I stopped working at lunch time when my office closed, and the rest of my afternoon included:
tissues
snuggling with Maggie
One Tree Hill season 2
napping when I could actually breathe
Nick came home a bit early today because of the weather, and I made the meal I wanted to have last night for dinner.
I saw Rachael Ray make this pasta and wine-poached sausages a few weeks ago, and it immediately went on my meal plan.
I cooked up some whole wheat shell pasta while the turkey sausages were poaching in the wine. While everything was on the stove, I made a quick pesto in my blender with:
basil
parsley
pinenuts
olive oil
garlic
parmesan cheese
Once the pasta was cooked, I added in a spoonful of the pasta water to the pesto and then mixed the pasta with the pesto sauce.
In the same pot I cooked the pasta in, I quickly cooked some kale with a little olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic, and mixed that in the pasta.
Once the sausages were cooked, I just sliced them up to put on the pasta.
It sounds like SO many steps and things to do, but it wasn’t bad once everything was going.
The pesto is quick and easy, and the sausages + pasta can cook at the same time. Then, the greens in the pasta just take a minute right before serving!
I really liked this meal…and even with my sickly taste buds, I could taste the pesto.
and…yes, our deck is coated in ice and there’s more freezing rain on the way, but I HAD to have ice cream today.
All I kept thinking about was having a blizzard because I knew the cold ice cream would feel great on my itchy/scratchy throat.
And I was right :)
Nick and I just got back from picking up ice cream – a Hawaiian blizzard for him and mint oreo for me.
I still can’t breathe very well, my nose is stopped up, and my head still feels a little like a big balloon, but at least my throat feels better. Even if just for a minute.
I think there’s a new Office on tonight? I’m hoping I can stay awake for it.
Man, I’m so glad it’s Thursday. I’m ready for the weekend, but now am just hoping that this cold goes away soon :( We have some fun plans this weekend, and I don’t want to be sick for them.
I worked through the morning, but a storm is coming through and we’re supposed to have freezing rain/sleet for the rest of the afternoon and evening – my boss was nice enough to close the office for the afternoon, so I can just rest now!
It started raining at the house about an hour ago, and I can already see ice crystals on our deck. I just hope it doesn’t get too bad!
With the afternoon off, I have a feeling I’m going to be doing some serious napping + cuddling with Maggie.
It took me so long to decide on lunch. Honestly, I didn’t really want anything because I can’t taste anything so no foods really sound good to me.
But I remembered I had some brussel sprouts I needed to cook (or throw away), so I roasted them with some cremini mushrooms.
While those were cooking, I heated up the last of the whole grain rice mix from the other night and cooked 2 eggs.
Really – rice + eggs are so good together! I guess that’s why I like fried rice, but it’s even better with a runny yolk.
Then I topped the eggs, rice, and brussel/mushroom mixture with some salt, garlic, and crushed red pepper so I could REALLY taste everything.
It turned out to be a good lunch, and really filling.
I slept pretty well, but woke up feeling just as bad as I did yesterday. I’m scheduled to work from home today, which is nice, but I’m not sure how long I can sit at the computer if I’m feeling like this all day.
Nick made coffee using his awesome coffee syphon this morning and offered to make me bacon and eggs, but all I could think about was a big bowl of comforting oatmeal.
1/2 cup oatmeal, 1 cup water, pinch salt
1 small local apple
cinnamon
1 Tbsp sliced almonds
1 Tbsp almond butter
1 tsp butterscotch chips (the last of the bag!)
This was pretty good – I can actually taste the butterscotch, so that’s nice. Other than that, nothing else really tastes like anything.
Good thing the coffee is nice and strong :)
Maybe she’ll help me feel better today – at least she’s cute ;)
What do you do when you have a bad head cold?
All I want to do is lay down, but that seems to make it even harder to breathe.
I have the worst head cold now! It seemed to just get worse and worse as the day went on.
My head is all stopped up, my throat is scratchy, and I can’t breathe. Fun, huh? :)
I did have some veggies + hummus this afternoon, even though I couldn’t really taste it.
By the time we were heading home, I could barely breathe out of my nose and my head just felt like a balloon.
Since I can’t really taste much right now, I decided to push the dinner plans for tonight until tomorrow – the meal I was going to make was something I was really looking forward to, and I want to actually taste it!
So tonight was an easy frozen pizza + salad night, thanks to Nick.
He ran up to the store after work while I watched Maggie and put together a salad of romaine, carrots, red onion, almonds, and some balsamic/olive oil/dijon dressing.
I had 3 pieces of a California Pizza Kitchen Margherita Pizza, and Nick had one piece of this + some of the supreme pizza he got for himself.
I’m already in my pajamas – I’m not sure how much longer I’ll make it tonight. Maybe a bubble bath will clear my head? Maybe nothing?
I’m going to take some cold meds and read my book until I crash.
