Went on a long run this morning and started feeling hot and tired all at once. This week Reno is having yet another heat wave and as we train for our first half marathon, we agreed to wake up early enough to run while its cool and nice out.....well we slept in - I'm smiling because when I say slept in I mean we were up and about at 8am not too bad - and off we went on our run. I felt hot and tired half way through.. a good technique to get back in to the groove and into running stronger is take your mind off from what it is that's bothering you. Easier said then done, but really, we feel that running is a mental challenge as much as it is a physical one. And once your mind quits on you, running past that point is almost impossible.
So back to our run, it is much easier to run with a partner and much easier when you have a goal in front of you - like an up coming race - but sometimes that is not enough and you need to take your mind off the heat and the time that's left to your run - I think about food. planning meals, inventing now recipes, trying new way to dress up a salad, usually healthy breakfast (we are morning runners) so eggs play a good part in my running motivation.
Today we were in a pickle - we had only two eggs at home - two eggs, two of us, not so promising... the reason for this debacle is the more we learn about animal farming and the more we study about the effect of animal products on humans we choose to not eat them. When we do buy eggs, we buy it from a girl that started a chicken farm and she treats the chickens almost as pets, the chickens are free and happy and the eggs taste beautiful. I didn't buy new ones last week, and so we had only two.
No problem! We can make Quinoa cupcakes with 2 eggs! Ok - running just made easier - starting to change an old recipe to things we have in the fridge. This is what I got:
Quinoa Cupcakes:
2/3 cup of dry quinoa - cooked with 1 1/2 cups of water. (boil and reduce heat for about 20 min)
1 1/2 cups of zucchini squash
2 eggs
2 celery stalks chopped
1 cup cilantro chopped
1/2 hot pepper chopped
1 tbsp. Rogan Josh (seasoning mix we got from Ali and Andrew :) - it's paprika, garlic, ginger, cumin, coriander, and some hot peppers. Next time I would use 2 tbsp. of Rogan Josh - it is so good you can't go wrong.
Mix it all, fill your lightly oiled cupcake molds and put in the over. 350F for 20 - 25 min. If you wait for them to slightly cool down they will come out perfectly!
Bob & Yifat
