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Since the Bakerella era days, I've always thought cake pops were so adorable. I subscribe to Bakerella's blog and with each blog, I would drool over her pretty little cake pops and dreamed of a day when I could try a cake pop. Seriously. I would dream....
Well, Starbucks has jumped on the cake pop bandwagon recently. Read the news about them! In fact, they had a promotion last week giving them out for free. Where was I? I had no idea. Not a dam clue! It's because of Facebook that I heard about the cakepops. All of my friends were getting their grubby hands on them.
I finally trudged into Starbucks and scooped up one of each flavor that they had on hand.
Starting with the pink one, known as the birthday cake pop was waaaaaaay to sweet. I needed water to wash it down. Not my fave at all.
The tan colored with the espresso bean is the tiramisu cake pop and it was my favorite out of all three. It wasn't too sweet and the flavor of the tiramisu was just enought. I think it would taste great with coffee.
The dark chocolate is the rocky road cake pop and again, it wasn't my favorite. A bit too chocolaty for me and too sweet.
Would I buy these again? Probably not. Each is supposedly under 200 calories each. That's a whole lot for something that is eaten up within 2 bites. Not worth my elliptical gym time. Plus, they are a bit on the pricey side. $1.50 each, $2.50 for 2, 6 for $7.50.
I've been anxiously waiting for my iPad 2 to arrive. Everyday I keep checking if there is any change on my order status delivery date. Still, no to avail, it still says, " March 22nd through March 29th. F. This is the sucky part about purchasing new Apple products online--- no immediate satisfaction of having the product in your grubby hands the day it comes out.
Any one else buy the iPad 2? How do you like it?
I've been using this application on my phone called, " Fitness Pal" to keep track of what I eat, calorie-wise, exercise, and water, etc. I think it's my new favorite app! I love it because you can enter recipes and it will automatically calculate the calories of the recipe. There's already Filipino food in it which I love and made me immediately fall in love with it! Plus, it has a pretty extensive food database. Like, for example, I ate a couple of Russian Cabbage rolls. I entered cabbage rolls and low n' behold, they were listed as 125 per roll! WTH? Amazin, right?
I love to cook and try new recipes, but sometimes, I hate it when my house smells like food. For the past couple of days, I've been on this curry kick. I made a Thai Coconut Curry with Tilapia dish and just yesterday, I made a Indian curry with Cauliflower and Tofu. Both were super yum and I for sure will be adding these two entree's into our dinner rotations.
These recipes have been a sweet introduction for what I gave up for Lent: red meat. This year, I've decided to participate in Lent this year. It's been years since I've done Lent and for the first time, it's something I want to do on my own without feeling the need to do it just because.
For 40 days, I'll be munching on vegetables, fish, chicken, and yes, pork! Hey, it's a white meat, right? I'm kinda excited about this challenge as I want to see if I can do it. I know it's going to be hard as I love me some In n' Out burgers, but hey... it's only for 40 days. What I'm really hoping to gain out of this Lent sacrifice is to hold off on red meat for the long run.
My mom recently had to undergo an angio procedure and they found some blockage in her left main artery and had to put in two stents. It really hit home as she's only 63 years old. I've known heart disease runs in my family on both sides. All of my dad's uncles and aunties including his mother died from heart attacks and they were all under the age of 65. So, yes, having to see my mom go through her stent placement has made me take a double take on the foods I consume. It really makes me think twice now when it comes to eating certain foods and the way I take care of myself.
I just came off from working 4 12 hour shifts. At work, I try to walk and take as many stairs as I can. But, really, it's never enough, which kinda bums me out because I feel like I'm losing out on the exercise. I gotta think of a master plan on how to combat this issue. Any ideas?
Tonight's dinner was mighty tasty. I baked some pork chops using Japanese panko crumbs. In the past, just dredging the meat with panko crumbs and shoving them in the oven makes for an albino looking dinner. I took a tip from Annie's Eats and browned the panko crumbs in a pan with a tablespoon of oil. Albino meat is resolved! On the side were yummy mock mashed potatoes using cauliflower. Looooooooove this side!
Wanted to share my new iPhone 4 bling that I snagged in San Diego. The gawdier, the better, right? I absolutely love it! I ain't gotta lie. It's shiny. I can't stop looking at it.
I'm really enjoying spin class these days. So much, that I'm contemplating purchasing some spin shoes to make it, a la official.
Yesterday's early morning spin class was interesting though. I usually go on Tuesdays because I love the instructor. He plays really good music to spin to. Music that I know, which helps me immensely to keep the motivation going. I've been to spin classes where I can't even relate to the music and I've noticed that I clock watch throughout the class because I'm disinterested.
Anyways, going back to yesterday's spin class. The last 20 minutes of class, our instructor all of a sudden says, " he'll be right back." Kinda strange. We see him outside with another gym employee and he looks like he's in some kind of pain or discomfort.
Turns out that he was going to nearly pass out from the class he was teaching. Ain't that kinda crazy??? A instructor about to pass out from his own class. That's just crazy!
Last night's dinner was semi-homemade pizza. I bought a couple of whole wheat pizza dough from Trader Joe's. One pizza was topped with sweet chicken italian sausage, mushrooms, and mozzarella cheese. The other one was topped with bbq sauce, chicken, mozzarella cheese, and cilantro (love me some cilantro-yum!)
They turned out pretty good! I opted for the Chicken Italian Sausage because it was only 190 calories as opposed to the Pork Italian Sausage at 300 calories. No bueno!
Just returned from a trip filled with lots of eating, dancing, social drinking, and laughing with my college besties. Back in October, Southwest was having an awesome sale to fly to San Diego for $30 each way. It was a total spontaneous trip planned in a matter of minutes and we all managed to swoop in on it and get a flight arriving around the same time with each other. I should add that many of us came in from all parts of Sacramento, the Bay Area, and one even came from Arizona! Now, that's love, yes?
There was tons of eating. Ugh. You can say my diet was thrown out the window. Heck, when I arrived, I drank a cold beer and shared some yummy appetizers such as tater tots, buffalo wings, nacho's, sweet potato fries, pork sliders. Oh, I did order a salad just to balance it out. It's like ordering a diet coke with an In N' Out hamburger meal. Oh yeah! It was delish!!!
We got prettied up and did some dancing in the Gaslamp district, which is party central in San Diego.
Ate some awesome Japanese Ramen and noshed on the absolute best place for desserts in the whole wide world at a place called Extraordinary Desserts! It was featured in the Food Network show, " The Best Thing I Ever Ate."
If you are in San Diego, this is the place to go. It's very Zen like with a modern twist. You will be swooning!!!
Now, it's back to reality of exercising, eating healthy, and going back to work. Waaaah!!!
After feeling at my " not my personal best" last week, I proclaimed profusely to the hubby that we need to eat more chicken, vegetables, and fish. He needs to stop buying a bunch of red meat just because it's on sale. Gah, men sometimes. (hehe) I'm fine with an occasional steak, but not more than twice a week. Heck no. Not having it.
So, my lovely husband brought home these babies. All were on sale for $2 each. Could-not-believe-it! I know they aren't exactly " fresh," but they are pretty convenient when you are fiending for a fish taco. Plus one serving is 2 points in WW world. Hell to the Yeah!
I decided to bake the Garlic Butter flavored fish since I was making fish taco's. When I removed them from the box, I have to admit, I was a bit perplexed with the shape of the fish. So square! So compact looking. I began to imagine a big ole factory that pounds out these fish by the second. Le Sigh. That's what you get when you buy things like this, right?
But, boy! Did these produce a fabulous meal that was a 9 pts!!!! Check out the entree. As you can see, I am in love with cilantro. I served my fish taco's with some leftover cilantro-lime rice from yesterday's meal. Still tasted yummy!
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