Spontaneous Moment #9: Butternut Squash Soup

I love making soup. On a cold day, it's the easiest thing to whip together and warm your heart...and feet.

I've never attempted to puree soup because the thought of having to pull out the blender and cleaning five different dishes just for a nice, warm bowl of soup overwhelmed me. Well, I recently got a hand blender and put it to the test.

The end result was a delicious butternut squash soup. I added pepper and a dollop of sour cream. Nothing has been easier to make while keeping it's taste. I can't wait to make more!

Spontaneous Moment #8: A little bite of heaven

Tonight I had no idea what to make so I just threw together a few ingredients to whip up a quick margarita pizza.

How was it created? Let me tell you...

I brushed olive oil on the pizza dough.
Sliced the tomato and then had them soak in balsamic vinaigrette  in the fridge for 20 minutes.
You can never have enough cheese on your pizza. I spread shredded fat free mozarella cheese on the pizza dough and then tossed some basil on top.
Then I took the tomato slices out of the fridge and placed on top.
I sliced up a ball of mozarella cheese and put them on top of the tomato slices.
The pizza was topped off with a little salt and pepper

The result- a little bite of heaven:

Spontaneous Moment #7: Tempt the taste buds

Broccoli and cheese:  my second favorite combination (next to peanut butter and chocolate).

• Broccoli and cheese soup
• Broccoli and cheese frittata
• Broccoli cheese casserole
• Broccoli and cheese stuffed chicken
• Broccoli grilled cheese
• Broccoli cheddar baked potato
• Broccoli cheddar kolache

You name the combination, I love it. But the combo pack I attempted tonight was a broccoli cheddar quiche. Since I was trying to be on the healthy side I used egg whites, fat free cheese, and more importantly instead of a bread crust I made a brown rice crust.

Here is the result:

 

The eggs rose higher than the crust

Spontaneous Moment #6: Birthday Breakfast

I put together a healthy breakfast pizza for J with a little sweet on the side.

Spontaneous Moment #5: Warrior Dash

Warrior Dash. It's a 5k with obstacles scattered throughout the course and man is it a blast. Some of the obstacle include crawling through a tunnel, climbing up bails of hay, twisting your body through spider web ropes, throw your body over logs while in chest deep water, leaping over fire and crawling through mud. On top of that, some people chose to wear silly costumes. I was one of them.

Pre-race

Post-race

80s workout WARRIOR!

Spontaneous Moment #4: A Little Bit of Summer

 I had leftover watermelon and wanted to try something new. So I threw together this little concoction. It's mixed with goat cheese, oil oil, balsamic vinegar, pepper, and spinach. If I could change anything, I would have put arugula on top, but I just used whatever was in the apartment. IT.WAS.DELICIOUS!

Spontaneous Moment #3: Last Minute Meal

Left: Tomato, Corn and Avocado salad
Right: Peanut sesame noodles with chicken