MORTINI's Feb 2009 CalorieKing Blog
yarrrr
Tuesday, February 17th 2009
one of these days, i'll come up with a real title.pretty sore from my work-out last night. i was doing p90 weights doing them 'set to fail' style - wherein you do as much weight as you can so you can do eight reps - the idea is to do them slow until you can't lift anymore. While my weight is up, my body fat % is about 1/2% lower than it was even at a few pounds less, so I have gained some muscle. I know last weeks eating didn't help, but loosing it may be difficult with the muscle gain. We...
prez day?
Monday, February 16th 2009
I have today off for president's day. My work gives kind of an eclectic mix of days off for some reason. Today's one of the days, but there's other federal holidays that we don't get off. I think it's largely tied to the fact that we have 28 days/year of vacation time to use. So, I'm sitting here, waiting for UPS to show up with my rice cooker & meat grinder. Then I need to go get some resistance bands - i didn't realize the weight range when I bought the one I bought on Sunday (I knew it wa...Uh, yay?
Saturday, February 14th 2009
Had cooking class today. The chef-instructor said that today's class was the roughest one - I can see why. Each group had to cook 2 chickens, make chicken stock, some rices, a vinaigrette for salad and a desert. It's a lot to make, and the chickens have to be done in a certain way because of the cooking time involved. The instructor tries to make it so that he's showing some restaurant tricks to make things faster, or work better if you're doing food for a party, but sometimes, people don't get ...whee
Friday, February 13th 2009
feeling better today finally. didn't walk to work this morning - well, not the entire distance. walked from 86th up, which is 7 blocks up and 3 blocks across - maybe 3/4 mile.I ordered a rice cooker & a meat grinder last night. The rice cooker has a timer on it, which will be handy, and I've been thinking about making sausage for awhile. Plus, ground turkey is $1 more a pound than non-ground, so I can use it there. I think 'sausage' is probably a bad label for what I want to make, sinc...
er, yay.
Thursday, February 12th 2009
finally feeling better. well, i at least don't feel like death in the morning. for some reason with this cold, I feel worse in the morning than in the evening. I think it's because it's mostly a head cold and i get all dried out while I sleep.whee.