I spent the afternoon in the Graduate Studies Room….studying. And I still have more to do, including more studying for my first Organic quiz tomorrow!! sp3, sp3, sp. Sigma. Pi. Double pi. Anyway, while I was there I munched on a Jimmi bar: 18 Rabbits. It was good, and big, but not worth all 220 calories in my opinion. I would have preferred it slightly smaller. While it also tasted great (loved all the chewy oats and nuts), I was still kinda hungry when I finished. It didn’t have the heft of LaraBars.
Did you know spelt is called dinkle in Germany!?!? Haha. Funny word. The husband had spelt pizza crust rising in the fridge all day. It was quite good! Tougher than crusts I’m used to, but it also had quite a nice chew to it. We made an extra large pizza tonight (normally we make a smaller one just for 2 people). I really enjoyed the large slices, even if it meant I only had 2 instead of 4 little ones.
Toppings started with some leftover homemade tomato sauce – (I’m looking a little worn out after a long day)
Followed by fancy shredded reduced-fat mexican cheese, 2 slices of cooked bacon, cooked green and red peppers, a roma tomato, and a raw jalapeno.
After it came out of the oven, put sprinkled on some goat cheese!
As always, the crust was the best part!
I also had a romaine salad with some walnuts and pesto, all in a lime-mustard-EVOO-salt dressing.
CourtneyS. sent me this recipe she developed for a goat cheese tart similar to the one she shared with me in Boston. Sounds like a winner, so I thought I’d share it with you all. Thanks for your brilliance Courtney!
Mushroom and Goat Cheese Tart with Roasted Red Peppers
1. Roast two red peppers at 425 for about 45 minutes (e.g. place two red peppers on a baking sheet and flip them occasionally). When they’re done, put them in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap to steam, then uncover to cool, and peel, seed, and chop into long slices. Alternatively, open a jar of roasted reds!
2. While the peppers roast, make the healthy pastry shell: combine 1 cup flour with salt and pepper in the food processor; pulse in three tablespoons of COLD butter, then add 1/4 cup cold water. Run the processor for about 30 seconds (until the dough forms a ball), wrap in plastic and chill while you make the filling.
3. Saute your choice of mushrooms in a tiny bit of butter and olive oil until tender. (I also added shallot and garlic, but that’s totally optional!)
4. Make the filling: in the food processor, combine 8-10 oz. goat cheese, 1/4 cup 1% milk, 1 egg, 1/4 cup dry white wine, salt and pepper, and fresh basil.
5. Assemble: roll out chilled dough and gently press into tart pan. Spread cooled mushrooms evenly on the bottom, pour over goat cheese mixture, arrange roasted red peppers on top, and sprinkle with parmesan. Bake at 375 for 45 minutes.
And lastly, Tara left a comment about another blogger in need. Please keep this family in your thoughts and consider donating if you can –
Kath (and blog readers),
I have gotten addicted to a really neat blog called www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com
The woman is amazing. She is a vegetarian and makes great meals for her kids. She is an amazing mother who dedicates herself to her blog and has SO MANY creative ideas. Anyway, two weeks ago she and her husband got in a plane crash. The pilot died, but her husband is 50% burned and she is over 80% burned. If you are interested in helping, or even just reading a beautiful blog, check it out (www.nieniedialogues.blogspot.com). They are trying to raise money so that the children can be supported while the parents go through months of recovery (the mother is expected to be in the hospital for months). Kath, is there any way to spread the info so that lots of people see this? Sorry to make you feel like an ad person, I just really want to help this wonderful person out.
I’m off to study, then early to bed because I need a morning workout to fit it all in tomorrow!
My mouth is craving more chew. To chew or not to chew, that is (always) the question. I’ll report in the AM if I end up having a snack.
jessica says
Just had to comment about how amazing the blogosphere is — I live in Minneapolis, and somehow stumbled upon your blog, which was recommended to me by one of my readers. I’ve been reading Nie Nie’s blog — and she’s in AZ! — for over a year now, and have been following her story very closely.
That all of us across this big country are connected by words on a screen is truly amazing to me. Powerful!
caitlin (see bride run) says
that pizza looks amazing! good job, husband!!
thanks for sharing this link!
Christie says
wow that is amazing… and it is really great to see people reach out to others.. i will def do what I can to help and to spread the word.
And goat cheese makes everythin tasts ebetter !
Ellie says
Hi Kath,
I hope this isn’t embarrassing (and that I don’t sound like a sycophant . . . really) but I think that in this photo where you say you look tired you actually look very happy and especially pretty. You have a really natural smile!
Also, that’s a great idea to use pesto as part of a salad dressing. Thanks for the tip.
Angela says
That looks DELICIOUS!!!
Lily says
Hi All,
This is an open question/musing…..maybe an overshare, ahem…anyway….since I’ve cleaned up my diet, I have NO sex drive. I’ve been eating healthy for about a year (I’ve always been pretty healthy, but now I eat ONLY healthy stuff, if that makes sense, and I watch portions rather rigorously, note–not restrictively, but rigorously…so before it was healthy maybe 70% of the time and now it’s 99%) Does this sound just ridiculous to anyone? I mean it could totally only be a correlation and not a causality deal, but regardless, it sucks. My boyfriend is convinced that it’s my diet 🙂
thanks!!
MWS says
what a great looking pizzzzzzzzzah 🙂
dinkle… lol
looking adorable Kath! when are you gonna get your own Food Network show?!
tomorrow’s friday – yay!
Justy2003 says
Goat cheese makes everything better! 🙂
Finally got to try the PB Larabar today and LOVED it! How can so few and such simple ingredients taste like an indulgence?! I’ll definitely have to see if I can find some more around here!
Julz says
Great Pizza Kath!
And that story about Nie just BREAKS my heart! I’m definitely donating tonight and I hope that everyone who is ABLE to, at least donates SOMETHING. Even a dollar. Whatever it is. We could REALLY do something, here!
I’m surely holding them and their family in my prayers… So sad!!
mh says
Lily,
has your self confidence or self esteem changed in the last year? I know when I had a low self confidence I didn’t want my boyfriend to even touch me b/c I wasen’t happy with myself. 99% healthy sound very restrictive- maybe you should try adding dessert and see how you do! haha
Rose says
Great title for the post.
Love that homemade crust. Wow. I could literally eat the computer screen. 🙂
So sorry to hear about the blogger – I will definitely say some prayers and go check out her blog. It was nice of you to post this!
Gliding Calm says
haha I think that is such a cute picture of you too!
and wowie…. that pizza looks RESTAURANT worthy!!
Kim says
Wow, that pizza looks soooo good. I LURVE spelt… so much. It borders on the infatuated.
Good luck on the test tomorrow!! You shall rock it.
runeatrepeat says
That pizza looks soooo good! I love homemade pizza.
You don’t look half as bad at the end of the day as I do 🙂
Tracy says
Kath,
I love your shirt in the picture! Where is it from? I am always on the lookout for cute pain shirts that are a little dressy looking without being too showy!
Thanks!!!
Nicole says
That pizza looks so good!! and cute shirt 🙂
Just wondering if I’m alone on this…but when I take days off from working out, I tend to have a hard time being satisfied with my meals/eating. On these day I’m not ravenous (from not refueling properly from my work out the day before), bored, or strangly out of touch with my body and how hungry I am, etc., but I still end up ‘needing’ just as much, if not sometimes more, snacks and stuff to keep my stomach from..well, eating itself. It’s just that I think of burning fewer calories in a day=less food intake for the day (like not needing the extra snack or whatever..nothing major)…anyone else like this??
magpie says
The pizza looks great 🙂 I love homemade pizza.
I got the Brothers-All-Natural sampler today – everything is so good. So far we’ve only tried the potato chips (pepper flavor), but I’ve had the apple one and the strawberry banana one before and I’m so excited to try the rest of the flavors. Thank you!
Steph says
Hi Kath! I’ve seen you eat and talk about goat cheese quite a bit.
I must admit that I’ve never tried it! I’m actually a bit nervous about trying it….can you or anyone describe to me what’s so great about it?
jimmi says
kath!
so glad you tried the rabbits bar as well. yeah… just really not worth the cal for what it is. i SOOO agree…
dunno if someone’s mentioned this site to you, but have you heard of youbars.com? i’ve been making a couple of my own now for a bit, (appropriately titled as well, “jimmibar”) and they’re good… although i’m still refining.
i wish i could try that spelt pizza! yummo.
xoxo
Jenny says
I went to the nienie blog and it just broke my heart. If you look at the last posts she did before the plane crash, you see how happy she is and how much she loves her family. There are some absolutely amazing pictures on there of her with her husband and children. Then, only a mere few weeks later, she and her husband are in this horrific plane crash. I just cried. I gave them what I could for now and am hoping to give more each time I get paid. If you haven’t visited her blog, I urge you to do so. Not only do they really need the financial support at the moment, it also serves as a powerful reminder of how precious life is and how much we need to remind our loved ones, every single day, how much we love them and just how much they mean to us. With the catastrophic injuries they’ve suffered, I don’t know if they’ll ever return to “normal”, but I hope so. I had to go kiss my sleeping angels and watch them for a moment in their innocence. Then I crawled into my man’s lap and just breathed him in. Maybe it’s just me and maybe it’s partly because it’s late and I’m tired, but their story really affected me.
Jana says
Actually, it is spelled “Dinkel” but we love it all the same.. 🙂
Kath says
Thanks Ellie 🙂
MWS ,
When pigs fly!?!
Tracy ,
Old Navy. They always have tons of simple shirts.
Nicole ,
You’re not alone. Rather than focusing on how much you’re eating, try focusing on the quality of foods you’re eating and make them fresh and whole. Skip alcohol, dessert or extra snacks on those days and try to just eat for nutrients.
magpie ,
Glad it arrived safely!
Steph ,
I’d say goat cheese is like a cross between greek yogurt and cream cheese. It’s tangy and creamy. And it’s one of the healthiest cheese out there!
jimmi ,
I do need to try that. Maybe I could come up with a KERF bar! I think my temptation is to add more stuff than less, so I hope I can keep the taste good. I’ll bookmark it for this weekend!
Jana ,
But that’s how the website where I read it spelt it!
Sorry I spelt it wrong
Kath
CourtneyS says
Goat cheese is the best! That pizza looks AMAZING. We have a prosciutto pizza on the menu tonight.
Thanks for posting my recipe…I should have sent a picture but we gobbled it up too quickly!
VeggieGirl says
Haha!! Interesting term for “spelt” 😉
TGIF!!
Anne P says
Jenny, I completely agree. I just went to the nienie site for the first time and was also completely captivated by what a charming, loving family they are. What gorgeous, creative pictures, cute family activities, and such obvious shows of real love are displayed on that blog. It really breaks my heart to think what has happened. I will definitely be donating and following their story, and I hope others will as well. I can only hope that their recoveries will go smoothly and they can return to the happiness that they had.
runjess says
That looks a lot like the whole wheat pizza crust that I make.
Tara says
Thank you so much Kath, I really appreciate your help. Such an amazing family. Oh and btw, she had also created a food blog (www.cuisinenie.blogspot.com). Thanks again.
Jana says
… also, who cares about spelling when a pizza looks sooooooo deeeeeeeeeeeee.licious! man i am hungry! 😀
the husband says
Catherine,
I used my same old pizza dough recipe I always use. It’s also the same as the Grilled Flatbread Recipe. Just switch out the wheat for spelt, and make sure you scroll to the bottom for a few additional comments.
Catherine says
Could you post the recipe for the spelt crust recipe? I recently found out I have a mild allergy towards wheat, so I need to rely mainly on spelt for a while (minimal wheat is allowed).
Catherine says
Thanks so much!
Promo says
amazing post))
Belinda says
Good night, bolgges =)
Robot says
So cool!
Perm says
Nice story =)