Skinny Pizza

Hello Lovelies!

Happy Monday and what better way to start your week than with healthy meals planned to get back into shape? Lately I've been doing my best to eat clean and work out to start living healthier. So I’ve been obsessed with finding “clean” alternatives for my favourite foods.

Pizza is my weakness. I love pizza. I love the warm crust with meaty, cheesy toppings. However, what I don’t love about pizza is the calorie and fat content on the little slices of heaven. I started to search the web for ‘healthier’ alternatives and I stumbled upon a cauliflower pizza crust recipe so I just HAD to try it.

I was a bit hesitant at first, but let me just tell you it was absolutely DELICIOUS! I am actually obsessed with this recipe so I thought I’d share it with you guys, especially because it’s SO EASY!

What you’ll need:

1.     About 2.5 cups of cauliflower

2.     About 1 cups of low fat mozzarella cheese

3.     1 egg

4.     Ground flax seed (optional)

5. Seasonings

First, I chopped up some cauliflower florets and tossed them in the steamer.

When the cauliflower is steamed and has cooled down, you want to grate the cauliflower so it looks like rice.

Mix in roughly 1 cup of grated low fat mozzarella cheese, 1 raw egg and any seasonings you’d like. I tossed in some Italian seasoning and basil.

If your mixture is a little wet, I suggest adding in some ground flax seed. Or you can just toss some in for the health benefits.

Now you want to press this mixture in a circular shape on parchment paper and bake it at 425F for about 10 minutes or until golden.

THAT’S IT FOR THE CRUST. Yup, that easy!

Now I topped my crust with tomato sauce, cheese, chicken, artichokes and peppers. Tossed it back into the oven for about 10 minutes and VOILA.

I know it doesn’t look as appetizing as regular pizza, but trust me when I say it’s delicious! The best part is that it’s low fat!!!

Let me know if you guys try out this recipe and what you think of it!

What are some of your favourite healthy alternatives?

- Anahid

DIY Easter Bunny Nail Art

Why hello there!

With Easter just around the corner and my love for nail-art rekindled, I thought that a DIY nail design would be perfect for today’s post. As you will be able to see in my pictures, I am not a professional nail artist by any means – I just enjoy nail polish and nail art a little too much.

I have to credit the amazing CutePolish for this cute and easy Easter Bunny design. If you guys love nail as much as I do, you should definitely check out her YouTube channel for more amazing styles.

For this design, I used polishes that I already had, so feel free to substitute them for whatever you have at home. Here we go:

I always start off my filing, shaping and painting a protective topcoat over my natural nails. I typically use OPI Nail Envy and top it off wit Sephora by OPI basecoat.

To make things a little more festive, I painted a thin coat and very subtle coat of a glittery polish as a ‘background’ for my bunnies. 

OPI Servin’ Up Sparkle

 Now this part takes a little patience. You want to paint a half circle at the tip of your nails. This looks weird, but this will eventually become the face for your bunny.

OPI Alpine Snow

Next, you want to use a dotting tool, a toothpick, or anything thin enough to paint the ears. Paint two vertical white stripes coming out of the half-circles, going ¾ of the way down your nail. Make sure they’re thick enough because we need to paint the inside of them pink.

OPI Alpine Snow

For this next step, I recommend using a toothpick because they always seen to be the perfect width to colour in the white ears. With pink polish, you want to ‘dot-in’ the white stripes we just painted to add a little more detail to the ears.

With that same toothpick, add a little pink dot at the tip of your nail for the nose.

Sephora by OPI Diva-in-Training

 

I also use a toothpick for this last step. Dip your tooth pick in black polish and dot two little eyes for your bunnies. If you’re feeling confident, you can also use a flicking motion to create whiskers by your bunny’s nose. I was too lazy to do it on all of my nails so I just did it on my ring finger.

Sephora by OPI Never Enough Shoes

Now for this final step, I highly encourage using a quick-dry topcoat to seal in your design.

Sephora by OPI Quick Dry Top Coat

Your topcoat doesn’t have to be ‘quick dry’, but I definitely recommend using some sort of topcoat. I just use it because you don’t have to worry about smudging your nails and not the mention the fact that I am one of the most impatient people I know. 

Thats it! Your little Easter bunnies are now complete! I know it seems super simple when you break it down in about 5 steps but it does take A LOT of patient, q-tips and nail polish remover. 

I'd love to see your recreation of this design so make sure you post pictures in the comment section below :) 

I hope you all have a wonderful week building up to the Easter long weekend coming up!

- Anahid