Better In Plan Than Construction
Posted: March 14, 2011 Filed under: dinner | Tags: chard, dinner, lentils, recipe, wrap 2 Comments »I have seen chard leaves used a wrappers for many things around blogland so I thought tonight would be a good time for me to try it out!
I bought a giant bag of carrots this weekend so I knew I wanted to use them in the wrap, now I just need a protein – enter the lentil!
First I washed the chard leaves and cut them in half (these are massive).
I peeled two carrots and filled the leaves with them equally.
After the carrots I added the lentils and a special sauce.
Nutritional yeast, tomato sauce and hot chili sauce – this is where I went wrong because this sauce is too watery. Next time I would use tomato paste instead of sauce.
Wrap it up and serve it up!
I would like to roll these a little better next time. Ashley seemed to have a lot of luck with her breakfast chard leaves so I am going to her method out next time. Either way the leaves were a nice shell and not bitter at all, there was just way too much water.
WEDDING UPDATE
Nick and I have booked an venue!
We are getting married at the Rock Ford Plantation in Lancaster PA! I have looked into pricing for invitations (we plan to make our own), I should be better two quotes from caterers soon and I am going dress shopping this weekend! Our color is parrot/wild apple (I think) with Maryland wildflower colors as our accent colors. I wanted a fall orange but then realized I didn’t want to limit myself because you never know what they will have in September!
Lots of stuff going on this weekend besides dresses. My mom and I are going to Rock Ford to check out the actual measurements and logistics of where things will take place. We are also going to check out hotels and B&Bs in the area! So exciting!!!!
8 Miler
Posted: August 30, 2009 Filed under: weekend | Tags: chard, running, wheat berries 2 Comments »After breakfast I set to work packing up the kitchen. I don’t even have 1/2 my kitchen stuff in this house and yet I have so many bags packed! To fuel me through the packing I made a red and green or I guess brown smoothie. Frozen raspberries, baby spinach, vanilla protein powder and skim.
After cleaning packing and organizing I need some veg time with the movie “The Hulk” and an english muffin with PB&Co Cinnamon Raisin Swirl.
Once fully digested I went out for my first 8 mile run ever! Isported my new hat and brought 3 Clif Shot Blocks for the road.
Haha I look creepy in this picture!
I liked these…a little more jelly then gummy I think, and sticky. They need some sort of dry powder so they could be thrown in a pocket without the plastic wrap.
THE RUN – I made it and it went really well! Once I got to mile four everything was moving easily and I knew I was going to be able to do this! It feels so amazing to be able to run this far. I used to think 3 miles was the furthest I could ever run and now I have more than doubled that!
Post recovery drink I wanted to try out.
I mixed 1/2 this pouch with leftover coffee from this morning and milk. I think I needed the full packet to get the chocolate flavor, but we will see how sore I am in the morning.
Check out this chard that I got at the farmers market!
Yum, bright colored greens!
Along with my chard I cooked up some wheat berries and mixed them with FM tomato, yellow pepper, cuc, Mrs. Dash original blend and parm cheese.
This was actually really good and super simple to make. I always forget about my little wheat berries.
All together.
I think I am off to have a chocolate vitatop and some coffee fro-yo, ya know got to clean out the freezer 
Ugh is tomorrow really Monday?!? At least I only have a four day week.
Have a super rest of your evening!
