I think some of you may have noticed that I am trying the Spark Weightloss Community.

Well it's pretty easy when you have what you are eating for the whole day on a piece of paper in front of you...  Harder to justify cheating!  Sigh!  :)

 

Anyhoo - found this little ditty of yumminess on their site and am saddened that the eggplant season is drawing to a close...

My modifications:  use chili oil as opposed to olive, cook 8 minutes each side, use fat free swiss singles sparingly, use super duper tasteful sauce, add tomatoes as a topping, use red peppers, and cook the last portion on a pizza stone! It was absolutely amazing! Enjoy!

Mini Eggplant Pizzas

Ingredients

Directions

Preheat the oven or toaster oven to 425 degrees F. Brush both sides ofthe eggplant with the oil and season with the salt and pepper. Arrangeon a baking sheet and bake until browned and almost tender, 6 to 8minutes, turning once. Spread 1 tablespoon of pasta sauce on eacheggplant slice. Top with the shredded cheese. Bake until the cheesemelts, 3 to 5 minutes. Serve hot.

Number of Servings: 4

 

• Servings Per Recipe: 4
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 119.1

• Total Fat: 7.5 g
• Cholesterol: 7.5 mg
• Sodium: 458.6 mg
• Total Carbs: 8.9 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.2 g
• Protein: 4.9 g

Misc..

 

I got to head back to Denver with all the brains on Wednesday night!

There were folks from a couple of the main technical companies that call Denver home!

Fun group of guys! I got eat dinner with Hubby’s new boss while we waited for the plane. I think I had babble mouth, but he seemed to take me pretty well! (in case it wasn’t clear, hubby wasn’t with me, so I had no chaperone to keep my mouth shut!)

 

Thursday was my last read day on my previous job. I was on site at a client helping them get their system under way! It was a great day! It started with a long drive with my favorite boss, a stop at Dunkin’s, a successful day on the job, Chinese food for lunch and home after traffic! Who could ask for more?

 

Friday was the good bye happy hour. I had a bit of fun! Ok, a lot of fun. I think I’ve almost recovered!

 

Saturday I did manage to get up (I tend not to sleep well ifI imbibe… sigh) and hit the gym! Yeah me! At the new gym I’m still trying tofigure out how to use all the weight machines, but the leg one definitelyworked!

 

Saturday night we took a walk down town to see how things were shaping up for the Democratic National Convention. There were a TON of swat out and about! We think there might have been an incident, but we weren't sure and didn't want to hang out to long to check it out. The other thing we noticed was all the Blue Mail boxes were gone. Gone Gone. As in bolts cut and mail boxes removed from the sidewalks. Grrrr...  And me with a package to mail.

 

 

Today (Sunday)  we finally got hubby a new office chair. His old one was pretty worn out! After lunch and a nap we got to work on hubby’s peg board in the garage! I think we did a pretty good job! And I think I’m getting motivated to throw again!

 

We ended the day visiting a new park in the are – Sloan Lake Park. It’s a lake thatreminds me of a lake in Westminster Mass. The breeze off the water was great!Phillip thought it was a little too far! It was 3 miles! He did get to meetsome other dogs, and did his normal whining and weirdness! I really liked thepark. Some of the parts of it cross some not so great neighborhoods, but it wasstill plenty light out so I wasn’t nervous!

 

 

 

we finally had some coconut milk in the house. Tonight was Spicy Coconut Shrimp.

I blended the pineapple prior to adding it to the mixture since we don't really like chunks! I think next time i'll just use juice instead of the actual pineapple! Let me know how you like it!

Pineapple-Coconut Gelato

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Nutritional Information

CALORIES 215(17% from fat); FAT 4.1g (sat 3.6g,mono 0.2g,poly 0.2g); IRON 0.8mg; CHOLESTEROL 0.0mg; CALCIUM 11mg; CARBOHYDRATE 46.5g; SODIUM 3mg; PROTEIN 0.6g; FIBER 0.4g

Now that I’m done b-eatchin about the conference, now I’ll talk about all the cool stuff.

It was pretty fun to watch all the dorks bond, converse, exchange information and create lasting friendships!

The booth area did really well and tons of attendees stopped by to chat with the sponsors! Woohoo!

All in all most of the attendees showed up and enjoyed themselves! There were only 26 badges left!

Most of the food was eaten with glee, plenty of fun peopleintroduced themselves to me, which was great!

I think Tom and Hubby enjoyed themselves and did a great job!

I’m in San Jose helping the hubby and Tom with the conference.

We arrived Friday afternoon to do some last minute items prior to the conference.

Then Tom and Hubby had din din for the wives for all their support and putting up with them – aren’t they cute! It was at a cute little restaurant called Consuelo Mexican Bistro.

We started with guacamole made at the table, and then hubby and split the chicken mole dish and got some fried plantains and a giant piece of corn bread! It was fabulous.

 

Saturday I got up at 7am Denver time and hit the gym! I needed to get my workout on to make up for all the yummy food! I had a weirdo stop by my machine and ask if I “ was going to be long”. I didn’t hear him at first so then he repeated – “how long will you be on the machine”. It had recently hopped on, so I said 45 minutes. His response – “So a while? Sigh”  I just nodded and smiled! Then, he had the audacity to ask me to turn down the TV. At which point I said “of course” smiled and then made a face at him after he had left.  Stupid people. Like I can hear the damn TV over all machines when they are running. Grrrrr.

 

The rest of Saturday we spent setting up for the conference. I put together badges – which meant I totally decimated my nails – ah the sacrifices I make for my hubby!  (tee hee)

 

Sunday was day 0 of the conference and man did the people descend! A lot of people arrived to partake of the “free” training offered to all paid attendees of conference.

I was getting pretty tired getting everyone all registered and giving them all their free stuff!

Speaking of free stuff – I HATE GRUBBY PEOPLE

OK, now that I have that off my chest! Seriously I know that customer service is important and I really want the fellas to do well and be successful but it is really hard for me to deal with people that are always trying to get all that they can get for free. Grrrr…

Hubby and Tom were kind enough to allow people to continue to register past sell out point with the caveat that they would not receive their swag (the free stuff) until everyone else that had registered on time came thru and receiver their deserved free stuff!

 

So many people just didn’t get it and were annoyed that they didn’t get what everyone else had received, except for the fact that they got to actually attend! Grrrrr

 

I was also annoyed with those that would simply grab their own badges or take stuff on the registration table…  Gubby I tell you, grubby!

 

I realize this is my issue and I need to get over it, but knowing how much hubby and Tom shell out to make this a great event and to have people take stuff that they don’ t deserve really burns my butt! Grrrr….

“I’m in charge of the vapor ware department”  (random sentence that filtered thru the noise to my ears)

“I’m fashionably plump, but I can move”  (from a big and tall fella indicating who's loss it would be in a piggy back contest)

“The party ball”  (from a large round man as he rubbed his belly)

 

A.P. Stump's

163 W Santa Clara St
San Jose, CA 95113View Map
(408) 292-9928

 

Yummy!!!!

We ate here on Saturday night! We had no problem getting a seat at around 8pm! I’m guessing the price point keeps the crowds down. The food was great, service was a little slow, but I think that is to be expected. This is a place where they expect you to make an evening of your meal.

We started with the smoked salmon. Very interesting presentation and of course super delicous!

Our eating partner started with a spicy peach cocktail, we went with out favorite vinyard – Le’cole 41, but this time tried the cab. It was lovely! We enjoyed it quite a bit!

For our main meals we went with scallops for me and ruby red trout for hubby. Both were excellent!

For desert we tried the chocolate almond cake. Mmmmmm! Very very delicious!

All in all it was a very enjoyable dinner with very tasty food. We would recommend this place for a special event or a date night!

 

Consuelo Mexican Bistro

377 Santana Row
San Jose, CA 95128View Map
(408) 260-7082

 

Dined here with the hubby and Tom and his wife.

We were able to get a list minute reservation on Open Table. This place is located in the hip new area of San Jose and you definitely get some good people watching if you ogtain a coveted outside table. We started with the tableside guacamole – mmmmm…  And Sangria for me. It was a pretty tasty beverage and I think I might have been able to thoroughly enjoy a pitchers worth with ease! Next hubby and I split the chicken Pipan - Chicken in a delicious green mole made with pumpkin seeds, tomatillos, nuts and spices. Super tastey. We also ordered up the fried plantains, and the Torta de elote - Savory corn bread, chile pasilla, onion, bacon with poblano pepper cream sauce

Of course I totally enjoyed the plantains – mmmmm…..  hang on, still savoring them….

We ended with chorros and some great conversation!

The only weird thing was that they had tortillas as opposed to chips so it did keep me from over eating, but it was not as fun or enjoyable with the guacamole.