Daily, In the Kitchen

How do you cook?

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Reading food blogs definitely helps me broaden my horizons in the kitchen. I’ve often mimicked and tried out new foods and of course recipes. If they turn out well and my tastebuds like them, I end up posting them on my recipe site, so I don’t forget what it looked like/tasted like with the ingredients list.

However, I think it would be super fun to go and sign up for a cooking class. Especially if I were on vacation and rich so I could ideally take a private cooking class.

I’ve always wanted to go to LA, so why not google some “cooking classes Los Angeles“, and literally sign up on the spot? I don’t think any cooking class would be a total fail. I think I would definitely learn a lot from the chefs or instructors. A co-worker recently told me to make more mashed potatoes one night for supper, so I could have left over potato pancakes the next night. What a brilliant idea! They tasted freaking amazing and they’re my new favorite left over, and saves me so much time while I’m in the kitchen, or during work thinking of what to make for dinner that night.

I should really jump back on, with creating the weekly menus as it saves so much time and energy when I’m exhausted from coming back from the gym. If I took a cooking classes LA course, it would benefit me so greatly. It doesn’t even have to be while I’m on vacation. Maybe it’ll be something that I request that I get for my birthday. Hey mah, that’s an idea for a present. No more cook books — just classes!

I can’t cook like my Mom does — just throwing everything into a bowl, mixing it and doing whatever and it turns out tasting delicious.  I need a recipe!

What kind of cook are you?

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Bag it up with Baggubags!

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I mentioned before that I get dinged each time I make a shopping trip to the grocery store paying $0.05 per plastic bag, it certainly ads up. A few quick trips to my retail stores and I have reusable (plastic) bags that break after a few uses.


I discovered Baggu Bags only a short time ago and thought they were pretty pleasing to the eye, rather than using plain ol’ plastic bag that tear and rip if you hold them the wrong way, these are much cuter, I mean check out the rainbow assortment!

Did you know that these are more sturdy than the five cent bags you have to pay for at the store if you forget your reusable’s? Obviously they are, but I mean these bad boys can hold up to 25lbs of groceries. That right there is about 2 or 3 times the amount that plastic grocery bags can withstand.

With the selection of colours Baggu bags has readily available for us, you don’t have to use these primarily for groceries. Stuff a striped bag with a bunch of tissue paper for someone’s birthday gift and they’ll have a reusable bag and a great gift from you! Or maybe you don’t always want to carry around your bulky gym bag, and get dressed for the gym the night before — put your shoes or anything else in these bags and look styyyyylin’.

Check out my Paypaya colored Baggu bag. Gorgeous shade, right? It’s huge too. It held four of my lululemon towels (they’re a bit bigger than hand towels), plus some of my workout gear! It’s madness.

These bags are made of 100% ripstop nylon, and are machine washable. Great if your milk leaks out of the bags like mine did the other day. Gross. I should have went back to the grocery and got a new bag :(

The Baggu bags are the coolest reusable bags that I have seen. They even come folded up in a tiny little pouch so that they’re not all jammed in your trunk all messy like (I’m not even going to post a photo of all the reusable bags in my trunk right now – they all need these mini-bags to be stored in like Baggu has!)

Check out Baggu’s website for more colours to choose from, and other variation of bags such as the drawstring sack, produce bags, and even striped reusable bags (MY FAV!!)

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Two team mates, two medicals

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Get this. I hurt my ankle, got it checked out by a Sports Medicine Doctor my team mate recommended. I’ll be adopting her (my team mate) as my physio/massage therapist until my ankle heals. My team mate — my name twin, will be working on me. Isn’t that neat? I’d show you a picture of her and I. But we were both a nasty sweaty mess after a game and I really hate wearing my hair up. So you don’t get to see.

Then.

I needed a new family doctor. There’s one on our team. She was accepting one thousand new patients. Meaning, the Boyf and I now have a family doctor. Which is cool, but a little uncomfortable now. However, she is very professional/quiet/motherly-like on the field. But I have to tell her my HISTORY. That’s kinda weird. Especially if she has to see me naked. Right?

So.

I want to go visit my new family doctor. Soon. Doctor Beth is her nickname on the field. I need to visit her and ask her if I’m healthy. I had my B12 & Iron levels checked in 2006 and they were dangerously low (don’t really know the numbers off hand). I’d like to check to see if I need to still keep taking the Iron and  B12 supplements or not. I haven’t been taking them religiously though. Maybe a couple every few months. Bad!

Another question? I want to ask her why I hit my max heart rate  (199bpm) by walking/light jogging on an incline on the treadmill. I can still talk, I can still walk. I’m not sweating like a pig. Just hitting the heart rate so high and so easily. Maybe it was because I knew I was getting a fitness assessment done and I was self-conscious about  the numbers? I’m not sure. But I’d like to know if I’m going to drop dead or anything sketchy like that.

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