts, and baby corn in and let them get warmed up and flavored.

Then you serve and demolish.

Randy had a serious helping of it and said that it was delicious, personally I think next time I'd add some more ginger and less red pepper flake. We shall see!

Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed the recipe lesson today!