Well, as I mentioned in the Tuesday Briefs this week, on Twitter several times, and on this week’s podcast – last night was sushi night at Casa de Blundell! Woot! Woot!
Now I’ve never been a huge sushi eater. I’ve had it a few times and liked it, but it always seems a bit overpriced to eat on a regular basis. So naturally, getting to eat it several times during our cruise – for free was amazing!
Continue reading Sushi night – take one
Found Livestrong.com today thanks to the brand new BlackBerry App Store.
Very cool!
The site has lots of great hints/pointers for living healthier and tracks your food/caloric intake throughout the day as well as what you burn with exercising. I was surprised at just how many nutritional facts could be found for various foods on the site. Things like Costco’s brand foods, a random can of green beans, various food from restaurants etc., etc. In addition to the basic tracking, the site itself has loads of free tools and offers additional tools with a paid subscription.
Add to that the BlackBerry or (iPhone) app and you’ve got one amazingly powerful tool.
Speaking of, here’s a chart of my day one intake…
That yellow slice of the pie, 45% of my caloric intake for the day, is literally a slice of pie! One slice of pizza pie that is – 776 calories!
Good thing I avoided the Sausage Egg and Cheese Biscuit from Whataburger this morning. Saw that it was 663 calories before I left home this morning. Add 200 calories from the hash browns that come in a combo meal and you’ve got half your day’s recommended calories. I opted for the Bacon and Egg Taquito (387 calories) instead.
But looking at what you’re eating in a visual manner like this is sure to be handy.
What have you found to help you?
As part of our weekly community group meetings (most every Saturday at 6 p.m. – come join us) we always start out with a meal/snack of some sort. I think I’ve been delegated the food committee chairman and I have to admit, sometimes I’m at a loss for ideas.
I’d love to go all out each week, with “gourmet cuisine” but it seems that getting folks together once a week tends to be hard enough without adding an undue burden of everyone having to come up with a new dish/meal.
So here’s the question:
What creative potluck & party themes have you seen or would you like to see at a get together/party?
I did find one great thread that suggests building your potluck meal around dishes that contain one main ingredient (ala like Food Networks Iron Chef) or dishes with the same color.
Another great idea to always encourage is for everyone to bring extra copies of their recipes to the potluck dinner. That way if folks try a dish they really love they can go home with the recipe and don’t have to hope someone remembers to send it to them later.
I’m also thinking I need to get more people in on The Pioneer Woman’s website and/or cookbook and do a Pioneer Woman Cookbook theme…
So, there’s the task I want to know what other clever/successful themes you’ve come up with… comment away!
bachelor dinner
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell
A strange thing tends to occur when I’m left to eat dinner on my own — I think its something I picked up from my dad — I tend to come up with some different creations.
I usually take advantage of knowing Laurie won’t have to eat what I fix, so I tend to pull things out we might have left over that I know she won’t likely eat later as well.
Tonight was no different. As she rushed off to St. Arbucks I cooked up some turkey meatballs we got from Costco and made a super tasty sauce to go with them.
The sauce was made of canned jalapenos, sliced green onions, HEB BBQ sauce and a bit of water to thin it out.
Topped the meatballs and sauce with cheese and I had quite a tasty meal (and lunch left over for tomorrow).
I also made some homemade chips with some left over corn tortillas. I basically cut the tortillas into quarters, splashed some EVOO on them, added some salt and cajun seasoning and baked them at 350 for 10 minutes.
They tasted great but the texture wasn’t quite right on most of the chips. But some of them got just the right heat, oil and everything else and were superb. Now if only I remember what I did differently with those chips :-).
NOTE: The tortillas in this picture were only stand-ins for the real tortilla chips. The real ones were still “getting their tanning on” when this picture was taken.
20/365
Originally uploaded by Jonathan D. Blundell
tubby tuesday #3
down .6 pounds from last week.
3.4 total since beginning in Oct.
oh and looks like bigfoot on the scale with those wooly socks 🙂
This looks cool.
from the website ::
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I haven’t extensively looked the site over yet, but I like the idea thus far. May have to bust out a bread recipe or two tomorrow.
How to get involved ::
Anyone else checked the site out yet?