Burns So Good

You can make anything into pizza. Taco pizza? Of course. Cheeseburger pizza? Oh yes. Greek pizza? It’s definitely a thing.

I went to college in Northfield, home of Basil’s pizza, which is super tasty, but never less than 547 degrees. I consistently gave my mouth 2.5 degree burns every time I ate their gyro pizza. Worth it of course.

I made my own version of Greek pizza last night- minus the extreme temperature and mouth suffrage. I made a super easy Tzatziki sauce too, if you so happen to be the type who likes extra business on your pizza.

Greek Pizza

-2 thin crust whole wheat pre-made crusts

-12 oz your favorite pizza sauce

-2 tablespoons fresh chopped oregano

-1 large purple onion, very thinly sliced

-1 lb ground lamb (our grocery store only has frozen, so check there if you can’t find fresh)

-2 cups baby spinach

-2 cups shredded mozzarella

-8-10 oz crumbled feta (I found ‘peppercorn feta’ at Aldi’s)

Easy Tzatziki

-Combine shredded cucumber with plain nonfat Greek yogurt + pinch of garlic powder. 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Saute ground lamb until fully cooked. Break up any large chunks of ground meat. Soak up any liquid fat with paper towels. Set aside.

Spread sauce evenly between the two crusts. Layer onion, chopped oregano, ground lamb, spinach mozzarella, and feta (in that order) between the two crusts. Bake 12-15 minutes, or until desired doneness. Makes 8 servings.

  He ate an entire footlong cucumber down to the nub!

Not really.

Per 1/4^th pizza: 450 calories, 30 g carbs, 22 g fat (lamb is fairly fatty), 32 g protein

Hi weekend, bye weekend

So many pictures. Friday night we went to a 'Date in a box' event at our church. We dropped off the baby, picked up our picnic box + date idea card, and headed over to a park. Super cute idea. Of course we packed some special drinks.

What is this fruit?? It tasted like a pear but the slice was giant.

Finally started using my Madewell monogrammed transport tote.

Waking up (naturally) at 6:30 on a weekend is part lame, part super awesome. It meant that I could go out on the porch, light my breakfast candle, and read a mag all by myself in peace and quiiiiiiiiet. Lovely. 

Made some pancakes for the fam for breakfast. I need to work on my pancake skills. I never take time to measure out ingredients, and my batter ends up so thick that the pancakes are way too thick and cakey. Eh oh well. After morning errands with the li’l dude and naptime, we headed over to a friend’s BBQ party. My in-laws took the baby for the night and I spent two hours of blissful shopping (ok more like rectifying all the online binge shopping I did when Nordstrom’s sale started two weeks ago). If you have never eaten at the Nordstrom Café, you need to. Need to. Need to. I love it when department stores have restaurants. It’s so old timey and chic, and they have amazing food. I am not a salad person AT ALL but I got their grilled shrimp and corn arugula salad to go and I ate it so fast I was in physical pain. 

Like joy but pain. Fried polenta croutons? Cilantro lime dressing? Yesssssss. My husband agreed- best salad ever.

Stayed up way too late watching “Taken 3.” Does nobody seem to mind the incredible path of destruction Liam Neeson leaves behind? Like, thanks for proving your innocence, but did you need to completely destroy a liquor store, total 8 cars, and blow up an entire parking garage just to prove said innocence?

Woke up Sunday morning, made these muffins, then the in-laws came over for breakfast. We then took off for the lake to meet up with my extended family.

HE PICKED UP THE PADDLE. SO ADVANCED.

Busy weekend, lots of fun, back to reality : )