How Convenient

So that International Food Bazaar I mentioned in this post? It happens to be in the same plaza as my gyro place — how convenient! Shaun and I popped in there for lunch before stocking up on more Persian appetizer ingredients last weekend. It was fantastic! Even more so than I remembered. (It’s been awhile… too long, that’s for sure!)  My mouth is already watering at the thought of going back for more!

{Dolmades}

{My lamb pita and greek salad}

{Shaun’s gyro with greek fries}

Scratch That

Literally.

Poor car, it’s had a rough year. And again, it wasn’t my fault — I still maintain 11 years and 11 months of driving accident-free! Should also mention that aside from someone’s pride, no one was hurt. That’s all the detail I will go into, except to point out something kind of kooky: After the accident and while I was dealing with insurance and trying to sort the auto body shop and car rental, I had a feeling it was about this time last year when I got rear-ended and had to go through the same deal — and I was right! It happened almost a year to the day of my being rear-ended last year. (One of the perks to having a blog is that you can look up dates of certain events as well as what you were doing last year at this time, or two, three, and even four years ago — kind of fun! Or in the case of my car, depressing.)

If you look closely, you can see the scratch is quite deep, so while I wasn’t too surprised when the shop contacted me yesterday to say I need new door frames — as in plural — I was startled by the cost. Not sure why that surprised me, though. Car’s are expensive! So far, the damage is amounting to $5,200! Ouch. Thankfully, I’ve got good insurance!

Wednesday’s Workout + Dinner

Wednesday’s workout – 2 miles walking/jogging + 20 minutes weight lifting + 30 minutes biking

I actually ate a small salad, bowl of curry soup, a pear and slice of banana bread as a pre-workout “snack” (I think I’ve mentioned before how I’m one of those freaks of nature who can eat all that and go workout 10 minutes later without getting a side ache), so tonight’s dinner when I got home from the gym was a simple spot of tuna salad + chopped tomatoes. It was fantastic!

And actually, there was nothing simple about it. We use every opportunity to sneak veggies into meals. Tuna is no different.

Made it in anticipation of the remainder of the work week’s lunches. We combined:

  • 4 cans of white albacore in water
  • red onion
  • celery
  • green onion
  • bread and butter pickles
  • dill pickles + splash of juice
  • jalapenos + splash of juice
  • banana peppers +splash of juice
  • minced garlic
  • ground pepper
  • sea salt
  • grated dry jack cheese
  • dried chives
  • miracle whip
  • light mayo
Paired it with a glass of 2007 Costa de Oro Pinot Noir from Santa Barbara County, CA. It was delish!