Mexican Street Corn Salad

 Serve in bowls, top with Trader Joe's Chili Lime

Or serve on slices of peppers

Serves 6 - 0 Freestyle Points

6 corn on cob, roasted
Take kernals off cob

4 green onions, sliced
1/2 cup parsley, chopped

Mix
1 cup Fage FF Greek yogurt
2 TBS Walden Farm's Ranch dressing
2 TBS lime juice
Trader Joe's Chili Lime Seasoning

Add to corn
3 TBS crumbled goat cheese

Pizza and Bagels

Our favorite pizza ( I ate half of one before I remembered to take a picture!) is Smoked Whitefish. This recipe makes 12 small 5" across - serves 6

Same crust:
1 1/3 cups self rising flour
1 1/3 cups Fage FF Greek yogurt

Preheat oven to 400°

Mix in bowl with rubber spatula. Knead in bowl.

Divide into 12 pieces. Spray parchment paper covered cookie sheet and spread each section of dough into a circle. 4 to a pan. Need 3 pans.

Prebake crust for 10 minutes - let cool

Mix: 6 wedges Laughing Cow cheese with 3/4 cup Fage FF Greek yogurt, 2 TBS Walden Farm's Ranch dressing and sprinkle of Italuan seasoning. Spread on cooled pizza crusts.

Top with Flaked Smoked Whitefish.

Saute onions and peppers. Season with Trader Joe's seasoning.

Mix 1 cup FF Mozzarella and 3/4 cup reduced fat sharp cheddar. Top each pizza.

Grate 1 ounce of Parmesan and grate some more until it maxes the scale without going up in weight. Top the pizza.

At this point if taking somewhere put non stick foil on each sheet. Can stack them.

Preheat oven to 400° uncover and bake a sheet on each rack. About 20 minutes.









The things I missed most were pizza and bagels. Well... no more.  We've had pizza for lunch the last two days and bagels 2 times last week.  We both love them.

Same dough - easy peasy

Pizza

1/4 cup Self Rising Flour

1/4 cup FF Greek Yogurt

Mix and then knead for a couple minutes

Preheat oven 400°

Divide into 2 and flatten on parchment paper covered cookie sheet.

We topped with

Al Fresco chicken uncured bacon 

Green peppers

FF mozzarella 

Spray with Pam Olive Oil

Bake 20 minutes

1 of these pizzas is 3 pts

Bagel

1/4 cup Self Rising Flour

1/4 cup FF Greek Yogurt

Preheat oven to 450°

Mix and knead for a couple minutes

Divide into 2 pieces

Roll into balls and stick your thumb through for the bagel hole

Brush with egg

Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar or Everything but the bagel seasoning from Trader Joe's or sesame seeds or poppy seeds

Put on parchment paper covered cookie sheet

Cover and let rise for 15 minutes

Bake for 25 minutes

One of these bagels (no seasoning) is 2 pts

I just prepped 2 Ingredient Dough - rolled out and put waxed paper between each crust and froze. It worked - however - either thaw the dough before making grilled bread or make sure the griddle is very hot. When using for Pizza I prebake the dough for a few minutes so it can be frozen when you do that. I weigh each piece before rolling them out. Each one weighs 1.6 oz which is 1 point.

It was perfect to dip into two easy over eggs.

Cabbage Slaw

Head, about 2 1/2 cups red cabbage, shredded

Head, about 2 1/2 cups green cabbage, shredded

2 Granny Smith apples, spiralized

2 cups zucchini, spiralized

Dressing

2 TBS olive oil

3 TBS orange juice

2 TBS Golden or white balsamic vinegar

*** If you use reg balsamic vinegar like I did your apples turn brown - taste fine but look nasty!***

1 tsp Poppy Seeds

1 tsp honey

Salt and pepper

This is 1 delicious Freestyle Point

Jesus Looking for Agates

This brought a smile to my face.  It looks just like what Janet and I did every single day we were in Grand Marais - we looked for agates.  I spoke at her funeral and this part fits this picture:

"Imagine watching a gorgeous sunset on Lake Superior after a long walk on East Shore where the waves are pounding the beach.  Agates scattered here and there… just enough so you can find them when you really look but not so many that it is an easy pick.  Sand Dunes, the lighthouse and birch tree forests and when you turn around…   Mountains…   Yes, Mountains as in Rocky Mountains…   Mountains capped with fresh white snow with waterfalls cascading from the top. Rock formations with wildflowers blowing in the clean crisp Montana air. 

Heaven………  Janet’s Heaven… Imagine if God has waited patiently for Janet to get to Heaven all these years so a small corner of Heaven could be transformed…  How pleased God must be to have Janet in Heaven." 

Midland County Fair

Had such a good time with the kids. It was boiling hot, but no lines to wait in. Midland County Fair is our favorite.

Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

Preheat the oven to 350°

4 lbs Strawberries
4 lbs Rhubarb
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 TBS Truvia Brown Sugar
2 TBS White Sugar
1 TBS Cornstarch
Juice of 2 lemons

Rinse, hull and slice strawberries
Rinse and cut Rhubarb

Simmer fruit, lemon juice, Truvia brown sugar and white sugar and cinnamon
When boiling add cornstarch to a little water when dissolved add to fruit. Cook a few minutes.

Pour into large casserole dish.

In separate bowl mix just til crumbly
1 dry Pillsbury sugar free cake mix
1 cup oats
1 /2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 egg
2 tsp cinnamon

Sprinkle crumble on top of fruit

Bake for 45-60 minutes - when lightly browned
Serve with FF Reddi Whip

Tropical Shrimp

I saw this on Kelly and Ryan. Looks delicious. Haven't tried it yet, but I will and I'll update.

Hearts

It helps to play stupid robots. They don't know when I'm trying to take all the tricks. So there is an advantage. Saying that, this has only happened one other time. The fourth game is hard to take all the tricks because you can't pass low cards.