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OMG Recipe! No Flour Pizza Crust

VIA:  Low Carb Examiner

You Won't Believe it's Cauliflower Pizza Crust
1 cup cooked, riced cauliflower*
1 egg
1 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 tsp fennel
1 tsp oregano
2 tsp parsley

**pizza or alfredo sauce

toppings (make sure meats are cooked)
mozzarella cheese

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees Farenheit.
  
• Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray.
• In a medium bowl, combine cauliflower, egg and mozzarella. Press evenly on the pan. Sprinkle evenly with fennel, oregano and parsley.
• Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes (15-20 minutes if you double the recipe).
• Remove the pan from the oven. To the crust, add sauce, then toppings and cheese.
• Place under a broiler at high heat just until cheese is melted.

Starbucks' Bottled Mocha Lite Frappuccino

Mocha Lite What do you get when you mix the one-of-a-kind taste of Starbucks® coffee, real milk and luscious, chocolaty Mocha? Bottled euphoria. What don’t you get? One third of the calories you’ll find in Mocha bottled Frappuccino®. And though this creamy treat is even lighter than our lowfat original, the great taste of Mocha still shines through. What’s not to love about going Lite?

Sarah from Obesity Help had mentioned these to me a long time ago, and I had not seem them in the stores until this week. I bought two four-packs immediately - I was certain I would LUUUUURVE the bottled sort of better for me coffee confections. 

Not so.  Upon chilling and cracking open a bottle, I did my pre-requisite sniff test.  FAIL.  I could not detect the coffee, it smelled like wet puppy.  Not a dog, but a puppy.  Ick.  I sipped on it - because I was sure it had to taste better than it smelled. 

Overall, it's alright, but I could not finish one 9.5 ounce bottle, not because I was full, because I really did not enjoy it.  It was very blah, milky, with no detectable espresso taste, and the smell really threw me.

Now, as the disclaimer:  I am a huge 'bucks fan.  I drink gads and gads of their coffee, even at home, I grind their beans.  I drink 'bucks beans all day long, when I am out, I order 'bucks.

 

This?  Did not taste like a Starbucks product, I suppose I expected a sharp espresso and chocolate taste, but never got it.

Boo.

• Product - Starbucks' Bottle Mocha Lite Frappuccino
• Via - Local Grocery Store
• Price - ??
• Pros - 100 calories, somewhat low in actual sugar
• Cons - Smelling wet puppies, liquid calories without a huge nutrition punch... but...
• Rating - Not Pouchworthy. ^MM.
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Vitamin D Prevents Cancer: Is It True?

A concert with a billionty photos.

Huey Lewis and The News, June 2009

My photos taken in the darkness illegally with no flash.

This is how DSS gets involved.

I sent a child off to day-camp today in the pouring rain.  I noted that she wasn't on the clip board list, but that was cool because she also was a late sign up.  The staff member shuffled the kids on the bus, and said she's good to go.  So, I leave to pick up two more kids from two other locations, and this takes hours because we live in the boonies.  I get back - to a message, "Mrs. Wronglastname?  We have your daughter here, everything is fine, she's having a blast, but -- we can't find her registraion." 

I have this crazy vision of my child sent packing, lunch bag in hand, in the rain, walking home. 

"I <sniff> can't <snort> stay." 

She left the car with a case of anxiety, "What if it rains all day? What if I lose my lunch?  Will I know anyone?"  I can only imagine her reaction if the staff said anything to her about not. being. signed. up.  The woman asked when I was there to register, did I use another name, were we just stupid?!  (She didn't but I was starting to think it.)  I swear to you - I went.  I signed up THREE kids for two sessions each.  I paid three registrations and one session via my debit card.  $75 x's 3 + one two week session = I would remember this payment.

Well, they can't find it, and I'm asking if they need to send her home, I'll be right there.  She's having a good time, no need, but they will keep looking and send home a new one if necessary.  I also asked for a receipt for the debit, because it's out of my account!

(Just so you know, this is how things work for me.  LOL.)

Before this, I picked up my boy from his over-night birthday party, and he's got big bruised welts from paintball.  I ask him if he's going to do THAT again, "Maybe, but with protection."  HA. He says he got a good shot.  "Oh yeah, who'd ya get?"  He says, "The referree, I shot him in the head."  This boy will never have a real gun.

We made it home, after a huge circle, and everyone is safe and sound.  It's going to be a long summer.