{"id":9672,"date":"2009-12-02T19:08:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T23:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2009-12-03T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:52:07","slug":"december-2nd-2009-spicy-chocolate-covered-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/12\/december-2nd-2009-spicy-chocolate-covered-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2nd, 2009: spicy chocolate covered feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 Can I tell you that I had the most glorious sleep last night!\u00a0 We started the Pens game and I had some tea, which I apparently forgot to take a picture of.\u00a0 Doh!<\/p>\n<p>By 10pm, I was calling it quits and went to bed.\u00a0 I slept like a rock and it was amazing.\u00a0 The best sleep I&#8217;ve had in a while!<\/p>\n<p>I was going to run today but decided to give my ankle a bit of a rest since I tweaked it a bit yesterday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s okay, just a tad sore.\u00a0 I was starving though so I got crackin&#8217; on breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9674\" title=\"Christmas bowl \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_bowl-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas bowl \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_bowl-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_bowl.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s festive bowl!\u00a0 And I believe this is all that I have which means I need to get some more stat!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9675\" title=\"Coffee and oats \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee and oats \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_breakfast.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Huge bowl of blueberry oats and I&#8217;m not even kidding about its hugeness.\u00a0 I made double the batch of oats that I normally make and ate most of it saving a bit for Scott.\u00a0 I have no shame in wolfing down a large bowl of oats!<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long after breakfast that I took Rocks out for his walk.\u00a0 No hour walks today because of the durn ankle.\u00a0 My ankle did get a bit sore during the walk so I guess it&#8217;s a good thing I didn&#8217;t run.\u00a0 Once we got back home it started pouring rain and hasn&#8217;t quit. :o\u00a0 Next to slush, cold winter rain is one of the worst things.\u00a0 Blech.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch was typical:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_salad.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9679\" title=\"Salad \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_salad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Salad \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_salad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_salad.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No feta today but cranberries and raisins were added.\u00a0 And also some banana chips that were cooked in coconut oil and left unsweetened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_smoothie.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9680\" title=\"Smoothie \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_smoothie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Smoothie \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_smoothie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_smoothie.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smoothie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1C OJ<\/li>\n<li>1C Carrot juice<\/li>\n<li>1C Unsweetened cranberry juice<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Frozen pineapple<\/li>\n<li>Frozen mango<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delish!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_crackers.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9676\" title=\"Hummus and crackers \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_crackers-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Hummus and crackers \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_crackers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_crackers.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sabra sundried tomato hummus and crackers.\u00a0 I finally found this hiding out at another grocery store!\u00a0 It&#8217;s really tasty but jeeze Sabra totally skimped on the sundried tomatoes.\u00a0 There&#8217;s barely any in there!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9678\" title=\"Smoothie, salad, hummus and crackers \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_lunch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Smoothie, salad, hummus and crackers \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_lunch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_lunch.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oranges in the back for some fresh fruit action.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I got busy getting stuff done around the house.\u00a0 I had some zucchini, last of the summer stash, that needed used up quickly because it was starting to turn.\u00a0 I decided to use it to make some chocolate zucchini bread.\u00a0 Heaven!<\/p>\n<p>Then while I was in the kitchen I prepped dinner and got that ready so I would just have to heat that up later.\u00a0 It involves peppers and salsa, but you&#8217;ll have to wait till you get down that far before you find out what it is.\u00a0 I had just finished that and was about to add more garlic powder when the bottle caught on the shelf and I dropped it.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t have been a big deal except the top popped open and I lost half the container of garlic powder to the floor. <img src='\/images\/grumpy.gif' alt=':grumpy:' \/>\u00a0 It was one of those huge containers that you buy at the warehouse stores.\u00a0 Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled out the Swiffer Sweeper but that stupid thing is only handy if you need to pick up some lint otherwise it stinks and doesn&#8217;t really work.\u00a0 This meant I had to get out the vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>I hate our vacuum.\u00a0 It&#8217;s old and Scott refuses to let me get a new one because the one we have &#8220;is good enough&#8221;.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had this conversation loads of times.\u00a0 The thing is, it&#8217;s a bag vacuum, which automatically makes it old and dated.\u00a0 But because we&#8217;ve had it for so long, when it runs, it smells like my dog&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<p>Lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we have company over I have to vacuum three days in advance just to make sure the smell has dissipated by their arrival.\u00a0 I just use a paint roller on the carpet to get the &#8220;freshly vacuumed&#8221; look right before company arrives.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just being honest up in here.<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine the fantastic smell I was assaulted with in the kitchen today:<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate zucchini bread baking in the oven paired with spicy Mexican-ish type dish coated in garlic powder and all brought together and assembled in a bouquet of Rocky&#8217;s feet.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you wanna come over?<\/p>\n<p>I got the kitchen cleaned up and decided that since the house already smelled like feet, I might as well keep vacuuming.\u00a0 So the downstairs got taken care of.\u00a0 After all of that it was time for dinner!<\/p>\n<p>Stuffed peppers!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_stuffed_pepper.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9681\" title=\"Stuffed peppers \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_stuffed_pepper-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Stuffed peppers \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_stuffed_pepper-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_stuffed_pepper.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had beans on the mind lately and decided to just make a big pot of pinto beans today.\u00a0 When it&#8217;s cold and rainy out, I like having something on the stove or in the crockpot cooking away doing its thing.\u00a0 Beans on the stove were perfect.\u00a0 I cooked a cup of pinto beans in loads of water with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Celery<\/li>\n<li>Onion<\/li>\n<li>Jalapeno<\/li>\n<li>Chipotle pepper and some sauce<\/li>\n<li>Garlic powder (before I lost half of it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I sauteed up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Red onion<\/li>\n<li>Jalapeno pepper<\/li>\n<li>Carrot<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then added in some frozen corn and some of the pinto beans.\u00a0 I also tossed in the leftover brown rice from yesterday and added a little bit of salsa to that.\u00a0 Stuffed in green peppers and baked for about 45 minutes at 375.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9677\" title=\"Stuffed pepper and baked sweet potato\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Stuffed pepper and baked sweet potato\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/OHC-12-02-09_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The last 5 minutes, I topped them with pepperjack cheese.<\/p>\n<p>With a sweet potato on the side.\u00a0 I love sweet potatoes paired with spicy things.\u00a0 Someday I&#8217;m going to make loaded sweet potatoes and see how that turns out.\u00a0 Oh! And there was also some Fage on the side for &#8220;sour cream&#8221;.\u00a0 So good!\u00a0 I apologize for the &#8220;mess&#8221;, it wasn&#8217;t until I was done cutting up half the pepper I realized I forgot to take a picture.\u00a0 Ooops!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m off to read for a bit and then hit <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Stick Fighting'>SF<\/abbr>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s cold and rainy and I so don&#8217;t want to leave my house.\u00a0 Perhaps there will be some tea in my future when I get back home!\u00a0 Till tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 Can I tell you that I had the most glorious sleep last night!\u00a0 We started the Pens game and I had some tea, which I apparently forgot to take a picture of.\u00a0 Doh! By 10pm, I was calling it quits and went to bed.\u00a0 I slept like a rock and it was amazing.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2w0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}