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Egg Sandwich

Did you have a good weekend?

Mine was low-key.  Lots of walking, good eats, and a few projects around the ol’ homestead.

Yesterday was an egg sandwich!  Eggy breakfast and dinner sandwiching a long walk.

I finally got around to making soaked English Muffins again.   These doughy disks have been on my mind since I made them two months ago and they didn’t disappoint.

This batch featured white whole wheat instead of spelt and loads of rosemary.  I soaked the dough for about 15 hours.

I love the chewiness of the crust and the dense doughiness of the center that is an English muffin. Mmmmm.

My feet carried my 15 miles around Cville between Saturday and Sunday!  I am only 15 miles away from my goal of 100 miles of walking this month!   Honestly I didn’t think that I would make this goal but now that I am so close I am totally determined.

Anyone want to join me to commit to walking 15 miles over the next four days?  That’s only 3.75 miles a day or a little over an hour of walking at a moderate speed.  Sound like a lot?  Break it up into two or three sessions!

Matt, Kath, Tate and I walked a meandering 6 miles around town yesterday afternoon.  The best milage is with friends. 🙂 After two hours I wasn’t ready for it to end, I could have walked for another hour.

[KERF]

More eggs!  Simple Sunday supper.

Veggie-full frittata and salad.

I ♥ frittatas and this one was especially good, I think it was all of the nutmeg and veggies.

Quinoa sprouts!  Red quinoa sprouts!

These are awesome.  Sprouts add so much flavor, texture, and nutrients, love them.

Usually my craftiness revolves around the kitchen but this weekend I got crafty with the paint brush also.

Chalkboard jars!

Nearly everything in my cupboards is stored in jars and now I can keep track of whether those buckwheat groats are raw or toasted and what the nutritional stats on the oat bran are (I’ve looked that one up countless times!).

I haven’t mention Exercise TV in a while but I still use it at least a few times a week.  Yesterday I did my favorite (Exercise TV) yoga video, Yoga Fitness Plus with Elise Gulan.  This 45 minute intermediate vinyasa flow is fun and leaves me wanting for nothing (except Savasana, you have to do that on your own time).

Stay warm and make a great day!

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Simply Despicable

*!@#%*!

Ah, simply irresistible.  How about a future filled with obesity and diabetes?  How irresistible does that sound?!

What the hell is wrong with this picture?

Well gosh, it’s fat-free and has vitamin C, it’s practically virtuous!  And doesn’t the combo of “Peach” in the name and some apple juice concentrate way down on the ingredient list mean that it counts toward my daily fruit intake?

Grrrrr.

I won’t even comment on the religious propaganda at the bottom.

On brighter notes, I am glad that last nights storm didn’t take all of the cherry blossoms from my yard.

And I’m embarrassingly pleased that I finally found the perfect lemon juicer for my morning hot-lemon-and-water.

Sometimes the simpler the better.

And I am grateful for patients who bring us whole wheat rolls straight from their oven…even if, after chomping two of them, they tempted me to go for thirds all afternoon.

My kind of simply irresistible?  The lure of growing a nutritionally superior food right at my kitchen sink…

Black quinoa sprouts.

I’m off to watch my garden grow clean the house and throw the kettlebell around but first I have a question for all you mom’s out there.  A “family choice” question ;). Do you think some kid’s are destined to be picky eaters or do you think that tastes develop based on their environment.  Nature or nurture?

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