March 14, 2010 – Foodologie

Happy Pi(e) day!

My department had a pie contest! I made Peanut Butter Banana Cream pie!

Graham cracker crust.

Layer of dark chocolate.

Layer of Peanut Butter.

Layer of homemade vanilla custard mixed with fresh sliced bananas.

Topped with real whipped cream.

How can you go wrong with PB, Chocolate AND Banana all in one delicious pie!?!?!

I thought it was pretty darn delicious! I think others liked it too!

I’m not sure who won 😦 I left early to work on my fitness (…Fergie style…), busted out 4 miles on the treadmill and 20mins (I think… short term memory loss I guess…) on the elliptical. It was great!

Seriously folks, I am all sugared out. I hadn’t really consumed any refined sugar all week and this weekend I had a ton. I literally feel a bit ill. Cooling it on the sugar as usual!

So today I was procrastinating and looking at old posts and I realized that it probably seems like I eat a lot of junk. Haha! I promise, I actually don’t! Well, I eat a fair amount of sweets but I like to balance it out with vegetables and other healthy eats!

For example, for breakfast today I had a green monster and an egg white omelet:

4 egg whites… the custard in the pie required four egg yolks… No point in throwing the whites away!

For dinner, bok choy, leeks and scallions stir fried in some coconut oil and Ponzu with a Boca patty! Sooooooo Soooo Soooooo good! I wanted more! Also had a pear!

Just so you don’t think my hot bod comes from cookies alone… I eat vegetables 🙂 A lot actually!

Just thought I would clarify that!

Ugh tomorrow is Monday… but Thursday is the start of spring break with a class trip to NYC! WOO! Then a whole week off!! And I’ll be seeing the lovely fella AGAIN! We may or may not go on a mini road trip… any spring break plans for you? Has spring break already passed for everyone??

Have a great night!

Hellooo everyone! I hope your weekend is going well. I had a super fun time last night, went to a friend’s show then went dancing with some ladies! Then daylight savings happened and I turned into a pumpkin…

or maybe I kept on being my fine, fierce self an hour later than usual!

In my last post, I made POM Ricotta Muffins… The fact that my POM muffins weren’t so good was bothering me all day yesterday. So today I decided to give it another try, this time slightly different and sans ricotta.

POM Cornmeal Muffins

inspired by Joy of Baking’s Berry Cornmeal Muffins

1 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup chopped date pieces
1 egg
1 cup POM Wonderful
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Combine dry ingredients in one bowl, wet ingredients in another. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Fill lined muffin pan about half way each. Bake 15-20 minutes.

I feel redeemed! These were tasty! I loved the texture, the slight fruity taste from the POM, and the nice chewy sweetness from the dates! Definitely recommend these!