More Chickpeas Please

Remember in yesterdays post I mentioned I had a great chickpea salad for you?  Well I am hear to share it with you today.  I do not know why but the only thing that sounded good yesterday afternoon was a salad with lots and lots of chickpeas! 

Chickpeas are one of my favorite types of beans, so I guess I shouldn't be to surprised I was craving them!  I had looked up a few recipes but nothing was striking my fancy.  The major debate was do I want a creamy salad or a vinegar based type salad?  I almost had to do a coin toss to decided!

The Dinner That Didn't Happen

Good evening!  I am kind of wondering where the day went!  I got everything done on my to do list without running around like a crazy person, and even had a good relaxing afternoon of reading The Help!  Before I knew it, it was 5 pm!  I guess I was so absorb in my book I didn't even realize time was flying by!  By this point my dad was off of work, and it was time to think about dinner!   Neither my dad nor I wanted to go grocery shopping for the ingredients for fish tacos, clearly fish tacos were the dinner that didn't happen.  So I bet you are wondering what we had, right?  Dinner was something delicious I will tell you that!  It had my dad doing this after dinner!

Home I Go, and A Big Thank You!

Good afternoon Everyone!  Todays blog post is coming to you once again from the Chicago Union Station.  I am sitting waiting for my train back to Minnesota.  Hard to believe that I have been gone for a week!  But I had a blast!

Mark and I got into Chicago about 5 yesterday afternoon. We immediately headed to dinner to meet up with my friend/sorority sister Sam for dinner!

Grilled Pizza Pie, and what I am loving Vol.3

Good Morning all!  Happy middle of the week!

Remember yesterday how Mark and I were supposed to head back to Indy yesterday?  Well that did not exactly happen!  After a relaxing afternoon, a few intense and competitive games of Monopoly later, and a good portion of these

homemade grilled pizzas... Mark and I decided we would stay one more night in Dayton!  We have a fair amount of driving to do today, but staying the extra night in Dayton was worth it!

If you have never had grilled pizza I highly suggest that you make them!  Mark and I had never grilled a pizza before so thankfully Marks dad knew all the tricks of the trade when it comes to grilling a good pie!  We used Trader Joe's pre made crust, which was fabulous!  If you do not have time to make your own pizza dough or simply do not want to wait for the dough to rise use Trader Joe's!  The dough puffed up, and had that great doughy thick crust texture!

Yum, and on top of having no preservatives this Trader Joe's pizza dough also comes in whole wheat and a parmesan garlic herb one!  Added bonus for all you Vegans this pre made dough is also Vegan!

This pizza dough is one of the things I am loving!  Can you tell?  I am talking about it enough!

Baja Fishy Tacos

Good evening all you Happily Ever Healthy readers!

 I hope you all had a great Monday!  Mine was a little on the lazy side, but I also feel like I got a few things accomplished!  Mark and I woke up and went for a run, then sat around waiting to here about my interview that has now been pushed back to Thursday.  I cancelled and rebooked all train tickets and I am set to be back in Minnesota Thursday night!

While Mark and I were waiting to hear more information about the mentioned interview, we decided on dinner!  Mark's neighbors came over last night and had mentioned having fish tacos!  Then I read this post from How Sweet It Is!  The fish taco craving was sticking with me!  We took a brisk walk down to the grocery store to pick up some ingredients for the Fish Tacos's!

Grocery List:

Fish

Cabbage

Tortillas 

we also came out with a bottle of Kung Fu Girl wine!  We just happened to stumble across one of our favorites while just glancing over the wine selection!  It was the last bottle!  We found two more wines from the same Vineyard!  They have some great labels!

After a nice walk back to Mark's a short nap and catching up on some blog readings, it was time to start dinner!  While I do not have step by step pictures of everything being made it is pretty simple!  Mark and I looked up recipes earlier this morning and found a few to gather inspiration from.  Once again I found inspiration on Eating Well.  Eating Well featured a Grilled Fish Taco!  YUM!  A lot of the Baja fish taco recipes we found featured a cabbage slaw.  We decided to make our own!

Cabbage Slaw

1/2 Head of Purple Cabbage

1/4 Cup Low Fat Sour Cream 

1/4 Cup Greek Yogurt

Various Spices:

Cumin

Cayenne Pepper

Chili Powder

Garlic Salt

1 Teaspoon Sugar

Hot Sauce to taste

All you have to do is chop your cabbage, and combine the chopped cabbage with the sour cream/greek yogurt and spices!

For the Fish:

Grill 

1 Pound White Fish of Choice-We used Tilapia (Mahi Mahi and other mild fish would work great too)!

Spices:

Pepper

Salt

Lemon 

Grill the fish until done (flakey)-you know me I am not a grill expert!  Marks dad was our grill expert this evening, and the fish turned out amazing!  Lots of wonderful flavors!

Now time to assemble your taco's!  Tonight Mark his dad and I all agreed one of the best things about Tacos is this, each taco shell you load up turns out a bit different!  Fabulous!

Tonights fish tacos were served with fresh salsa, the cabbage slaw, and cheese and more hot sauce!

My first taco was loaded more with the cabbage slaw, 

While my second taco featured more of the tilapia!

Yum and Yum!  Not the best pictures but these tacos were fabulous, healthy and light!

For dessert, a grilled S'more like sandwich!  

Following dessert we watched some of the Cincinnati Reds Game, 

while enjoying a friendly game of Monopoly!

Don't ask Mark who won!

I hope you all enjoy the rest of your evening, and as always remember to live Happily Ever Healthy!

Random and off topic thought!  I have been thinking a lot about the organization of the blog, and by that I mean assigning certain days to talk about certain things!  Are there any types of posts you would like to see more off?  I enjoy doing the what I am loving post, and I might make Monday be where I share the rest of the Be Quotes!  I would like some input so let me know!

And We are Back... Sorta! Wedding and Ohio Updates!

Happy Monday!  I cannot believe that Monday is already here once again!  I am still not back home in Minnesota but I figured I would get you up to date on what has been going on this weekend!  If you are just catching up here are some of the things that went on this weekend!

Check out 

Something New Something Old Something Borrowed Something Blue, for pictures from Zest!

and

One Last Breakfast to check out some of Mark and my eats from the weekend.  But now its time to talk about the wedding!

Something New, Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Good Afternoon!  It is wedding day here in Indiana!  I have a college friend who is getting married this afternoon!  I am super excited to get dressed up, and see some college friends I have not seen in a while!

I also can't wait to catch up on all your blogs to see what is going on in your lives!  I feel out of the loop!  But I am having a good time just spending time with Mark!

I wanted to share this with you!

This my friends is the most amazing french toast on the face of this Earth!  Creme Brulee French Toast from Zest!  Mark and I split this yesterday and then I had a huge bowl of "Beautiful Fruit" as Zest! calls it.  

I am going to miss going to Zest!  Mark and I both decided that anytime we are both back in Indy visiting we will have to go there!  I know I have said it before but I really miss all the little breakfast places in Indy!  This picture just makes me laugh!  We had to stop for geese when we were driving!

Well Mark and I are off to get lunch and then I have to start getting pretty for the wedding!!  I will hopefully take lots of pictures!
I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend, enjoy and remember to live Happily Ever Healthy!