Good Morning and Happy Tuesday Everyone! 🙂
apologies still looking for the more creative and fun intro. . .
It was the overwhelming favorite night in the Jara household last night!
PIZZA NIGHT! And we were finally able to use the pizza stone my brother and sister-in-law gave us for Christmas! I was a little concerned that it would crisp up the crust more than I normally like, but NOPE! It made the crust the perfect balance between crispy and soft, and kept it warm while I took my slow poke time eating :). Success!
We also had a bit of a taste test of sorts for dessert.
For all of my Whole Foods fans, while I was grocery shopping yesterday I decided to pick up a few of their small treats that they keep in the bakery (I believe they’re 9.99 lb). Last night we tried:
- Pistachio shortbread
- Chocolate covered peanut butter sandwich cookie
- Iced lemon cookie
- unpictured chocolate truffle
I love a good dessert bar 🙂
Zach and I disagreed on our favorites, but did agree that the iced lemon was our LEAST favorite of the treats. I had high hopes for it considering I love lemon, but this one was dry and unappetizing. I actually ate a bite than gave my half to Zach.
MY favorite was the pistachio shortbread, as far as flavor and texture goes. Of course I am going to love me some chocolate covered PB, but the shortbread stole the show. Zach’s favorite was the truffle, which was simply a 365 brand dark chocolate truffle they had as free samples.
It was a nice treat for a Monday night.
This Morning/Workout of the Day
I woke up this morning well rested (hello 10 pm bed time) and feeling like I could knock out a run, so that’s exactly what I did.
Workout of the Morning: 40 minute treadmill for 4.26 miles
Todays run looked like:
- 10 minute warm up (6.3 for 5 minutes, 6.4 for 5 minutes)
- 20 minute pyramid from (6.5 increasing every minute until 7.5, then decreasing every minute until back at 6.5)
- Finished out 4 miles at 6.4
- Walked it out until 40 minutes for 4.26 miles
This 40 minute run was followed by a 2 minute plank, than it was off to shower and get ready.
I am so ready to be back from the honeymoon, in the Spring, enjoying miles outside. . . just saying.
Question of the Morning: What do you think YOUR favorite cookie would be?
Chocolate Covered Race Medals 
Your pizza looks amazing!
I love using a pizza stone for cooking pizza, and once you keep using it over and over it just retains the flavor and makes the pizzas so much better than the first!
Great workout this morning!
Ohhh now I’m REALLY excited!
Hey, we made homemade pizza last night too (well, Zach made pizza while I stopped at the gym for a 5k after work, but I came home to a fresh homemade pizza,yum!) We tried a new to us whole wheat dough from trader joes, I really liked it. However, we did not have anything for dessert, which I was really craving something sweet
Oh honey you know I NEVER skip dessert…it just isn’t possible for this lady. But good boy cooking while you worked out. We have our Zach’s trained well.
You know I”m not into sweets, but when I was younger I did enjoy oatmeal raisin cookies. They’re healthy right?
I LOVE oatmeal raisin cookies — when they’re GOOD. I’m picky. . . how ’bout oatmeal chocolate chip? Potbelly’s anyone?
ooh, a pizza stone! that sounds so cool. I would probably pick the most chocolatey item.
Normally that’s where I would gravitate as well!
Oh man, it’s 12:40, I haven’t eaten lunch yet and I want that pizza! Your pizza always looks the best! Favorite cookie? How could I ever choose? Probably a combination of sweet and salty with dark chocolate chips!
Oatmeal with dark chocolate chips sounds pretty amazing right about now 🙂
Yes, I’ve gotta go for choc chip 🙂
Always a classic.
Do I only get to choose ONE cookie? There are some crazy-good-looking ones on Pinterest. They usually involve baking one cookie inside of another cookie. Sinful! Some of my favorites are snickerdoodles and chocolate chip as long as they’re soft. Oh, and soft/chewy gingerbread.
LOVE chewy gingerbread!
those whole foods cookies get me every time! even if they were $999.99 per pound, i’d still probably buy one 🙂
What?! Ready to be back? Girlfriend you haven’t gone yet! I’ll take your spot 😉
LOL I realized that AFTER i wrote it that it may seem like I am looking forward to being back. NO WAY!
Cornish fairings! (Which are probably the same thing as chewy gingerbread, or similar anyway.)
I need to find these!
You can make ’em! They’re very easy. 🙂
First, I love my pizza stone!! I use it twice a month at least and the whole foods dessert bar – AWESOME! Try the almond horn next time – sometimes the ends are dipped I chocolate sometimes not but BOTH are amazing! The pistachio short bread is one of my top three and I totally agree…had high hopes for the lemon cookie but it was totally gross!
Sounds like you know what you’re talking about. My kinda friend 🙂