Savory Crab Waffles

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I’ve been really digging savory waffles as of late.  Although I like my chocolate, alcoholic and whatever else…savory has been what I’ve been feeling lately.   Also what I’ve been feeling is cleaning out my hoarding collection whether it’s foodie items or clothes or random junk.  Which is where I found 5 cans of crab meat. 

So I bring you a very simple and awkwardly named savory crab waffle.  That sounds awkward typing out though but I sat here for quite some time and couldn’t think of a better name.

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Besides my smoked salmon waffle, this has honestly become my favorite savory waffle to date (and in top 5 favorite waffle recipes).  I like it so much I’ve gone through all five containers of crab meat and will probably end up buying more…then complaining when I grow tired of it and once again have five containers of crab meat.

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2/3 cup flour
1 cup water (I tried milk once and it tasted a bit odd to me, water actually tastes better in this case)
¼ feta or crumbly blue cheese
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
Spices I used: Old bay and garlic

Mix water and egg.
Add flour, spices and baking powder.  Add extra water if needed.  Add cheese and about ½ of the craned crab.  (Save the rest of the canned crab for topping).

Mix and pour on waffle maker.

Once done…top with more crab.

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Questions for you:

Favorite seafood?

How do you get rid of things when moving?

Pretending to Train for Marathon Week 3

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What to say about this week of training?

Well for starters, I fully admit I haven’t exactly been doing anything well this week in regards to training.  My pace was off (ie: slower).  My speedwork wasn’t the greatest and I thought I was going into cardiac arrest during my runs…as my pace slowed.   Everyday during my run I thought about how I need to stretch and use my foam roller and everyday after my run I got sidetracked and then ended up being at work realizing I didn’t do it.

Awesome.

Most people will read that first paragraph and say, well why the hell did you keep running?  Just take time off…well it really wasn’t that bad…  

Meh, it was just an off week for me.  If I ran perfect runs every day of every week…I’d be the Olympic champion…in every single running related this.   I still got base building injury free miles in. While typing this is the morning and reflecting I also think I got some sort of head cold during the week which probably wasn’t helping.  I know it wouldn’t be helping.

Monday: AM: 11.11 miles progressive run with last mile at 7:41
  PM: Cybex 100i cross training
Tuesday: 11.11 miles untimed
Wednesday: AM: 11.8 miles total 5 warmup and 6.5 miles tempo (averaging 6:58 pace)
PM: 5 miles shakeout
Thursday: Off
Friday: 11.2 miles easy shakeout
Saturday: CHKD 8k Race (31:48) 15 miles total
Sunday: 11 miles shakeout
Total: 76miles

 

Which I’m completely happy with regarding this week of training and everything else I had going on. 

The details of Wednesday’s workout are as followed.

It was supposed to be 90+ degrees and there was no way I was doing a tempo run at high noon in the heat with humidity.  So I decided to switch up my miles and do a 5.3 mile loop on trails around my house.  Then I came back and did 6.5 miles at a harder effort.  I knew while doing this workout I wasn’t feeling that great (I chalked it up to being in the AM) as I’m normally able to hold a much quicker pace (read 10 seconds faster per mile in hotter weather) but I mentally got through it.  Then did the PM miles just as easy, shakeout miles.  (instead of doing 10 easy in the morning when it was cooler and 6 hard in the afternoon when it was harder).

Regardless, this certainly wasn’t a highlightable week of training for me.  I think I’m partially under the weather though.  I got some solid cross training in and I’m hoping to be able to get to the pool this week…because right I have a 1 mile swim next Sunday.  Oh well time to move on…I’m becoming less sick and have no running races on the radar until a July 4th 5k.

Next week I hope to get a long run in and speed workout.  Now that I’m getting over being congested, I can have a quality few weeks before my next race.

Questions for you:

Do you workout when sick?

I normally don’t but I just thought it was my usual change in climate (no humidity and cooler from Upstate…to hot and humid in VA)

Are you close with your father?

I am.  Happy Father’s Day to him!

Broccali Slaw Salad

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I don’t often post recipes that aren’t breakfast related…mostly because I stink at them.  But when I want to a fantastic party recently and people actually asked for the recipe to the side dish I brought…well I knew it might even be blog foodie material. 

Broccoli Slaw (makes about 8 servings)

*I doubled this recipe

Slaw:

1 package broccoli slaw

Small bunch of green onions cut up fine

2 cups sunflower seeds

1 cup sliced almonds

2 packages crushed Raman Noodles (I chose the oriental flavoring package)

 

Dressing:

1/3 cup rice vinegar

¼ cup sugar and ¼ cup truvia (you could use ½ cup sugar or ½ cup truvia if you wanted)

2/3 cup olive oil

1 packages of the reserved ramen noodle seasoning

Directions:

  1. Put slaw ingredients in a bowl and mix.
  2. Mix dressing ingredients in a separate bowl and stir well.
  3. Pour dressing mixture into slaw mixture.  You can add some or all (I used about ¾ of it)

And that is that.  Super easy and super deliscous.

Question for you: What do you bring to pot lucks?  Do you have a signature dish? 

Well I suppose this counts as mine since people enjoyed it and it will probably be the only thing I’ll bring from now on…unless it’s a breakfast pot luck I guess.

Mud Monster

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You would think with all my socially awkwardness I would have more running humor stories to share with you.  First and foremost, I am the worlds biggest drama queen when I run.  I won’t run in rain, hail, sleet…snow, if I’m chilly.  A bug bite?  Must be a running related injury…so yes I’m a pansy but that is my running style.   I do have lots of real life embarrassing stories though…

Moving on: My most embarrassing running moment comes from my first year of running actually…when I did go for a run in the rain.  It was warmer fall day and the rain and it was sprinkling off and on…nothing too terrible (that year we got snow on Halloween).  I had decided I would rather run in that then the treadmill with creepy meat heads watching me so that is what I did.

I put on my shoes like a normal run and went out running (imagine that?).  I was wearing my first ever pair of Nike spandex (which I still have) and some sort of other white running singlet.  (First, what I was thinking, I don’t know).

How convenient, I actually have a picture of them. Go me for using good blogging technique.

How convenient, I actually have a picture of them. Go me for using good blogging technique.

So with that I headed over to the opposite university about 2 miles away for some trail running…you can probably see where this is going.  It wasn’t particularly raining at the time, just off/on sprinkles.

Mile 1.  Just over to the other college.

Mile 2.  Beefed it on a branch within a second of hitting the trails.  Mud on my face.  Mud on my shirt.  Mud on my butt…cute.  Mud on my shoes (ruined…just kidding). 

Do I continue running through the trails or go back home and shower before class?  (Which I notoriously always was the last person to walk into class).   Yeah I kept running…

Mile 3-5 were just in the trails still being muddy but there was no one back there thank goodness.

Mile 6.  Honk honk honk.  Hey mud monster go back to the cove!

In my mind: Gee thanks..it’s 11am are you drunk…mud monster…really?

Mile 7: Honk honk honk.  Dammm girl, I like a girl that can get muddy.

Me hollering back: And I like men that get arrested for sharing those thoughts with minors (no I was 20 at the time but can still pass for 17…it’s great).

After a quick shower (pretty sure I still smelled) I went to class.  It wouldn’t be an upper level math course filled with more socially awkward people without someone saying, Hollie was that you covered in mud 15 minutes ago…

Questions for you: Most embarrassing workout story?

Training Talk

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A question I often get…

Hollie, how do you run so much without being injured?

Well if you follow my blog regularly…you know I do get injured.   I have had one stress fracture, a ripped knee tendon, a cyst (not relating to running though).  The fact of the matter is, I am not always healthy as no runner is and I don’t recommend taking my advice solely.  Really I hate when people ask me for advice because I can’t tell you what has worked for me will work for you…

Here is my (very strict) training plan to run fast:

I really just enjoy this photo and it has absolutely no relevance...minus it's a cat..running..

I really just enjoy this photo and it has absolutely no relevance…minus it’s a cat..running..

 

First post cyst injury, I haven’t really done any speed workouts that don’t consist of racing.  My speed workouts are racing.  I don’t go to the track.  I’ll do tempo runs at 7-7:20 pace and call that my speed…even though I race at below a 7 minute pace most of the time.  Heck, I haven’t even worn my racing flats during said tempo runs.  So yeah…speed workouts haven’t happened and I don’t really mind that.

Stretching…doesn’t happen a lot…though I wish I could tell you I was more consistent.

Being a member of planet fitness, I do use their hydrotherapy massage normally after I run on the treadmill.  Oh yeah, I don’t really mind the treadmill.  I don’t push the pace on the treadmill at all…It obviously isn’t hard to make yourself run faster on the treadmill.  You press a button.  When you feel like crap running outside, do you press a button to make yourself run faster than you should be?  Well maybe you do…but I don’t.

So with that I normally don’t really push the pace on the treadmill.  I’d rather be injury free than run 10 seconds per mile faster…who cares.

I also eat a lot.  I’m not going to really go into a big discussion about this…but if you don’t eat enough you will get injured.    You cannot be good at running and worry about how look in the mirror and if your thighs touch.  When you train high mileage…you must eat and yeah I just went there.

I also don’t really know how far or pace that I’ll run until I actually start running.  I don’t follow a plan and I don’t write exactly what I’ll do until it happens.  Every week I say, eh hopefully the week will be similar to last week.  That would be good and that’s that.  Do I schedule 10 miles run daily…no…they just generally happen.

So in short.

I don’t stretch.   I don’t do speed workouts (right now…I plan to when I start training for 5ks…maybe…)

I get hydrotherapy massages a lot from the gym.  (read: I run on the treadmill a couple of times weekly)

I follow a no plan stan.  Scheduling an exact: I will run 10.34859590 mile run on Tuesday and 11.23445 mile run Wednesday…well that isn’t my thing.

I like to eat.  I eat pretty healthy but I eat a lot.

Questions for you: What is your workout plan like?