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Breaking Routine and Mango Avocado Salsa

Our typical Friday night routine is dinner out then home to watch a movie or one of our favorite series when it’s not a repeat. Our typical Saturday is spent doing chores after a good workout. Sunday, a long workout, breakfast and chores, baking/cooking something special and/or relaxing ….depends on the weather. This week, we broke from routine. Friday: We DID eat dinner out but went to Vernon Downs to see Ostrich and Camel races instead of the Standardbreds, (although they were racing as well). The Ostrich went off before the Camels. The birds pulled a buggy sort of contraption [...]

By Joanne|2014-06-22T16:08:33-04:00June 22, 2014|Vegetarian|1 Comment

Chilled Borscht

Since we’re right smack dab in the midst of the Olympics, held in Sochi Russia, I thought it might be interesting to present a little bit about Russian cuisine. Source: Wiki I’m only focusing on soups in this post since the recipe of the day is Borscht, a chilled soup made with vegetables but the beautiful color comes from beets. Photos Source – Learn more about the healthy benefits of beets. Soup plays an important part in the Russian meal. One of traditional staple of soups such as borscht (борщ), is part of the seven largest soup groups for Russians. [...]

By Joanne|2014-02-12T13:54:06-05:00February 12, 2014|Vegetarian|Comments Off

Golabki, Golumkies Or Just Plain Cabbage Rolls

Polish stuffed cabbage rolls or even more fun to say “Golumkies”. These titillated my taste buds years ago by an excellent cook, a true-blue Polish lady. She made everything from scratch. Not a person at the table that didn’t “ooh and ah” about what was just eaten. The best part: there were always leftovers to take home. Unfortunately I don’t have her recipe so I came up with one of my own using vegetarian meat crumbles as a substitute to pork and/or beef. I did add eggs and milk so be aware of that if you avoid those ingredients. Packed [...]

By Joanne|2014-01-22T14:55:51-05:00January 22, 2014|Vegetarian|4 Comments

Vegetable Lasagna: Eggplant and Squash

Sometimes at night, after dinner is eaten and cleared away, all chores have been done or put off until some other time, there is nothing more to do except lie on the bathroom floor with your dog. Zoey was sleeping as I washed my face. As I looked at her, I thought how she doesn’t allow me to nap like that. She licks my face or tosses a toy at my head. It was time for revenge. At first, I brushed my hair, hovering over her to get in HER FACE! Then I got down next to her and got [...]

By Joanne|2013-11-08T14:34:21-05:00November 8, 2013|Vegetarian|2 Comments

Watching, Baking and Butternut & Herb Pasta

It was NYC Marathon Sunday. This year, I was watching from the kitchen, on my computer while baking chocolate chip cookies. Next year, I hope to be running I did have my own enjoyable run today, the longest since my last marathon October 20th. The body is slow recovering this time around. 7.77 miles today in 1 hr. 12 minutes. The hamstring didn’t complain until going into that last mile. Luckily at that point, I was with Shane and able to take it slow. I don’t know whether it’s less running or watching everyone run the ING NYC Marathon but [...]

By Joanne|2013-11-03T15:34:52-05:00November 3, 2013|Vegetarian|3 Comments

Boilermaker Goals and Zucchini Fritters with Jerk

It’s almost time for the Boilermaker road race. Excitement and nervousness fill my body. Every year I say “If I can come in at 70 minutes, that’s it! I’m done! No more Boilermakers!” The reality is that I’m just not that fast. I’ll be running Boilermakers for a long, long time. Some of my running goals are unrealistic. Sure it’s great to have goals and maybe some of those goals are far reaching but as long as I can maintain perspective, realize my limits, then why not hold tight to those extremes? Who knows, anything can happen on any given [...]

By Joanne|2013-07-06T19:16:12-04:00July 6, 2013|Vegetarian|2 Comments