Its noon and Im eating Ribs

Today was day 2 of the Insanity challenge, it was the Plyometric Cardio Circut.  The entire segment lasted about 45 minutes.  I was nice and sweaty by the end of it! This workout consisted of three different circuts, with about 5 different things in each circut, done three times, with a little bit of a variation in each circut.  Even the warm up for this was 6 moves done three time each, faster each time, with no break in between!! OMG!! By the third round in each circut I was on the floor done for, trying to push myself.  The moves were not hard for me, but I'm not used to not resting in between, so that was hard. I did have to say I enjoyed the moves on Day 2... suicide jumps, jumping squats, skiing moves, basketball jumps, football moves... it was a fun, quick spin on things I would NEVER do!

After, of course, I was super hungry, so I raided the fridge and ate some of last nights leftovers...

I told you I was eating healthy! I had some leftover tilapia, roasted cauliflower, and couscous.  I also had a slice of meaty garbage bread that i made last night, with tons of leftover hamburger in it. These were pics from last night, I was too hungry to take one today.

20 mins later it was time for lunch... heheheee

so I ate more couscous with a rib, then another rib.  All this working out and breastfeeding is killing me on calories, and I find myself pretty hungry lately, even before my two intense days of working out :)

I made Pete a burger melt last night and didn't force feed him Tilapia and cauliflower... and to make it interesting I cooked up some onions, sliced the burger, and stuffed the onions inside the burger.  Then I placed the entire sandwich in the panini maker... and it came out amazing.  Panini makers make the best sandwiches...ever.

Mikayla has cheer after school today, once again she is cheering in the high school homecoming football game... soooo excited!

Quick Shrimp Tacos

I forgot how crazy life is with a newborn!! No matter what I do, I'm holding PJ and spending time with Mikayla, so its impossible to find time to do anything! Blogging has really been placed on the back burner lately, but I must say I have made some amazing meals that I am planning to eventually write about. I'm also planning to beginning to run again, which makes me anxious. 

PJ is an absolute dream.  He is so so so good, and Mikayla is the best big sissy ever.  I just have two absolute amazing children, I'm so lucky.  Today we stopped by Nana and Poppy's house, where Nana fed me this amazing overnight french toast.  I shall ask her for the recipe and post it, because it was really good and would be great to serve for a brunch.

PJ and I took Mikayla to cheerleading, which she really enjoys.  I try to practice all the time with her, mainly because I think its fun and I think shes the cutest cheerleader ever! She is getting the hang of it, and her favorite part is going up on the pyramid.

When we came home we were all starving.  Cheerleading is just such an awful time, its 5:30 to 7, which is exactly time for dinner.  We came home and immediately began to cook shrimp my favorite way, and I decided to make shrimp tacos.  I also had about 4 pieces of cooked catfish in my fridge, so I reheated that in the oven as well.  I haven't ever bought catfish but decided to buy it at BJ's, so now we have a ton of it! (I do like catfish, and would definitely buy it again).
In the tacos were shrimp, Cajun catfish, re fried black beans, spinach, tomatoes, salsa, sour cream, cheese and sliced avocado... so so good!

The fam hung out while I quickly cleaned up dinner because the kiddies needed me to put them to sleep.

You cant see it in the photo but the puppies are hanging out too.  Pete is such a good dad, it makes me smile!

Italian Swordfish Steaks

Sat night at my parents house I cooked dinner and made a few different things.  Its always nice to cook at my moms because I never have to clean up.

We had agreed on steak and something to do with zucchini.  over at Jenna's blog had I seen a recipe for cheesy zucchini pizza and decided it was a must-make for dinner.  I realized we didn't have any pizza dough but had some yeast, so I made my own pizza dough, which was super easy. (Recipe to follow).

while looking trough my moms freezer also found two swordfish steaks and decided to make those.

I actually recently told myself to start eating fish, and this was perfect. I jumped online and googled swordfish recipes, but most had you grilling, which I didn't want to do.  i came across a recipe for Italian swordfish steaks and knew most of hose ingredients could be  found... winner!

First, I soaked some raisins in warm water

and while those were soaking I chopped up about 4 tomatoes and placed them in a bowl. 

I also added sunflower seeds (we didn't have pine nuts... awww, nuts!) and capers.

 In a pan I added some olive oil, and sauteed the garlic and onion.  When that was finished sauteing, I added the rest of the mixture into the pot, covered, and cooked on low for 15 minutes.

When the sauce was finished I spread some olive oil on the bottom of a glass pan, placed the two steaks, and spooned the sauce on the top.

Then I baked the fish on 400 for about 20 minutes.

It was so delish, I will definitely be making the topping again and seeing what else I can put it on!

Swordfish Steaks
2 Swordfish Steaks
1/2 cup raisins
2 tbsp pine nuts (i used sunflower seeds)
4 tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1-2 cloves garlic
1/4 cup capers
olive oil

Oven on 400.
1. Soak raisins in water for 30 mins. In a bowl, combine nuts, tomatoes and raisins (drained). 
2. Saute onions and garlic in olive oil in a pan on top of the stove.
3. Add mixture to the pan, cover, and cook on simmer for 15 mins.
4. Take mixture off stove and spoon onto swordfish steaks.
5.  Put in oven and cook for about 20 minutes.

We split 2 steaks between 4 people, they are so filling!

Lots and lots of veggies

Today I went to work with the hubster, and ate really healthy.  We haven't gone grocery shopping in a while, so last night I actually made pasta for all 3 of us to take to lunch today.  I made some thin spaghetti with vodka sauce, and on top I threw in left over roasted veggies from dinner last night, that were marinated in Italian dressing and cooked on the bbq grill.  I also added in a spoonful of cottage cheese on the side, because I like to eat cottage cheese in my pasta when it gets warm out, it makes it much more refreshing.  Is that weird? My mother always did it, and I do it now too.

On the side I had a tub of mandarin oranges.

After work we went to the playground for an hour to let Mikayla get some energy out.  We also took the pups.  I'm going to try and take her every day this week, because its supposed to be beautiful out. When we came home I was starving, but still took the time to cook and not start shoving food into my face the second I walked in the door.  I decided on a make-your-own stir fry.  I wanted it like a taco night because Pete likes rice, and I don't; Mikayla does, and I like to eat mine over rice noodles or cooked bean sprouts.  So, to each their own, right?

On the table was a bowl of seasoned chicken, frozen schezwan (?) veggies, bean sprouts, toasted almond rice, roasted brussel sprouts (for a side) and two kids of stir fry sauce.

I'm super excited to get a lot of veggies in my diet today, because I have been lacking in this food group lately.  The make your own stir fry dinner worked really well and it helped keep everything fresh so nothing got all soggy. 

I will spend the rest of my night watching one more episode of Desperate Housewives and then call it an early night.  I was so tired today during work that I had Pete put down Post-it note "butcher paper" on the floor, and I took a nap on it during lunch!! I had to.  I was SO SO tired.  I hope to just make it through this week and enjoy a nice, relaxing weekend.