Portobello and red pepper sammich with a salad....quite tasty.
Come join me in my adventure...through hopeful kidney donation, and life in general
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Pizza w/Yukon Gold Potatoes & Carmalized onions
This is my friend's recipe...and it's damn delicious... Please try!! (Pics coming soon!!)
Makes one 12 inch pizza that
Ingredients:
1 package of pizza dough (we used Trader Joe's) removed from your fridge and let sit for 20 min
1 to 2 large or 2-3 small yukon gold potatoes
1 small to medium onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup (or more) of daiya mozarella cheese
1 small bag of arugula rinsed
olive oil
salt
First preheat your oven to 350 degrees. If you have a pizza stone pop it in the oven to let it preheat as well. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. With a mandolin or sharp knife slice your yukon potatoes into about 1/8 inch rounds (aka pretty thin). Toss the potatoes and garlic in about 2 tablespoons olive oil on the parchment paper, sprinkle with salt, and put into the oven for 20 min flipping them over at the halfway point.
While the potatoes are roasting, halve and thinly slice the onion. Put them in a small skillet on the stove set to med-med/high heat with a splash of olive oil. You want to caramelize the onions so stir them every so often until they turn a glistening brown. Once done remove them from the heat.
Flour your working surface and roll out your pizza dough into a 12 inch circle. Once the potatoes are done cooking take them and the pizza stone out of the oven. Transfer the dough onto the pizza dough and brush the dough with a little olive oil. Lay out the onions evenly on top of the dough and cover them with the potatoes in one even layer making sure to get the garlic pieces from the baking sheet as well (those are tasty!). Finally top the potatoes with the daiya cheese (use as much or as little as you want).
Cook the pizza for 10-12 minutes. Ours took 12 maybe a couple more cause our oven sucks. When you remove the pizza from the oven top it with the arugula and dig in!
Makes one 12 inch pizza that
Ingredients:
1 package of pizza dough (we used Trader Joe's) removed from your fridge and let sit for 20 min
1 to 2 large or 2-3 small yukon gold potatoes
1 small to medium onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 cup (or more) of daiya mozarella cheese
1 small bag of arugula rinsed
olive oil
salt
First preheat your oven to 350 degrees. If you have a pizza stone pop it in the oven to let it preheat as well. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. With a mandolin or sharp knife slice your yukon potatoes into about 1/8 inch rounds (aka pretty thin). Toss the potatoes and garlic in about 2 tablespoons olive oil on the parchment paper, sprinkle with salt, and put into the oven for 20 min flipping them over at the halfway point.
While the potatoes are roasting, halve and thinly slice the onion. Put them in a small skillet on the stove set to med-med/high heat with a splash of olive oil. You want to caramelize the onions so stir them every so often until they turn a glistening brown. Once done remove them from the heat.
Flour your working surface and roll out your pizza dough into a 12 inch circle. Once the potatoes are done cooking take them and the pizza stone out of the oven. Transfer the dough onto the pizza dough and brush the dough with a little olive oil. Lay out the onions evenly on top of the dough and cover them with the potatoes in one even layer making sure to get the garlic pieces from the baking sheet as well (those are tasty!). Finally top the potatoes with the daiya cheese (use as much or as little as you want).
Cook the pizza for 10-12 minutes. Ours took 12 maybe a couple more cause our oven sucks. When you remove the pizza from the oven top it with the arugula and dig in!
Friday, April 22, 2011
Being sick has been quite annoying. It seems every other week, I'm down with a fever and unable to do anything. Yesterday, I was in bed all day with a fever that barely broke last night. Today, I came back to work only to be sent home again.
With me, I've taken all kinds of paperwork with me. Notes from our retreat, board meeting, lab orders, reimbursements...It's going to be a long Friday.
So now that I'm sick, I'm unable to do my blood tests and my 24-hour urine collection...again. I want to be fit, and healthy so when the committee reviews the results, there will be no doubt that I am fit for donation. Nothing hurts me more than putting our lives (mine and my aunt's) in other peoples' hands, and just.... waiting. I appreciate that they are taking my well-being so seriously, but I feel that my aunt's health should have more priority at the moment. She will eventually die if she doesn't get this kidney, and I will continue living with a "what-if" that will forever haunt me.
It wasn't until recent years that I've learned how much my family means to me. Up until recently, there was nothing I would just give my life up for. Now, I know, I'd suffer a thousand deaths before my family feels pain...well some family members (we can't like them all that much can we?)
If I could wish on a shooting star, find a 4-leaf clover, throw a coin into a wishing well...all I'd ask for on this Earth Day/Good Friday...is by the end of the summer, to be able to donate and save my aunt.
With me, I've taken all kinds of paperwork with me. Notes from our retreat, board meeting, lab orders, reimbursements...It's going to be a long Friday.
So now that I'm sick, I'm unable to do my blood tests and my 24-hour urine collection...again. I want to be fit, and healthy so when the committee reviews the results, there will be no doubt that I am fit for donation. Nothing hurts me more than putting our lives (mine and my aunt's) in other peoples' hands, and just.... waiting. I appreciate that they are taking my well-being so seriously, but I feel that my aunt's health should have more priority at the moment. She will eventually die if she doesn't get this kidney, and I will continue living with a "what-if" that will forever haunt me.
It wasn't until recent years that I've learned how much my family means to me. Up until recently, there was nothing I would just give my life up for. Now, I know, I'd suffer a thousand deaths before my family feels pain...well some family members (we can't like them all that much can we?)
If I could wish on a shooting star, find a 4-leaf clover, throw a coin into a wishing well...all I'd ask for on this Earth Day/Good Friday...is by the end of the summer, to be able to donate and save my aunt.
Now listening to: GLEE - Get it Right
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Pain motivates me...others' pain...
So, I'm back into MMA training. Currently, I work with the guys 3x a week, and do yoga and gym on the offsetting days.
As I was at the gym today, after my sparring session...I was watching two ladies work out. Both Asian, one chubbier, the other skinnier. The chubby Asian, let's call her "Fluffy" and the skinny one "Screech". Fluffy is over there doing some leg lifts, and Screech is completely appalled at the gym equipment and it's sanitation. Apparently both are going through some sort of boot-camp w/my sparring trainer's partner.
So as I'm warming up, watching Fluffy and Screech out and about...the trainer goes to Fluffy and has her to do some squats. Now squats aren't my favorite either, but I can do them without a fuss. Ol' Fluffy over here is turning a shade of pinkish-red that I think I've only sFluffy very aware of where her trainer is at all times, making sure his back is always turned when she's resting. Screech is doing some ab-work on the floor. She makes a high pitched squeal that...I've probably only heard on some sort of Predators show on National Geographic, I wasn't aware humans could make that sound.
Now, I'm no spring chicken, nor am I in my best form. However... watching these two in what seems to be immense pain and agony, it motivates me to push myself harder...to be better. I probably had one of the best work-outs of my life thanks to Fluffy and Screech. I hope to see them again...
As I was at the gym today, after my sparring session...I was watching two ladies work out. Both Asian, one chubbier, the other skinnier. The chubby Asian, let's call her "Fluffy" and the skinny one "Screech". Fluffy is over there doing some leg lifts, and Screech is completely appalled at the gym equipment and it's sanitation. Apparently both are going through some sort of boot-camp w/my sparring trainer's partner.
So as I'm warming up, watching Fluffy and Screech out and about...the trainer goes to Fluffy and has her to do some squats. Now squats aren't my favorite either, but I can do them without a fuss. Ol' Fluffy over here is turning a shade of pinkish-red that I think I've only sFluffy very aware of where her trainer is at all times, making sure his back is always turned when she's resting. Screech is doing some ab-work on the floor. She makes a high pitched squeal that...I've probably only heard on some sort of Predators show on National Geographic, I wasn't aware humans could make that sound.
Now, I'm no spring chicken, nor am I in my best form. However... watching these two in what seems to be immense pain and agony, it motivates me to push myself harder...to be better. I probably had one of the best work-outs of my life thanks to Fluffy and Screech. I hope to see them again...
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Online Dating
This article from CNN regarding online dating...so true...Though, I've never tried it...it's things like this that steer me clear from virtual courtship.
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