Holy moly, I spent a few days away from the blog and I come back to find 96 spam messages! Yowza! I hope they at least count as page views toward my FoodBuzz account! Haha! Thank you Akismet for catching all that spam and keeping it from hitting my comments area! You are a godsend of a plug-in!
So glad you guys liked the post about the crazy ingredients in our food. I had a good time writing that one. Garbage in my food gets me all riled up! 
Today I’m having flashbacks of last summer. I started the morning with a run, enjoyed half a cantaloupe when I got home, then got busy doing some ‘doody duty’ and YARDIO and followed it all up with a delicious smoothie.
Love it when the yard is freshly mowed:
And love it when I can enjoy my smoothie on the back patio in the sunshine:
(BTW, this smoothie was a keeper: small banana, handful of frozen blackberries, vanilla brown rice protein, 1/2 a cucumber, spinach, romaine, flaxseed oil with 8 oz water — SO SO GOOD!)
Ahhh, just like the good ‘ol days of 2009. 
Last year at this time I’d left my high stress no-fun job about 6 weeks prior and was taking the summer ‘off’ to enjoy life a little more and get some projects done around the house that I’d been putting off. It was fantastic!
Fast forward one year and this summer is definitely on the BUSY BEE side of the coin. Last year I didn’t have the ops admin job, the fit living business or the blog. In the battle for where my time is spent sometimes the blog wins, some weeks the training wins, and this week (plus the next two weeks) the admin job will win because we are gearing up to relocate the office. If FitFeat seems oddly quiet off and on between now and July 4th, you’ll know why!
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Today’s run was with a client and it was a PERFECT morning. Warm with blue skies and a light breeze. We hit up my (and her) favorite hilly trail. (And she was rockin’ her new pair of Vibram FiveFingers, woot woot!) It was a good thing I had her appointment on the books, because if not I think I may have hit the snooze button a few times. It was a bit of a rough night of sleep thanks to a certain little dog who likes to howl and bark like mad when his dad comes home from softball late at night. Picture me sleeping soundly one second, then needing to be peeled off the ceiling in the next. Instant adrenaline rush and impossible to sleep after that.
He looks so innocent doesn’t he?
It’s a good thing he’s so darn cute.
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You have to check out the delicious dinner than Cindy posted on her blog. It looks fantastic, and yes I do want to earn a parade (even if my parade would be quite short seeing how it’s only one person) so I might have to make something in a puff pastry for my hubs! I’m sure he would love it. I did make him a Bison BBQ Meatloaf with roasted sweet potatoes Tuesday night. I think the parade was postponed due to inclement weather.
My meals have been a little on the boring side as of late. Green smoothies, big salads, oatmeal, grilled goat cheese sandwiches with tomato soup, you know the usual SHARI FARE. Nothing exciting enough to share. But I have a great new apron (five bucks, SCORE!) so I am sure the inspiration will start flowing now. Isn’t it the apron that makes one a good cook?
Have a great day friends!
– Shari B. =)
#1 by Joan on June 18, 2010 - 8:45 pm
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ok got the green that comes with rain, rain, rain but where’s the sun!!?! Can’t wait for that! Love your patio! Can I come? I’ll be there in a jiffy!
I have a great puff pastry dinner recipe…feta, spinach, mushrooms all in a BIG roll (full sheet) and baked!! Can you say YUM!! I need to do that again…soon.
.-= Joan´s last blog ..Cleaning the Water Butts =-.
#2 by Shari B. on June 22, 2010 - 5:27 pm
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Hi Joan! I actually had thought I replied to this comment, but I guess not! Sorry about that! YOU MUST SHARE THIS RECIPE!!! It sounds SOOO good. I’ll track down some goat feta and use that for me w/ the veggies and then make something different for MSP!
#3 by Joan on June 22, 2010 - 8:42 pm
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ok, will do but I need time to type it up…I can’t seem to find any link to the magazine recipe online. Patience…it’ll be worth it!
.-= Joan´s last blog ..Talkin’ Trash =-.
#4 by Joan on June 26, 2010 - 5:21 pm
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ok, here’s my version
Feta Mushroom Strudel
Serves 2 people
2-3 handfuls spinach leaves
10-12 crimini mushrooms, washed, sliced
3-4 oz Feta or soft goat cheese
3-4 garlic cloves, sliced
¼ – ½ red or sweet yellow onion, chopped
Preheat oven to 375*
In olive oil, sauté chopped onion till tender. Add chopped garlic and sliced mushrooms and continue to sauté till water is mostly released/evaporated from the mushrooms. Let it cool a little.
Wash and spin dry spinach leaves
Layout a full sheet of thawed puff pastry on parchment lined, rimmed baking sheet. Do not separate layers.
After the sautéed mixture has cooled a little, crumble the cheese into it. Stir the spinach into it.
Spread the mixture down the middle 1/3 of the pastry. Fold the 2 outer thirds over top of each other (like folding a letter). Flip it seam side down on the parchment. Bake 30 min. Let cool 5 min before cutting.
It’s really nice with fresh lemon wedges squeezed over servings just before devouring.
Options to add: artichoke hearts, soy sausage, tofu, grated zucchini, chicken, bacon pieces etc. Possibilities are endless.
.-= Joan´s last blog ..Talkin Trash =-.
#5 by Shari B. on June 27, 2010 - 5:47 pm
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Joan, thank you so much for taking the time to type this all up! I can’t wait to try it. I bought puff pastry at the store today in anticipation. What brand do you use? THe only one I could find didn’t have the best ingredients – so I’ll look at Whole Foods next time I need some. Do you think phyllo could be used interchangeably, I wonder?
#6 by Joan on June 28, 2010 - 6:49 pm
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Hi Shari, You’re most welcome! Yes, I think phyllo and puff pastry are the same thing… maybe phyllo is a brand name? I could be wrong here. I get the puff pastry from Trader Joes (their own brand name)…that it untill they put it on ‘seasonal’ status…now I’ll have to get it at my local health food store. Can you believe they don’t consider summer fruit pies ‘seasonal’ too? Perhaps phillo is more easily separated into sheets…which you don’t need to do here. Maybe some of your really smart readers can tell us the difference b/t phillo and puff.
.-= Joan´s last blog ..Talkin Trash =-.
#7 by christina on June 18, 2010 - 11:10 am
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cute apron! and the grass in your yard looks so green!! pretty
.-= christina´s last blog ..Mustard Seed Blogger Meet Up! =-.
#8 by Cindy on June 17, 2010 - 10:54 pm
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and I think THIS is another one of my favorite times of the year. Where it’s GREEN and sunny and not to hot!
I am an apron addict! I am loving your new one!
dinner tonight was not parade worthy but I am happy I emptied the veg bin before we head to dad’s and it was filling and filled with healthy tasty ing.
score!
happy almost Friday
#9 by Bernadette on June 17, 2010 - 8:11 pm
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Your yard looks so inviting! I guess all that GREEN is one of the perks of living with snow thru the winter… hopefully you get to enjoy it!!
That smoothie looks delish!! I’m going to head out for a run in a bit and I just bought some frozen blackberries so I will be using them in my post run smoothie…mmmm good!
And the apron is ADORABLE!! What a score!
Have a great evening!!
xoxo