Pink and sparkly

I was very productive at Caribou yesterday morning!

Thank you cards done

And check out this cute notebook my sister, Jenny, gave me for my birthday – perfect for keeping blog related ideas together!

Yesterday, I took Abby for a 4 mile run and tried out my new pink sparkle Bic Band.

I’m not going to lie – I was totally skeptical about it staying during the run. . .

but it did! It kept my hair out of my face for the whole run. .  .

Any idea how hard it is to take a picture of the side of your head!!!  

And I felt super cute with my pink sparkly head band!

Last night, we had leftovers from Tuesday night for dinner and caught up on this week’s episode of The Next Food Network Star.

This morning, I made my own iced caramel skim latte – total perfection after an early morning 3.5 mile run with Scott and Abby… it is supposed to be 98 degrees here today with rediculous humidity! Even at 6am it was still 75 degrees and really humid!

Abby was being cute while I enjoyed my iced latte. . . hiding behind her tail!

seriously. . . more pictures?

Today is my last official day of my family practice residency program! Scott is going to take me out to dinner tonight to celebrate.  

Hope you are having a great Thursday!

Ice cream buddies

Yesterday afternoon at my house. . .

After a good nap and watching TV, Abby and I took Scott out for a 3.5 mile run. Both of us were dying, not sure why! It felt good to get back into the air conditioned house and drink lots of water.

Dinner was awesomeness!

I had Scott grill up spicy Italian turkey sausages. I cooked up penne and three cheese pasta sauce.

Combine together and sprinkle with cheese.

Super easy and totally delicious. Scott had 2 helpings – which he almost never does! The spice of the turkey sausages was perfect.

I also had fresh watermelon slices. . . I bought a small watermelon last week and it was almost to the point of being not good – some bites were a little mushy. . . which I hate! But thankfully, most of it was still good!

The rest of our evening was watching Monsters vs Aliens

it was cute and had us laughing!

And ice cream – chocolate chip

check out my ice cream buddies

Abby is getting so brazen, when I still had half my bowl full of ice cream, she tried to stick her tongue in it! I let her lick my bowl when I am done, but definiately not before! When I called her on it, she was like ‘what? aren’t you done yet?’ Cue cute puppy eyes!

And when I was really done. . .she was ready to help me out!

This morning, I am at Caribou, enjoying my caramel skim latte and catching up on my to do list!

Hope you are having a great Wednesday!!!

Kohlrabi

After being gone all weekend at country fest, it was nice to come home. . . because I seriously missed this puppy face!

I like to think she missed me too.  

In other exciting news. . . guess what came in the mail! My pink sparkly Bic band! Scott took pictures of me checking it out!

I haven’t taken it for a run yet so not sure about it’s staying power, I’ll let you know!

Yesterday for lunch, I made myself a wheat berry salad. I really like wheat berries as a base – especially because it soaks up the yummy balsamic vinaigrette I have been in l.o.v.e with lately!

I decided I should check out the kohlrabi we got last week in our CSA bag.

Our veggies come with a newsletter that tells us about stuff going on at the farm, recipes and how to prepare some of the more unusual ingredients. There was a recipe for sautéed kohlrabi and onions, so I used that for my base for cooking the kohlrabi.

I chopped it up – not sure the best way to get the green outer layer off – I ended up chopping it in half and then taking the ‘skin’ off with a sharp knife.

Then, I cut it into pieces and threw it in a sauté pan with a chopped onion and a sprinkle of olive oil. I had some asparagus on hand from our share, so after a few minutes, I put that in there too. Finally, we had corn on the cob last night for dinner, so I sliced that off the cob and put that in the pan to warm up too.

I layered my wheat berries with veggies from the fridge: radish, carrot, green onion, craisins.

Topped with my stir-fried veggies, pita chips and balsamic vinaigrette.

All mixed up.

I didn’t love the kohlrabi. I don’t know if I didn’t cook it right or what, there wasn’t much taste to it and it was kinda fibrous and stringy. I think we are getting more kohlrabi this week so I might have to look up more recipes online and maybe search out how to actually take out that annoying outer layer!

Have you ever cooked with kohlrabi – any suggestions?