InstaFriday

Its been a great week. I was productive, learned lots, and got to spend time with B.

Here's a recap in photos:

 1. Post Zumba sweatyness. We have fun and work hard, exactly how it should be. 2. We made a salad pizza this week! Yum! 3. I also made pumpkin chocolate chunk cookies. There are 2 in the freezer waiting for B's colleague who loves my cookies. 4. Speaking of Zumba, Beto Perez will be hosting a class in NOLA as an ALS fundriaser.... and I have a night class at the same time. Shoot!

5. It's a beautiful day for saving lives... or learning. I wish my classrooms were outside with this beautiful weather. 6. A mid day, mid week date with B for some pink grapefruit frozen yogurt. 7. Our first pumpkin pie sighting at Whole Foods. 8. Because we were there waiting to pick up our pizza!

This weekend: homework, yard work, and baking some wonderful pumpkin bread. I feel like the yard work never ends... but I guess that is what happens with this much beautiful weather! 

Have a great weekend!

Happy Canadian thanksgiving on Monday!

Best burger in BTR

We have been to Bin 77 many times since moving to Baton Rouge. It's a great date night location!  I have had their bin burger many times... maybe close to every time we have been there. It is seriously the best burger in this town, in my opinion. Why ruin a good thing and get something else?

We like to go during happy hour so we can have a flat bread for an appetizer and a glass of wine. This past Friday we splurged and bough a bottle of wine The server brought us a sample and it was amazing, we could not help ourselves, I just really love a red blend.

We love the steak and gruyere flat bread (center) but we have also tried the proscuitto, fig, and cambozola which is a great runner up. Bin 77 definitely provides me with my weekly red meat fix, and an iron booster!

Come visit and we will take you to Bin 77. Remember: happy hour = great deals!

Weird looking juice

This is the weirdest looking juice we have ever made:

Okay, we have not made that may juices, but this one was orange and frothy... but not made of oranges!

4 apples

2 pears

That's it! A sweet treat for a sunday morning!

Teach me what you have learned

I am fascinated by research, projects, and learning. Even if it is not my exact area of interest, if I can learn something I bet I will enjoy what I am doing. 

Take my current research project, for example. We took a past project and some other research and made a hypothesis. We tested that hypothesis through data collection for the last 4 months. We marked data like crazy. I read tons of research and info in old anatomy and physiology textbooks. We analyzed our data... and guess what happened: the exact opposite of our hypothesis. It could have happened for muscular or reflexive reasons... we do not know yet. So we plan to collect more data doing something very similar. We have also been doing statistical analysis... multiple regression ANOVAs to be exact. Yes, my eyes get glassy just thinking about it. Somedays when I understand ANOVAs I may try to explain it. For now... know that my project continues with an accepted null hypothesis.

I hope to post my conference poster after it is presented in 2 weeks! Time to get back to work... we have lots to do!

Weekly meal planning

Happy October! This week on our menu: veggies, veggies, and more veggies. Why? Because they taste good and are good for us! Okay, we do have some non-vegetarian meals planned too. 

Sunday - chicken with mushrooms and pan sauce & cauliflower gratin

Monday - leftover paella of summer vine vegetables

Tuesday - veggie and goat cheese enchiladas

Wednesday - salad pizza

Thursday - Whole Foods pizza night!

Friday - TBD

Saturday - hopefully BBQ pork t if it is not raining!

Because fitness and food go hand in hand, my fitness plan this week is teaching 6 hours of Zumba, teaching 3 hours of pilates, maybe a class at Body Factory and a trip to the gym. If I write it down it is more likely to happen, right?