Friday night I had no plans except to pick Greg up from the airport when he got in which was later in the evening. I got a text from my friend Cindi inviting me to dinner and thought that sounded great as I had almost no food in the house anyway and love a girls night out! I met her and two local girls at Red Bowl.
Through dinner conversation I found out that Jen has a blog too! Jen, feel free to come organize/decorate my house and cook for me! You make it look easy!! :)
We all opted for the Bento Box special, which included salad, sushi, a meat, and rice. I had a salad with ginger dressing, chicken teriaki, the Red Bowl roll (sushi), and fried rice.
My favorite part of the meal was the sushi. Next time I'll just double up on that ;)
I parted ways with the girls and they went on to a comedy show while I had to go get Greg from the airport. It was so good to see him after 2 1/2 weeks apart. Clyde was also excited!
We didn't stay up long as we were both beat.
Yesterday, as soon as the boys were up, a lot of this happened...
Heart melts...
Toooooooooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute.
I got to work on breakfast, which was Raspberry, Chocolate, Almond Pancakes. It was sort of an homage to our wedding cake, which was these same flavors.
Ingredients:
1 separated egg
3/4 cup white all-purpose flour
3/4 cup finely ground almonds (used food processor)
1 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 tablepoons melted butter
1 cup raspberries (I used thawed frozen)
chocolate chips
In a small bowl beat the egg white until stiff.
In a seperate bowl, sift white flour, baking powder, sugar. Add the ground almonds.
In another bowl (yes, you use lots of bowls to make these!), beat the egg yolk and add the milk and melted butter.
Mix yolk/milk with dry ingredients til just mixed. Fold in egg white.
Add berries.
Cook on greased griddle and drop in chocolate chips before flipping.
I topped mine with some reserved raspberries and REAL maple syrup.
They were yummy!
Greg did pretty well on the honey-do list yesterday. He took down the Christmas lights and after a lot of cursing and a trip to Lowes, got our new dishwasher in.
Looks good!
In the afternoon I decided to attempt a run, my first since the marathon.
Things did not go well. I didn't get far before pain/soreness in my right calf was really bothering me, which is odd, because if you'll remember my recap of the marathon, I really had more issues with my left calf than right. Anyway, I guess I have some lingering soreness that hasn't gone away yet. I ran less than a mile before deciding it wasn't going to happen and walking back to the house. That was a bummer. At least I'm not training for anything anyway though. I'll just give it some more rest and try again in a couple days.
Greg and I headed out to do a bunch of errands late in the afternoon. We finally got some much needed groceries. We have food again!
We decided to have fondue for dinner.
Nine years ago when I met my husband, this was the first "meal" he cooked for me. Hold on to your healthy hearts people, because this one is not going in any healthy recipe books.
Ingredients: Velveeta cheese block (yeah, those ones that are not refridgerated), cream cheese, and beer. Basically you just melt most of a small block of Velveeta, 1/2 block of cream cheese, and about 1/2 cup of beer together.
The dippers: Baby yukon gold potatoes, broccoli, white mushrooms, and french bread.
Mmmm, heart clogging goodness.
How's your weekend going?
6 comments:
Looks like you had a fun weekend! Must be great to have Greg back. :-)
I had a fantastic wedding as my brother in law got married yesterday and I performed the ceremony! It was a lot of fun; good food and lots of dancing.
You just ran a marathon ONE week ago! Give it some time. It took me a couple weeks to get back my runs feeling "right" after my last marathon.
Pancakes look yummmyyyy! Glad Greg was able to come home this weekend to see you and Clyde.
Those pancakes look delicous! I was wondering about that today, when I will resume running after the marathon. I was thinking that week, but we will see. It's next Sunday :-)
Wow thanks for the shout out!! The pancakes look yummy, I'll have to try them. Great meeting you too and I hope we can do it again sometime!
I feel like Clyde looks bigger...
And do not worry about the run! I had weird aches and pains that would pop up mid-run for 2-3 weeks after my marathon. You'll feel like you again soon, promise.
Sounds like a great weekend! Hope you can get your stride back soon! :)
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