Friday, March 16, 2012

Friday Food

A few weeks ago, I mentioned cleaning up my diet a bit.  How is that going?  Actually, it was going pretty well.  Until last weekend, when I went shopping immediately after the half marathon.  I ended up with a snack fest that included cookies, cake pops and ice cream purchased at the store.  Whoops!  Luckily, things are back on track this week since we managed to polish off the goodies pretty quickly.  If I bought that much junk food after a half marathon, I hate to see what I'm going to bring home next weekend.  After the HAT Run 50K, a stop at Trader Joe's is planned for the drive home.

In the kitchen, there have been a few hits and misses recently as well.  I attempted to make fruit leather and while the flavor was great, drying in the oven didn't work out so well.  The texture was just awful so they ended up in the trash.  I used this recipe.  I think it deserves another chance because I had some issues with the timing on this.  I made it evening and it didn't dry before I was ready to go to sleep for the night and I didn't want to leave the oven on overnight so I had to finish drying it out in the morning.   I think that could have been part of the issue!

Looks OK - ended up too leathery!

Over at the OAMM website, my latest contributions have been:

Yogurt Covered Fruit and Granola 


Italian Turkey Zucchini Burgers


Luckily, both of those are good!

5 comments:

  1. yogurt covered fruit and granola! looks declicious...I will try that.

    I love your new header!

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  2. Yum, I love fruit leather, but always thought you needed a food dehydrator to make it. That is cool that you can make it in the oven!

    Grocery shopping while hungry is dangerous - especially after a race when you feel you've earned some treats. ;)

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  3. Oh man, you went shopping after a race!? That is a disaster waiting to happen. I can't even shop a little bit hungry. I end up with all these disjointed pieces of meals! After a race I would be a mess. But I do love a nice Frappuccino after a race!

    That fruit leather looks good! I have never tried to make it before, but will be interested to hear how your Take Two works out!

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  4. Ooh, fruit leather. IF you try it again and it works, I want to know!!!

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  5. Fruit leather...hmmm...that sounds interesting. My love of kale chips (proper ones) and my overall cheapness have me contemplating buying a dehydrator.

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