Good Morning Central Park!!
I was able to walk to work this morning,which is my favorite way to start the day. A little bit of excersize, and lots of people watching! New Yorkers – What’s your favorite walking path in the city?
I’ve been hammering through my Swag bag from the Healthy Living Summit pretty consistently the past two days. I’m a sucker for a good protein bar! I’ve given the Nugo bars a try for breakfast the past two mornings. And they’re great. I really loved the pretzel dark chocolate bar. The combination of salt, and chocolate is definitely a favorite of mine, remember?
mmm pretzels and chocolate and sea salt!
And today – I tried something else, the Trenta Iced Coffee from Starbucks , which was huge, and I did not finish (shhhhh, don’t tell anyone I was not woman enough to finish the largest ice coffee in midtown. My street cred would be ruined).
Giant coffee = Jumpy Shoshana!
Anyways, yesterday I was determined to make something plant based for dinner (a la Dawn) and set out to make Mushroom burgers – but, got a little sidetracked.
I purchased a pretzel baguette from the bakery at Food Emporium (which is the best bread ever. It’s a pretzel, you put things on!) And decided to make it into a pretzel pizza (of sorts), and I added a side of roasted asparagus and spinach bites.
YUM!
Pretzel Baguette Pizza
Pick any type of “baguette” bread. I chose pretzel, and scooped out the middle of the bread to cut out some of the hefty calories. It’s easy, and yummy! Make them!
Yields 4 Servings (or 2 servings for really hungry people)
Prep time: 10 Minutes
Cook time: 10 Minutes
Ingredients
2 Portobello Mushroom Caps, sliced
1 clove of garlic
Olive Oil
1 Baguette
1 small can of tomato sauce
½ small ball of fresh mozzarella
1. Sauté mushrooms, garlic and olive oil
2. Cut the baguette in half length wise, and cut each piece in half width wise
3. Scoop out the middle of the bread, and sprinkle with olive oil
4. Spread sauce on the bread, and top with mushrooms, cheese
5. Broil in the oven until crispy
empty baguette and filo shells
Pre-Melting of the Cheese!
To make the spinach bites, I just filled the Filo pockets we got in our HLS swag bag with spinach, sprinkled with mozzarella and salt/pepper and broiled with the pizza. They were delicious. Three of the filo pockets have 45 calories so it was a nice little side dish, with few added calories.
Filo Shells!
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I really like those Nugo bars! I ate two of them yesterday for snacks. That’s the first protein bar I’ve ever come across that is both vegan and contains no palm oil. Win-win! My favorite place to walk is straight through the center of the park…I’m not sure what the area is called, but it’s nice being able to look up and see only trees instead of buildings. I was practicing when the earthquake hit and I thought at first my chair was mysteriously wobbling of its own accord. Lol.
haha! I loved those chocolate pretzel ones – can we order them in bulk? And we were all sitting in our office confused on if it was just us, and then obviously it wasn’t!
I haven’t tried those bars yet. Must do some more digging into that swag bag. I don’t think we ever got to officially meet at HLS. Bummer! I just read your story though. 132 lbs?! That is crazy impressive. Go you!
Thank you!! I still have lots to take off
Have you found anything else good in the swag bag?
Hi Shoshana – I met you at the HLS. I see you are following the recipe ‘rules’. Your blog looks great!!
And my blog is actually turtletrails.com not what it links to… seems that wordpress didn’t update that
I can’t find your blog! Send it me again!
Because I gave you the wrong url (duh) its turtletrailsblog.com
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