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Seafood Eats

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If you are addicted to watching the news in the morning, like myself, you will see Northern New York is in the snow belt.  God I can’t wait to go back to school tomorrow…this 50-60 degree weather is nothing compared to that…not.  So here to my NY friends, is why you go to school out of state.  You get the best of both worlds.

 

I regret to inform you, due to a power outage at my college, my email is down.  I will hopefully catch up with you guys tomorrow if you have emailed me.  :)   Too bad I needed to do my work on blackboard but of course that is down too.  Hopefully my food isn’t spoiled up there.

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For dinner last night we went to Don’s Seafood Restaurant.  I had the seafood platter which included an oyster, scallops, flounder, and a crab cake.  I forgot it also included shrimp until I saw my picture.  Oh my goodness-it was delicious.  I love having so many different types of seafood at my fingertips.  My mom also got the same thing.

Seafood Platter

Anywho-I’m still on the Eastern Shore today.  My parents decided they wanted to stop at a breakfast buffet this morning.  Oh great-the one place I wanted to avoid-buffets.  Maria’s had the atmosphere of a diner but was an actual restaurant.  I’m pleased to announce that I didn’t go overboard-I didn’t even eat until I was full.  I had two plates (and after taking those two pancakes, I took one bite and decided they weren’t as good as I had anticipated.).  It was actually a huge accomplishment for me to go to a buffet and not overeat.

Maria's Breakfast Buffet

Eggs, pineapple pancakes and french toast stick

French Toast Sticks, eggs and sausage gravy (I decided I was not a fan of the sausage gravy)

Mystery Sausage-it was like a breaded sausage...I'll never figure it out.

For lunch today, I was content but my dad insisted that we try the best ice-cream in Chincoteague.  I must say it was possibly the best icecream in the area-I had cake batter and vanilla buttered rum.  Although-I haven’t had “Mr. Whipys” which the locals kept raving about.  Then I was full until dinner ha.

Best Ice-cream?

We got stopped though-some passerbyers were hogging the road.  We literally waited for about 20 minutes because these beauties wouldn’t pick a side.

Dinner we stopped at a place on the way home called Stingrays.  If you are ever going down the Eastern Shore of Virginia let me know and I’ll point you in a some delicious eats.  I actually asked my mom if we could go to another restaurant called Sunrise which has more than fried fish but she really wanted to go to Stingrays.  I had salmon, a baked potato and to try something new-I went for baked pineapple.  Oh boy that is delicious.  I never even know people baked pineapple.  I am glad I am in my trying new things mode.

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Day 2 was a neutral day for me.  I didn’t get to work out today, but I didn’t binge eat either.  Although-I’m not sure how ice-cream qualifies for lunch…but when in Rome…It was a mini success for me this morning at the buffet-but I am still going to not eat a lot at our school buffet.

This trip made me realize how much I miss good seafood, so I’m sure you will see a lot of that on my blog in the upcoming days.

Have you ever taken a mini vacation with your family?

Pumptein Protein Cakes

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Today I decided to try something new for breakfast. I read from The Great Balancing Act-Protein Cake. It even has pumpkin! So it’s perfect-

Pumptein Cake
I’ll be making this more and thus getting a better photo!

I used the following

1 hot cocoa mix
1 scoop Isopure Protein
2 tablespoons egg substitute
2 tablespoons pumpkin

I topped after it cooled with Chobani Greek Yogurt.

Then place in large microwavable dish. (It’s a puffer). I microwaved mine for 66 seconds but my microwave is industrial.

I didn’t go for a run before class today because it was pouring rain. I am beginning to enjoy educational psychology a whole lot. At first I was complaining but it isn’t as bad as everyone keeps making it seem to be. Today in class, my teacher asked if it was me that is always running around campus. I was a bit embarrassed and said yes and he said he might even come to a cross country race.

Then in set theory and logic we got our tests back. I got an 85! That means I have a 3.7 in the class right now (out of a 4.0 scale) and in upper division math courses how can you complain?

Aram and I went to Dexter’s on Campus today. I had a turkey and roast beef sandwich and he had his pita humus bread. I liked his better ha. I have taken a real liking to humus and I think I might purchase some at the supermarket next time. Also with our meals came pumpkins! I cannot escape them I swear!

Fruit Salad

I think Aram enjoys seeing himself online :)

Today really tested my motivation for running. It was pouring rain at 6 am and pouring rain at noon. I needed to run so had to run in the pouring rain at noon. I hope I don’t sick because I won’t be shocked.

Then off to swim practice. Today was 5500 of IM practice. I met a new person on the swim team. I felt accomplished before practice even started.

800 warm-up
600 pull
2X4X50 Butterfly drill
4X50 Butterfly
800 Freestyle
8X100 Backstroke
250 Breastroke kick (this seriously took me more time than the 800s ha)
7X200 Im Interval
250 Breastroke

6:00pm Aram and I were feeling something warm and pumpkiny. The Oatkins seemed prime and ready to go. So we had breakfast for dinner. We also made Turkey Sausage and seasoned with a little too much garlic. Needless to say my swim lesson student will not be as overjoyed by the sausage as I was.

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Well I’m off to teach lessons and work on some homework before tomorrow. Never fear-I will be back tomorrow to do the Pancake Challenge and add a fourth checkmark under my name on the hall of fame.

I’m looking for high protein warm meals. If you have any good recipes, please post them. The protein cake is exactly what I was looking for.

Pumpkin recipes are also what I'm looking for