So many noms!

This past week I had the BEST food.  I'll let the pictures do the talking.

Gluten-Free lasagna from Bunky's cafe (actually from 2 weeks ago)

ONE of the TWO complementary plates of gluten-free cheesecake from Bunky's!

Gluten Free Badgers club actually had dinner with the Dean of students at a local restaurant called Bunky's Cafe!  There menu is all gluten-free except 1 or 2 things.  The lasagna was to die for and the free desserts didn't hurt!

Potatoes covered in warm tomatoes and garlic at Jolly Bob's

Chicharron chicken at Jolly Bob's

Jerk Pork skewer at Jolly Bob's

Life changing Conch Fritters at Jolly Bobs

My mom is OBSESSED with groupon.  She bought not one but TWO groupons to a restaraunt called Jolly Bobs and after many failed attempts of planning to go it was the expiration date.  So I hurried over after lab at 5:30 with my bestie Maggie and Rob.  The place was PACKED with people trying to use their groupons!  We eventually got our food and made it out in time for our meetings at 7! It was a record!  As you can see the food was unreallll!  The conch fritters were SO amazing.

Swiss, egg, asparagus, and mushroom on everything bagel at Einsteins Bagels

This einsteins bagel was the first thing that I've been like wow not being gluten free could be awesome if I could eat this everyday.  It was so good for some reason.

Chinese Vegetables (might have been consumed twice this week)
I love stopping in at the food court to get a small container of veg.  For $2.65 I feel like its better than getting a coffee.

Rueben and African Peanut Stew at the Great Dane

I love the Great Dane and Jack always gets this African peanut stew when we go.  It is chock full of chicken and amazeball spices.  The rueben is self-explanatory, I could eat one everyday.

On the gluten front, I've had 2 really bad days.  One of those days was yesterday and I couldn't go on my 8 mile run because of the body aches and other digestive issues.  The thing I notice most is my ability to fall asleep ANYTIME and the body aches.  The digestive issues are still there, but they had been pretty bad the last 2 months being gluten free so I'm used to them.

Fitness

Since I started work I haven't been sticking to my training plan completely, but I did fit in 3 runs at the end of this week.

Th- 6 miles

Fr- 3 miles

Sat- upset tummy :(

Sun- 8 miles

Today I ran my 8 miler in 75 degree weather in 1 hr and 14 minutes!  I have never seen so many people out in Madison!  It was actually a blessing I couldn't run yesterday, because today was AMAZING.

My favorite feature of my forerunner is definitely being able to see where I ran on google earth.

School

After this week of school, I have a week of hell and then it's Easter!  So I'll hopefully be posting!

xoxo,

Rachel

Home is where the cooking is

I finally got home yesterday after a successful interview and trader joe shopping!  I spent the night cooking whatever I could find.  The main event was chicken stirfry!

Spent seriously 30 minutes chopping

I planned on making chicken lime tacos, but the chicken madre wanted me to use up was already marinated in an Asiany marinade.  First, I sauted some garlic and fresh ginger and then added the chicken.

Wok magic

Madre got this wok in china town in San Francisco and it is literally the best thing ever.  I don't know how we lived without one.  I transfered the chicken to another dish and let the veg cook before adding the chicken back in.

For a family of 3, whoops

As I cooked the stirfry madre put brown rice in our fancy new rice cooker.  It all turned out really well and the chicken was super moist!  I could feed an army with how much I made though, whoops!

I spent the rest of the night finishing my chemistry homework that took literally 2.5 hours.  I have 2 exams the week I get back from spring break so I'm already studying for those, because I GO TO NYC IN TWO DAYS!

This morning I woke up and wanted one thing...Pancakes!  It has probably been at least 6 months since I've had pancakes!

Oat Bran Pancakes with banana and choco chips

Recipe:
1/4 c oat bran
1 T chia seeds
1/2 tsp baking powder
Dash of cinnamon
1 packet of stevia
1 egg white
1/4 c plain yogurt
just a little water to make more liquidy

These were SO good.  I loved the chewy texture.  I obviously made too few, but I hate making big batches of things that I don't know if they'll be good or not.  I'll definitely be making these again though!

Fitness
I've been pretty good about keeping up with my 1/2 marathon schedule.  I have a 6 miler scheduled today and a 3 miler I need to fit in tomorrow.  This will bring my weekly total up to 17 miles.

I'm not sure if I'll run at all in NYC, but I'd love to in central park!  I'm not going to worry about it though.

*****

Now I have a hot skype date with this girl to discuss NYC plans!  Ahhh 2days!

A lot of this will be happening in NY

xoxo,

Rachel