Sunday Funday Snack Attack

I love sundays, they could possibly be my most favorite day of the week.  Sunday means time with family, a day consisting of total relaxation.  Sunday means a trip out to the cabin to sit by the lake with Grandma and Grandpa eating wonderful non-diet food.  It means watching some sort of sporting event, falling asleep on the couch and taking THE BEST nap of your life.  Sunday is visiting my in-laws out in Tioga, ND talking, laughing and singing with the most amazing man in the whole wide world on our drive out and back.  It is going to church at Our Saviors Lutheran when we are back in Cloquet and then sitting out on the deck with my brother and parents in the lovely sunshine watching the dogs run in the yard. It is sitting on the couch in Minot catching up on DVRed trashy television, House Hunters International, Iron Chef, Swamp People, anything on Discovery Channel and many more mindless/fabulous TV shows.  Finally one of the best things about sunday is planning out some fun meals for the week, shopping at the grocery store with Trev, coming home to make some awesome snack food a/k/a my favorite food and eating it on paper plates (we don't do dishes on Sunday Funday) at the coffee table in the living room.  Below are the two snacks that I made for this Sunday's Snack Attack. 

I was really craving a margherita pizza and was looking for a quick solution to my craving that would not involve having to make dough for pizza crust.  I perused through the cupboards and noticed that we had some pitas that needed to be used up.  I have used pitas for making chips for different dips that I have and figured they would crisp up much like flat bread.  I threw a couple of halves on my pizza stone for about ten minutes on one side then flipped them over drizzled some olive oil, then added some fresh chopped garlic and sliced up on the vine tomato.

Above is my chopped garlic, fresh basil, sliced on the vine tomatoes and fresh mozzerella ( I wish I could find buffalo mozzerella out here, but it's impossible).

Please note the fancy paper plate that I have use to capture the essence of the ripe tomato.  Like I said earlier we don't like to do dishes on Sunday Funday.  After letting the tomatoes and garlic roast up for around 5-8 min I added the cheese, let it melt and added the basil right before serving.  This pizza would be awesome served with a balsamic reduction, but I was too lazy/ impatient to wait for that.  So instead I just added a side of balsamic to dip in.

Now that's some cheesy goodness.   YUMMMMMM YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM. 

I have often said that if I was stranded on a deserted island the one food that I would choose to have day after day would be pizza.  Recently I am having a hard time deciding between pizza and nachos.  So for this sunday I decided to make both for Trev and me.  These nachos are vegetarian, but you could add any type of beef, chicken, turkey ect.  I seasoned the black beans with cumin, chili powder, lime zest and juice.  They were very zesty and fresh mmmm mmmmmm good.

This isn't the best picture of black beans, but I wanted to show some of the spices and the lime zest.
We had some pablano, red and green bell peppers, green onions, cilantro and tomato that I needed to use up so sliced those suckers up and threw them on top.  For our chips I cut some low-carb tortillas up into wedges and cooked them up on my pizza stone at 410 degrees for about 10 minutes.  Real chips would be awesome with these, but I didn't have any in the house.

Soooo much goodness on this lovely, once again paper, plate.

I can hardly wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was before going into the oven.  I did two layers of chips with all of the yummy goodness piled on top.  I try not to over load them otherwise they tend to get a tad bit soggy and nobody, I mean nobody likes soggy nachos.

The T-dogg in all of his Sunday glory.  Please note the awesome hair on my dude, we call this bed head Chic  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Testing out the goods.  I think he gave me a one and a half thumbs up on these nachos.  They were lacking meat and there wasn't enough jalapenos for two thumbs.

The other thing that I love about our sundays out here is that it is perfectly acceptable to wear a Concordia Hallet Floor 5 t-shirt from freshman year at Concordia College including a lovely tomato stain and holey armpits.  Yes folks we are a fancy couple out here, I know you are jealous.  Here is proof of our fashion savy ways.

This is me laughing at my dorkiness in the ghetto 80's kitchen.  I feel it's always good to laugh at yourself otherwise life is being taken way too seriously.  Plus if I didn't laugh at myself, who would?

Of course one last thing is needed  for a great Sunday Funday Snack Attack.  If you know me well this should be no surprise whatsoever, the last ingredient for a relaxing sunday is a glass of wonderful vino.  White wine goes with vegetarian nachos and margherita pizza, right???  Well according to me it does.  For my birthday my sister-in-law Julie gave me a wine coozie to keep my glass cool in the summers.  In an effort to will summer to get here I decided to slap that baby on my glass and keep the positive thoughts rolling instead of focusing on the 45 mile per hour winds we have going on today. 

It's called a woozie, which I find hilarious.  Well here's to summer hopefully getting here soon, and here's to a Sunday Funday for everyone out there.  I hope you love and appreciate sundays as much as I do.

On a final note, Charlie boy also enjoys a relaxing sunday as well.  His day involves going from the couch to his favorite chair in front of the window where he basks in the sunshine coming from the west.  Trev and I often joke it must be a rough life when all you have to worry about it a treat, the occasional table food and a few sips of a beer.