Green Eggs with Shrimp

Last week I wrote on my menu plan “something with egg whites” because I kept meaning to use up the carton in my fridge but somehow couldn’t possibly remember to do it without a note.

Like whipping up a quick omelette or something might have been soooo hard. Geeze.

Instead I had to leave myself that little guilt note and drag it along to the supermarket with me so it could find some inspiration and create a meal.  Fortunately I’d left a few dollars in my grocery budget for one or two impromptu items and when I wandered by the seafood counter I found that inspiration in the form of fresh hand peeled West Coast shrimp.

Back at home I got to thinking about what to do to make egg whites and shrimp special and immediately knew it needed pesto.  And a pie crust.  And romano cheese.  And a little TLC.  A quiche was born!

I blasted up a wee batch of quickie pesto (spinach, garlic, salt, parmesan, red pepper flakes, and olive oil) and made short work of this recipe.  Easy peasy!

Shrimp and Pesto Quiche

Yields 4 wedges

Ingredients:

• 1 frozen pie crust
• 1/2 cup fresh pesto of choice
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup egg whites
• 1/4 cup milk of choice
• 150 grams fresh shrimp meat (cooked)
• 2 green onions, chopped
• 10-12 grape tomatoes, halved
• grated Romano, Asiago or parmesan cheese (enough to cover quiche)
• avocado for garnish

Directions:

1. Thaw pie crust according to package instructions.  Preheat oven to 375.  If necessary, prepare pesto and set aside.
2. Arrange tomatoes, shrimp and green onions in crust.  Whisk together egg, egg whites, milk and pesto and poor mixture over fillings in crust.
3. Grate cheese over fillings, ensuring some coverage of crust as well.
4. Place pie crust (still in foil tray) on a baking tray and bake quiche for 20-25 minutes.  Egg mixture should be springy but not hard if lightly shaken (a little moisture is expected).  Remove from oven and let stand 5 minutes.
5. Garnish with avocado slices and serve immediately.

Made with skim milk and my quickie pesto MyFitnessPal has this ringing in at only 335 calories per wedge.  Yum!

Served with salad a wedge of this made a lovely supper.  Served with hashbrowns and bacon the leftovers made an even better weekend brunch. 

Those are some happy egg whites! :)

Awesome April

Oh my lordy, how the heck is it April already?  March just zoomed on by!

March Madness didn’t come out quite as super-duper-over-the-top as I had originally planned but it certainly was no slouch on the workout frontier.  Overall I got in 20 great activity days: 11 of those at the gym, 1 yoga class, a whopping 7 long walks or hikes, and 1 sweaty cleaning spree at Michael’s house.  Considering I had an injured back and was attacked by a plaguing headache at different points in the month it seems to me things came out just fine!

Last week’s workouts:

Monday – Upper Body Burn + Treadmill Torch

Tuesday – light hike around Thetis Lake

Wednesday – Lower Body Blast + ARC trainer

Thursday, Friday, Saturday – hit with a headache plague :(

Sunday – helped Michael’s sister move + dog park

I apparently slacked as far as photos go, so here’s a cutie of Chibi. ha.

Let’s see how I did on March’s goals…hmmm…?

• completing Winter Shape Up
• trying new muscle group specific strength training
• being far more diligent about what I’m shoving in my mouth
• not skipping weekend dog walks and hikes with Michael
• attending a Zumba class (!!)

Well, I did end up passing on the last week of Winter Shape Up because I was too excited to start making up my own strength workouts. I finalized my Upper Body Burn and will have a Lower Body Blast posted later this week. Not too sure I’ve been more diligent about what I shove in my mouth…some days yes, some days not so much. :) Definitely not skipping weekend walks and hikes when the weather is good. The dogs love us! Instead of Zumba I’m trying BodyPump. I missed the session last week but it’s on my workout plan for this Thursday. Better late than never!

Goals for #AwesomeApril:

• Keep on powering through to-do lists and #EmbraceMonday!
• Drink more water
• 4 x BodyPump – no excuses!
• Weekend hikes and dog walks continued
• Find or create a new healthy snack recipe

Am I the last person ever to try BodyPump?  Are you a fan?  What do you love/hate about the class?  I’m excited!

#EmbraceMonday No. 1

Hey everyone!  The first edition of #EmbraceMonday is here! 

So glad to see a few of you remembered and joined in today!  In fact, a couple of you even beat me to it (I get a bit of a later start on the computer on Mondays).  Thanks for tweeting along and helping motivate me to dropkick my very ambitious to-do list today. 

I didn’t get to tidying my patio but everything else is DONE!

As promised, here’s some shout outs! 

(I’ll spare you the bazillion tweets I sent in support of my own project!) ha!

Looks like I wasn’t the only one with a motivated, productive Monday.  Good work you guys! :)

Sorry I haven’t figured out how to just get the Twitter hashtag feed to post over here (you’d think after five years I’d have better technical blog skillz) so for now there are no links.  If you are smarter than I am, please help a girl out!

Also, even though everyone used the #EmbraceMonday hashtag not everyone showed up in the hashtag feed online.  Bizarro.  If your tweet is missing, go ahead and RT it to me @balanceblog.

Have a great week, keep up the motivation, and hope to see you and some more folks next Monday.  Good times, good times!  :)