Power Up!

Last night Keith and I battled with a hill during our workout with Princeton Intervals.

Workout: 10 x .35 mile hill climb (jog back; no rest)

Total distance - 8.5 miles (including warmup and cool down)
Time - 1:13

Meg kept yelling out "POWER UP!" to encourage everyone as they ran up the hill.  I couldn't get this guy out of my head:

Good Delicious things happened in my kitchen yesterday, too. 

I made vegan (i.e. fish-free) sushi!

I have been wanting to do this for so long.  I buy veggie sushi on campus about once a week, and it costs $6.00 every time I do it.  I'm a cheap-o when it comes to food, so I'm always scrutinizing everything I eat at restaurants, figuring out how much it would cost for me to make the dish if I bought all the ingredients at the grocery store.  Well, the components of veggie sushi all together cost about $1.50.  I definitely can save a little and still have happy sushi time if I just make this at home.

What you need:
Carrots
Cucumbers
Avocado
Sushi rice (cook 1 cup of rice, then mix in 1 tbsp rice vinegar, 1 tbsp white sugar, and 1/2 tbsp salt--that's how the rice gets sticky)
Nori (seaweed wrappers; look in the international aisle)

Slice up your veggies.

Using a spatula, cover one side of the seaweed wrapper with rice.

Fill it up.

Roll it up.

Eat it up.

All gone!

This is a super fun meal to make.  It's light on the wallet and the calories, but a good way to get veggies.  Plus, you'll finally get to show off your chopsticks skills without having to go gluttonous on some Chinese takeout. 

Bon Appetit!