day 33: Olympic hockey
I must admit that yesterday I didn’t feel so great. I didn’t get around to working out, but I was tired for much of the day that I don’t think I would have made it through a workout anyway. Luckily today I’m feeling much better. I even breezed through an intense power yoga class this morning, no problems.
For breakfast I had my prescribed breakfast smoothie with banana, beet greens, and grapes. I’ll be making variations of this for breakfast the next three weeks of my cleansing diet. I just know I’m going to be missing my usual oatmeal and eggs.
3 c. beet greens
1 pear
1/2 avocado
1/2 c. walnut halves
1/4 c. raisins
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
Verdict: Besides looking like ditch water this smoothie actually tasted really good! At first taste I wasn’t impressed, but I ended up chugging it pretty fast because it was so tasty. I got the ginger/nutmeg idea from Laura.
Today Matt and I hosted a party to watch the Gold Medal hockey game. It was a potluck so everyone had to bring a dish themed around a country competing in the Olympic games.
Since I love bread, the Olympics are Greek, and the whole day was a celebration, my dish was “Greek Celebration Bread“. It was a hit! I got the recipe out of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice book that I’ve been baking through for the BBA Challenge. The bread is an enriched bread with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice along with cranberries, raisins, and walnuts. (Hence, the raisins, nutmeg, and walnuts in my lunch smoothie).
We had quite the spread at our little shindig. Among other things we had Belgian waffles, Italian salami and cheese, French Onion soup, Chinese spring rolls, and Tim Horton’s doughnuts and Timbits. Of course, because of Lent, I wasn’t able to eat anything : ( This is by far the hardest Lenten fast I’ve ever done.
In all the business, I never ended up getting around to making my dinner smoothie. Ah well, to late now.
What an fantastic hockey game, eh?!
One thing left to say before bed: GO CANADA!!!
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Woot, a fellow Canuck! It was a great win today.
The bread you made looks amazing! I bet it was a big hit. ^^
A few Canadian friends here got up super-early to watch the hockey game live but I couldn’t be bothered.
Heard it was a fantastic match, though!
What an interesting smoothie! It sounds really good!
I am so proud to be from Canada! We did AMAZINGLY well!!
Great party!! I love the looks of the Greek Celebration Bread! Yummm
GO CANADA!!!
sorry you weren’t feeling good yesterday. but WOW that bread looks fantastic!!
Looks like a gorgeous spread- I’m sorry you didn’t get to enjoy any of it! I made my friend a cake this weekend and couldn’t partake, either
Stay strong! Have a great Monday 
Oh wow that bread looks define! And I think that truly meal-worthy smoothies often look questionable, but aren’t. Staying strong on this end too!
Oh that bread looks fantastic! I am such a carb whore…
hey chica, how come when i tried to follow you in my google reader it doesn’t let me? it randomly has posts from some other website, and says it can’t generate a feed for yours? i’m sure i typed it in right!
yay! the game was AWESOME!! looks like your food spread for the viewing party was similarly good
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