Go Huskies!

The Huskies play Georgia tonight - everyone better be wearing their finest purple and gold!

 

In honor of the Huskies I ordered these amazing purple running shoes today.  Well more in honor of the fact that I need new Crossfit shoes but same difference! Check these out and try not to be jealous!

 

via Road Runner Sports

 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I hope you are all having a wonderful St. Patrick's Day!  The pictures from Dash were posted today and I was actually able to find a couple of our group. We're in a few on the pictures on the bottom of this page and the beginning of the next.  Check out Megan's post about the race!

Did you wear green today? Eat anything green? When I was going up my mom would make us all kinds of green food for St.Patrick's Day - green spaghetti, green dye in the milk, green bread, etc. So much fun!  I saw this green monster smoothie on Erika's blog and had to make it today because, obviously, it's green.  I was a little nervous about trying this but it was really tasty. I swear!  Maybe I'll add some blueberries next time?

High quality cell phone picture of my smoothie

Spaghetti Sqaush with Pesto

Spaghetti squash is in season right now and it makes a great substitute for pasta. There are tons of recipes online for both spaghetti squash and pesto but you can pretty much improvise, it's a lot more fun that way!



Raw ingredient



Basil becoming pesto



Finished!

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut the spaghetti squash in half and scoop out the insides.  Place cut side down in a rimmed baking dish.  Add a about a half cup of water to the dish and bake for approximately 40 minutes. Once cooked rake out the insides of the squash with a fork to create 'spaghetti' strands.   For the pesto - I combined a package of Trader Joe's basil with 1/2 a package of Trader Joe's pine nuts in a food processor with some garlic cloves, olive oil and lemon juice.  Combine with spaghetti squash. Enjoy!