One, Two, THREE

Seeing as WordPress misbehaved last night, and to make up for my slightly lacking in interest post this morning…I thought I’d make today a triple-y awesome post! My theme for this: THREE! Why? Because I’ve had three stressful events today, so I feel if I make this triple-y awesome post, my three negative will be cancelled out

Let’s get the nasties out the way:

1. Manic stressful lab class, where the people in the group who had the data didn’t show up for a good 15-20mins, so those of us that DID show up were in major panics! (And then I had to take over re data analysis as no-one else would do it…cue 2 hours of S.T.R.E.S.S.)
2. Roadworks and crazyass traffic driving home! Booooo!!
3. All my stuffed pasta bursting when I cooked it :’(

Now onto more positive THREES!! A few top THREES in fact! Starting with:

Top Three Foods I Hate:

1. Cauliflower – what kind of fool invented this? Probably the same one that invented the next two:
2. Cooked cheddar cheese
3. Fennel. Blerh.

Top THREE Actresses:

1. Kate Winslet – Beautiful, British, real, she doesn’t conform and she’s an incredible role model and actress!
2. Blake Lively – 5ft9 (like me!) and proud of it. Love. Her.
3. Jennifer Aniston. Do I really need to say why!? It’s Rachel!!

Top THREE Actors:

• Leonardo Dicaprio – he’ll always be Jack Dawson in my eyes… <3
• Arnold Schwarzenegger – two words: The Terminator.
• Oh number three is a stonker….I can’t think of one eck! I’ll say Brad Pitt, because he’s beautiful – circa 2004 of course, not now he’s all beardy :s

Top THREEActivites:

• Reading (magazines, books, minds…)
• Food-ing(cooking, baking, eating, shopping for, smelling, touching, I could go on!)
• Exercising (riding, running, swimming, aerobics)

See how clever I was there, giving more than one activity for each…activity!? I’m sneaky like that

Anyone else care to share some Top Threes!? Do tell!!

Onto the food and stuff -

I ate my little chickpea salad driving home (not recommended, it’s very dangerous. Ssshhh!) which was totally delcious - kiwi and chickpeas are a match made in heaven!

After a rather long commute, I FINALLY got in, and released some pent up frustration on Jillian part III, and 10mins of Tae Bo. Oh boy I felt so much better after that!!

I then got cracking on dinner (no afternoon snack today! My appetite packed up and left :s how weird!? I think maybe it’s the incredible stress I’m feeling today. EXTREMELY hard lab report + lots of reading and revising to do = one stressed out blogger) – stuffed pasta with homemade BUTTERNUT SQUASH AND WALNUT SAUCE!

Twas easy peasy:

I cut some squash into little chunks, and put it in a pan with sage, nutmeg, salt, pepper and garlic, and let it cook for a few mins.

I then added in just a little bit of water, enough to let it boil til it was cooked…

Then I blended it with 2tbsp milk, and adjusted the seasoning by adding in a pinch of sugar and a squeeze of agave. It had almost had a slightly bitter taste, so that sweetened it up to perfection

Then I  stirred in a tbsp of crushed walnuts. Voila! Sauce complete!!

I had it on some pumpkin and pinenut stuffed pasta (comfort food. I NEEDED comfort food tonight!) with kabocha and parsnips and some duck that my mum cooked.

Love duck!! It’s so rich and delicious tasting Bar the fact that 50% of the pasta pieces burst (hmph.) it was totally delicious. The sauce was really spicy and unusual and went well with the duck SUCCESS!!

For an evening snack (extra important as I missed the afternoon!) – hot chocolate, 2% and 2 pieces of chocolate.

Now- Masterchef and 8 Out of 10 Cats awaits!! I tried to do some reading, and literally burst into tears at the thought….maybe best if I leave that til the morning!?

Have a good evening everyone