To make up for the lack of cooking the entire week last week, I cooked a bit on Saturday. I made
Kate's polenta cakes and added a spinach sauce, and served them with lentil burgers and chick peas.
My spinach sauce was 1 T butter + 1/2 c almond milk + 1/4 c grated Parmesan. I melted the butter, added the milk and cheese, then put them in the vitamix with 1.5 cups fresh spinach. The "sauce" was tasty - to me!
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| the lentils |
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| polenta cakes with the sun coming in! |
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| mushrooms and pan fried chick peas |
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| spinach sauce |
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| lentil burgers and polenta |
I thought this was yummy. I served this with apricot chicken and had my parents and sister over tonight.
My sister was home for the weekend. I love it when she comes home and wish she lived nearby. We swam on Saturday and I always feel like I'm doing well swimming until I swim with her! Then I feel slow. It was a good workout - she's super speedy and I was tired the rest of the day. Today we did a 10 mile hilly run around my parent's house. It was a great run - good pace (9:23) and I felt like I could run for at least 5 more miles. I need to get a few 12+ runs in during the next few weekends, and also, HELLO! I need to get in more than 18 miles a week (my last 3 weeks!) It's been rough being sick or run down and not getting my mileage up there. I have a half marathon (or 10 miler, leaning towards the half - signed up for 2 things on the same day) in about a month, so I need to get myself together here! I am going to try to get back in the game this week without overdoing it.
What are your goals for this week?
Goals for the week - get in 3 good runs before my 5K on Saturday. 2 with my running buddies and 1 solo hill race. I miss swimming when I read your posts. Cannot wait until April so I can swim again :-)
ReplyDeleteThe mushrooms and chick peas look so good!
ReplyDeleteahh, I was just thinking about NOT having any goals this week lol.....I'm fighting the feeling of being burned out on everything. maybe that's because I only have 6 weeks left to my due date or maybe I've been at my sewing machine too long and still have more projects to complete!
That all looks really good. I wish I had your ambition in the kitchen. We had stir fry - AGAIN.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with this week's goals!
ReplyDeletelove the new banner pic!!
ReplyDeletei just mentioned to andy last night that i haven't made polenta in a while. was going to do it next wknd.
my goal for the week...get through this last hard week of training then it's cut back time!
How green is that spinach - must be organic! Looks good!
ReplyDeleteGoals: throw off another cold - ta murray! What is with the illnesses as a new mum! My turn to be frustrated!Uggh!