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Veggie Burger

For dinner last night, after school – tutoring and the board meeting, I came home and didn’t know what I wanted for dinner.  Brady had gotten started on burgers and salad so I went with it. He put his burger on the grill and I got started with mine.  I didn’t really know what direction I [...]

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Spicy Lentil Peanut Stew

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I can’t believe it is already Sunday night! We had such a nice weekend – I’ll rewind…

Friday:

After work and school we headed to Grandview to meet Katie and Kurt and a few other friends for drinks and dinner at Brazenhead.  I had great portobello quesadilla and a salad.  Everyone [...]

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Simple Curry Simmer

I am finally getting over the pain that I feel when I walk down the stairs. Nothing else was really that sore, but for some reason my quads were super sore when I walked down the stairs all day yesterday. I guess not running for a week and then running 13 miles will do that do [...]

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Farmer's Market Quinoa Recipe

Farmer’s Market Quinoa

1 c. quinoa cooked as directed
1 can chickpeas
15 baby carrots – cut into pieces
1 zucchini cut into pieces
1 ear of corn – raw, kernels cut off the cob
balsamic salad dressing
reduced fat feta cheese

Make quinoa as directed.
While quinoa is cooking, cut carrots, zucchini and corn.
Open can of chickpeas and drain liquid from can.
When quinoa is [...]

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Kicking off Cookout Season!

After a busy, fun weekend, and before a draining paper, we had a cookout! John and Ash, came over for some classic cookout food! We had the regulars: corn on the cob, salad, burgers and the fixins. We also had a new experiment – veggie burgers!

Veggie Burgers:

1 c. brown rice
1 green pepper
1/2 c. egg whites
1/2 c. [...]

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Classic and Amazing

After returning home from our 6 hour drive from Nashville, we unpacked and relaxed. We were both sore from being in the car for so long. I decided to go for a 3 mile jog to get some of the lactic acid out of my legs and hopefully make going down the stairs easier tomorrow.

While I [...]

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Tofu Time

This week has been so busy! Coming off of Spring Break and getting back into the swing of things while

  writing papers for grad school
getting my kids (third grade students in my class, not my own kids!) ready for the state test on Monday
unpacking/laundry
making cookies for a wedding shower this weekend
packing for my 1/2 marathon this weekend [...]

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Can't get easier than this!

This morning started with a 6am workout. Both Brady and I made it to the gym. I did a hard 35 min. on the stepmill while he ran. It was great to get it over with because Mondays are always busy and draining.

Breakfast was my usual fruit with GoLean vanilla oatmeal and coffee with soy-milk plus [...]

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Brady's Bourbon Sesame Shrimp

Last night we went to play tennis, since it’s all of 60 degrees out! We were sad to find the nets were not up yet, I guess it really isn’t Spring yet.

So we came home and Brady started to make dinner:

Brady’s Bourbon Sesame Shrimp

shrimp (we boiled our raw shrimp for a few minutes first)
bourbon [...]

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Black Bean Chickpea Burgers :)

Today was busy, as usual. I couldn’t get up for the morning workout since the paper did me in last night, so the workout was moved to the end of the day. Here is how it went:

Breakfast: Usual – fruit and oatmeal

Lunch: leftover salad and popcorn

Snack: low fat brownie treat (will post this weekend)

Workout: 5 mile [...]

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