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Lentil Salad

Yesterday I made a lentil salad that was fresh and summery. I made up the recipe but got ideas from one I had seen in Eating Well. and from RhodeyGirl’s website.

Here is what I did:

1 small onion, diced
1 small zucchini, diced
2 tbs olive oil
1 cup dry lentils, rinsed
1 cup dry bulgur wheat, rinsed
5 cups water
1 large [...]

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Lentil Tacos and a Hospital Tour

Tonight was our hospital tour day!  I came home from school and made dinner for my brother(who is in town for the weekend), Brady and I.  It was the basic taco bar which included:

lentils for me
shredded chicken for the boys
corn
black beans
tomato
avocado
lettuce
salsa
brown rice

Lentil Taco Meat:

1 c. dry lentils, cooked until tender
1/2 packet of taco seasoning
1/2 c.(ish) of [...]

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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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Crab Cakes and Lentils

I was excited to make dinner tonight after having taking a small hiatus for the past few days.

My day went as planned:

6am workout of 20 minutes on the stepmill and 20 minutes on the elliptical

school

Verizon store – where I did NOT get my numbers transferred to my new replacement phone

home to cook dinner

eat/relax/clean up

It wasn’t too [...]

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Veggie Soup with Lentils

It was tough to get out of bed this morning. It was cold out and the snow was falling. Needless to say, I did not make it to the gym this morning or at all today. I came home from school after stopping at the Post Office to send a few fun packages, including Super Charge [...]

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Indian for Him and Her

It’s amazing how you can take a 5 day break and feel like you never left when you get back to school! My kids were pretty good, they were just tired from lack of sleep and too much tv and junk food over break! I am not so sure they were reading each day like I [...]

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Lentil Tacos plus baby Hadley!

For dinner last night, I didn’t want to buy anything or work to hard on making something. I decided to use up what was in the fridge and make tacos. It was the perfect meal option for a buys night before we headed out for Cleveland and Chautauqua.

After school I did laundry and began the packing [...]

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Quinoa Lentil Stuffed Squash

All day today felt like Tuesday. I think I was in a blur on Monday and didn’t realize that it happened and counted as a day, but I am glad that tomorrow is already Thursday!

School went well – the usual + recess duty, which was unusually pleasant! The sun was shining and it felt good to [...]

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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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Lentil Veggie Stoup

I am glad today is over! It was a long day at school knowing Brady was off work and at home! At least while he was home, he was working. He cleaned and repainted one of our bedrooms that we have been wanting to redo. It was a nice surprise to come home to!

We had a [...]

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