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11/14/11 – Manly, Australia
Thank gosh I am off to coach a
school group right now because the Giants just lost, and somehow it was all my
fault…still trying to figure out how I lost the game, but according to Tommy, I
am to blame. I guess I need to
start practicing my defense, I mean cheering?
So for this week I thought my
main theme would focus around cooking!
Of course after deciding this, we went out to dinner tonight for some
Thai food with Gina and Travis. At
least we were being social!
Our gourmet fruit platter breakfast: Papaya with lime, grapefruit, apple slices, kiwi
11/15/11 – Manly, Australia
Tonight’s dish was chicken and
vegetable stir-fry. I picked out
my vegetables to pair with the chicken: broccoli, carrots, onion, and snow
peas. I decided to make a cinnamon
teriyaki mixture to add flavor to the chicken, vegetables and rice. Brown rice was used as the base to soak
in all of the yummy flavor, and after cooking the chicken and vegetables on the
stove, it was all mixed in with the rice.
The cinnamon and teriyaki is just measured based on taste and personal
preference. As dorky as this may
sound, I am one of those kids who always loved a cold glass of milk, and still
enjoy having one with dinner every night, and I must say milk is the perfect
drink to share with this meal. If
you aren’t as big of a fan as I am, a cold white wine is the perfect
alternative!
The most important part of the
meal comes next: triple chocolate trip brownies! In addition to your standard brownie mix, dark, milk and
white chocolate chips are stirred in to make the most delicious,
melt-in-your-mouth brownies!
Another cold glass of milk is a must with this chocolate heaven! Bon appetite!
The best part of making brownies is eating the batter!
11/16/11 – Manly, Australia
Comfort food is always a good way
to go. Tonight’s comfort food
consisted of bowtie pasta with vodka sauce and chicken mixed in, garlic bread
and double stuffed baked potatoes.
One word: YUM!
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread: the perfect breakfast, snack and dessert!
11/17/11 – Manly, Australia
For some odd reason, when
Thursday rolls around, so does the rain.
One of my volleyball coaching jobs I picked up is a Thursday class out
by the airport, meaning I get paid for 3 hours (including the drive there and
back). Unfortunately I have not
coached once on a Thursday because the past three Thursdays have been rained
out; today was no exception.
Instead, today consisted of
signing up for a 2-month gym membership so that we are actually motivated to
workout!
Of course we did not start
working out today, but instead enjoyed a big cup of hot cocoa I brewed up on
the stove with some homemade whipped cream…hot cocoa and a movie is the best
way to spend a rainy day!
11/18/11 – Manly, Australia
Today was our first day to go try
out our new gym, and instead we sat on the couch watching the President’s Cup
all day. I think the problem was
that we have not actually paid for the membership, so tomorrow we are going in
right after I coach to pay and therefore be motivated to go everyday to make
the most of our money spent! Call
us slackers…
On a better note, dinner tonight
was DIVINE. Our lemon and garlic
marinated chicken soaked over night before being grilled up by the grill master
chef, Tommy, while I whipped up some cream of corn and garlic bread. Chocolate dipped strawberries were the
perfect dessert to top off a VERY PATHETICALLY lazy day.
11/19/11 – Manly, Australia
There's nothing like a good burst of electrolytes after a
hard workout, so in honor of this weeks cooking centered blog posts, we
replaced the simple bottle of Gatorade with some coconut water. I am sure
most of you have heard the huge hype about coconut water and how great it is
for you because of the abundance of electrolytes, proteins, etc., so we decided
to give it a try. We did not take the simple path of buying a $5 bottle
of coconut water, but instead bought a $1 coconut from our local market, and
hacked it open to drink the delicious coconut water waiting inside. I
have never been a huge fan of coconut, and actually hated it for most of my
life, but I have to say that it is growing on me and it was a delicious and
refreshing drink after a hard workout. Yes, we finally started working
out again, making good use of our new gym memberships.
Tonight for dinner we had BBQ
pork ribs, or I guess I should say ribs on the barbie. After marinating
them in a mixture of barbecue, teriyaki and soy sauce, mixed with a bit of
olive oil, honey, cayenne pepper and garlic salt, we soaked the ribs in the
mixture for an hour before wrapping them up in aluminum foil and sticking them
in the oven to slowly bake for 2 hours. Tommy and I love the charcoal
taste of the grill, so we poured a shot of bourbon over the marinade and threw
them on the grill for a good barbecue taste, and dug in. I would not
advise this meal for a first date… 
BBQ RIBS!!!
11/20/11 – Manly, Australia
Today was a fun filled day of
beach volleyball. As I explained
earlier, the way to challenge a pair to a match is by putting one of your flip-flops
down by the court. On the
weekends, you can find a line of 10 flip-flops lined up, creating an hour or
two-hour wait until your flip-flop finally comes up. That being said, it is really important to win to stay on
the court! Well, after waiting an
hour and a half, we got unlucky to be matched against a very strong couple we
had played before and got annihilated by.
Let’s just say that today’s match was an exact repeat of our previous
match… Thank goodness we did not
have to sit around for another hour and a half before getting back on the
court, but came up rather quickly just after two short matches, and for the
remainder of the day we won our 6 matches played keeping us on the court for
three straight hours. We missed
lunch, but there was no way we were taking the chance of losing our spot on the
court! I am sure you can tell that
beach volleyball is quite popular in Manly.
Cheese, crackers and wine before dinner.
Tonight was the last night of the
cooking blog theme, and unfortunately it is not ending with a bang. After a long tiring day of volleyball,
we limped home exhausted from hour of running around in the sand, and decided
to just throw together anything we had around the apartment. What we turned up with was penne arrabiata
with onion, some garlic bread, and a nice summer salad mixed with strawberries,
sliced almonds and goat cheese.
Although it was nothing special, it was the perfect thing to fill our
growling bellies. The best part of
the night was digging in to our yummy chocolate treats that we received in a
package my mom sent over! There is
nothing like a little taste of home.
Yes, we still have a cockroach problem...
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