Where's the Beach?

Free Time Friday Today was a rest day for me in regards to a workout. I am still a little sore from weights on Wednesday, then doing step yesterday sort of put my legs over the top. I  typically set up Friday as my schedule rest day anyway. It's like a little treat to myself: week over and a little free time. So what did I do with the free time? Why shopping of course. I won't brag too much, but I did find some great bargains! Besides, I think that there was some consensus a while back that shopping is indeed a form of cardio. So, in a way, I did still workout. Right? ;-) Pizza Friday Dinner was the typical homemade pizza . While I blogged, Jason made the Cheeseless Queso with a few tweaks. He wanted to try to make it more like a white cheese dip. Tomorrow I'll post his version. While snacking on the cheeselsess queso, we played pool  and let the bread machine do the manual labor for the pizza. We didn't do anything super exciting for the pizza toppings. I'm ...

I am a total cheese addict. Perhaps my New Year's Resolution should have been to wean myself from cheese. I absolutely love cheese dip. Yep, can't beat a good cheese dip! I can forgo meat, I can live without chocolate, but cheese dip, nope, must have. So when I saw a recipe from my blogger buddy Alicia from Vegan Epicurean for Queso Dip recipe, I knew I needed to give it a try. Cheeseless Queso Ingredients: ½ cup raw cashews, soaked and drained (30-60 mins) ½ cup oatmeal, ground into flour 1 ½ cups water 2 teaspoon onion flakes, dried ½ teaspoon turmeric powder 1 clove garlic, peeled 14 ounces diced tomatoes (or substitute an equal amount of salsa if you like heat) 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon hot crushed peppers (wet hots, finely minced pickled peppers), or to taste ½ teaspoon chili powder 1 dash cayenne, or to taste salt and pepper to taste Directions: Combine the cashews, oatmeal, water, onion flakes, turmeric, and garlic in your blender. Puree until the m...