So I try to be a little healthier during our week night meals. Friday- Sunday I tend to eat a buttload of food, and it's not always healthy. So during the week, I like to make a side salad for us to have before we eat our main meal. I figure not only are we getting veggies, but eating a salad before probably makes me eat a little less of my main meal than I would without it, right?
Our roommate Kyle made a comment about how we eat so healthy with our salads...HA! Too bad it's because I eat like a 10,000 lb. man! And I actually never liked salads too much, but a side one is the perfect size for me and with my home-made dressing I actually like it!
In my salads I like to include: lettuce, dried cranberries, corn, artichoke hearts. hearts of palm, pickled mushrooms if i have them, almonds and candied walnuts (I'm starting to eat nuts in salads now! I like the "candied' part) and blue cheese crumbles. Sometimes I add tuna salad or if we have leftover salmon, then I add that. Lastly, I sprinkle won ton chips on top and it just makes it whole. I have to have mom bring them up when she visits or sometimes tutu mails them to me. But they are the Maebo won ton chips with the gold man on the package.
Our roommate Kyle made a comment about how we eat so healthy with our salads...HA! Too bad it's because I eat like a 10,000 lb. man! And I actually never liked salads too much, but a side one is the perfect size for me and with my home-made dressing I actually like it!
In my salads I like to include: lettuce, dried cranberries, corn, artichoke hearts. hearts of palm, pickled mushrooms if i have them, almonds and candied walnuts (I'm starting to eat nuts in salads now! I like the "candied' part) and blue cheese crumbles. Sometimes I add tuna salad or if we have leftover salmon, then I add that. Lastly, I sprinkle won ton chips on top and it just makes it whole. I have to have mom bring them up when she visits or sometimes tutu mails them to me. But they are the Maebo won ton chips with the gold man on the package.
This week I also made a ramen cabbage salad. I got the idea from Back Home At Lahaina (which has the best Lahaina Fried Chicken (and now I"m totally craving that!)).... it's really simple to make, the flavor is all in the dressing. Sometimes I add kamaboko to it, but not this time.
Kyle made a huge pot of stew for us to eat this week. It fed all 3 of us for 2 nights. It was yummmy! He cooked the short rib all day Sunday so it was super duper tender and it just melted in your mouth. I hope he makes it again soon hehe.
On Monday I felt pretty disgusting from the weekend so I went on a long walk, about 45 minutes-almost an hour! My feet started to hurt after about 5 minutes which was pretty discouraging. I tried walking on mostly grass instead of the sidewalk but it still really started to burn. I hate having plantars fassciitis for this reason, everything is such a struggle. Obviously I'm not THAT pathetic that I'd be tired after 5 minutes of WALKING, but I could barely stand it because it hurt so much. But I powered through, and made it to Ralplhs where I picked up a ton of groceries. I thought I timed it perfectly so that Sean could pick me up on his way home, but he ended up staying later so I had quite an arm work out on the way back. Nonetheless, it resulted in one of my favorite past times- cantaloupe and vanilla ice cream.
Back story: When I was about 16 or 17 I played in a softball tournament (Babe Ruth World Series) in Millville, New Jersey. It was one of my favorite tournaments because it was with some great girls and I played really really well and made the all star team :) I think my tourney % was something crazy like .500 I also remember it being the first time I ever dove head first into 3rd. I'm normally such a chicken but I was stealing and had so much adrenaline I just went for it and don't even remember thinking about it. Anyway, it's nice to still have some positive softball memories! And I found it online just now!
http://www.tznet.com/~wrysa/wsteam.htm
Whoa, off track- point of the story was, I had these great host parents. Miki Asamura and I stayed with Ed & Donna Pio. They still send us a christmas card every year! They owned a farm and Uncle Ed would bring us home cantaloupes, cut them in half and serve us ice cream inside. It was amazing and I'll never forget it!
Back story: When I was about 16 or 17 I played in a softball tournament (Babe Ruth World Series) in Millville, New Jersey. It was one of my favorite tournaments because it was with some great girls and I played really really well and made the all star team :) I think my tourney % was something crazy like .500 I also remember it being the first time I ever dove head first into 3rd. I'm normally such a chicken but I was stealing and had so much adrenaline I just went for it and don't even remember thinking about it. Anyway, it's nice to still have some positive softball memories! And I found it online just now!
http://www.tznet.com/~wrysa/wsteam.htm
Whoa, off track- point of the story was, I had these great host parents. Miki Asamura and I stayed with Ed & Donna Pio. They still send us a christmas card every year! They owned a farm and Uncle Ed would bring us home cantaloupes, cut them in half and serve us ice cream inside. It was amazing and I'll never forget it!
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