Thursday, October 21, 2010

Fish, Gardening, and Injuries

I haven't posted in a few days, and I haven't been the best little dieter. I had a calzone yesterday for lunch. Half of a calzone, but still a good amount of food. I didn't feel like i was being terribly bad, but it's something i wanted so I ate it, but tried to be smart about it. It was filled with Spinach, Feta, and artichokes. It wasn't as good as I had hoped. I've been spoiled to fresh spinach for months now and I could tell right away that it had been frozen. Sadly enough, my favorite part of a calzone is the dough where they roll it together, and that was just great. Took care of a craving and just alloted myself 500 for half of the calzone, since there are no nutritional facts for the local restaurants.
To help make up for it we had a very light, but very GOOD dinner. Tilapia with Mushrooms was to die for. We made a few changes, we added at least 3 handfuls of sweet peppers we had picked up at the farmer's market and used the usual white mushrooms (not really sure what they are called) that you get at the grocery, and also used the zest of a whole lemon. We used herbs de provelonce (a mix of herbs that D puts on everything from France), Tony's, and cracked lemon pepper salt to season. We also had two artichokes boiled and dipped it in the sauce left over from the tilapia. I had never had tilapia and am not a huge fan of fish, but it was so good.
One more food thing - Pumpkin-Cinnamon Bread = Yummy!
Enough about food. Let's talk about growing food! I found onions and sweet peppers growing in my compost! Well I guess it's full of nutrients even though it smells AWEFUL right now. D and I live in a townhouse, so we don't have much room to grow anything really. We have two beds and until recently, they were overgrown with bamboo. I have to tell you what, bamboo is insanely hard to get rid of, and a complete workout to try to uproot. I'm working hard trying to get the beds cleared out so that I can plant a winter crop. Onions, garlic, some sort of lettuce, and spinach are what I'm thinking for winter. Louisiana doesn't get too too cold, so I'm hoping for some good results after all the work I'm putting into the soil, but I can't be sure given that the soil was riped of nutrients by the bamboo and still is until I can get most of the roots out.
D's been injured for the week and I'm not letting him make it worse, so he's been worried about his weight. I've taken it easy on the walking the past few days. Walks are very boring without my dear next to me, too so that doesn't help my motivation, either. I'm so happy with how my life is turning and realize that when I don't go for walks, it is really hard for me to get to sleep. It's almost like the guilt of not working out is keeping me awake at night. This isn't going to end anytime soon. My wedding is in June and I want to look and feel great!

1 comment:

  1. My friend found squash growing in her compost. Who knew? I usually plant heirloom tomatoes and herbs but I didn't do that this year. We had a very short, weird growing season this year and everyone had trouble with their gardens (I live in the country). Anyway, I started going for walks by myself just last month. I thought I would hate it but I take my dog with me and she loves it so much, she makes if fun. :)

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