The crowded gym tells me people are making resolutions. I support the resolutions in that who am I to tell folks to not try to be your very best. It is a new year, yo. Be all you can be! Reach for the stars! Insert platitude here!
Also, get out of my way! Screw your resolutions!
This is unfair, I know. I kinda sorta have a resolution myself. It isn’t so much a resolution but more than in about a year I am turning…a big number. In the year leading up to the big number I think it is time I get my shit together in regards to my health. Time to see a dermatologist I like, one who can actually help me and clear up the skin that makes me feel less than pretty at times. I should work on getting more sleep and take a more moderate approach with my eating; I am all naughty or all nice. A middle ground would be a decent change of pace. And my mental health? Yeah, I could be kinder to myself on a whole lot of levels. I should change some things.
So, lets not call it a resolution but an assessment, m’kay?
As we are feeling all resolutiony or changy or whatevery, I thought I’d share what I have been hauling in for lunch all week. Healthy whole grains, lean meats, and tons of veggies make a perfectly balanced meal…all in one tupperware container. It is simple, reheats well and doesn’t leave you hungry. This isn’t rocket science or a revolutionary recipe, but it tastes flavorful and you don’t hate yourself afterwards. No so bad in my book.
New year or not, I can definitely live with this.
Quinoa Bowl
1 1/4 cup water
Pinch salt
1 cup red or regular quinoa
Splash olive oil
1 small onion, diced
2 cloves garlic
1 chicken breast cubed
1 chicken (or turkey) sausage, out of casing
1 tsp dry basil
1 tsp dry oregano
Salt and pepper
1 pepper (I used yellow), diced
1 medium zucchini, cubed
3 cups spinach, torn
Feta cheese (I used reduced fat)
Bring water and pinch salt to boil. Rinse quinoa several times. Add quinoa to water, lower heat and cook for 15 minutes. Turn off heat, let sit for 3 minutes and fluff.
Add quinoa cooks, heat oil in large pan over medium high heat. Add onion and garlic and cook for three minutes. Add chicken and sausage and cook for 6 minutes. Add basil oregano and pepper and cook for three minutes. Salt and pepper everything. Add zucchini and cook for two minutes. Add spinach and cook until wilted.
Mix quinoa into the chicken/vegetable mix. Salt and pepper to taste. Top with feta cheese.
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this just made me real hungry.
my only one this year is finish my poetry manuscript and submit it somewhere.
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YUM! Thanks for this! It’s like the perfect thing to make on Sunday and have for leftovers when you don’t feel like cooking the rest of the week!
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That sounds so tasty!!
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A woman that speaks to my heart! I’ve been eating so much quinoa in South America and it is GLORIOUS — filling and so effing healthy. It’s like my food heroin. YUM.
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Like I’ve said before, I just keep resolving to make sure I have my morning coffee. No way I’m failing on that.
I also resolve to never stop reading your blog because the recipes you post make my mouth water.
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I hate quinoa but this actually looks sort of tempting… Why doens’t my spell check recognize quinoa’s existence as a valid word?
Good luck treating yourself better. My resolutions are much the same – not resolutions so much as marked attempts to live better and be better to myself. <3
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The crowded gym is so annoying. Ugh.
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Every single yoga class I’ve attended since Jan. 1 has been sold out. It irritates me to no end.
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Did you buy your quinoa pre-rinsed? If not, you should rinse the hell out of it as it has a natural bitter coating.
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nice recipe!! i just learned how to cook quinoa in the rice cooker, which means i’ll be eating more of it too!
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i hate gyms this time of year!
happy 2010 baby. can’t wait to see what it has in store for us!
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“Salt and pepper everything.” <— My life motto
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You have told me some four times, and I still have no idea what quinoa is.
Maybe I’m just not meant to know.
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Like Brookem and Jessica, I find the start of the year an annoying time to work out. So for the first 2-3 weeks of January I exercise at home. It works just fine, and there’s no crowd. And the music’s about 600% better.
It occurs to me that I could probably do that all the time and save a bunch of money. Hum.
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Oh that looks delicious. I might have to try it. Of course, it won my heart with the feta cheese.
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Ahhh, now that’s something I could take for lunch all week.
Man, I am so hating all the New Years resolution people taking up my favorite treadmills at the gym. I wish them well and all, I just wish they didn’t have to mob my gym all at the same time.
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I think the sinus cold I generally have the first week and a half or so of January means I miss most of the Resolutioners, because when I’m usually at the gym I’m instead lying in bed moaning softly and trying to decide if I can breathe enough to go to work.
Sadly, it also means my taste buds are jacked up, and I’m not much enjoying food, or even pictures thereof.
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That looks awesome! Do you think it will be food with other meat or seafood? I just bought some quinoa for the first time about a week ago, so I’m excited to have something to try it out with.
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Did you just say you like your dermatologist? I’m totally telling! Lemmonex has a crush!
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I’m not a resolution person either. I like to do things as I need to regardless of the month. And the packed gym is sooo annoying. I like quiet gyms. Your lunch sounds good. The hardest part about packing a lunch for me is finding something that reheats well. I’ll try this one.
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I signed up for a painting class and an aerobics class through my local rec center and the classes started this week- mut I had to skip aerobics because I’m dying a slow death from this head cold… Good thing I didn’t resolve to work out or get in shape.
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I made quinoa and chicken Fra Diavolo for lunches this week. We were on the same wavelength or something! And I need to get to a gym. The walking is kaput since it’s 30 below all the time.
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I had to look up what Quinoa was; never heard of it. This is why I come here because knowledge is power.
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I loooooooove quinoa. Funny, though, I prefer it cold. But then again, I always eat it with avocado mixed in, too. Mmmmm…
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I need a resolution. I just don’t know what.
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Mmmm that dish looks so yummy!
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As long as it has cheese, I’m happy.
I don’t know how to say quinoa. I can barely spell it. But if you recommend, I will listen and put down my peanut mms.
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Here’s my question: how the hell do you pronounce quinoa? I’ve heard everything from “keen-wah” to “quin-oh-wah”. Help a sister out?
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Hmm. I bet this would be good with tofu, too. Thanks!
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I was lazy this year and short-handed my resolutions to “rock the fuck out of everything.”
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OY, I cannot cook Quinoa for the life of me. This recipe sound so good, I might give it another shot.
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I think quinoa looks like wierd eyeballs. Which makes me want to eat it more. I know, kind of gross.
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