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Our Non-Traditional Holiday Traditions

Dec 30

Posted by Shari B. in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Well hello there blog buds!

What a week!  Cory and I often try to take this week off between Christmas and the New Year because it’s always a nice way to feel festive, wind down the year and also do a little celebrating of our anniversary which is January 1.  The weather in Colorado has been beautiful – we had a white Christmas thanks to the 10″ of snow that fell a few days prior and now this week has been in the high 40s and even some mid-to-upper 50s.  So back when we first started planning this little ‘stay-cation’ we had high hopes for getting out and doing some hiking, maybe some jogging, snowshoeing, dogwalking, etc.

Alas, the curse of the best laid plans and all that jazz…

The long and the short of it is: Cory and I both ended up with a repeat of that same nasty cold we had over Thanksgiving (OK, body – get it out of your system now because I’m not letting you get sick in 2012!), our old Weim Riley is laid up with some issues surrounding her back legs (hip/spine) so we’ve had two vet appointments this week trying to determine what’s wrong, including X-rays which revealed some not-so-good news and since we can’t leave her alone now for more than a couple hours at a time, we’ve had a bit of a kink in our plans.

We did however stick to our usual Christmas Day routine.

A decadent breakfast treat:

For Christmas dinner, our tradition is normally to out to a Chinese buffet, but this year we opted for takeout from John Holly’s Asian Bistro instead.

Mmm seaweed salad, lobster roll and California rolls!

We also always go see a movie and this year we changed it up from the usual dramatic family film and chose something chock full of action with Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.   We loved it!  A really high energy film and it made me want to go home and do a bunch of pushups or something!  Tom Cruise is one fit dude!

In spite of the cold dragging down my head, I have still done a couple of pretty solid workouts during the week, but kept them indoors.  I’m refusing to let it get in the way of my exercise this time around!  I’ve been relying on Cathe Friedrich to train me via her DVDs – sometimes the trainer still needs a trainer!  I also attended a class at OrangeTheory Fitness, but I’ll be posting more on that in its own post in the near future.

While I’ve had this downtime I’ve used it to get started on a Create 2012 Collage (aka vision board, inspiration board).  I haven’t made one in years and since I’m setting intentions instead of specific resolutions for the New Year, I thought I’d get one started.  I have a lot of work to do on it yet, but here are some of the beginning stages of clippings I’ve started pulling together.

Do you ever make ‘vision boards’?  Do you have some specific traditions (or “non-traditions”!) regarding the New Year or Christmas?

Hope you are having a FABULOUS day!  If I don’t get back out here before tomorrow night, have a HAPPY and SAFE New Year’s Eve friends!  Happy 2012!

– Shari B. =)

 

 

 

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Christmas Eve is Always My Favorite

Dec 25

Posted by Shari B. in Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Good morning blog buds!  For those that celebrate the holiday, I hope that you have a beautiful and very merry Christmas Day!

We always do our actual Christmas festivities on Christmas Eve and it was a pretty low key one this year – here are a few photo highlights from the night:

It was such a wonderful day – phone calls with some family members, a snowy ‘hike’ where I actually had to wear my snowboots and yak trax, an early morning leg workout, sunshine, snow on the ground, healthy food (and some not-so-healthy food!), games, football, gifts, and best of all time hanging out with my husband (and best friend!) and my sweet dogs.  A perfect Christmas Eve in my book!  I am very blessed and extremely grateful for the happiness I have in my life.

I wish all the happiness in the world to you as well, friends.

– Shari B. =)

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Winter Wonderland… and then some

Dec 22

Posted by Shari B. in Keeping Fit | 7 Comments

Hi friends!

Hope you are having a terrific Thursday so far!  Mine has been really productive.  Which is pretty impressive considering that I haven’t even left the house (I did shower and do my hair though – BONUS!). I got up and did a killer Chest/Shoulders/Biceps workout for an hour (thank you Cathe Friedrich!), then went outside to run the snowblower and shovel (another hour), tested a couple of recipes for future client cookdates, and sold a piece of furniture that I listed almost a month ago on Craigslist.  The buyer even drove all the way down from north of Denver to get it.  And in this nasty weather:

Brave soul, that one – he didn’t even have 4WD.  Just a little Toyota.  He did get stuck on our street, so a neighbor, Cory and I pushed and pushed and got him unstuck.  He’s giving this item as a gift so I hope the recipient appreciates the lengths to which he went to get it!  I sent him with a muffin to snack on on the way home and asked if he needed the ‘facilities’ since he’d been on the road so long.  I am sure he thought I was either CRAZY or just abnormally nice (I’d say a little bit of both).  Hey, if you buy something from me on Craigslist, show up on time and don’t haggle, I’ll practically invite you for dinner.  :)

If you look at the photo above, you can somewhat see how that snow is higher than my knees.  The news channels say we got about 10″ in our end of town.  Cory’s been on snow duty all year so far – I figured he should have a break today since I didn’t have to work (thanks for taking some action shots, C!).  I definitely got some cardio going on this – I was a sweaty beast when I was all done with our driveway, the sidewalk on our corner, our steps up to the front, our porch and my neighbor’s sidewalk.  I am so thankful for snowblowers!  Now if only it was self-propelled – THAT would be awesome!

I had to lean into it to get it going through all that snow!

Totally playin’ in the snow!

Because we knew the storm was headed our way, we moved up our “light viewing drive” to last night – normally we do it on Christmas Eve.  We had no idea if we’d end up with a blizzard and be housebound for a few days, so we figured we better get out while we still could.  I made a batch of vegan cranberry ‘sour cream’ muffins (adapted from Gena’s version) along with some ginger spice cookies to pack in the car.  We hit up the Starbucks drive-through (soy steamer for me, white hot cocoa for him), cranked the Christmas music on the radio, and the viewing party began.

Here are a couple of the good ones (taken with my iPhone because I couldn’t find my camera on the way out the door):

The snow had just started to fall shortly before we took off and as the evening went on, it was getting pretty slick.  We saw one car completely miss his turn and slam right into the curb on the OPPOSITE side of the street than he was aiming – at that point we figured we best get ourselves home lest WE become the landing pad instead of the curbs.

It was such a festive night – it’s one of my favorites of our little traditions as a couple.  Add to that waking up to all this snow today and I am REALLY in the holiday spirit.  I love it!

Are you getting a lot of snow this season where you are?  How’s your holiday weather looking?  Do you drive around and look at all the decorated houses?

– Shari B. =)

PS:  Thanks for all the great feedback on Keri’s guest post!  I even got some emails about it in addition to the posted comments.  Maybe I convince her to do that for us more often.  ;)   If you missed it, go check it out!

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Wacky Week

Dec 6

Posted by Shari B. in Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Hi blog buds!

Well, that nasty head cold that Cory had over Thanksgiving weekend ended up hopping over to me last week.  I started off strong the Monday after T-Day with a great high intensity interval workout and by that afternoon, I had a terrible sore throat.  Doesn’t it drive you batty when you have GREAT INTENTIONS only to be sidelined by something silly?  I loaded up on oscillococcinum and immunity tea, to no avail.  This cold took solid hold, settling in my sinuses and chest and even gave me waves of nausea.  It was so bizarre!  It’s been a full week and today is the first day that I actually feel quite a bit better.

Even my jumbo green smoothies weren’t fighting off this one!

Yesterday, regardless of how stuffy my head was, I HAD to have a productive day because it was killing me to not get things done.  So I finally decided to pop a Sudafed (and you know how much I hate to take any kind of medication) and get busy.  I was wrapping up a home project we’d been working on, so I had a fair amount of tedious taping and painting to do.  I had piles of laundry, client programs to create, a naked Christmas tree begging for some decorations, the list went on.  Holy busy-bee tornado!  I got my whole list done and then some!

Unfortunately the Sudafed didn’t wear off nearly as soon as I’d thought it would so I was up most of the night – I felt like my brain was buzzing!

In this case, I have to say it was worth it.  The house is clean and all the holiday decorations are up.  We even snapped our holiday picture during lunch yesterday.  We’d planned to have the dogs in it as well, but using the self-timer on a point-and-shoot camera while trying to get both of us in the picture AND get two dogs to look toward the camera at the same time just wasn’t happening.  Plus it was less than 10 degrees outside and the pups were freezing after about 45 seconds.

On our very first attempt, Rascal provided the comedy by lifting his leg and yellowing the snow right in the picture (see red arrow) so this was the action shot that was captured as he was heading away.  At least Riley was looking in the right direction!

This wasn’t the one either:

I imagine Riley was thinking “Forget this, I’m COLD!”

Darn dogs!  Needless to say, our holiday picture ended up just being the two of us.  :)

Do you like to decorate for the holidays (whichever holiday you might celebrate)?  While I don’t “enjoy” the process of putting up and taking down the decorations, I do LOVE the few weeks in December that I have the tree up.  I love waking up in the morning when the house is quiet, and sip my coffee with only the lights of the Christmas tree on.   It feels festive in a peaceful way.  I also ADORE holiday music and this year I think I was listening to the holiday station on Pandora as early as Halloween! Check out this link to hear the song I’m enjoying most this season.  It’s been out for three years yet somehow this is the first year I’ve heard it.  It makes me smile every time I hear it!  Enjoy!

– Shari B. =)

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Our Super Simple Thanksgiving 2011

Nov 28

Posted by Shari B. in Cooking | 6 Comments

Hi friends!

So this year for Thanksgiving we took the easy route.  Last year I made everything from scratch, including bread.  This year, what with all the recipe testing and cheffing I’ve had going on lately, cooking was actually the last thing I wanted to do.  And you know what?  We had a really great day!

We started our morning with the bread pudding.  Afterward we took the dogs out to get some exercise and for us to get some sunshine.  Cory woke up with a pretty gnarly head cold so we took it easy – otherwise I would have been bugging him to go do our own version of a Turkey Trot (I like to call ours the Gobble Gallop!).  I still can’t get over the awesome weather we had!

As I recap the food, it seems that BREAD sure seemed to be a recurring theme surrounding this holiday!

For ‘lunch’ we made a build-your-own crostini.  On my side of the pan I did some with Gruyere and tomato, some with goat cheese, some with a pepper goat and peppadews.

I mixed garlic powder and oil to brush on the baguette slices, then baked them at 425 for a few minutes until crispy before adding the toppings.  Then I popped them back in the oven just until the cheese melted.

Garnish with a sprinkle of minced parsley and a few olives on the side and eat up!

Dinner was a his-and-hers affair.

Here’s our little “table for two”:

We picked up a few ready-made things at Whole Foods the night before (some turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy for Cory and some soup and rolls for us both).  We just don’t eat large servings of food so it’s overkill for us to make a feast for two of us.  And since only one of us would be enjoying turkey, that too would be a waste.

A few days prior I made a buckwheat ‘stuffing’ from buckwheat groats, cooked with vegetable stock and some Sage & Savory poultry seasoning,  After cooking I added in some cranberries and pepitas.  Then on Thanksgiving Day, all I needed to do was roast my acorn squash and fill it with the stuffing.

I hollowed out single serve rolls to function as personal bread bowls and filled them with spicy vegan pumpkin soup (Whole Foods).

We had spinach salads on the side to include some leafy greens.  And Cory enjoyed his single serve ‘turkey with mash’, in addition.

We’d also planned on having some stuffed crescent rolls, like Keri made for me, but we just knew we wouldn’t have room.  So we made them the next day for lunch.

We played Trivial Pursuit (on the Wii), watched football, relaxed and even went to see “Breaking Dawn” on Friday.  We soaked up the downtime as much as we could since we knew Saturday and Sunday weren’t going to be nearly as relaxing.  (Another home project would getting underway.)

Today it felt great to get up in my usual routine, get a workout in, have a green smoothie, followed by some kombucha tea later in the morning.  Sometimes the best part of indulgent holiday food is getting back to the healthy stuff!

– Shari B. =)

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Holiday Happy Hour & Double Chocolate Bread Pudding

Nov 28

Posted by Shari B. in Cooking | 1 Comment

Hi blog buds!

I hope that you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving!  What a beautiful day it was in Colorado for the holiday!  Our high temp was 71 glorious degrees!  That made my internal solar battery happy!  ;)

Wednesday, after the workday was done we had our usual Holiday Happy Hour where we kick off the long weekend with apps and a drink.  Whether it’s a long holiday weekend or an impending vacation, that first ‘evening off’ is always festive to me.  We were pretty beat from the day though so this one was nothing fancy.

Our snack was hummus and pita chips:

Along with a celebratory clink of glasses (red wine for her, beer for him!):

Another one of our holiday traditions, be it Thanksgiving or Christmas, is a fun breakfast.  Last Thanksgiving it was Pumpkin French Toast, sometimes it’s cinnamon rolls, other times a vegetarian ‘sausage’ gravy and biscuits, etc.  This Thanksgiving it was Double Dark Chocolate Bread Pudding.  And just for the record this is not “fitness food” or something I would eat regularly.  This is “once in a while, savor it” food for special occasions!

Oh. My. Chocolate. Heaven.  It was creamy, ooey and gooey. I used the recipe from Veganomicon as my inspiration, but changed a number of items.  (As such this is no longer a vegan recipe because it uses chocolate croissants from Panera that I am pretty sure contain plenty of butter.)

Double Dark Chocolate Bread Pudding

Ingredients

  • Coconut oil, for greasing loaf pan
  • 3 chocolate-filled croissants, purchased 2 days in advance to dry out
  • 1-1/2 to 2 cups Silk almond milk in Dark Chocolate flavor, divided
  • 3 tablespoons arrowroot powder
  • 1/4 cup agave nectar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • pinch of sea salt
  • 2 or 3 small ripe bananas, peeled

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 10 x 5 loaf pan with coconut oil.

Cut the croissants into small cubes.  Place into a medium large mixing bowl.

In a second medium mixing bowl, whisk together ½ cup dark chocolate almond milk and arrowroot powder until smooth with no clumps of powder left.  To the bowl, add another 1 cup of the almond milk along with the agave, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and just a pinch of sea salt and whisk to combine. Pour over cubed croissants, stirring lightly if needed to make sure each piece is coated.  Set aside for at least 15 minutes for liquid to soak into croissants.  After soaking, if your croissants are looking dry, add remaining 1/2 cup of almond milk.  Mash the bananas with a fork on a cutting board or in a bowl and gently fold them into the bread pudding. Pour mixture into loaf pan.

Bake uncovered for 32-35 minutes till top is puffed, slightly browned and feels firm. Allow to cool slightly (15 minutes or more so that it continues to set) before scooping and serving.

Are you a bread pudding fan?  Do you like yours more ‘silky/creamy’ or more on the drier side? 

I’ll be back shortly to recap the remainder of the holiday food!

– Shari B. =)

 

 

 

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What a Weekend!

Sep 6

Posted by Shari B. in Keeping Fit | 4 Comments

Hey there blog buds!

I hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend!  Ours flew by in a blink, we were so busy!  We squeezed in everything we’d hoped to except for getting out into the foothills for a hike.  I’m always a bit sad when long weekends are over because I love them so much, but fortunately we have a little trip coming up soon to which we can look forward.  The best part of the weekend was definitely the wedding on Sunday – it was FABULOUS.  We had a blast.  Then we slept in a bit yesterday (yes, 6:15 is “sleeping in” in our house) and enjoyed a SUPER lazy day.

Here are some of the highlights:

 

Wedding Day!!

 

I need to work on my "red carpet" posing! :)

 

Simple, beautiful decor for cocktail hour

 

The cheeses were to die for!

 

Salad course

 

Grilled fish

Sweet sorbet!

Savoring a White Russian

 

My very handsome date ;)

 

Wedding Cake - and I need a decent camera that takes photos in dim lighting

 

Fantastic night!

"Day After" smoothie :)

I may have to ask Santa for a either a lesson in photography using my current camera, or maybe just a different camera altogether.  I love mine 99% of the time, but when I get into dim light, it takes TERRIBLE pictures.  Cindy feels my pain, I know!  I have more pictures but they all looked really blurry.

I also need to ask Santa for an early haircut.  This is getting out of hand:

Too much!

Maybe this week.  (Yeah, yeah – I know, I’ve been saying that since my LAST haircut, which was in MARCH).

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Today I was right back to normal.  Up at 4:40, with a cup of coffee and then a kombucha tea while I trained my morning client.  After her session, it was time for my workout.  I did about 10 minutes of a Brazil Butt Lift “High and Tight” DVD until it bored me and then I did weights instead.  Here’s how it laid out:

 Warm Up
 CHEST SET:
 Pushups
 Tubing Chest Flyes
      (quick rest)
 Pushups
 Tubing Chest Flyes
      (quick rest)
 Pushups
 Tubing Chest Flyes
     (quick rest)
 Pushups
 BACK SET:
 Horizontal Pullups
 Tubing Pulldowns
      (quick rest)
 Horizontal Pullups
 Tubing Pulldowns
      (quick rest)
 Horizontal Pullups
 Tubing Pulldowns
      (quick rest
 Horizontal Pulldowns
 SHOULDER/TRIS/BIS SUPERSET:
 Side Lateral Raises
 Tricep Pushdowns
 Hammer Bicep Curls
 Side Lateral Raises
 Tricep Pushdowns
 Hammer Bicep Curls

It was a super workout and I definitely have squiggle arms now.  I then went right to my juicer and made a cleansing, cruciferous-rich green juice.

I have a list a mile long today, which I hope includes a little YARDIO before the rain comes in. It’s looking dark to the west already, so I better get crackin’!

What was most exciting for you on the long holiday weekend?  A family get-together, BBQ, fun workout, relaxation?  Share it!

Have a TERRIFIC Tuesday friends!  See you soon!

– Shari B. =)

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Christmas, Christmastime is Here…

Dec 24

Posted by Shari B. in Do Something Daily | 6 Comments

Hi friends!

Yesterday I mentioned that I would explain why MSP and I celebrated our Christmas last night (the 23rd).  Here’s the quick version:  we used to always have our Christmas on the night of Christmas Eve and then over time we moved it to the first night of our long holiday weekend, no matter what that day falls on.  We don’t have kids in the household and we (I) love love love Christmas.  Might be an odd tradition to some, but it totally works for us.  We love celebrating Christmas when it’s dark out instead of first thing in the morning.  The ambiance just seems more festive, with the lights on the tree and sitting next to the fireplace.  We happened to learn last night that in the Netherlands (and a few other locations), Christmas presents are actually opened on December 5 (Sinterklaas) so actually we’re a few weeks LATE!  ;)

First we start with some happy hour snacks!

Hot Tamari Almonds (heat raw almonds on low stovetop, toss with tamari and a squeeze or two of sriracha… stir occasionally until tamari cooks down)
Kalamata Olives
Herbed Chevre (goat cheese)
Apple Slices
Manchego (sheep’s milk cheese)
Grapes
White Cheddar
Green Pea Pesto
Spelt Crackers
Rolled Turkey slices

My eyes were way bigger than my stomach when I set out our snacks.  We were stuffed in a hurry and most of it went back into the fridge.

Then we let the pups open their wrapped “Fruitables” – Riley absolutely knows how to unwrap gifts.  Rascal just waits until Riley does all the work, then he steals the treats.

Then we search out some of the best holiday light displays in the area, while sipping hot chocolate and listening to Christmas music in the car.  There were some REALLY good ones last night.

And finally we make our way home to open our gifts from friends and family.  It was a perfectly festive evening!

On the topic of gifts, I wanted to show you what sweet Allison sent to me for Christmas.  She is a fellow blogger, over at One Day at a Time and she is an AMAZING baker. You might remember the cookies she sent me in June.  Well this week I received a wonderful gift package in the mail from her – it was a complete surprise!  I was truly touched by her thoughtful (and very generous) gift.  In addition to her delicious Fleur de sel caramels (homemade!) she also included an adorable “S” ornament AND a Starbucks ornament to add to my collection!!  Allison, thank you so much!

Allison takes orders for custom baking:

If you want to see some of her work, click on these links to check out these cookies she did for a BABY SHOWER, HALLOWEEN COOKIES/CUPCAKES, and CAKE POPS!  She does beautiful work and I can attest to the TASTINESS of her creations.  So if you think you might be hosting a special occasion where you’d like to WOW some people, give her a call or an email!  I think it’s great to see people start a business based on their passion!

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On the DDSD front, it was a lazy day around here so a dog walk in the sunshine was the extent of our movement.  We saw a “cheapseat” 9:25 AM showing of “The Fighter” though, so I FELT like I was doing a boxing workout!  (Excellent movie if you are looking for one to see this weekend!)

I may be offline a bit over the holiday weekend – we’ll see how the days play out.  Feel free to log any DDSD exercise in the comments sections of any December post as they all come to my email.  Or you can hold them till the next post.  Totally up to you!

Hope you have a WONDERFUL holiday weekend!  See you next time!

– Shari B. =)

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Maple Mustard Sauce? Oh. Yum.

Dec 23

Posted by Shari B. in Cooking, Do Something Daily | 3 Comments

Hey everyone!

We tried another recipe from Epicurious that turned out really well and will be a keeper.  In case you are wondering why I’m using other people’s recipes right now instead of my own, it’s because much of the stuff I create for school homework is veggie-based which means MSP most likely won’t care for it.  It’s also because I used to be intimidated by longer recipes – and now thanks to school I’m not anymore so it’s a lot of fun to try some new ones.

For the sauce alone, this one is definitely going to stay in my recipe binder.  Here is the link:  Panko-Crusted Chicken with Mustard Maple Sauce (I used chicken for MSP and tilapia for me.)  MSP loved it and his feedback is to serve the sauce in a little ramekin on the side rather than pouring it over the chicken or fish, because it diminishes the “crisp” of the panko that you just spent all the time making golden brown.  Then you can dip each bite as you go.

The sauce is like honey-mustard that’s grown up and become more sophisticated.  It’s delicious!

My apologies for the boring photo – I wanted to eat my food while it was hot, so I pretty much threw it on my plate and snapped a photo.  :)

I served it with a side of Lemon Basil Quinoa.  I’d soaked it so long it sprouted:

And also a side spinach arugula salad dressed with hemp oil and drizzled with warmed balsamic vinegar and chopped walnuts:

Heating your vinegar in a small pan over low heat along with the nuts takes a simple salad and makes it amazing.

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In exercise news, I have a date with Bethenny this morning for the DDSD challenge…

I’ve been on the waitlist at my local library for almost THREE MONTHS waiting for this DVD.  (Sometimes I really miss that regular paycheck from the corporate world…!)  I will definitely let you know if the workout was worth the wait or not.

What’s on your agenda for the day?  Mine is jam packed, since we are doing our Christmas TONIGHT!!  Wahooo!!  (More on that later… ;) )

I’ll have a full write-up on it soon, but as a little “teaser” I want to give a big shout out to Allison at One Day at a Time.  I was a VERY lucky recipient of her holiday Fleur de Sel Caramels (among some other goodies that I’ll show you when I write that post).  If you need a last minute gift idea that you want to make yourself, check out her post where she links to the recipe.  What a delicious gift!

Have a TERRIFIC THURSDAY!

– Shari B. =)

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Gift of Good Weather and Recipe Suggestion

Dec 20

Posted by Shari B. in Cooking, Do Something Daily, Keeping Fit | 10 Comments

Hi blog buds!

Happy Monday!  How many of you have the week off from work or school?  If so, I hope you are enjoying it!  Although I must admit that I have always loved working the holiday weeks (at least in the office settings where I’ve worked) because everyone always seemed to be in a great festive mood.   So if you ARE at work today, spread some cheer!

It’s ANOTHER beautiful day in Denver with warmer-than-usual temps.  I got up this morning and did an Upper Body Tabata workout and then when I saw that it was 48 degrees outside I had to add on a 45 minute power walk.  I absolutely love to walk and feel sunshine on my face.

I am off to the grocery store in a few minutes to pick up some food for the week (I wanted to avoid the SUNDAY rush at the store) so that I can have some cooked food to actually SHARE with you!

In the meantime, here’s a link to a recipe I tried last week that we REALLY enjoyed and it was pretty quick to make as well:  New Mexico Chile-Glazed Chicken (or Tempeh) on Hominy Polenta from Epicurious.com.

The main addition I made was I added TWO chipotle peppers (the kind that are canned in adobo sauce) to the blender when I made the sauce, and it added some serious heat.  If you like less heat you might only want to add one (or even a half) chipotle pepper.

Using yellow hominy to make a “creamy polenta” was genius AND tasty.  And the sauce just got better the next day.

And if you have vegetarians in the house, you can make it with tempeh in lieu of the chicken.  The stars of this show are really the hominy and the sauce so you could sub any protein source you like.

If you try it, let me know what you think!

Here’s how my tempeh version turned out:

(And of course I shot the photo BEFORE I put the beautiful red sauce on… I must have been hungry!)

Do you eat HOMINY?  Do you buy it canned or do you buy it dried and soak it back to life? When I was growing up my mom used to make me fried hominy for lunch sometimes and I just LOVED it.  To this day I still love it and every time I open a can of hominy, I think back to those lunches with her.

Have a MARVELOUS Monday everyone!

– Shari B. =)

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