Why?
Cause it's not cold. Period.
After doing the Challenge almost a year ago and losing 20% of my body weight, I've become pretty cold intolerant. So has half the pharmacy. The half that has also lost 20-25% of their body weight. Our staff has lost over 180 pounds in the past 9 months! A whole person! And some are only halfway to their final weight loss goals...so our "lost" person is getting fatter still :)
Speaking of the Challenge and lifestyle changes and such...I may or may not have strayed while I was in Iowa.
I blame it on Pizza Ranch. And blueberry dessert pizza. And the entire half of a blueberry dessert pizza I took from the pizza buffet and ate by myself. And that was only our first trip to Pizza Ranch. We made two more visits before we left the state.
If Pizza Ranch comes to Colorado, I'm in trouble. I'm gonna have to ask for my under-grown clothes back from the girls at work.
I digress.
However. I succeeded in creating a
Manda's Dessert Pizza
Pizza:
1 pre-made thin pizza crust (preferably whole wheat)
1 can "no sugar added" or "sugar free" pie filling of choice
Crumble:
1/3 cup oat flour*
2/3 cup brown rice flour or whole wheat flour
1/4 cup Splenda brown sugar blend
1/4 cup Stevia in the Raw (cup for cup)
4 tbsp light margarine
4 shakes cinnamon
Icing:
1 cup powdered sugar substitute**
1-3 tbsp unsweetened almond milk or skim milk
*oat flour can be made by blending old fashioned oats in a blender or food processor until flour-like consistency
**blend sugar substitute of choice (Stevia in the Raw, Splenda, etc) in a food processor or Ninja with a tsp or so of corn starch to create a fine "powdered sugar". This will have a strong "fake sugar" taste, so use regular powdered sugar if that's an issue
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Spread fruit filling over crust, leaving 1/2 inch around the edges free from filling.
Prepare the crumble by combining all ingredients in a bowl and cutting in the margarine with a pastry cutter or using your hands. Crumble over the pie filling. You may have some crumble left over - I had 1/3 cup that I threw away.
Bake pizza for 8 minutes.
Prepare icing by mixing powdered sugar and milk. Start with 1 tbsp milk; add more milk if icing is too thick.
Remove pizza from oven, drizzle with icing. You may have icing left over.
Slice pizza into twelve pieces. Eat 4 pieces. Make your husband throw away the rest of the pizza before you eat the rest of it.
Calories per slice: 149 (this is figuring you used all the crumble and icing - caloric value will be lower if you had extra left over)
So the pizza is obviously not the same as Pizza Ranch (helloooo sugar substitutes), but it was pretty freakin' tasty. We went with apple filling, because our Walmart was out of no-sugar-added blueberry filling. We took that baby out of the oven, devoured half of it and saved a piece for Wilberforce to take to lunch the next day. I was in the middle of my dessert pizza feeding frenzy when Wilberforce pried the pizza out from under me and threw it away. Thank God.
I can make bajillions of cupcakes and have no problem not tasting a single one. But put a dessert pizza or brownie in front of me, and we have issues.
The left over pizza, by the way, was apparently amazingly delicious. Wilberforce came to visit me at work on his way home from the hospital - his first comment was "that pizza was freakin awesome".
Mmmm...pizza.
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On other pizza un-related news, I thought I should share a few silly pictures from my January Iowa trip. Yes, I know. Bad blogger. Sorry again, Dad.
Have I mentioned that Gus is a crack head? Maybe? Once or twice?
Notice the totally awesome Winnie the Pooh gloves. Rock on, Pooh Bear.
Ps...is Gus about to jump on Braed in the background of the last picture? I can't remember if this was followed by crying. Hmmmm. Eh, they're all still alive so it doesn't really matter now, does it?
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