Well I am off for some last chance studying before bed. Hopefully I will post again in the next couple of days!
God Bless
Tomorrow marks the last day of tests for hopefully awhile, which means I will hopefully be able to blog a couple times a week...until the studying calls my name again in another couple of weeks! A surprisingly yummy black bean patty salad with red wine vinaigrette. Tasty Asian stirfry A veggie packed egg white omelet Oh Baker Bob! Grilled cheese with tomato...what a classic! Told ya...my go too! Manhattan clam chowder! Friday night with in with sushi a california roll wrapped with brown rice, and a seaweed salad, and Say Yes to the Dress! What a night after a long week! Jenna, one of my suitemates, parents came and took the two of us out for lunch at Iron Hill Brewery in town. It is a great restaurant and I go the Seafood Potpie...can you say genius?! I am a huge fan of yogurt, but I am not a fan of this kind. The after taste was not pleasing at all. In one of our dining halls, we have a food place called Home Zone and they serve all the comfort foods of home. I don't go there too often because look at it! Talk about a possible addiction, but I finally got it this year and it was worth the wait!
Well I am off for some last chance studying before bed. Hopefully I will post again in the next couple of days! God Bless
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Salad and soup is my go to and one of my favorites! Mashed Sweet potatoes and an Indian peanut sauce tofu stirfry...honestly I wasn't really feeling any of the food that d Baker Bob is my favorite! Every Wednesday afternoon an older man, Baker Bob, comes in and always has a little special treat for us. And we love going to visit him because he is so nice and loves serving us up some yummies! Breakfast! I get so excited when I actually get to go to breakfast! Its my favorite meal of the day! When I get to go I tend to get a big breakfast and not have lunch...not the best idea but I snack healthy in between! I was a bit disappointed when this is what I got when I order a grilled veggie wrap. It did the job though. Cajun seasoned tilapia with green beans and some fries... My family (minus one brother) came up for the day on Saturday. We went to Landmark for dinner and we shared my favorite sweet potato fries, which I We ended the night at Kiwi, West Chester's local frozen yogurt bar. My younger brother Jake always enjoys it! Marshmallows are my little secret addiction and my roommate surprised me with these!! She knows me so well! Today was a random day at lunch...I was not feeling any of the food today...I didn't even get close to finishing the soup. But for dinner I had a big ole salad! I just forgot to take pictures, but I'm sure you've see enough for today!
Have a wonderful week everyone, and may you enjoy a variety of wonderful foods! One of my favorite things about being back at school is the Newman Center here. I attend mass there every Sunday, go to all different activities and events they have, I am part of a women's group and I lead a bible study. Needless to say it is a significant part of my life here at school and I couldn't be more happy about it! I always feel so at home whenever I am there and I have been lucky enough to meet some of my best friends there. What better relationship can you ask for then one built on a relationship with God?!
I could sit here and rave about the Newman Center for a while, but there is a little something that has been on my heart for a couple of weeks now and there it was today in the homily! Father Nordeman, our priest at the Newman Center, always has great, relateable homilies. In today's homily he talked about how it is one thing to have faith but you must act on it as well. This idea of spreading the faith, or spreading the love as I like to think about it, has really been tugging at me recently. At school here it is so easy to just be so focused on just yourself, especially when it comes to classes. I could think of 1,001 reasons as to why I should be doing certain things for myself over others, but I know that God would never want me to think that way. I have been thinking a lot lately of how I want to help others. I obviously have things, like school work and other obligations that I need to tend to, but why not utilize my free time to benefit others. With that, I am personally working on thinking of others needs and wants before mine as much as possible. Even just keeping my nose clean, not talking about others, and learning to be accepting of everyone. Also, I am working on becoming an active participant in Circle K, the volunteer club on campus. I have already signed up for a couple events and have my first on Thursday! Finally, I really think I am being called to do a mission trip of some sort. I would love for it to be sooner rather than later, but I firmly believe God will reveal His mission for me. My challenge for you this week is to let your faith speak through your actions! It is just as important to show that you are a Christian as it is to be one! Ready for a recap of my week in meals?! Let me know how you like this set up! I do love having my own salad bar, right at my finger tips in our dining hall! Vegetable fried rice and lentil soup...loved the soup! A make your own salad bar in Ram's Head, our food court. One of my favorite places as well. I am mad at them currently though for their unhealthy salad dressing choices....ranch, bleu cheese, italian, caesar and honey mustard! Can you believe it?! Really enjoyed this stuffed pepper! One of my favorite guilty pleasures here at school...the waffle bar! This weekends theme was a sundae bar. Can you tell? The roomies and I ordered in chinese on this rainy Saturday night. I got steamed shrimp and vegetables and vegetable spring rolls. This was a small. I can't imagine what a large would be! Two of my roomies eating at our cute this table! Not sure they wanted me to post this but I couldn't resist. I guess we'll see if they read this ;) Here are my goodies from my first trip to Trader Joe's! I have fallen in love. Thanks Monica for taking me on my first trip!! Loved this new greek yogurt I got! Extremely filling and I loved adding the fruit! LOTS of veggies, fruit and grilled cheese with tomato! What a great lunch! Purple salad anyone?! Got to test out my Trader Joe's Balsamic Vinaigrette and I really liked it! It wasn't too acidic and it had a nice texture to it.
I think that was enough pictures for the night! Happy Monday everyone! I know I mentioned before how I want to try and shorten my blog posts...well being at school is definitely going to help me do that! I've barely got time to think about anything else with all my school work, but I really want to keep this blog up and running. I really wanted to share with you all the goodies and food I made for our Labor Day picnic on Monday. First I'll start with the Tomato and Mozzarella Pasta Salad. The recipe was very basic. I was making it for about 15 people so I just eyeballed most of the ingredients. 1 box of Smart Taste Penne Pasta 12-14 oz of halved Cherry tomatoes 8 oz of mini mozzarella balls 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 cup basil 1/4 cup red wine vinegar salt and pepper to taste Let the wet ingredients marinate for 15 or so minutes then add the pasta and refrigerated until ready to serve! The desserts had me working all day but they were totally worth it! Let's start with the Peanut Butter Brownies With Chocolate Covered Pretzels! I am just going to link you to Sally's Baking Addiction because I followed her recipe for it to the T and everything turned out wonderfully. Here is the direct website link. I even made the brownies from scratch! That was a first, but totally worth it. The finished product! I mean come on! How could you go wrong?! Side view! Look at all the peanut butter...my favorite! Finally I made an ice cream cake that was a big hit! It had the essence of a DQ cake and was very simple to make. Bottom layer: 2 sleeves of crushed Oreos 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup melted butter Mix together, flatten in pan and freeze for 15 minutes Next two layers: Vanilla Ice cream softened Chocolate Ice cream softened Lay on layer down, let freeze for 30 minutes or so, then add next layer and let freeze again. Fudge layer: 2 cups of powdered sugar 12 oz evaporated milk 2/3 cups Ghiradelli semisweet chocolate chips 1 stick of butter 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups rice krispies Melt together top 4 ingredients then let boil for 8 minutes. Add vanilla to cooled mixture along with rice krispies or add them on top of sauce after you pour it into the pan. Then freeze for at least another hour, but longer if you have time and top with cool whip! My family had gotten to it before I had time to snap more pictures! It was a little more soft than I wanted it to be, but it did the job quite nicely! Now I am sitting here in my dorm room craving some of this treats! Good thing I didn't bring any back!
I am off to do some more work. If anyone tries these recipes out let me know how they go! The first week of my sophomore year is officially over and I would deem it a success! I am really excited about all of my classes. I know I will have a lot of work to do, but I am excited to get into the good stuff! Speaking of good stuff...our new Rec Center opened on Tuesday! Needless to say I was there everyday I've been at school since it opened. Me, Monica and Jenna (two of my suitemates) ready to take on the new fitness center!! I've been doing the LiveFit trainer this week and it has been intense! The third week of phase 1 has really stepped it up and my body was feeling it. The first two weeks I was able to do additional cardio on top of the weightifting, but this week it became a bit harder. I came home Friday right after class for the holiday weekend and haven't had access to a gym, since I gave my PF membership while I am at school. I have decided I am just going to start over week three this week when I get back, and really step up my eating game. I have not been doing awfully, except I have had some unnecessary ice cream since I have been home and tomorrow we've got some yummy desserts planned. After this weekend I need to get back on track. Is anyone else on board with me?! Together we can work to defeat the gut, get lean and train mean! Like I said before, I came home for the weekend. It is a long weekend and it's perfect because it helps ease me into being at school and if I forgot anything I could just get it, like my broken microwave! Yesterday my dad, my brother Ben and I went to D.C. to the Nationals game, playing none other than our favorite Cardinals! And it was a great game! I don't think I have ever personally witnessed more homeruns in one MLB game. The Cardinals game out with the W and we couldn't have been more happy! That's how close I was to Yadier Molina(for all you Cards fans)! Today I spent more time with my family and got to see one of my best friends Carly, at her school, Messiah! I've been thinking about how I am going to blog about my meals for the semester. I think I will blog on Monday's making it known as My Meals Monday. At school I won't really be making many meals, but when I go home and make some meals I will most likely blog about those meals when they happen...like today! Today I made a stir fry for my family. It was a huge hit! How do I know? My brothers had seconds! It was even packed with veggies. I made the main dish with shrimp and vegetables then made chicken in a separate pan for my brothers. Look at all those yummy veggies! I used terriakyi sauce in place of regular soy or Szechuan sauce. My brothers loved the chicken terriakyi. The finished product! Yumm!
Veggie-Shrimp Stirfry: Serves 5 1/2 large white onion Snap Peas Mushrooms Medium sized head of broccoli 1 can of water chestnuts 1 Red Pepper 1 Green Pepper 2 1/2-3 Cups uncooked brown rice 3 eggs Olive Oil Terriakyi Sauce 2 lbs. Shrimp Cook the vegetables (really up to you how much you want of each vegetable) with some olive oil and terriakyi sauce until vegetables are almost fully cooked. Then add shrimp and mix occasionally until shrimp is cooked. While veggies are cooking get rice ready. Once veggies are finished remove vegetables and leave some of the sauce to cook the rice in. First I would cook the a little first to almost scramble them, then add rice in. Stir in eggs until cooked, put in bowl and you are ready to serve! I hope everyone enjoys your labor day festivities! I survived the first day of Sophomore year! I only have two classes Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but so far so good. My professors seem awesome and the classes seem interesting. My lit class one of the assignments is to watch the Hunger Games, enough said. It was an early morning for me because Jenna and I had to go and get an Anatomy tutor. We were in line at 7:10 for the center to open at 8. We got our tutors and started off the day getting some bagels from our favorite on campus breakfast stop, Einstein's Bagels! I got a whole-grain bagel thin with egg whites, asparagus, mushrooms and swiss cheese, with a tomato pesto sauce. It was so yummy! Really got me off to a good start. After breakfast it was off to my first class of the day...Anatomy and Physiology. Ready for my first day!!
My Anatomy professor seems super nice and personable and he's Australian! Then my Literature professor's name is Merry Perry! What a funny and cool name right?! After class it was off to lunch. I had Manhattan Clam Chowder and a salad. It really hit the spot. Then I had a couple of hours to print stuff off for my classes tomorrow. At three I had lab for my Anatomy class. I am excited for this lab because it is actually going to relate to the lecture portion and my lab professor seems really nice. You know I had to get a workout in. The new Rec Center isn't opening until tomorrow, which means I wasn't able to lift. I improvised and did my own workout. I went and did a sprinting interval workout on the treadmill. Treadmill interval workout: 0:00-5:00 minutes 5.0 (jogging) 5:00-20:00 minutes 8.0 (sprint) for 45 seconds 5.0 (jogging) for 30 seconds 20:00-25:00 minutes Cool Down Then I came back to my room and did a workout in our hallway...it looked like this: -10 Front Lunges -10 Backward Lunges -10 Squats -10 Snake -20 Squats -20 Mountain Climbers -5 Burpees Right Leg/Butt Exercises: -10 Straight Leg Raise Halfway -10 Straight Leg Raise Halfway to Highest Point -10 Straight Leg Complete Raise -10 Curling Lower Leg to Butt -10 Thigh Straight With Leg Bent Pulses -10 Leg Crunch In to Extension -10 Fire Hydrant (Keep leg flexed as much as you can) -50 Jumping Jacks Left Leg/Butt Exercises (all the same of the above) -20 Scissors -20 Bicycles -20 Squats Hopefully on a rainy day I will be able to get pics up of some of these exercises. The snack though is a cool exercise. You start bent over and walk your arms out into a pushup position, do a pushup and then walk your legs back to your hands. Then repeat! It works the whole body! After working out it was time for dinner, and we went to the diner for dinner. I got a cheese quesedilla. Yumm! I love me some salsa! Now it's Bachelor Pad time!! I hope everyone is enjoying their first week of school!! Another year is here again. I can not believe I am back already. The summer has felt so long, yet so short. Doesn't summer always seem too short though? I am glad to be back here in West Chester. I've got some exciting things happening for me this year. I am blessed to be coming back to school with so many wonderful friends. Having my friends, my dorm and my clubs and activities I have really help make me feel at home here. This morning started off with one of my favorite breakfasts...my dad's french toast!! Yummmm! I ate the whole plate ;) Then after goodbyes my mom and I were off to West Chester. We had to stop for Starbucks of course! I got my fav...a skinny white mocha with soymilk! Once we got to school I had to get my new ID card and my parking permit. Then it was off to my suite! Yes, I said suite. I am living in a suite with five other girls. We have three bedrooms, side-by-side, sharing a large hallway and two bathrooms. We got to my dorm room around 11:30 and camped out in my room until about 3:30. Can I tell you how much I love my mommy! She got me so organized and I was able to fit almost all of my belongings. I did over pack a tad, so it was no surprise I had to send some clothes home. After our hardwork, we went to Pita Pit for a yummy late lunch. I was excited to see all the vegetarian pitas they had, but I just had to try a breakfast pita. It was filled with egg, spinach, hashbrowns, tomato, onion and green pepper. It was the perfect lunch after a long first tiring half of the day. Then it was back home for me, and back home for my mom. I was sad to see her go, but I know she's always a phone call, text or hour and a half drive away. I had to finish organizing my stuff and catch up with my girls! Here's a look at my side of the room!! This is my side!!! I just love it! Here's the closet. I think we organized it pretty well. I'm pretty proud too about how we fit everything. This closet is smaller than mine from last year, AND significantly smaller than my two at home. And here's my desk. I thought it was a good idea to have it against the wall. I can't see the TV from it and it seems like it's a good idea to keep me away from distractions. I am still not sure about having it beside my bed, but I will deal. And don't you just love Finn right beside my bed?! I am in love with my new comforter!!! And the shelving is a new addition since last year. Hopefully I don't bonk my head when I wake up. I tested it though and it seemed perfect! Last pic! I just wanted to show off my new pictures. Both of those picture boards were made for me. One was made my friend Carly and was made by Monica (one of my suitemates and former roomie!)! I envy people that are so creative! We all finished off the night making a Walmart run, then heading to TGI Fridays for dinner, Emma's mom's treat! I enjoyed a Southwest Wedge Salad. It was spicy, but I really enjoyed it! Erica, my roommate, said I could blog her side tomorrow! We are in the middle of working on a quote wall, so I am going to supervise and I will blog later!!
Well it is that time of year again...school time. This last week has been nothing short of hectic. From losing my license and student ID, to going to all my appointments, I am just ready to get settled into my dorm.
Yesterday I went to get a new license and it ended up working out that I could just renew my license. My GPS however kept trying to drive me into the river on my way to the DMV. I get flustered with directions enough so of course that had to happen. I was excited to cap my day off with some of my best friends, still in town, for dinner. We went to one of my hometown favs, TJ Rockwells. I had the fish tacos and they were so yummy! They really hit the spot after a long day. When I got home I made a batch of my "famous" cookies to bring to share with my roomies!
Today was the least stressful day of the week. I started of the day with shoulders and abs of the LiveFit programs and a 5 mile run. I wasn't moving the fastest but I did it! My day just pretty much consisted of my getting stuff together and just hanging out. For lunch I made Parmesan baked tomatoes. I started with tomatoes topped with grated Parmesan, oregano, salt, pepper and olive oil.
I popped then in the oven at 450 for 10 minutes. While they were baking I boiled some water to poach some eggs. I thought a poached egg would be a perfect topped to the tomatoes since I didn't feel much like making a sandwich.
Those tomatoes were sizzzzzling!!
I just love poaching eggs! It is my new favorite egg cooking method!
Once my mom got home it was one last errand before school...glasses shopping. The ones I picked out are so different! I can't wait to get them and I'll post a pic of me in them when I get them. After that it was off to my brothers football scrimmage. I spent the game on the sidelines with my high school's athletic trainer. I miss being a student athletic trainer with him and at my high school. But I'm going to school to make it my career and I am so excited to continue on this journey! Then it was back home for my last meal of the week. I made a Lime Cilantro Shrimp Salad. It got a thumbs up from the rents, and I quite enjoyed it myself! Who doesn't like a meal with shrimp, avocado and tomato?!
I just finished the last of my packing and I am finally admitting to having a problem. I have an overpacking problem! I've already made one trip of stuff so far. I know I will not have enough room. I also never thought I'd ever say I have too many clothes, as a bad thing! I have a feeling my mom will end up with a bunch of stuff going back with her. I guess I'd rather have more and send them back than just totally forget something. I'm off to bed. Early morning tomorrow starting with my dad's amazing French toast!! Then it is off to West Chester to move in with my girls! I'll post pictures tomorrow of my new room :) Today was one of those days. Nothing was really going my way. And to top it off
I lost my wristlet that has my license and student ID. I've torn apart my house and it is no where to be found! Besides wasting most of my day looking for that, I was running around getting stuff done before I go to school. I printed out pictures for my room, got new running sneakers and jeans, got my favorite trail mix and went to the eye doctor. My eyes were dilated while I was shopping! Not my best idea... This morning for my workout I decided to split my four days of lifting up and did P90X kick boxing! Love doing that to start off my day! I enjoyed one of my stuffed peppers for lunch. It was just as good leftover! For dinner I made sea scallops! I have to say this was probably my favorite or at least in the top three, meals I have made! I served it with cannellini beans, spinach and red onion cooked in garlic. It was my first time cooking sea scallops and I have to say I cooked them pretty well. They weren't over cooked or under cooked and have the perfect amount of crunch on the outside! To top of my day, I got two emails already from professors! School is so close! I am so ready for it to start and so not ready. I'm sure many of you know what I'm talking about! Tomorrow I believe I'll be making a trip to the DMV...oh joy! Is it bad that I am most upset about having to get a new vera?!
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AuthorHi, my name is Rebecca Dubas. I am an Athletic Training Student with a Minor in Nutrition at West Chester University. I am no professional writer by any means, but I have a passion for my faith, fitness and food, that I'd love to share with you! Archives
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