Pizza on a Chicken

Pizza on a Chicken

Hey Guys!!  Yes I'm still doing Wheat Free and I'm still losing weight!!  So today I tried Pizza on a Chicken and it was so DELICIOUS, I need to tell you about it!

1 chicken breast

1/4 cup pizza sauce (jar) I used Prego

1/4 cup black beans - or any topping you like - or maybe you just like cheese.

2% Mozzarella Cheese

salt, pepper and oregano to taste

Put the raw chicken breast between 2 sheets of wax paper and pound it flat.  This is an excellent exercise if you have had a hard day at work.

Once the chicken is flat, add salt and pepper to your crust.  I also sprayed mine with a little non stick cooking spray, and bake at 350 for about 20 minutes until it is just done.

Remove the chicken from the oven, flip it over so you have a flat surface to work with, and cover with pizza sauce.  Ok here you can add your own toppings.  I suggest going crazy but that's up to you.  Today I went crazy by using black beans and it was Oh My God so delicious.  So you add your favorite topping(s) and then cover the whole thing with cheese and a little oregano.

Bake at 350 for about 15 more minutes until the cheese is melted and it looks like pizza.  Enjoy!

This, my friends, is the most delicious, and HEALTHY pizza you will ever put in your mouth!!  Thank you for taking the time to visit with me today.  Please leave me a comment.  I love hearing from you!!

Black Bean and Mushroom Casserole

Black Bean & Mushroom Casserole

You guessed it - this is not a story review.  But this is my blog and I dig this and I thought you might dig it too.

As most of you know - my doctor told me to eliminate wheat from my diet.  I have a couple of conditions that require me to stay really healthy and she felt like wheat elimination was something that would lower my blood pressure, lower my blood sugar, help me with fluid retention, and boost my weight loss.  That's some really delicious discussion right before you read my recipe, but I wanted to give you a why...

Now - when you LOVE PASTA and also LOVE BREAD, cutting wheat is quite difficult.  She told me "eat whole foods" witch I have found to be pretty easy but the pasta - I really miss pasta.  I LOVE SPAGHETTI SAUCE!!  Before she told me to cut it out I ate pasta everyday.  Finding something to substitute for pasta is not all that easy.  You can have the sauce and not the pasta, you can have the peanut butter but you can't make a sandwich.

So I am making stuff up in my kitchen and I thought you might like to hear about it every now and then.  I have created Black Bean and Mushroom Casserole.  Maybe this is yucky to you (I don't know) but it's DELICIOUS to me and it has no pasta and very little calories so I think it's PERFECT!!

Ingredients:

Nonstick cooking spray

1 can black beans

1 can mushrooms

1 - 2 cups Prego Fresh Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce

1-2 cups cheese (whatever kind you like - try to use 2% because you just don't need the calories).

Spray a small casserole dish with the nonstick cooking spray.  Drain the black beans in a colander and rinse them well.  Mix the beans and the spaghetti sauce in a bowl.  You want the mixture to be thick - but soupy enough to make it casserole consistency. I love the sauce so I put a lot in there.  

Drain the mushrooms and layer them in the bottom of the casserole dish.  Layer the bean mixture on top of the mushrooms.  Cover the top with cheese.

Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes - until the casserole is bubbling and the cheese is melty.

To me this can be eaten as a main dish with a salad and it is sooooo delicious!!  You could also serve it as a side dish for chicken or I think you could serve it over pasta too.

So....do you like recipes with your reading???  Click the blue 'no comments' link below and let me know what you think!!!  Thanks for taking the time to visit with me today.

The Plan by Qwen Salsbury

The Plan

By:  Qwen Salsbury

This is more of an announcement than a review.  The Plan by Qwen Salsbury has been released!!!  I know you guys wanna get your copy today!  If you are having problems finding it, I am supplying you a link!!!

The Plan  (this is the link, just click it)

Qwen writing is compelling and fresh.  I know you will enjoy every second of The Plan!

Stay tuned for a full review soon!!  If you are reading The Plan please leave a comment below - I would love to hear what you think!!  Thank you for taking the time to visit Reviews by Sandy!

HEY GUYS!!!  I hope you are having a Wonderful Holiday Season!!  I have been reading my hiney off and I am here to let you in on some really good stories.

I KNOW that you are aware of who CaraNo is....aren't you?  Well she is one of the best authors in the business.  I have been reading her stories one at a time.  I know a lot of you have a hard time with incompletes so I am gonna hook you up here!!  

I am giving you the link to CaraNo's pulled stories.  She has pulled them from FFN (like a lot of the greats) and if there are any that you haven't read I suggest you give her a try.  'Our Yellow House' is one of my favorite stories of all times!!!

Here is the link to her blog where you will find all of her hot stories!!

CaraNoFanFiction

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Close your eyes.....now picture this......Edward as a Mechanic!!!!

I have a dirty little secrete.   I have a thing for mechanics.  One day the Lord will bless me with one and things are going to get dirty in places other than under the hood if you know what I mean!!!

Well, my really good friend BornonHalloween wrote a mechanic story.  She didn't SPECIFICALLY write it for me....but sometimes I pretend she did.  Here is her description of this delicious story:  

Cleanliness is next to godliness, but not even the boss's daughter can stay unsoiled forever. The hot mechanic is gritty and gruff and avoiding her like the plague, so naturally he's all she wants. But would she be better off keeping her distance? Angsty ExB told in BPOV.

This story is FANTASTIC!!  You are going to love it!!  Born has the gift of writing from BPOV.  You feel like she is writing the story especially for you.

Here's the link:   Soiled

It is almost finished!!  I am sure if you will give it a chance, you won't be sorry you did!!!

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I have also recently read Text from Last Night by EverythingIDo and It is REALLY GOOD!!!  

Here is here original description:

Reunited for the first time since college for the week of Alice and Jasper's destination wedding, Bella and Edward are single at the same time for the first time. Once best friends, will they find more? AH, Canon Couples.

I enjoyed this story from start to finish.  It was low on angst - really sweet and complete.  If you are looking for a good read, I suggest this one!!

Here is the link to:  Text from Last Night


I appreciate you keeping up with me.  I haven't been reviewing stories one at a time, but I still want to let you know what's good to read!!  Please take the time to leave me a comment.  I would love to hear from you.

Vanished by Irene Hannon

Original Author's Description:  Reporter Moira Harrisons is lost. In the dark. In a thunderstorm. When a confusing detour places her on a rural, wooded road, she's startled by the sudden appearance of a lone figure caught in the beam of her headlights. Though Moira jams on her brakes, the car careens across the wet pavement--and the solid thump against the side of the vehicle tells her she hit the person before she crashes into a tree on the far side of the road. 

A dazed Moira is relieved when a man opens her door, tells her he saw everything, and promises to call 911. Then everything fades to black. When she comes to an hour later, she is alone. No man. No 911. No injured person lying on the side of the road. But she can't forget the look of terror she saw on the person's face in the instant before her headlights swung away. The person she hit had been in trouble. She's sure of it. But she can't get anyone to believe her story--except a handsome former police detective, now a private eye, who agrees to take on the case.

Sandy's Review:  As you know, I read a lot of Fan Fiction and I must be honest and tell you that when I first started reading this book I was SURE it was and Edward and Bella original.  But it's NOT!!  This is an original fiction that is worth your time.

I don't know about you, but I like a little suspense.  This book has it!  I enjoyed it from cover to cover!!  If you are looking for a little suspenseful romance I am thinking this could be your book.  You won't find any hard core lemons, but you will find intrigue and a mystery that gets bigger as the story goes on.  I really enjoyed this and and I suggest you add it to you TBR list.

Here is where you can get it:  Amazon.com

SANDY WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM YOU IN A LONG TIME...HAVE YOU READ ANYTHING ELSE GOOD???

As a matter of fact I have.  I have read the complete collection of Black Dagger Brotherhood books!!!

These books are FANTASTIC!!  They are full of lots of luscious lemons and I can't say enough good things about them.  When you first start reading them, you read a glossary of terms.  This turns a lot of people off.  Don't let it...just read the terms, the author will use them in the book.  She adds terms but doesn't really add many each book.  It's a fun feature.

You can find the first book here:  Amazon.com

WHAT ABOUT FAN FICTION SANDY???  HAVE YOU READ ANY GOOD FIC LATELY???

Well, yes I have!

My good friend Beegurl113 wrote a story a long time ago that I never read (yeah, I couldn't believe it either)

Author's Original Description:  Two consenting adults. One wants more. What happens when the other doesn't, and never will? Is there such thing as true love in the real world? And will they see what's coming before it's too late? E/B, AH, M.

I really really enjoyed this story!  Beegurl is very talented.  I have been going back and reading stories that have completed and this one is really worth the read.  Fantastic!!

You can find it here:  Constant Bearing Decreasing Range

Ok, well, If you are still with me, please send me a comment below.  Thank you for taking the time to read!!

This Man Trilogy by Jodi Ellen Malpas

Sandy's Review:  Normally I like to include the Author's Original Description in my reviews, but since there are three books here I may be giving spoilers if I include them.  I am opting to give you my review blind.

The 'This Man' Trilogy has completely consumed me.  I know there is a stigma behind Twilight Fan Fiction and that is a place that I have lived for so many years now.  I find that in the world of novels and original fiction, the authors don't appreciate being compared to FanFic.  To the best of my knowledge The 'This Man' Trilogy is original fiction and not taken from the pages of FFN.  

When I speak about Twilight Fan Fiction I am talking about my friends and some of the most talented authors on the planet.  They are dedicated and professional and relentless to write stories that are compelling, entertaining and consuming.  If I compare your story to TwiFanFic, I am not giving you an insult - I am giving you the highest compliment I can.  And this story is the FIRST books I have read that give me the TwiFanFic feeling.  

Jesse Ward is the owner of The Manor - a high end sex club.  He commissions a young interior designer Ava O'Shea to decorate the new extension to his club.  When Ava first goes to The Manor she is under the impression that it is a hotel, and Jesse does everything he can to make sure she continues upon that impression.  As the story progresses you realize that Jesse commissioning Ava is no accident.  He is completely infatuated with her and he turns up in the oddest places.

This Man is written from Ava's point of view and that is sometimes frustrating.  I found by almost the end of the first book that I was ready to chuck it in.  It seemed to me to just be copious sex with not much story.  I was very angry with her for not ASKING QUESTIONS.  Ava seems so oblivious to everything around her and I found this aggravating.  So if you get to that point where you feel like you are confused, don't feel bad and DON'T QUIT. 

In my opinion the 2nd book is better than the first and the 3rd is the best of the three.  Simply because I finally get all my answers, I finally understand why.

These books have everything you could be looking for in entertainment:  Murder, Sex, Mystery, Intrigue, Violence, Kinky Sex, Soft Sex, Lots and Lots of Sex, but also a sweet tender love story and several people that you would like to kill yourself.  The secondary characters in these stories are well developed and I would not be surprised to see a spin off of a couple of the pairings. 

Please be advised that they are written by an English author and you may see some euphemisms that you don't recognize.  I did.

I don't want to give you the whole story - I want you to take the time to read them yourselves.  Please know that I think you will be thanking me!!

If you read on your kindle, you can find them here:  Amazon

SIDE NOTE:  This is the first post on this new blog.  This one will be slightly different from Southern Fiction Review.  I want you to know that I sincerely appreciate you being here.  Please take the time to follow the blog, I lost all my followers in the switch.

Please PLEASE leave a comment and let me know you were here in the comments section below.  Have you read these books???  Will you read them now???