I REALLY want a Michael Kors watch with a big face. It must be silver! I like the gold & silver mixed version. Although I think Art will say I better win the lottery before I spend $200-$300 on a watch. I just am in love with these watches!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Loaded Quinoa Veggie Burgers
I recently started following a blog called Can You Stay for Dinner. I really love Andie's blog!! I find her so encouraging that she has lost such an amazing amount of weight and kept it off for years. This past week I followed her lunch idea of having just salad for lunch. I would make a HUGE salad with lots of veggies. I added protein of either baked chicken or pinto beans. I saw such a difference with my weight loss and also with the way I felt. I didn't feel weighted down or that heavy full feeling after lunch.
Last week Andie posted a recipe for veggie burgers she made at home. I immediately went out to buy the ingredients for the burgers. I was really hoping they tasted good and would be something I would like to eat.
I made them this past Saturday. I chopped the carrot and then added everything else. It turned to a thick paste and it wouldn't chop the rest of the stuff on the top or incorporate the items all together. When I make them again I would chop the carrot, garlic, scallions, spices and slowly add in the other stuff. I didn't have quinoa, so I substituted couscous. I haven't ever ate quinoa, so I wasn't sure about it.
I cooked them in a cast iron frying pan. I <3 them!!!! Super delish! I thought they were full of flavor.
Art on the other hand was was NOT a fan of meatless burgers.
Loaded Quinoa Veggie Burgers
adapted from Whole Living & Can You Stay for Dinner
•1/2 cup uncooked quinoa
•1 carrot, diced
•4 scallions, sliced
•2 cloves garlic
•15 ounces can black beans, drained and rinsed
•1/4 cup Italian seasoned dried breadcrumbs
•1 large egg, lightly beaten
•1 tablespoon ground cumin
•¾ teaspoon salt
•½ teaspoon pepper
•2 tablespoons olive oil
In a small sauce pan cook your couscous or quinoa; set aside and let cool.
In a food processor, pulse carrot until finely chopped, chop sccallions, garlic, cumin, salt, pepper and egg. Add cooked couscous/quinoa, breadcrumbs, beans; pulse until combined but still slightly chunky.
Form into four patties. Cook in a nonstick or cast iorn skillet, heat oil over medium heat, for about 8 minutes per side or until browned.
serves 4
221 calories when substituting couscous instead of quinoa.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Menu Monday
What's is for dinner this week? A weekly challenge can be making a menu for the week.
I try to make something healthy, yummy and that both of us will eat. I also try to keep it under 500 calories.
Lamb & roasted veggies
Chicken Quesadillas
Food Trucks
Leftovers
I have leftovers in the freezer from last week. I will pull some of them out of the freezer for us to eat one evening. Probably on Friday, since that is the laziest night. I like to run my errands on Friday night and I don't like to spend a lot of time cooking.
We haven't been to the food trucks yet this year. We both have been wanting to go. I think I will just run a couple hundred miles, so I don't have to worry about the calories. =)
What is on your menu this week?
How do you make your menus?
Sunday, January 8, 2012
A Year of Review
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
AND
September
October
November
December
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Saturday Pinterest
Oh I am loving these adorable outfits!!! I found all these on Pinterest. There isn't a source other than polyvore.com.
Friday, January 6, 2012
Hunka, Hunka!
We are 3 blessed women with this amazing men in our lives......
Check out the Fischer women hunks.....
Thursday, January 5, 2012
New Year - New Hairdos
I decided that for 2012 I would go back to my natural hair color. Well what exactly is my natural hair color? I a brunette, but a blonde at heart. lol
I bought the hair dye on December 26. Every day I would say no, let's do it tomorrow. Finally it was the last night at my parents NYE and I had to do it. So we pulled out the dye and got to work.
First I had to borrow an old shirt from my dad. The sad look is because the blonde hair was going away.
We had about a 1/3 of the bottle left. My dad says HEY do my hair next. Mom had the gloves on, so she got to work on my dads hair. He has a little gray and decided he wanted it covered up.
Then my mom tells me she wants her done too. She went to get her hair dye and I start doing hers.
By this time 50% of the household is getting their hair dyed.
Lacey & Cliff were the supervisors.
Dad tried to put on his glasses....that didn't work very well because he got dye all over them. He told us if he had known he couldn't wear his glasses for 10-15 minutes while his hair dyed. Ummmm little did he know that it was going to be 45 minutes NOT 10-15 minutes. Ugh then he really wasn't happy. He pulled up a chair right next to the tv, so he could see what was on.
Here is where I found the boys.....chilling and counting down the time until 2012.
Finally results!
I am still getting use to this brown hair. Unfortunately it is washing out rather quickly from all those years of bleaching. I think I might have the husband dye it for me this weekend. Please say a prayer for us!
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
New Year Resolutions
Did you make any new year resolutions for 2012?
Did you make resolutions in 2011 and did you complete them?
Last year I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish. Unfortunately I made the list of my cell phone and it crashed. I am going from my memory of what I think was on the list. I do know I completed the majority of the list.
2011 List
1. Work out
2. Eat well
3. Finish reading all the books I started reading
4. Learn how to use my serger
5. Work on my marriage
6. Pay off debt
Well I accomplished everything except learning how to use my serger. I still haven't used it.
I decided the books that I hadn't completed I wasn't going too. Evidently those books are boring, so why torture myself?
2012 list
1. Lose 30 pounds
2. Tone my body
3. Learn to use my serger
4. Live life a little simplier
5. Work on not stressing over everything
6. Run a 5K
Art and I are going to make a list this week of home improvements we want to accomplish in 2012. We have numerous projects we have started, but haven't finished. This is the year to get those projects completed.
What is on your list for 2012?
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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