Tuesday 29 December 2015

So much snow!!

We've been pretty lucky with mild weather and no snow, but starting at some point in the night, it started to snow and hasn't stopped!  I got my workout in this morning, took me about an hour to do our driveway.
I did start my morning with a stretch workout for 15 minutes, which got me ready for all that snow. It was a lot of work. I relaxed and had some lunch after, then got busy in the kitchen.

I haven't made much since before Christmas, since we went to Sudbury for a week, so we got back yesterday, wanting to get home before all the snow came down. Now we have this week at home to get things done and relax.

In order to avoid driving out in this weather, I also got a head start with doing groceries once we were back home from Sudbury. Glad I did because our street still hasn't been plowed. I got so many vegetables, some fruit, and a few other things we needed. I saw an episode of the Pioneer Woman on the food network, and she made this spaghetti and veggie salad, and it looked delicious! Therefore I got a pot of water boiling and cooked up this new pasta I wanted to try, it's a spelt flour spaghetti. Then got busy with a lot of chopping. I sliced up half a purple cabbage, halved and sliced two small cucumbers, seeded and sliced a red and yellow pepper, sliced up some kale, and thanks to a gift my dad got me I was able to julienne 2 carrots. He got me this set of carrot peelers, one is just a regular carrot peeler and the other was a bit bigger and it julienne's, works really well! Then I also sliced up a red onion and minced up some parley and added those to a very large bowl. I put the spelt spaghetti in the bowl as well and the dressing was: 1/2 cup olive oil, 1/3 cup of low sodium soy sauce, 1/3 cup of white wine vinegar, 2 tbsp of sesame oil, mined ginger and 2 cloves of garlic and 3 tbsp of honey. I added a bit of pepper as well and tossed everything together.
You can definitely use whatever vegetables you want. She added oyster sauce in hers, but I didn't have any on hand so I just put a bit more white wine vinegar instead. It's now in the fridge and will get eaten for supper. I will be cooking up some scallops that I bought yesterday. I plan to make an orange (zest and juice), soy sauce and some honey for the marinade.

Our week in Sudbury was great, got to see a lot of family. Which would have been nice to stay longer to see more family and friends, since we haven't seen them all, but it is kind of nice being home and not having to drive with all that snow. I did get more books for Christmas, as well as things for the kitchen, so I plan to unpack those and put them away. I'm out of room on my book case, but I have some shelves with pictures and my medals (running) and stuff so I think I will put those elsewhere so I have more room for books. I also got the cookie jar set that my mom made, so I want to make room for those, and they will be very handy to have. I know I won't have any trouble in filling those up.

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas!  Happy New Year!!

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