Last Saturday I got together with my friend Melissa and we made dinner at her place. After lots of difficult deliberation throughout the week, we decided to make pizzas, vegetable style. Melissa is vegetarian so that ruled out all my recipes with meat or chicken. We wanted to make pizzas using eggplants and Portobello caps as the crusts. As I noted in previous posts, the reason for using vegetables as crusts wasn’t to make the meal low-carb, it was purely for taste.
We basically made a pizza buffet and had a ton of more vegetables for toppings. We used
- Peppers
- Onions
- Goat Cheese
- Mozzarella Cheese
- Cheddar Cheese
- Shrimp (I needed something for protein! She stole a couple…)
- Roasted red peppers
- Sun-dried Tomatoes
- Tomato sauce
- BBQ sauce
Here’s what they looked like
Melissa about to lose a finger...
Ready to get baking
Sliced and ready for the oven
Prepared and ready for the oven--Hers
Melissa's variety
My first plate
Best part about these? You get to eat like 10 pizzas because each one is small and low-calorie. Plus you get to try a million different variations so no pizza is the same.
So here’s the first question–how would you top your pizzas?
Second question: What do you eat for breakfast before a workout, or anytime before a workout?
I used to be able to have a big bowl of cereal and granola with yogurt or milk, but lately this hasn’t been sitting as well in my stomach; I don’t know if its the dairy or maybe just a couple bad days, but I don’t feel like risking a workout on it. What I have works the best for me, among other a couple other things, is oatmeal and protein powder.
I call it, workout souffle! Mix between 1/2 a cup and a full cup of oatmeal with 1 scoop of protein powder, some egg whites or EggBeaters, and a banana. Add an appropriate amount of water (or milk if it suits you). You can also mix in peanut butter or handful or nuts too. Here’s how mine looked:
Adding protein powder
Completed
I mean, not the most appetizing looking thing, I know I know, but it tastes fine and its straight rocket fuel for me. Check out how fluffy it was…
See how it maintains fluffiness- almost like a mousse
As with everything else is my training–whatever gets the job done!
Let me know what use for fuel!
And stay tuned for my first video next week on the importance of dynamic stretching and how to do it!
Your friend is so pretty! You guys are so cute!
And I’m going to have to try those pizzas for sure. I’m not a big mushroom fan but did the eggplants work well?
And I love the idea of that breakfast! Lately I’ve been having something small like yogurt and a banana. I can eat a lot before strength training but I can’t eat much before cardio.. last thursday I ate way too much before tabata and had major heartburn!
Yeah she is really pretty! Too bad she has a boyfriend haha.
The eggplants did work well–make sure put a little bit of oil on them first and crisp them in the oven before putting the toppings on or they will be too watery…since that’s all vegetables are.
Oohh too the wrong foods before sprints don’t mix! This worked for me!