January 25, 2011

So today was a FAIL as far as taking pictures goes, but I had Greek yogurt and blackberries for breakfast, almonds for a midmorning snack, black bean tacos for lunch, and a nectarine for pre workout snack.

Dinner was chicken baked in some of my homemade marinara sauce with whole wheat rotini pasta. It was good :)

And some peppermint patties after dinner.

Workout was 44 minutes on the elliptical at the gym and then some free weights and as when I got home (while dinner was cooking)

Elliptical burnt 504 calories

Weights and abs burnt 104 calories

I will remember to take pictures tomorrow!

January 24, 2011

Breakfast consisted of something new, a Yogi Bar, which was not bad at all, kind of weird looking though:

and some Greek yogurt with blackberries, NOM!

During breakfast at the office before working hours, I saw one of my favorite things:

Beautiful :)

For snacks, I had almonds and raspberries, but forgot to take a picture in the midst of my working.

Lunch was BBQ chicken as usual on Mondays, but I added some Ezekiel Bread that I brought from home to fill me up a little more:

The portion of chicken on the left is what I actually ate, to the right  is my dissection trying to get some good white meat. Ezekiel bread in in the background.

Dinner was something new I thought of. I mixed black beans, corn salsa, a little taco sauce and 1/4 cup Mexican cheese together and put it all in a low carb tortilla I call it a black bean taco, and it was delicious, in fact, I'm taking one for lunch tomorrow :)

I also had a few peppermint patties, something about dark chocolate and mint is just so amazing!

Workout for the day was Jillian Michaels' 6 Week 6 Pack with some added weights and cardio at the end for a grand total of 415 calories burnt.

Back on the wagon

This week I WILL be blogging regularly! They may be short, but I have to get in the habit of blogging because my eating habits have been slipping and this will help hold me accountable.

I'm going to start focusing more on nutritional content than calories, and I'm really going to try to get processed foods to a minimum. We shall see how it goes :)

A Couple Recipes

Mexican Meatballs:

1) 1/2 lb ground beef (I use at least 93% lean)

2) Taco seasoning (for ours, we use a little cornstarch, a little flour, a lot of cumin, chili powder, cayenne pepper, garlic powder and onion powder)

3) 1/2 cup Mexican style cheese

4) 3-4 dashes Tabasco sauce

5) 1 can enchilada sauce

Mix the first 4 ingredients together and form into small balls.

Bake at 400 degrees for approximately 15 minutes. I double check doneness with a meat thermometer though.

Remove from oven and place in a medium sized bowl, pour enchilada sauce over the top of meatballs and stir well.

Manicotti:

1) Manicotti shells

2) Small tub of ricotta cheese

3) Italian seasonings

4) Onion powder

5) Garlic powder

6) 1 whole egg

7) 1 cup mozzarella cheese

8) 2 cups marinara sauce

Cook manicotti per package directions

Mix ingredients 2-6 together in medium bowl.

Rinse manicotti with lukewarm water and then fill with the ricotta mixture

Place 1/4 cup marinara sauce in the bottom of a baking pan and put stuffed manicotti on top, than pour the remainder of the marinara sauce over the manicotti and cover with mozzarella cheese.

Bake at 375 for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted and slightly browned

Legends Chinese Restaurant-Honolulu, HI

Wednesday, we went out to lunch with a bunch of people from another doctor's office. We ate at this Chinese place called Legends. It was easily the most crowded Chinese place I have ever been in. I got some pictures of some of the food, but I couldn't get as many as I wanted. My favorite thing there was this deep fried (ooops) wonton type thing with shrimp inside. It was AMAZING. Here are some pictures :

The table before many people got there, hot sauce/mustard, dimsum (those bun things), deep fried shrimp.

My favorite! I wish I knew what it's called.

Some shrimp/noodle thing. It was okay.

Almond float, the white cubes are like almond jello, mixed with fruit and a little condensed milk.

 

Pictures!

Coconut chips, from one of our patients from the island of Molokai

Smoked octopus from one of our patients

Yay for Japanese cookies!

Hello Panda

 Above are some random treats from the past couple weeks, and below are some things that I cooked. Recipes to come soon :)

Mexican Meatballs

Baking

Beans and Rice, as always

Plate :)

Hubby's extra dark Guinness

Homemade pizza

Little kitty eating some cheese, isn't she ADORABLE?!

Mmmm, so good.

Holiday Coke, so bad for you, but so good.

Homemade peanut butter balls.

Manicotti beginnings

Noodles

Finished Manicotti

:/

Ahhh, I've been super busy. BIG post coming soon :)

December 13 and 14, 2010

Monday was a typical Monday. Filled with work, bad lunch and Zumba :)
Lunch was BBQ chicken...again. Ugh.

Then someone brought my coworker and I birthday cupcakes :)

For a snack, I had a little homemade veggie tray.

And dinner after Zumba was tortellini with my homemade marinara...but I forgot to take a picture until I was halfway done eating it, hahaha

Zumba burnt 501 calories, but Tammy and I figure we're probably burning calories for at least an hour or two after the class as well.

Tuesday was okay, coworker is sick and making me nervous that I'm going to catch it, nasty.
Bfast was 2 hard boiled eggs and a red plum, which I didn't take a picture of.

Lunch was Japanese food. I had a teri chicken bowl

No real snack, and for dinner, we're doing whatever, so I am mainly eating this:

Nom nom!


No workout today, but I'll make up for it tomorrow, that's for sure.

Pasta!

 Last night was a pasta night. I made something a little more unique than regular spaghetti, I'm not even sure what to call it. In my house we just call it broccoli sausage pasta. 

Ingredients: 

• Penne pasta
• Frozen broccoli florets
• Smoked turkey sausage
• Homemade marinara sauce

For the marinara, I mince a Maui onion and a head of garlic and sautee them in a pan with some olive oil until they are translucent. The reason for this is that the garlic can be a little spicy, in a bad way,  if you don't cook it long enough. After that, I add some tomato puree and let it simmer for at least 20-30 minutes.

 

Sauce ingredients

Garlic, onion, and olive oil

This particular night, I added some grated parmesan cheese to the sauce just to make it even better :) 

To make the pasta part of the dish, I boil some penne pasta for about 10 minutes, and about 8 minutes in I add the broccoli just to let it thaw and mix in well with the pasta before draining. I also thinly slice the sausage and when the pasta/broccoli are done, I drain and return the mixture to the same pan along with the sausage. After that I mix everything together with the sauce and add some cheese on top, and it's delicious :)

Pasta mixture ingredients

All mixed together

My bowl

And there you have it, unique delicious pasta.

Ooops

Sorry I've been slacking on the blog this week, working full time and going to the gym every night is quite time consuming. Instead of going over every day and describing the meals, I'm just going to post my pictures from throughout the week and what my workouts were. Next week I will do better :)

Some Breakfasts:

red plum, hard boiled egg

crab apple, jonagold apple

 Some lunches:

bbq chicken

panya turkey sandwich

blazin steaks regular steak plate

Some Dinners:

salad with chipotle ranch and PIZZA!

mac n cheese

pb toast and popcorn

Workouts:

• Monday: Zumba-burnt 430 calories
• Tuesday: Elliptical, weight, and stationary bike-burnt 767 calories
• Wednesday: same as Tuesday-burnt 787 calories
• Thursday: Same as Tuesday and Wednesday, but not as much weight lifting-burnt 700 calories

Here's to doing better on the blog next week!