Running and baking

This week I had time to get the house cleaning and groceries done during the week, and on Friday since I worked an hour later on Thursday I got to leave early on Friday, which gave me time to get busy in the kitchen. I started by baking a banana bread, I again used spelt flour and coconut sugar for the recipe. I also decided to try a new recipe I saw on TV when I was watching the Pioneer woman, and you can find the recipe here.

I did use buckwheat flour and coconut sugar instead of what they call for in the recipe, I wanted to make it healthier and it turned out pretty good. Then the rest of the night I got to relax. Yesterday my hubby played hockey and scored the first goal and they also won the game 5-3, and we celebrated after. A friend of mine sent a message on facebook to see who was interested in joining her for a morning run today, so I replied and met up with her at 9:00 am this morning. It was cool this morning and there was a wind but the first half we were against the wind so heading back was a lot easier. We did walk a few times but we did 5 km!  Felt great to be out there running!

I am still going to the gym, but I haven't been outside much to run and it's so much better to run outside. Especially with nature surrounding us.

Now I'm going to relax the rest of the day, other then cooking supper later. I'll be making a jambalaya for supper. I am still doing good with not eating much meat, staying away from dairy and eating very little wheat, but I've been craving jambalaya so I'll enjoy that for supper and get back on track after. I did have my phone on me so my step counter counted every step and I'm already at 10,312 steps =) 

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!!!

Halloween weekend

This past weekend I ended up having more free time. Friday night we did go to a friend's place for dinner, but Saturday and Sunday I had no plans at all, so I got busy in the kitchen. I started with taking out my Joyous Health cookbook. I made the Goji berry glory muffins but I didn't have any shredded coconut on hand, so I just didn't add that in, but followed the rest of the recipe, and they turned out really good! I also decided to try a new recipe and made the double chocolate gluten-free cookies. Those turned really good as well.

I got a lot of house cleaning and laundry done as well, and since my hubby was gone to his hockey game I made a pumpkin chili from the Thug cookbook. Yes it's vegetarian, and it was so good!!

I decided to make it in my cast iron pot that I bought a few weeks ago in Watertown. Glad I finally got to use it and I'm really loving it. I do have some left over chili for my lunches this week.

The rest of the weekend, I got to relax. I got caught up on some of my shows, and watched a few movies. As for the trick or treaters, I didn't give any candies out this year. I thought I would be going to my hubby's hockey game, which we wouldn't have been home on time to pass out candy, but then Saturday morning I decided to stay home to have time to get everything done so then I can relax.

Yesterday's supper, I tried another new recipe from a new cookbook, that my niece ended up getting for me since she saw it was on sale, the cookbook is French, but my sister in law told me how there's a lot of great recipes in it.

They all raved on how good this tomato sauce was, sauce bolognaise, so I had to give it a try, and made it for supper on Sunday. It was in my slow cooker all day and made the house smell so good! The recipe was so simple as well, just needed some firm tofu, which for some reason I couldn't find any at all, so I didn't add that in, but the rest I did, I added a pound of ground Italian hot sausage, it called for a pound of ground beef but I used bison, then they say to add in a bunch of vegetables, so I added in carrots, celery, yellow pepper, onion, garlic, and mushrooms, then added in 2 cans of crushed tomatoes, 1 small can of tomato paste, and they say you can add Italian or herb de Provence seasoning so I added the herb de Provence, and of course a bit of salt and some pepper.

It was really good!! I'll for sure be making this again at some point. We do have some left over, so I'll be giving it to my hubby for his lunches, so I can be meat free again, and some will also be going in my freezer to have another time.

So far I'm doing great with the endometriosis diet. My breakfasts have been smoothies, snacks are the muffins and cookies I made, supper and lunches have been salmon, shrimp, vegetables, sweet potatoes, and left over pumpkin chili.