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Last Week Highlights

13 Saturday Aug 2016

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Seafood Quiche

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Perhaps the highlight was my seafood quiche! I enjoyed making it and eating it! It is great for dinner parties. I also like to make it for ourselves and freeze some pieces so there’s always home cooked food ready to eat at home. Remember though: never leave food in the freezer for more than 3 to 4 weeks… I don’t anyway!

Baked Salmon, Tuna and Chickpea Salad, Smoked Salmon Wrap

Realistically, every meal is an highlight!

And just looking at the pictures maybe, just maybe, THE highlight was…ROCKET 🙂

 

 

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And so it was last week…

14 Sunday Apr 2013

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Tuna Steaks with Cucumber relish

This was our midweek treat! Quick to prepare, healthy and delicious!

Tuna Steaks with Cucumber relish

Tuna Steaks with Cucumber relish

Friday Night date

Myself and Oreste had a special date on Friday: We made fresh pasta together for the first time! Very amusing especially because the whole time we were in bickering mode 🙂 The end result was a delicious plate of homemade pasta with prawns and a fantastic ‘homemade’ date!!!

The start!

The start!

The volcano

The volcano

The perfect dough

The perfect dough

The resting

The resting

The extension

The extension

The quick drying

The quick drying

And the final result:

Homemade Tagliatelle with Prawns

Homemade Tagliatelle with Prawns

And to finish the week…

Asparagus Risotto

Asparagus Risotto

Coteau de la Biche - Vouvray Sec

Coteau de la Biche – Vouvray Sec

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My 5 a day…or maybe not!

12 Thursday Apr 2012

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There’s nothing more pleasing than a good dish of pasta after a 5k evening run after work!

I’ve always been very active! But running wasn’t really my thing.

Almost 3 years ago we moved into our first own flat! We belong to the fortunate group of people whose building has its own gymnasium – and that’s when I started thinking about running!

I started by running a mere 10 minutes at about 8km/h on the treadmill and believe me…I was nearly out of breath! At this point I would think:

Not my thing – going to swim!

But then in March 2010 I decided to do my first 5k Race for Life. Training was a must. Slowly slowly 10 minutes became 20 and then 30 and then 40 and after approximately 45 minutes I was able to reach the most wanted 5k for the first time!

I did the 5k Race for life in Hyde Park on a sunny saturday morning in May with a colleague.

Joana's 5k Race for life 2010 - Hyde Park

We got to the end in 43 minutes!!!

And that’s when I got really into running!!!

Now I could run 5k everyday! And the only reason I don’t is because I participate in other gym activities: I do Pilates once a week and join the group classes when I can. I am also learning ballroom and latin american dance at The London Academy of Dance (www.thelondonacademyofdance.com) which I absolutely adore and strongly recommend!

So, I don’t run 5k a day but AT LEAST once a week, and time allowing, twice or 3 times. I can do it now under 30 minutes – my best time was just a bit more than 26 minutes. Occasionally I reach the 10k!!! I always have to be listening to the right music and at the moment my preferred speed is 10 k/h – at this speed I can keeeeeeeeeeeeeep running…just like Forrest 🙂

And there’s really nothing more pleasing than a good dish of pasta after a 5k evening run after work!

Obviously after running 5k one DOES NOT want to be cooking for a long time. So my preferred two pasta dishes after running are pretty quick to make: Spaghetti with Courgettes and Carbonara!

Spaghetti with Courgettes

Carbonara

Both, as I said, are pretty quick to make, very very pleasing and most importantly MAKE ME HAPPY 🙂

You should definitely try it 😉