Daily Archives: February 7, 2012

Sproutful Dinner & Randoms

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Not every meal can look pretty. In fact some meals that are downright delicious may actually look pretty disgusting.

Take for example, brussels sprouts. I love brussels sprouts, and I love them even more thrown on top of salads and covered in BBQ sauce. But the resulting pictures? Pretty gross. They don’t do the meal justice.

I’ve been craving brussels sprouts for awhile so tonight I decided to make a brussel sprout salad for dinner. I topped some arugula with roasted brussels sprouts (olive oil, sea salt, pepper & cheese- added at the end), and roasted potatoes from last week. I added a huge spoonful of tahini to the middle and then poured Bone Suckin’ Sauce over everything.

Like I said, it may look gross but it was so delicious going down.

Dessert was simple, ricotta cheese, pumpkin butter, and pumpkin granola.

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I’ve been retagged a few times in the 11 random things and instead of redoing it or ignoring the tag, I figured I’d share a few more random things about me and then you all can comment back with random stuff about you. Sound good?

(1) I have a car (a white VW bug) but its not in Chicago. I drove it back to Michigan before Christmas because I hate driving in Chicago, was sick of getting tickets/worrying about street cleaning, and I didn’t want this to happen again.

(2) I travelled to Nepal last Spring. It’s hot in Nepal and you have to wear long skirts. Also you should never ever let anything thats ever been near water touch your lips. Trust me.

(3) I love chocolate, especially cheap chocolate like almond joys, crackles, and m&m’s. If this picture were telling the truth, I’d be holding a huge reeses cup.

(4) I enjoy reading for pleasure but I usually don’t have time during the semester. I’m currently reading The Kitchen House, it’s really good so far.

(5) My first marathon was the Detroit Marathon in 2009. I’m still not sure why this happened but when I finished I felt really dizzy and shakey. About 20 minutes later I started projectile vomiting in the middle of a busy road downtown. Afterwards I felt totally fine, better than ever, I’d just finished a marathon! My mom proceded to take this picture and washed my medal when we got home. Thankfully, this hasn’t been a repeat event.

Your turn, tell me some things about you!

French Toast Oatmeal

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I was confined to the gym this morning due to wet weather so I hit the treadmill for a 5 mile recovery run. I set the treadmill to 7.5 (8 min/mile) and increased my pace whenever my legs felt adjusted to the current speed (I ended at 7.8). It wasn’t a killer workout like interals would have been but it loosened up my muscles and allowed me to do a little speed work. I have a 10 mile run on my schedule tomorrow morning so I didn’t want to tire my legs out too much.

Breakfast
I had a lot of cinnamon sugar mixture left over from making snickerdoodle cookies on Sunday. Not wanting to waste it, I put it in a small tupperware and have been brainstorming what to use it for. My first thought was cinnamon toast, my mom used it make it for me and it was one of my favorite childhood breakfasts. Unfortunately we don’t have bread right now, so toast was out the question, but we do have oatmeal, lots and lots of oatmeal.

French Toast Oatmeal
1/4 cup oats
1/4 cup cooked wheatberries
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup almond milk
1/2 scoop protein powder
1/2 banana, smushed
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 T cinnamon sugar mixture (+ more to taste)
crushed walnuts

Cook oats, wheatberries, water, almond milk, and protein powder over medium heat. Once oats begin to thicken, whisk in banana and vanilla. Cook 2-3 minutes more and then stir in cinnamon sugar mixture and walnuts. Allow oats to cook until they reach desired consistency and then serve.

I topped mine with a spoonful of Bee’s Knee’s Peanut butter but I most certaintly was not thinking clearly, cookie butter would have been the best option.

Yesterday, Ian surprised me and picked up some Starbucks’ Blonde roast coffee, so with breakfast I enjoyed two cups with soy creamer. I think I may love the Blonde roast more than Pike’s Place.

Have a good day!

Have you tried Starbucks’ Blonde roast? What do you think?