Hey everyone!
Well as I mentioned in my last post, our latest Fitbloggin’ Local meetup was this past Saturday…me and my Tupperware full of caramelized onions headed down the highway to Napa to meet up with Tracey and the girls for a nice walk and a make-your-own-pizza lunch.
I was an embarrassing 30 minutes late…darn one-lane wine country roads full of tractors and grape trucks this time of year! I was already running late when I left home but I thought I would just be 10 or 15 minutes late. That stretched out to 30 minutes with all of the slow moving traffic…luckily Tracey got my tweet and the girls all waited for me.
We went on a nice walk along the Napa River marshland and then headed back to Tracey’s house for lunch.
Here we all are, post-walk and pre-lunch…let me re-introduce you to some of my favorite Bay Area bloggers:
From left to right we are:
- Danica from Danica’s Daily
- Deb from Weight For Deb
- Yours Truly
- Tracey from TJ’s Test Kitchen
- Annelies from Attune Foods and La Vie En Route
- Marisol from a Dirty Martini Kind of Girl
Such great girls…make sure you check out their blogs!
Danica made these delicious cranberry mini-muffins…I snuck two before our walk!
Then it was time to make pizzas! Here was our little topping bar…
We had so many yummy things it was hard to decide what to use!
(PS. See my ONIONS….?!? They were a hit! Either that or these girls are just way too nice to me! Which they’ll take back when they see how much butter was in those…whoops, haha!)
Here are some lovely looking pizza crusts…
And then there is my stupid looking special-needs pizza crust:
Tracey joked that I had to knead it so many times it was probably already cooked. And she was right. I just do not have the pizza dough touch.
But Annelies does!
I will give myself some credit for pizza topping skillz…I used some pizza sauce, a little sprinkle of mozzarella, a layer of spinach leaves, some zucchini, mushrooms, olives and a healthy layer of caramelized onions! (Duh.)
I had to take a side-view picture so you could see how many veggies I piled on there!
Into the oven it went…and we all made salads to start with. Here is Deb dishing up hers.
And here is my salad…I’d never tried French Fried onions on my salad before but they are yummy!
I better not buy any. Because I’ll probably eat the whole container. Like, in one sitting.
There’s my pizza!!
Danica’s delicious fruit salad…
And “Two Point” cupcakes…
…with special Cool Whip/Pudding mix frosting…
Mmmmm! I had heard that you can make cupcakes using only a boxed cake mix and a can of diet soda (or club soda if you aren’t into artificial sweeteners)…I didn’t think they would be any good but these were actually really yummy!
Spongey and tasty. I’m sold!
All in all, it was a great meetup as usual. I can’t wait to see some of these girls (and other great bloggers) at the Foodbuzz Festival this weekend! Only a few more days and it will be here!
How about you? Have you ever heard of the “Two Point” diet soda cupcake?
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