If you'd read my blog before, you know that I love to cook. Though my hubby is a meat-eater and I'm a vegetarian, I'm lucky to be married to a guy who is not a picky eater. However, the dinners I make with my Marine around can be pretty different from the ones I put together when I'm on my own. You see, I can eat a nice salad or a simple dish of beans and brown rice for my evening meal and be content. For Adam, that's not so much the case. He needs to eat a heavier dinner (and at least twice as much as me!), and so sometimes it can be a bit of a challenge to continuously come up with good dinner ideas that'll work for both of us. I love my pasta and carbs, but I definitely shouldn't make that for us every night, and he's not at all into protein pancakes for dinner as I am. ;-) I have my ... [Read More]
veggie recipes
One Sweaty Sunday + My Pasta Primavera Formula
Well, another weekend is coming to a close. As always, the past few days have gone by quickly! Lately it's been warmer than usual in San Diego. 90 degrees and hotter is typical for a lot of places in the summer, but it feels pretty toasty here since I'm used to it constantly being my ideal temp - 75! I started off my Sunday sweating outdoors when I took Harley for a long walk to burn off some of her crazy puppy energy. She's been really feeling the heat and tuckering out quickly, and by the end of our walk around the neighborhood trail, her tongue was out and she was ready to relax in the AC. When we got home, I wanted to exercise and I did 2 workouts from Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred DVD. Her routines are no joke! About half an hour into it, Adam walked into the house and said, ... [Read More]
(Super Healthy!) Quinoa Lettuce Wraps
Anyone else find this hilarious? I do have a Pinterest account, but fortunately, I definitely don't spend more time on it than I do working out! Onto food... On Tuesday night I ate dinner at a Japanese restaurant. This must have put me in an Asian food kind of mood, because I found myself thinking about lettuce wraps yesterday. I just so happened to have randomly bought fresh ginger at the farmer's market (I couldn't even tell you why...) and had a ton of different veggies around. I also found miso paste in the back of my fridge from when my friend moved almost a year ago and gave me all the food from her kitchen. I checked the expiration date and it was still good, so with that, I came up with these vitamin-packed lettuce wraps: Quinoa Lettuce Wraps 1/2 red bell pepper 1 large ... [Read More]
Spaghetti Squash Casserole
Tonight I had a Skype date with 2 of my lovely girlfriends... We had some technical difficulties, but still, chatting with my college roommates Meaghan and Marla is always great! Meg might look familiar because I posted pictures when she visited me in February. Here's a photo that exemplifies pretty well the fun times we've had together: I love my friends. Moving onto food, tonight's dinner was a veggie-packed one, and one of my hubby's favorite meals. In fact, when he came home from his last deployment and I asked what he'd like me to cook the most, he chose my spaghetti squash casserole. I concocted this dish when I first started playing around with cooking spaghetti squash, and I don't think I've made it any other way since because we like it so much! I found the ... [Read More]