Matzo Pizza

I don't know why I never thought of this.  I love pizza.  It would be my last meal for whatever reason I was given a last meal.  I will eat any type of pizza.  I prefer thin crust though.  Less dough equals the ability to eat more.  The sauce and cheese and toppings are the star.  The crust is just a vehicle to carry those toppings to your mouth.

Now that you've heard my philosophy on pizza, on to the tastiness.  Here is the source.  All you need-

Matzo crackers

Sauce

Cheese

Toppings - turkey pepperoni for me

Throw it in the toaster oven on broil for a few minutes.

 



Perfect.  Just starting to brown and get bubbly.

 



 

This was good.  So good, in fact, in fact, this will probably sabotage my plans of loosing any more weight.  The site this came from is great.  It's called Slender Kitchen.  There's loads of recipes categorized by Weight Watchers Points.  I don't do WW but it would be very helpful to those who do.

 

Enjoy!

Yummy Protein Bites

So I've been looking for a granola type recipe that I can make easily.  I've tried 3 or 4 baked and not baked.  I've bypassed this one a few times because I thought, this can't be good.  It's just dates and nuts and seeds and chocolate.  Boy was I wrong.  These are great.  The original poster made them into bars but I found the mix too thick and sticky to do it that way, so I rolled them into balls.  You can find the original recipe here. 

 

 

The only thing I did different was add chia seeds.

 Ingredients

 

Mixed and rolled

 

The hands - very sticky mix but easy to wash off.

 

Yum

 

These are awesome.  I plan on making more versions with a date base and other nuts and seeds.  I'll also add oats and bran in the future. They have also stayed in an airtight container in the fridge for more than a week. Enjoy!

Sweet Potato Dog Snacks



 



In a previous post I mentioned I needed to find a way to make sweet potato snacks for my dog.  Well, I found it here.  They take the day because they need to dry out in the oven but that requires little work other than slicing the potatos.

 

 This is what they look like when done.

 

 

 

Calli "waving" Hard to get the shot with her paws up waving, but you get the idea.

 

 

 

Calli approved.  I'll definitly be making these often.  This was only 2 potatos.  Next time I'm going to raise the temp to 200 and try to cut the drying time so I can make more since it took almost 8 hours at 175.

 

 

 



 

 



Sausage and Veggies

I've seen a few recipes similar to this floating around Pinterest so I thought I'd give it a go.  I just took ideas from what I saw and did my own thing.

 

Veggies of your choice.  I used carrots, onion, baby potatoes, green beans and zucchini.  Coated lightly with olive oil then seasoned with a few cloves of garlic, pepper, chipotle and smoked paprika.  Later I added a packet of sodium free beef bullion powder to boost the flavor, so it's not included in the picture.  Your choice of sausage.  I used smoked turkey sausage.  



Roasted the veggies along with all the seasoning.

 

Browned my sausage, or should I say burnt.  I got distracted during this process by my Mom calling but no biggie, tasted fine.

 

Then combine.  This is really tasty.  There's so many combos you can do with this as far as ingredients and seasoning.  I didn't post a solid recipe because I eyeballed everything.  I rarely measure anything unless I'm baking.  I would like to do one with just sausage and potatoes and maybe seasoned with ranch dip powder.  Don't know how ranch would go with smoked sausage but that's the beauty of cooking.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

So experiment with this idea, so many combos you could try.
Enjoy.