Monday, October 10, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Recipe: Crispy Pretzel Crust for Fish (Healthy!)
I love perch and recently purchased some and realized, the reason I adore perch is from those famous Lake Erie Fish Fry's that I am used to on Fridays in the summer.
Well, the perch I purchased wasn't fried, it was frozen and I wanted it to be a healthy dinner. So with some guidance from several recipes I simplified and came up with a great crust:
Crsipy Healthy Fried Pretzel Crust
* Great for any white fish or chicken
Ingredients:
2 eggs (yoke optional)
canola oil
1 c crushed pretzels - I crush mine in a ziploc bag by hand
3/4 c all purpose flour
1 t pepper
6 small pieces of perch
1. Beat eggs and place in shallow bowl
2. Mix flour and pepper in another shallow bowl or plate
3. Put crushed pretzels on another plate
4. Heat enough Canola oil to cover the entire bottom on a skillet on medium high heat (7 on my stove works well)
5. Dredge fish in flour, dip in egg until well covered, and then dredge in crushed pretzels for an even thick coating
6. Place in warm skillet - turn after 3 minutes or desired doneness
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for all fish pieces
I paired the fish with fresh bicolored corn and fried zuchini for a truly down home meal. :)
Well, the perch I purchased wasn't fried, it was frozen and I wanted it to be a healthy dinner. So with some guidance from several recipes I simplified and came up with a great crust:
Crsipy Healthy Fried Pretzel Crust
* Great for any white fish or chicken
Photo Source: Kitchen Trial and Error
2 eggs (yoke optional)
canola oil
1 c crushed pretzels - I crush mine in a ziploc bag by hand
3/4 c all purpose flour
1 t pepper
6 small pieces of perch
1. Beat eggs and place in shallow bowl
2. Mix flour and pepper in another shallow bowl or plate
3. Put crushed pretzels on another plate
4. Heat enough Canola oil to cover the entire bottom on a skillet on medium high heat (7 on my stove works well)
5. Dredge fish in flour, dip in egg until well covered, and then dredge in crushed pretzels for an even thick coating
6. Place in warm skillet - turn after 3 minutes or desired doneness
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for all fish pieces
I paired the fish with fresh bicolored corn and fried zuchini for a truly down home meal. :)
Friday, July 1, 2011
Music: A Mental Bitch Slap
Yesterday, as I traveled to my favorite trail run location i.e. driving too fast and listening to my music too loud, I checked my iPod battery a little too far into my trip to turn around and charge it. A completely dead battery and instantly put out that I wouldn't have Audio Slave pushing my through my run, I ripped my arm band off and tossed my iPod into my trunk.
I set my watch and was off. Between humming a Madonna song I had been listening to in my car it's a quarter to two And I'm done I'm hanging up on you and thinking about the past week's events, I realized I was running a slightly slower pace than I run with my music. Namely the same trail that I pushed myself through in 27 minutes up hill and in intense heat, just this past Monday.
As I struggled up the same hill and in the same heat this time, I realized simply that my music listening is the "mental bitch slap" I need to get through these tough hill runs. I use to rely simply on my own mentality and started to scold myself for depending on music to distract me from my shin splints, loud breathing, and sweat stinging eyes, and then I thought, No! Music is so accessible and my iPod is so light, there is nothing wrong with listening to my music, making my trail runs more enjoyable therefore significantly more successful by relying on such technology.
Granted with anything, when you fail to charge the batteries or technology glitches as it does so often, you will have to grit your teeth and rely on older/more innovative options to get through whatever task it is technology would make more enjoyable or perceivably, more simple.
So, while I had to settle with walking about a half mile of trail to calm my burning lungs, I will still pleased with my end run time and congratulated myself that all my mental toughness isn't completely gone.
However, my iPod is charged, ready, and waiting for my run this evening. I plan on upping the pace tonight.
I set my watch and was off. Between humming a Madonna song I had been listening to in my car it's a quarter to two And I'm done I'm hanging up on you and thinking about the past week's events, I realized I was running a slightly slower pace than I run with my music. Namely the same trail that I pushed myself through in 27 minutes up hill and in intense heat, just this past Monday.
As I struggled up the same hill and in the same heat this time, I realized simply that my music listening is the "mental bitch slap" I need to get through these tough hill runs. I use to rely simply on my own mentality and started to scold myself for depending on music to distract me from my shin splints, loud breathing, and sweat stinging eyes, and then I thought, No! Music is so accessible and my iPod is so light, there is nothing wrong with listening to my music, making my trail runs more enjoyable therefore significantly more successful by relying on such technology.
Granted with anything, when you fail to charge the batteries or technology glitches as it does so often, you will have to grit your teeth and rely on older/more innovative options to get through whatever task it is technology would make more enjoyable or perceivably, more simple.
So, while I had to settle with walking about a half mile of trail to calm my burning lungs, I will still pleased with my end run time and congratulated myself that all my mental toughness isn't completely gone.
However, my iPod is charged, ready, and waiting for my run this evening. I plan on upping the pace tonight.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Simple Pleasure: Hiking
Monday, April 18, 2011
Unstoppable
It’s the small daily victories that we should celebrate consistently. A step in the right direction is progress…
I’ve seen a change in myself that nothing could have brought on except the continuation of time. With each challenge, victory, tear, and smile I have grown, changed, and improved myself more than the day before.
It’s with this knowledge that I embrace everyday knowing, that it is not just a day older, but a day happier, better, more fulfilled. Everyday is a step toward my dreams, building bigger and better ones as I reach each goal I set for myself.
This moment is especially exciting for me because I feel so damn good about the move I made. I quit my job in the face of a bad economy and made the move back to the dreary east coast from Maui.
And guess what? It wasn’t easy, cheap, nor all that fun to make those big decisions to quit and move on, but I am happy. I am not merely content. I am tackling life with humor, excitement, and tenacity; doing what I need to do to be the professional, the woman, I want to be.
The biggest improvement in my life is spending more time on what I care about and less about what others think about me. I know I am moral person and successful at what I do. I can’t please everyone and that’s ok, this is great realization for me.
Sure, not everyday is as motivating and successful as today, but that makes me appreciate these days when I am on top of the world, unstoppable.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Being a West Virginian
If you were born and raised in West Virginia or even spent some time here, or love a West Virginian, read this phenomenal post by Michael Powelson. This is going on my "About Me" page permanently.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Miner's Lady; Stranger to Blue Water
It's a good day to be a Mountaineer, for two reasons. First, Huggy Bear (WVU Basketball Coach Bob Huggins) led our gritty, scrappy men's basketball team to their first post season win this year, hopefully on 5 more! How would National Champs be after a Final Four run last year?! Unfathomable for myself and all my fellow fans, it would certainly become a state holiday!
Secondly, it's good to be a Mountaineer because of this little film project called Angel's Perch. Yes, I know people that are related to this guy, no I don't know him, and no, I am not related, and yes, we have all our teeth. Do you sense the restlessness of the tired jokes? If not, you don't understand what it's like to be West Virginian. We are either relentlessly teased or assumed we are a region of Virginia, written off and nonexistent.
Of the two, I think I get more angry about the latter, if someone is making fun of me, at least they know I grew up in an actual state. The standard reply on the West Coast/Pacific Islands (which I have lived for 2 + years now) is "Oh yea! I have friends in Richmond." I don't respond when it gets to that point as the ignorance is overbearing. Heck, Richmond isn't even near the region of Western Virginia, so if we were going for that argument even that would fail.
Alas, let me step off my soap box, and true supporters of West Virginia and our culture of proud, hard working, kind people step up and make a contribution to the Angel's Perch film program on Kick Starter. It's about time we have a positive spin on the people of good ol'West Virginia.
Yes, Jones, we are excited too!
Secondly, it's good to be a Mountaineer because of this little film project called Angel's Perch. Yes, I know people that are related to this guy, no I don't know him, and no, I am not related, and yes, we have all our teeth. Do you sense the restlessness of the tired jokes? If not, you don't understand what it's like to be West Virginian. We are either relentlessly teased or assumed we are a region of Virginia, written off and nonexistent.
Of the two, I think I get more angry about the latter, if someone is making fun of me, at least they know I grew up in an actual state. The standard reply on the West Coast/Pacific Islands (which I have lived for 2 + years now) is "Oh yea! I have friends in Richmond." I don't respond when it gets to that point as the ignorance is overbearing. Heck, Richmond isn't even near the region of Western Virginia, so if we were going for that argument even that would fail.
Alas, let me step off my soap box, and true supporters of West Virginia and our culture of proud, hard working, kind people step up and make a contribution to the Angel's Perch film program on Kick Starter. It's about time we have a positive spin on the people of good ol'West Virginia.
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