Happy Tuesday

Posted by Michelle

December 29, 2009

It was another forgetful morning today as I forgot to snap a photo of my coffee. You guys know what it looks like, though.

Today’s oats were so good. The hubster asked me, “Don’t you get tired of oats every day?”

Nope!

Our usual Wednesday ladies lunch got pushed up to Tuesday this week so today I had lunch at El Toro Mexican Restaurant. Here in Houston there’s a tex-mex place on every corner. Good reason for that as we Texans love our tex-mex!

I ordered the soup and salad: chicken tortilla soup and small fajita salad.

Once I removed all the tortilla strips I discovered this lovely soup!

Wow! It was really good. I could have slurped down this whole bowl easily, but I controlled myself. I was actually really proud of myself at lunch today. Typically I have no willpower at restaurants, but I’m trying hard this week. Zero chips were consumed. Only half my salad and about a third of my soup consumed. That filled me up so I put a halt on the eating. Good Michelle!

In the afternoon I had a snack of Wasa crisps and a wedge of Laughing Cow cheese spread. I’m not sure what I think of the LC cheese yet. It tastes ok and is low in calories. I’m just not sure yet where it falls on my personal health scale. How processed is this cheese?

Anyway, the crisps and cheese were an ok snack. They certainly held off my hunger until dinner.

It was COLD as I was leaving work. Now, I’m sure you guys more northern residents will chuckle, but when it gets in the 40’s around here that means “holy crap it’s cold!” weather has arrived.

Rainy weather didn’t help. I slipped my gloves on for the drive to the gym.

I had a great workout today! Thirty minutes of strength training and 30 minutes on the stairmill. I did an interval “fat burning” workout on the stairmill. It was great.

Sweaty, happy, post-workout smile.

Tonight we had one of my favorite meals. It’s such a quick and easy meal to prepare that it’s hard to believe it’s soooo good!

No fancy name – Pasta with Feta and Garbanzo Beans

I got this recipe from Cooking Light.

Here’s what you need:

First, get your pasta cooking. While it cooks…

Coarsely chop some spinach, as little or as much as you’d like. Put the chopped spinach in your colander. Trust me.

Prepare your garlic. Again, use as little or as much as you like. Chop or press the garlic depending on how intense you like it. We are huge garlic lovers here so I added many cloves and pressed them.

Drain two cans of garbanzo beans and measure out a quarter cup of olive oil.

Once the pasta is done cooking pour/drain it into your colander that has the spinach in it. The hot water will pour over the spinach and letting the hot pasta sit on the spinach for a couple minutes let’s it soften up some.

Put the pasta and spinach into a big bowl. Add in the oil.

And garbanzo beans.

Mix well. Then add in the garlic and mix well again.

Finally add in the feta. This is my favorite step. Mix well once more. You may want to add some salt and pepper here as well. I like lots of S/P on this dish personally so often I leave these seasonings for the individual bowls.