Mummy Knee
Hey guys 😀 How’s your weekend going? Mine has been lovely so far 😀
I’ve become quite the pro at wrapping my knee:
When I went back to work the second time, I was feeling pretty good with the knee situation so I hopped on the elliptical for 30 minutes with a magazine. It felt GLORIOUS. My legs have been itching for some cardio!
Lunch was a chocolate cherry bomb (using the usual modifications)
I just can’t get enough. They’re that good… and I’ll probably have another one for bfast today 😉
The pilot has been working like a crazy man lately, so last night he treated me by taking me on a date to 306 North- our favorite Valdizzy dinner spot (next to Indian, which is still closed).
We got the usual goat cheese fritters:
House salad with balsamic:
The BEST doughy, grainy, wheaty, chewy bread:
For my entree, I rolled with the vegetable plate because I love it so much. Usually, when I ask for sweet potatoes instead of white, they give me a blob of mashed sweet potatoes and extra veggies. Last night, they gave me double sweet potatoes. Even better 🙂
I also had a cucumber martini since it was Friday 😀
Not too shabby 😉
Today is spring cleaning in the Fitnessista casa. We’re going to steam clean the carpets, put our winter clothes away and break out the spring and summer clothes, vacuum, dust, bedding, floor boards, the whole shebang. It will feel SO good when it’s over 🙂 Tonight I’m excited to make a *real* dinner… Ina’s swordfish with tomatoes and capers.
Have a wonderful day <3
xoxo,
Gina
What’s your favorite blogworld recipe??? I know that Gena, Heaby, my twin friends and Mama Pea have amazing collections, but I always like to try something new, too 😀
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Goat Cheese Fritters??!! It is only 10 in the morning here and now I am really craving some goat cheese fritters, haha. I’m glad to see your knee is getting better 🙂
That blob of sweet taters looks fabulous! Cuke tini!?!? I wanna go out to eat with you!!
I read last night on Twitter and now again… and I’m still wondering, what does a cucumber martini taste like??
it was sweet and very refreshing. i loved it!
I luv 306. I haven’t cooked many things from other blogs except yours. Your sweet potatoe/black bean chili will be a wintertime staple for me for sure.
OK, just wanted to let you know this because I totally thought of you the whole time: I met Ani Phyo yesterday and got a sneak peek of her new “cook” book—it’s huge and amazing and epic. Like, thick hard-cover, totally fantastic raw book. It has YOU written all over it!
WHAT?! you met ani? isn’t she lovely and amazing?? i’m so excited for her new book 🙂
Dinner looks + sounds fabulous!! I think the martini sounds awesome…love love cucumbers..especially in my water. So much more refreshing than lemons! Good luck with all that cleaning..it’s great to knock it out all in 1 day.
I LOVE those Chocolate Cherry Bombs! My freezer is filled with frozen cherries:)
LOVE cucumber drinks! I had one at my bachelorette party and i LOVED it. Fave blogworld recipe: bfast cookies, humbecue salmon salad from Bender, and blondies from VG 🙂
ahhh i forgot about the famous humbecue!
ahh, don’t remind me. I need to spring clean! I am really enjoying HEAB’s recipes and I love Alli’s smoothies. Everyones are so great and creative! Nice nike sox by the way, super cute.:)
thanks!
Have a nice day of cleaning! My fave recipe has to be a tie between genas banana soft serve and your bfast cookie. I have to tell you; We did one of my training flights over to Valdosta regional ( I’m in Pensacola) the other day and when a fellow student asked me where I was planning for I responed completely unintentionally, valdizzy! Your creative fitnessista diction has now come up in my professional life…lol. Hoping the knee feels better (I hear cucumber martinis are excellent as anti-infammitory aids…just sayin’)
bahaha that’s awesome!
good to know about the martinis… because i had two 😉 haha
Mama Pea has the best recipes!!!!
A cucumber martini?!? I must try! I find great recipes from http://www.activefoodie.com! Love her. 🙂
oh my fav is the green monster for sure!
have a great day……
Love your blog. I read it almost every day! You seem so well versed in all things healthy, I was curious what your thoughts are on fermented tea? I got ahold of some Komchucha tea the other day and being a former diet coke addict I love the fizzies. I’ve been thinking about trying to make my own. Hope your knee feels all better soon!
i love kombucha! it’s a great source of probiotics and we made it at culinary school. the twins (www.pure2raw.com) have some awesome tutorial videos on how to make kombucha
HOLY your going to be one busy woman!
I wish I could do something like that to my place, but today i have a funeral to go to and i have to be up at 4am tomorrow morning, so i just don’t have the time to do that sort of cleaning.
Oh, man! You’re making me feel like such a slacker with the spring cleaning. 😉
Ahh I love, love, LOVE the feeling after you’ve completely deep cleaned your house! Unfortunately my kiddies don’t feel the same way, haha. They’re more into the mess making business 😛
Hope you have a great weekend!!
I really love your breakfast cookie recipe, it has to be one of my faves! And I constantly cook from Heidi Swanson’s website, 101 cookbooks, she is incredible.
And goat cheese fritters? OMG drooool. 😉
xo
K
Goat cheese fritters sound so yummy!
I’ve made some things from your site (breakfast cookies, goat cheese stuffed mushrooms, some others I’m sure but I can’t think of them right now…) But I haven’t really branched out to other sites except green monsters. Ooh and I’m also going to make Angela’s quinoa cereal today.
Favorite recipe from the blog world…Classic oatmeal with nut butter. Never would have thought to combine the two.
Goat cheese? I don’t think I have ever tried it!! What is it like?
This doesn’t help you out much, but one of my favorite blogworld recipes is your Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili, which is in my crockpot right now 🙂
I definitely need to get my booty in gear and get started on the spring cleaning. You are right; I feel SO much better when it all gets done and everything is shiny and sparkly. 🙂
Have a great day!
i drool everytime i see one of those cherry choco bombs! i need to try one asap! have a great weekend 🙂
Oh, you are just too sweet! You always inspire me with not just your recipes, but your entire approach to raw/vegan/Fitnessista eating! Love you!
i’m always a fan of KathEats stuff…SO good! you veggie plate looks incredible 🙂 hope the spring cleaning is awesome, we’ll be doing the same thing here!
That veggie plate looks awesome. I am intrigued by the cucumber martini – sounds like it would be really refreshing, yum!
I didn’t realize your knee was so bad you needed it wrapped, hope it is feeling better soon! That dinner looks great!
I hope your knee feels better soon G$. Recently I’ve been hooked on Angela’s recipes over at Oh She Glows.
That vegetable plate looks right up my alley! Yum!
ugh spring cleaning. i soooo need to do that! good luck 🙂
Yowza busy cleaning day! I bet that’ll feel pretty amazing once it’s all done.
Cucumber martini? Never heard of such a thing, but it sounds wonderful and refreshing indeed. Have a wonderful Saturday!
i LOVE spring cleaning!! glad to hear your knee is feeling better too. warm, doughy bread is the best…like toasted ezekiel rolled into a ball…drool.
i don’t know that i have a favorite blog world recipe – i keep a whole “draft” saved of recipes i want to try. before i go grocery shopping for the week i usually pick one or two of them to make. i love the vegan blog world for providing me with recipes! the best part is that they’re usually improvised/lax because i’m not one to follow strict, cook book style directions. i love to wing it.
((((knee))) I hope your knee is better soon!
I have two quick questions for you if you don’t mind.
I have been on the hunt for mesquite powder and can’t find it ANYWHERE….not in our local naturals store, not at Whole Foods, and not at our local dry good everything store.
Where do you purchase your and what brand is it, please? And… can you describe it to me, please? Simply by the name, I think BBQ. However, I thought I have read(on your bog? and then in my own search) that it is a hint of cinnamon and a caramel-like flavor.
I did luck out in one aspect today….I bought that last jar of A’s Coconut butter at WF’s! *stoked*
TIA,
Kere
ummm YOUR recipes are my favorite! I’ve loved everything I’ve tried – especially the breakfast cookie. 🙂
can’t wait to hear about ina’s swordfish! She cannot do anything wrong in my book!
Favorite blog world recipes? Lately my favs have been YOURS! In the past week I’ve had a breakfast cookie twice and tonight I made raw sloppy joes 🙂
I just wanted to ask about the Chocolate Cherry Bomb Shake – what chocolate powder can be used? I don’t even know where to find it in my store, unless it’s protein powder.
Also, I have to say I tried your egg puff and it came out gloriously, and I of course, gave you credit for it in my blog:
http://journeyforhealth.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/my-first-oatmeal-and-egg-puff/
Thanks for some awesome food and fitness inspirations!
hey girl,
that’s awesome!! thanks for the shout out 🙂
for the chocolate cherry shake, if your store doesn’t have raw cacao powder, just use cocoa powder (for baking).
Ohhhh I need to do a spring cleanin’ on my house too!! Glad the knee is feeling better!
-emily http://emilyeatsclean.wordpress.com
i think my favorite recipe is oats in a jar (i have no idea who made it originally, but i got the idea from KERF).
also, are you going to be doing the shape-up again for the summer? just wondering … i thought the WSU was great.
heather over at heather eats almond butter was the first to do it 🙂
no summer shape up this summer, but a new iron pumping plan will be posted soon!