The best way I can imagine to cap off this Tuesday is to go to bed as soon as possible. I have been fighting a headache for about 2hours and no matter how much water I drink (or handful of cheerios I eat), I simply cannot seem to shake it. I think it is a lack of sleep headache.
When I got back from the store and post office, I decided to make a snack. I popped 30g of popcorn kernels (100 calories) on the stove. After it was done, I added some cumin, chili powder and some of the mango dressing. It was like a Caribbean Tex-mex popcorn. It was good, if not messy!
I had a few nuts and about 3 handfuls of cheerios right around the time I started making dinner. (Trying to kick the headache.)
So here is how the to-do list ended up:
Get work done for my Thursday meeting (I did get some done but not as much as I would have liked)Get work stuff done for installs todayLiftCall into 2PM meetingGo for a bike ride (But I still did cardio, so I think this can be crossed off!)Bake something for Becky
Mail Becky’s care package
Mail back the crappy phone I got from EBAY (I didn’t have the address, but I did get an envelope to do it tomorrow with)Do a load of laundry
Pack up a few boxes of the house
Write some thank you notesCall Allie
Get email sent out for ECU game
Maybe I’ll do the thank you notes in bed. In general, I call today a success. And my dinner was definitely no exception.
Dinner
I decided that I wanted to make meatballs with the 90% lean ground beef that we had. I mixed the 1lb of beef with 1 egg, 1/2 cup of ground up all-bran, 3T of bread crumbs, 1T of fresh parsley, 2T of fresh oregano, 2T of fresh basil. Then I added 2 garlic cloves and some S&P. I rolled this out into a TON of little balls.
I baked these for about 25 minutes at 400 degrees. I turned them once around 17 minutes.
I had 2 bags of shiritaki noodles that were going to expire next week, so I decided I would use those. I rinsed them really well and then put them in a skillet to help get all the water off them. Then I cut them up.
We had a bag of ragu pre-made microwave pasta sauce that I put into a sauce pan on the stove and added some celery, carrots, red bell pepper and 2 tomatoes to it to give it a less watery texture. I then added the meatballs to the pasta sauce.
That is 1/2 cup of pasta sauce and there are 8 meatballs hidden in there. After the first bite, I did end up adding a little bit of goat cheese to give it a little more flavor.
On the side I had an arugula salad with some cherry tomatoes and Green Goddess dressing (surprising, I know!)
I also had half of a sandwich thin (they are so yummy!) with some basil and about 1T of mozzarella cheese.
All together:
Time to clean up the kitchen and then I am heading downstairs. My head is screaming for sleep!
I actually don’t think I have ever eaten meatballs before – who knew they were so easy? Hope you’re feeling better
hope some sleep cures that headache! your dinner looks yummy, i love the bread on the side with the melty cheese and spices, simple yet creative! i’m about to hit the sack early as well
mmmm homemade meatballs are the best. and that popcorn looks like carmel corn. wither way, I want some now.
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hope you feel better this morning.
I love your popcorn idea!
I usually spritz mine with water and toss with choc protein powder (repulsed yet?
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Miz.
I just went back to reread my comment and I must sound like a freak of nature saying I’ve never eaten meatballs before. I meant I had never made them before. Wow is all I can say.
Why do hunger pains set in after every visit?
Hope you are doing well !
Yeeeahh Shirataki!! What a great way to use them with the flavor of homemade meatballs. I had no idea meatballs were that easy to make either. I don’t often buy ground meat but I really love it when my family has it at home, so I really should start buying it myself. It’s really versatile and can be used in so many different dinners!
Quinn: haha, I am glad I read your below comment before replaying. I was a bit surprised if you had never had a meatball! But they are indeed easy!! And pretty healthy when you make them on your own.
jenngirl: The dinner was yummy. Toasted bread and cheesy is one of my favorite things!
Grounded Fitness: mmmm, I think the popcorn would have been better if it was caramel corn!
MizFit: I can handle the choc protein powder—but the water part. That was where I got a bit disturbed.
Mark Salinas: Thanks—I try to!!!
eatingbender: I feel like I never see shirataki on these blogs. What an amazing (but not quite the same) form of pasta. I like big plates of noodles…I simply can’t do that with regular pasta because it adds up to like 500 cals in no time!!! I like lean ground beef, lean chicken and lean turkey. It really is so versatile. Hamburgers, bolognese sauce, meat balls, tacos, i can go on and on!