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Springtime

Happy Friday!

What a beautiful day to start the weekend.  I love the spring sunshine — it’s hot, but not too hot…  It makes me want to spend my whole day outside!  (With sunscreen on of course.  I mean, you’ve seen my skin.)

This morning I woke up and made a green smoothie to start the day:

To make this I used 4 frozen strawberries, 1/2 a banana, 2 tbsp. flaxseed, 1/2 cup of vanilla almond milk, and a few huge handfuls of spinach.

I only drank about half of this — it was too sweet!  I haven’t used almond milk for smoothies before, and I bought the sweetened kind — mistake!  I’ll have to pick up some unsweetened almond milk next time I’m out grocery shopping.  Oh well, live and learn.  (Unsweetened almond milk is on my list anyway because I have a breakfast farro recipe that calls for it — hopefully it’s good and I’ll share it with you guys!)

I was still hungry after my measly half a smoothie, so I had a hard-boiled egg:

I couple of my eggs were over-cooked this week (you can tell an egg’s overcooked if there’s a green ring around the yolk).  I have a standard recipe for hard-boiled eggs: place eggs in one layer in a pot, cover with cold water, add a big pinch of salt (this keeps cracked eggs from exploding), and heat, covered.  Once the water boils, turn off the heat and let the eggs sit, covered, for 10 minutes.  After 10 minutes, drain the water and cover the eggs with cold water to stop their cooking.  Once the eggs have cooled, transfer to the fridge.

I don’t know if I didn’t notice the eggs were boiling fast enough, or if the cold water wasn’t cold enough…  It’s a mystery.  Maybe I’ll have to cut down the cooking time to 8 or 9 minutes.  I’ll keep you updated.

After my mid-morning snack, there was some job-hunting, some e-mailing, and other activities not worth blogging about.  I took a shower (Friday is hair-washing day!), got dressed and made some lunch.

Leftover tabbouleh pitas with yogurt sauce and hummus:

That’s a crapload of hummus isn’t it?  I didn’t finish it.

Ahhh pita…  I love pita bread.  Like I said, I should learn to make this.  I found a few recipes online for pita bread, maybe I’ll try one next week and see how it turns out.  If any of you have a good pita recipes, please send it my way!

While I was eating lunch, I heard laughing outside.  There was a big group of schoolkids walking down my street.  Is there anything better than having the windows open and hearing that?  I think not.  Nothing like sunshine and happy children to brighten your day!

After lunch I was toying with the idea of having one of those real-sugar cokes KC bought at Costco last weekend (you know — the ones from Mexico that come in glass bottles).  I decided I’d skip the coke and have some iced coffee instead.

Pure coffee bliss.  I may eat fairly healthy, but I do love half & half.  It makes iced coffee taste almost like ice cream!  Ahh ice cream…

Ok, well I’m off to get a few things done before heading to the city for a Bar Method class and the Bar Method Spring Fling!  So excited for cocktails with all my favorite Bar Method girls.

Hope you’re all enjoying the sunshine!

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