Yet Tearyne Is Ambitious…

A contact of mine from a forum that I frequent, Asuperwoman at Long Hair Care Forum asked me about how I use olive oil in cooking. This post is for you! I learned this recipe from a former schoolmate’s sister. A lot of what I am focusing on with food lately is adding in vegetables wherever possible (though lately I’ve been eating a lot more vegetarian-style meals, mostly Indian).

Enjoy! Hope this helps; I’ll be creating a series of the recipes I make with olive oil for you; I’ll link my homemade spaghetti sauce too.

Pasta with Chicken, Spinach, and Tomatoes

Ingredients:
1/8 box whole-wheat spaghetti
1 medium sized chicken breast, sliced into small chunks
2 t olive oil (for light frying)
1 t Italian seasoning

1 roma tomato
1/4 cup spinach (I used formerly frozen spinach this last time, so I just grabbed a good amount and went with it)
1 T olive oil (or more to taste)
1 t Italian seasoning (or more to taste)

Slice up roma tomato into cubes; put aside. Boil  spaghetti; in the mean time, in a small skillet, sautee chicken breast in a mixture of the 2 teaspoons of olive oil plus the Italian seasoning. Cook until completely done through. When spaghetti is finished boiling, drain; add tomato cubes, tablespoon of olive oil, remaining Italian seasoning, and spinach to pot. finally, add in the chicken cubes when done. Mix thoroughly; add more seasoning or olive oil to taste.

If you make any adjustments to this recipe, let me know; I guessed a little at some of the measurements, because I just kind of went along with it.

Bon appetite!

Twix and Maura walked 3 miles today in 33 minutes.
That’s right, life: dukes up! 


I am so insanely proud of myself. I already applied for a bunch of jobs last week, and rather than wallow in “oh, I’m a student, so I should stick to student jobs” or “there’s no part-time jobs for me”, I applied to six staff jobs at my uni. SIX. They’re clerical, and honestly, I think I could do ANY of them exceedingly well. I already had started changing around my schedule for this fall to minimize the amount of classes I have before 5 PM; I have two classes, one MW and the other TuTh, that I can’t switch, but they’re both consistently from 2-3:30-ish; I figure I can use my lunch break, WHEN I get one of those jobs, to go to class, hopefully eat during class, and head on back.

I’m also getting back into my clean eating, and me and my doggie walked 2.5-3 miles this morning! I’m planning on doing it again tonight. It’s a mile to a mile and a half each way, and it gets in my time with her plus my workout time.

But you know what I did have to own up to this weekend? How I’m saying that I want to be a fitness model, but eating non-stop out of boredom or eating fifty-leven snickerdoodles at a time. What kind of good eating habits are those?! So this morning I had scrambled eggs with half a slice of cheese, onions, and spinach and a slice of whole wheat toast. It’s lunch time now, actually, so I’ll probably have some fat-free refried beans and dip or something like that. I noticed that I am getting a little more soft in the tummy. >_>

My boyfriend is gone for the next two days on an interview. I miss him horribly; he’s like the best guy in the world. I’m really excited for him (he’s been studying for the interview for the last WEEK AND A HALF), but the job is really far away.

Taking a breath. I’m rambling a lot. But this weekend was full of so much awesome stuff!

Anyway.

I realized that I’m not ready for marriage, not in the negative way, but there’s so much more to me that I’m realizing and things that I want for do to and with myself before I can say, “Okay, guy. I’m ready to be your wife”. I think the way I was before was a mark of immaturity; hopefully I am growing up. As my boyfriend put it, when I explained this to him, “You want to be sure that, if something happens, you can stand on your own; that your identity isn’t just that you’re so-and-so’s husband/wife”.

So true.

Uhm, my Hindi is getting better. I can talk about random things (which I do IRL anyway). My organization skills are getting stronger too. Like, not mentally all the time, but at least externally. I have a better grip on my plan of action from hereon out. I might detail that later.

Anyway! Lunch! Thanks for everyone whose been reading and who replied to my last blog entry and friended me and such. Your support and input means a lot to me. Love you guys!