September 5: A few hours ago, anxious as heck, I sat in the parking lot at my local gym, waiting. On a whim I signed up for a membership last week with some friends and tonight was my first time visiting said gym. We were taking a 30 minute #HIIT class and while I was excited to try it, I was crippled with fear and anxiety. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been. My belly gets in the way of everything. I’m not bendy in any way. Like at all! And, I have hip issues. I hate being watched. My anxiety made me get to the gym 40 minutes early. Scared I’d be late. Scared to show up after the class started. Everyone looking at me. So I sat in the car waiting. Fretting. Beating myself up for letting myself “go” all these years. If I had stayed in shape, I wouldn’t be scared I’d throw up in front of everyone. I fretted until the very last minute before the class started. But knowing I had a friend waiting and counting on me made me move my butt out of that car. Inside the gym, I swipe my pass and I can
I'm always on the lookout for new and easy family friendly recipes and I really hit the jackpot when I bought copies of The Skinnytaste Air Fryer Cookbook and Skinnytaste One & Done....you can check them out on her website here (no I'm not an affiliate, calm down).
I've tried a few things from the air fryer book, but hadn't really dug in to the other one so last night I tried her "Lemon Chicken and Brown Rice Pilaf" recipe. OMG. It was so tasty. This one was made in a skillet on the stove and the ingredients were all things I (mostly) had at home.
This recipe will definitely make it into my recipe rotation.
I say mostly because I had to substitute a few items. I left out the vermicelli, swapped peas for chopped carrots, and didn't have brown rice so I used white parboiled rice, and lastly, no fresh garlic so I used garlic powder and hoped for the best. Sometimes swapping out ingredients can really kill the whole vibe of the recipe, but in this case, I found it worked and I didn't feel like it was missing anything. I truly loved it. Adrianna (pickiest eater ever) loved the chicken and said she would eat it again. The boys didn't love it as much as I did, but they're not big lemon fans so I take their opinions with a grain of salt lol. And really, since I am the cook in the family, they have no choice but to eat what I make. I always say, if you don't like it, there's always toast or cereal. Deal with it bitches (I usually mutter the 'bitches" part in my head so they don't hear me...it makes me feel pretty badass lol).
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| Before it went into the pot |
This recipe will definitely make it into my recipe rotation.
Tonight I'm going to try her American Goulash recipe in the Instant Pot - I'm determined to get along with that thing...it's been a love/hate relationship from the moment I bought it. But that's another post for another day.
What's your go-to one pot recipe?
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| The chicken was hiding but it's there, underneath the lemon slices |
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