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January 16, 2008

Half-Marathon Here I Come!

I am totally in love with my new foam roller. I picked it up on Sunday after experiencing some nasty pain in my upper-outer-back thigh (from diagrams, I’m thinking the rectus femoris? #32 in that one). It started hurting last Monday, so I wasn’t sure if it was from my 12 mile run Saturday or the intense resistance training I did for my legs on Sunday. It wasn’t too bad – maybe a 4 on a pain scale – and only hurt while walking. Just a kind of general soreness, as if I had slept on it wrong. On Tuesday …

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January 16, 2008

Healthy Meal: Pork Chops with Brandied Cherry Sauce and Zucchini with Walnuts

As I mentioned in my post this morning on grapes and how expensive they were, my roommate has a ton of cherries she wants used up. I also picked up some pork cutlets yesterday on a whim, because they were on sale for really cheap. Finally, I have some zucchini and yellow squash that’s going bad in the fridge. The solution? Plugged “cherries pork zucchini” into the search engine at Food Network, and found this recipe. I love that search engine. It looks pretty nice, doesn’t it? Pork recipe notes:I grilled the pork on the Foreman to avoid using oil, …

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January 15, 2008

Healthy Meal: Curried Butternut Squash Soup and Waldorf Salad with Epic Dressing

Today’s lunch is really combining two favorites. I love butternut squash soup because it’s so healthy, but thought I would try a different recipe to mix it up. My old recipe for butternut squash soup has an apple thrown in, so I thought maybe I’d combine it with a favorite Waldorf salad of mine that has apples in it… Um, so I totally just went to go find the link to the last time I posted butternut squash soup, and realized I had eaten it with this salad! Wow, am I predictable or what. This time I used grapes instead …

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January 15, 2008

Top 10 Flavors to Watch in 2008

Just when you thought all the 2008 prediction lists were winding down, I’m dug up another. Since this blog is clearly cutting-edge (ha!), I thought I’d go through Meatless Monday’s list of Top 10 Flavors to Watch in 2008. Lately I seem to be all about comparing myself to various lists, so I’ll continue the pattern: Pomegranate – I rarely eat pomegranates; maybe this is something to add to my new/rotation produce list? I had some pomegranate-flavored liqueur (Pama brand) at Thanksgiving, but that’s about it. I will say that the liqueur was delicious just mixed with seltzer, so that …

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January 15, 2008

Healthy Meal: Greek Meatballs in White Wine Sauce and Baked Gigante Beans

I’ve had these recipes in my online Food Network recipe box, and today I had ground turkey to use up, so I figured it was the perfect excuse! However, I wasn’t that impressed. Yeah, the pictures kind of suck too. I didn’t really take the time to pretty up the meatballs because I couldn’t figure out how once they had started falling apart. The beans look decent though, and you can also see the Greek salad I made to go with it. Meatball recipe notes:I used lean ground turkey instead of the meats, because it was what I had, and …

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