Revamping my diet

As the colder weather starts creeping in...I will start making some adjustments to my diet and workout to keep out the boredom.

Cottage Cheese Pesto

Stumbled across this recipe and was delighted that it was sooooo good!!!!
Recipe Courtesy  Martha Shulman


Ingredients
2 plump garlic cloves, halved, green shoots removed
1/2 cup fresh basil or parsley leaves, or a combination
1 cup low-fat or nonfat cottage cheese
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
1 tablespoon plain low-fat or nonfat yogurt
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan


Directions
Turn on a food processor fitted with the steel blade, and drop in the garlic. When the garlic is chopped and adhering to the sides of the bowl, stop the machine and scrape down the bowl with a spatula.

Add the basil and/or parsley, and process until finely chopped. Stop the machine, and scrape down the sides of the bowl.
Add the remaining ingredients, and process until smooth and creamy. Serve with pasta, or as a dip or spread.

If serving with pasta, use 2 to 3 tablespoons of the cottage cheese pesto per serving (in my home, that’s 3 ounces of dry pasta). Add a spoonful of the pasta cooking water to the cottage cheese mixture to dilute it before tossing with the pasta.

Yield: Makes 1 heaped cup (about 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons).
Advance preparation: This will keep for a couple of days in the refrigerator. It will become more pungent, however, and the green will fade.

**My variation: Can substitute the basil/parsley for rosemary and it was yum too. I have used this recipe on pasta and as a dip with ritz crackers. For some extra umph, I added smoked salmon (you can find it in the refridgerated section in your grocery) into the food processor.

I used no sodium chicken stock instead of water when I made it for pasta....Don't dilute too much!

No food processor? Try the blender, just takes a little more time and effort.**

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FSU parking rant

I HATE having to waste time and gas driving around the parking garages for 15-20 minutes to get a parking spot!

If you are a freshman, and you leave your car in the parking garages for days and weeks at a time without using it, please leave it home or park it in the garages that aren't right next to high traffic buildings. For the love of all that is right and humane in this world :) That is all.

What do you do when your life gets too hectic??

Be super prepared!!!! I start classes again next week and I'm working @ the Derm's office + going to school + volunteering + putting in 4 hours at the Neuro lab = every waking hour packed to the max with stuff to do...
Does that give me an excuse to eat like crap and skip the gym??? Nope!

Being prepared is the only thing that will get me through it .....besides the cruise to the Bahamas that I'm looking forward to ;)

Can you tell that I haven't cooked anything in awhile? :)

Just spent a week in Miami, a few days in Orlando and now I'm back home and trying to get back into some kind of routine before classes start on Monday. Honestly I haven't cooked much, but that's life....I needed a break from it all before I start the grind again.

Loving life right now

Nothing to wake up to....except relaxation :) Having seafood pasta for dinner....lobster tail, shrimp, scallops, octopus...YUM!

Super busy

This is the final stretch :) Will post lots more recipes after Friday~