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Eggs with Hummus and Cheese Sandwich
I very much enjoy an egg sandwich (remember my Avocado Eggwich?)
What do you call eggs made on the stove where you can dip your toast in the yolk and get it all gooey and warm on there? I call them dippy eggs, but I’m thinking that’s not the popular vernacular.
Anyway, the star of this sandwich is two dippy eggs.
- Two eggs, dippy style
- Scallion hummus
- Feta cheese
- Wheat bread.
I don’t know about you, but I love when hummus gets melty.
In non sandwich news, I recently became obsessed with Veronica Mars due the fact that it’s available instantly on Netfix. I have several thoughts now that I am almost done with season 2.
- Veronica Mars is bad ass. Wish I was her.
- I heart Logan. Really.
- I have no idea what I was watching instead of Veronica Mars when it was on T.V., but I am sorry for not watching it. I don’t know when it was, but I didn’t see one episode when it was on from 2004-2006. I feel responsible for its premature cancellation.
It joints the ranks of shows that ended too soon along with My So Called Life and Freaks and Geeks.
What’s your favorite show that didn’t last? Chances are I’ll love it and watch the entire series in a week.
Well That Was Fast
I know summer will return, but it seems like fall already came … and came fast! I am not complaining; fall is my favorite season! I took the opportunity to embrace the cool and make some warm vegetable soup.
It wasn’t something I was planning, so I kind of just grabbed whatever was around and you can to!
Vegetable Soup on the Fly
You will need:
- Broth: I had a can of vegetable broth on hand, but you can use anything. I’ve even used a can of diced tomatoes as broth before.
- Vegetables: I had frozen broccoli, one ear of corn, tomatoes and frozen carrots on hand.
- Substance: If you want your soup to be more filling, add something to bulk it up. I added a can of black beans. Maybe you have some chicken leftovers or you can crack an egg in there – something to make it a good lunch.
- Flavor: Something needs to make your soup tasty … I added salt, paprika and garlic powder.
- Wildcard: Look around your kitchen. What else could you toss in your soup creation? I added some feta cheese crumbles and it was wonderful. Other things I considered adding: hummus and popcorn (see below).
This took less than 10 minutes to come together on the stove.
I also recommend some nice crusty bread to eat alongside your warm soup. I didn’t have any, but I did have a bag of microwave popcorn. In fact. microwave popcorn is my new side dish – I have a Costco size box and no microwave in my new kitchen so I am trying to use it up by the end of the month!
Continuing the “fast” theme, I went for a run yesterday and managed to do 6.4 miles in 60 minutes. I thought this was awesome, especially considering that I don’t do much running these days. I think the key was feeling no pressure; it was a run purely motivated by fun and the desire to sweat. Do you find you are faster when you don’t try?
The 95 Taco Trucks
Tucked away on the side of the highway, right were Routes 95 and 91 split in Connecticut, there is a land of taco trucks.
Mark loves the taco trucks and agrees to come to Rhode Island more often because of them.
Each taco costs $1.50. You can, as Mark does, ask for a chicken taco at different trucks and get very different chicken tacos.
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I haven’t built up the courage to ask for a “chicken taco, hold the chicken” yet, but maybe next time I will.
Where’s your favorite place to acquire road-side cuisine?
Rick Bayless Groupie
Hello Everyone!
I am here to report that I successfully found the beautiful lake path on my run this morning. Let me tell you, running with beautiful scenery makes everything better.
After my run I met my sister and Sabrina for a great lunch at Frontera Grill, another Rick Bayless restaurant that was even better than the last one.
The restaurant opens at 11:30 for lunch and we arrived at 11:35 to a line and an hour wait! Luckily Sabrina spotted three seats at the bar so we were in an out in no time!
We shared delicious creamy and chunky guacamole to start. The chips were thick and perfectly salted.
I was craving some protein so I had a salad with grilled chicken.
And we also shared a fabulous ear of grilled corn with homemade crema, queso anejo, guajillo powder.
I am officially a Rick Bayless groupie!
If you are here for the Healthy Living Summit please come in to register early at the Lincoln Room (3rd floor) from 3-5 PM!
Lunch + Stuff
I surprised myself this morning by running around Chicago for 50 minutes – longest run since April. It was lots of fun running through the morning commuters.
After the run and breakfast Kath and I got to stuffing the bags! So, how many people does it take to stuff 225 bags of goodies? The answer is 7!
Me, Kath, Meghann, Tina, Sabrina, Julie and Diana. With all seven of us hard at work it was done in no time.
We took a quick lunch break at Cafe Baci. Leave the hotel and take a left. It will be a block or so up on the left.
I chose to make a salad with three other salads on top – tomato salad, vegetable salad and an awesome seven grain salad, with a roll on the side.
Back at the hotel we finished up with the bags and the remaining boxes and then Meghann and I headed out to explore.
We walked over to Millenium Park and took some pictures.
Meghann had to go back to the hotel to meet some people for dinner, but I explored a little more.
Heading to a fun party now. See you soon!
Cultivate The Opposite
Pizza Time!
I had some chicken and tofu that needed to be used up ASAP, so I made a BBQ Pizza with half chicken and half tofu. I also added green peppers, corn and Reduced Sodium Sargento Mozzarella Cheese that I bought with a coupon from Sargento.
This was on a yummy Whole Wheat Boboli Crust that Boboli sent me.
So, I had a couple of things I wanted to talk about today (like how awesome Caitlin and Operation Beautiful were on the Today Show this morning), but whenever I started writing a different thought kept coming into my mind. I am doing this 21 classes in 31 days challenge at my yoga studio, and one thing I’ve learned about lately is the yoga sutras that address the idea of “cultivating the opposite,” as a way to a negative thought into a positive one. The idea is that we have control over how we feel, and we can change the way we feel in a second.
As applied to me, I’ve been feeling really down about not having a teaching job in the fall. I’ve been on great interview after great interview, and I’ve got nothing. I’ve become extremely frustrated with the process. When I go on these interviews one of two things happens every time: (1) the interviewer is only interested in talking to me about how I used to be a lawyer; or (2) the interview is fine, but at the end I am told that there are people within the district applying for the position. Both equal the kiss of death.
After a particularly good interview last week I was confident I would get called back, but alas, I did not. Normally, I might feel bad for myself and start to get panicky about the situation. You see being unemployed also gives me intense wedding guilt. I cannot justify spending money on anything as frivolous as a wedding when I literally have no income and student loans coming out the wazoo. And then I feel guilty for turning something that should be joyous (marrying Mark) into something stressful.
But instead of getting all down about it this time I did something I’ve said I was going to do before. I emailed the principal who I interviewed with, congratulated her for finding a great candidate, expressed my surprise and disappointment and surprise that I was not picked and asked if there was a specific reason why I did not get the job. I really want to know! Maybe I’m saying something that’s really bad in interviews, maybe they don’t want to pay me more because I have a Master’s in Education, maybe they already had someone in the district. Just sending the email made me feel better. Instead of attending Heather’s Pity Party of One I felt empowered and mature.
All I can do is try my hardest to get a job. In the meantime, I am really trying to cultivate the opposite attitude by appreciating the time I have to do other things and by sending out good employment vibes to all those people who are unemployed and not only supporting themselves, but also a family.
Cultivating the opposite is one of my favorite things to do. You can take any negative thought and turn it around.
Maybe you could cultivate the opposite today?
Another Challenge
Yesterday was Day 1 of the new 21 in 31 challenge at my yoga studio. When I started going to this particular studio I went everyday for 30 days and then in April I did a similar 20 in 30 challenge. Needless to say, I love a yoga challenge. Done this way, the price per class is less than half what it usually is, and going to yoga this much is pretty blissful! I always come out at the end of the month feeling like a rock star!
I made a quick pasta salad for lunch today. It was basically the gingery sauce I made the other night with cold pasta, zucchini, corn off the cob and tofu.
And I am currently snacking on a frozen Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Larabar.
Hope you’re having a fabulous day!
P.S. Mark and I went to look at a house yesterday, and I just must share that the woman who lived there was a yoga teacher. Mark does not like it when I get emotionally attached to houses we see, but I think it’s meant to be! This is my favorite part of the house. How cute is it?
