One Pot Wonders



Gingery Chinese Wonderland



I was born into a household of one-pot wonders, microwaves, TV dinners, 30-minute meals, and leftovers. Don't get me wrong, all the food was hand picked to be rotated often and it was all healthy. But food was always made to minimize time in the kitchen and maximize time elsewhere in life. So in case you're wondering, that is why I quite often create a lot of one pot wonders. Thanks mom!

Like the one above.

This one is courtesy of the shrimp my parents brought the last time they were here (thanks Mom and Dad!) and some fresh ginger that my mom chopped up and placed in our freezer (easy to use and way more tasty than the dried powdery stuff). Yummy!

Ginger Fried Shrimp
Ingredients
1 lb pealed shrimp
2 chopped bell peppers
1 chopped large onion
1 can of salt-free tomatoes
1 tsp of chopped ginger root
1 tsp of salt
1 tbl spoon of grape seed oil

Chop up all the veggies and fry them at the same time. When the potatoes are almost cooked, add the tomatoes and shrimp and stir well before the final cooking. Tastes great on spaghetti squash, vegan Mac and Cheese (with added goat cheese), rice, or spinach leaves! Serves 5 (leftovers, yeah!!!).

We used vegan Mac and Cheese

Cream-Cheese made out of Goat Milk makes this Stuff Taste Good!

On the Running Front
During my shorter runs in the middle of the week, I'm running a lot faster. I'm averaging in the 8s. That's just insane! If you think about it, I did my two mile run yesterday in less time than it took me to run my first mile, which took me around 16 minutes, in 2007. Never thought it would happen. Ever! Thanks Kevin! You said in the beginning that I could get it down in the 8s if I tried really hard. And I did!

Of course I've got two great motivators on my runs right now:



Muddy Buddies


The brown nose on the left is particularly helpful. Kent's still pulling a lot in the beginning. Kaiya (right) is more of a casual jogger like myself. She likes to stop and sniff the flowers (and poop) on the side of the road. No, I don't sniff poop. That's all Kaiya. I'm not a poop sniffer. No sir.

We are a day and a month away from my first marathon. We'll be tapering off a bit as time goes on (running more frequent 3-5 milers in the middle of the week and less extra-long distances on the weekends). Our final 22-miler will be two weekends from now. If we can survive that, we'll be ready for the White Rock! I'm pretty confident that I'll beat my expected race pace of 11 minutes per mile. My 20-miler (RP) was at a 10:35 pace and my last 11-miler (FP) was at a 9:53. Yeah!!! Whoop, whoop!

Miscellaneous
Next on our list of first-time home ownership is to purchase our first Christmas Tree! I'm excited!!! Doing the Katherine celebration dance! La la la la la! The tree we're looking at looks a lot like this one at Target (but ours is not going to be that expensive).