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Day: November 21, 2010

Fulfilled

November 21, 2010 by gracefulfitness 3 Comments

What a perfect Sunday!

Errands were run (groceries and lots of wine for Thursday).  Cleaning was accomplished.  Living room yoga flowed.  Studying in the sunshine zipped by.

Good food was eaten

Salmon and avocado sushi, a little treat from the grocery store.  It was so good, Tate said “we don’t eat sushi often enough!” and I think he was regretting agreeing to split one roll.  The leftover butternut was delicious too!

A salad from the garden topped us off.

O.k, the greens are from the garden, the pomegranate and pickled ginger are, sadly, from far, far away.

Now that’s some baby spinach!

And fresh air was breathed!  Heavily at times…

Tate and I went on a lovely 10 mile bike ride.  True to Cville’s reputation there were plenty of hills.  Total interval training!  Most of the hills didn’t last more that a minute or so but I was huffing and puffing a few times nonetheless.

I am so looking forward to Thursday!  I LOVE Thanksgiving.  I already started on my dishes, the bread crumbs for the vegetarian stuffing are toasted and I am soaking dried shiitakes for both the stuffing and the gravy.

What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish?  For me it’s a tie between cranberry sauce and stuffing.

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Posted in: cooking, food, gardening, Uncategorized, workouts, yoga Tagged: biking, Charlottesville, exercise, food choices, interval training, yoga

Insatiable

November 21, 2010 by gracefulfitness 4 Comments

So my a.m workout didn’t exactly happen.  The alarm was set for 6:45 but when I checked the clock at 6 after a restless night of (no) sleep I reset it for 7:35.  Sometimes sleep is more important than exercise.  C’est la vie.

The theme of the day seemed to be HUNGER.  My delicious breakfast of scrambled eggs with spinach and salsa in a spouted wheat tortilla held me until exactly 10:20, at which point I instantly became ravenous!   Maybe it was all of the work jacks ;).  I did 5 minutes of jumping jacks broken into sets of 35.

Whatever the cause of my insatiability, I was so ready for lunch when the noon hour finally rolled around.

Last nights leftover pumpkin soup with mung beans and yogurt.  The mung beans added a really nice texture.

To make this soup I seeded and sliced up a pie pumpkin, 3 stalks of celery, and 3 carrots, then put it all into a big stockpot with 2 T coconut butter and 2 cups of water.  The veg boiled away until it was nice and mushy then into the food processor it all went.  I had to process in two batches because this makes a lot of soup.

Into the food processor I added

  • 1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
  • curry powder
  • cayenne powder
  • ginger powder
  • mineral salt
  • fresh ground nutmeg

All seasonings were added to taste (I do a lot of “tasting” as I cook :)).  Friday night we served the soup drizzled with maple syrup and plain yogurt and topped with pumpkin seeds.  I didn’t miss the maple syrup or the seeds today but it is definitely better with some sort of garnish that adds texture (like mung beans, they were so good).  Sunflower seeds would be delicious.  Or toasted walnuts.  Or croutons.  Or black beans.  Or corn.  Hmmm, I think I need to make this soup again!

My wonderful husband said the magic words when I walked in the door this evening from work, tired, dirty, and yes, HUNGRY!  “Why don’t you go do yoga while I make dinner.”  Ahhh, like a love poem.

Just as I was finishing up 30 minutes of power vinyasa the house started to smell ridiculously good.  Dinner was perfect, steamed broccoli, baked butternut squash, roasted potatoes, and baked tofu.  Happy and finally not hungry I was ready for bed (remember, I barely slept last night) but Tate convinced me to go for a walk.

He may or may not have mildly bribed me.

Oh yes.  Chocolate, mango, and tart frozen yogurt.  The tart was awesome, tasted like frozen plain yogurt.  I do wish they had smaller cups though, Tate remarked “it’s easy to get more than you want” and he’s right, it adds up fast.  I somehow managed to finish it all.

Now I am ready to call it a night. I am trying to ignore the fact that it’s Saturday night because it makes me feel a little lame.  There are probably cool things happening all over town.  Oh well.  G’night!

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Posted in: cooking, food, goals, recipes, yoga Tagged: cooking, exercise, goals, pumpkin, squash, yoga, yoga mat, yogurt

I am Faith Levine, a movement instructor, home gardener, mountain biker, hiker, pickle maker, closet poet, and best of friend to some of the most amazing women in the world.

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