Roasted Unicorn Recipe

I have been looking for a good recipe for unicorn.  I finally found one in a recently discovered cookbook at the British Museum.  Here is the link if you love unicorn as much as I do.

Weak in Review 4-1-12

Feb 26- Apr 1	Swim yds	Bike miles	Run miles	Other
Monday	2,500 yds			50 p-ups
Tuesday			7	75 p-ups
Wednesday	2,500		5.1	50 p-ups
Thursday		Rest Day	–	75 p-ups
Friday	2,500
Saturday		29		50 p-ups
Sunday		Palm Sunday		50 p-ups

Weak in Review March 18-24

Friday Flowers

Grilled Eggplant Panini

This week my local produce guy, Max, had eggplants 3 for $1.00.  Of course I couldn't pass that up, especially since they were local and organic.  So for lunch I made a grilled  eggplant panini with fresh mozzarella, ricotta and roast red peppers.  I must say it was good!

Ingredients

4 tbs olive oil
1 small eggplant pealed and sliced
2 tbs ricotta
4 slices fresh mozzarella
1 roasted red peppers ( I used bottled red peppers)
8 green olives sliced
2 Catawba rolls

Preparation

Brush eggplant slices with oil and grill for 2 minutes then turn and grill 1 minute more.
Spread 1 tbs ricotta on each roll then 2 slices mozzarella, 1 slice red pepper,  2 slices eggplant, and green olives.  Place sandwich in panini press and grill until the cheese melts, about 2 minutes.

The Weak in Review

Well boys and girls, it has not been an easy week to train in SWFL.  We had a cold front go thru, well cold for SWFL.  Sunday morning it was windy with gust to 30 mph and cold 38*.  So my long run on Sunday turned into a run on the dreadmill.  Have I told you I hate the dreadmill.  As I'm a heavy sweater, I get the darn thing covered in sweat.  But I did what I had to do, so it was dreadmill....

I had several comments about my stats, so here are last weeks stats:

How did you do this past weak?

Feb 6 -12	Swim	Bike	Run	Other
Monday			3 miles – easy	50 p-ups
Tuesday	missed		6 miles	75 p-ups
Wednesday		11 mile easy		50 p-ups
Thursday			6 miles –fartlek	75 p-ups
Friday	2,500 yds		5 miles - easy	50 p-ups
Saturday		25 miles
Sunday			6 miles

Garden Flowers

Here are a couple of pics of my garden flowers. First the Hybiscus
from the front flower bed.

See the full gallery on Posterous

J's Friday Flower

The Health Risk of Being Left Handed

I came across this article from the Journal regarding The Health Risks of Being Left Handed.   So here are the highlights:

1. Left-handed people are more prone to neurological disorders, such as schizophrenia and ADHD.
    
2. Left-handed people earn about 10% less than right-handed people.
    
3. Left-handed people are more apt to have greater divergent aptitude (ie, creativity.).
    
4. Left-handed people don’t necessarily die younger than those who are right-handed.

The only problem I have with this article, I'm a natural left hander.  It is easiest for me to learn a new skill left handed.  I naturally do things left handed BUT...and here is the big BUT...my parents who adopted me from the Indian Reservation made me change to right handed!

Yup, I play baseball right handed...bat and throw right handed.  I play basketball let handed.  Football? I throw left handed.  Snowballs...I can throw with either hand! Frisbee, left handed.

It would drive my father crazy when cutting lumber with a hand saw. I could change hands when I got tired.   
So here is the deal...  since I'm have no neurological disorders other than a brain tumor and headaches, I'm not schizo and don't have ADHD.  I only earn 5% more than right handed people. And IF my one and only kidney doesn't crap out, the big C doesn't return and the brain tumor behaves, I'll out live you all.  So the only problem I have?  I'm just confused with what hand to use when!

Birthday Boat Ride

Wave Dancer - 40ft MJM - here I was able to parallel park.

The Birthday Boy

 This past weekend was Dick's 82 birthday.  So Saturday we took him to Nervous Nellies for lunch via the intercoastal water way.  I always have trouble remembering which side the red buoy is on in the intercoastal.


Back at the dock we had birthday cake...chocolate of course!

Locally Grown Produce

It may not be a pretty store but the produce is local and cheap! $4
for 3 pints of strawberries,$2 honeydew, $1.50 watermelons can't be
beaten.

Fire side dinner in Florida

Fire on a cold Florida note

Cold Weather

Living in Southwest Florida I have grown accustom to warm(er) weather. So much accustom that 55* feels cold! So it comes as little surprise that I'm having difficulty getting out of bed in the early morning.

Whirligig

We have had an osprey sit on the fore deck of the boat eating.  While that sounds nice, he/she eats fish.  Preparing to leaver the dock, I found an eyeball on the deck.  So in an attempt to keep he/she away I have installed a whirligig. I placed it on one of the spikes of the starboard side piling.  It spins with the breeze.  So far the caps wuth spike on the pilings haven't work maybe this will.

Naples Half Finisher

Naples half

Nelson's Famous Banana Blueberry Bread

Naples Half tomorrow

Only 20 hours to go! Training done! Rest Day today!

View from my desk

Taken by Tri-Oldman1