Good evening! (Or morning or whenever you read this). Two days down, one to go until Thanksgiving! I’m more happy about the long weekend than the holiday itself, but it’ll be fun having a “big” group at Thanksgiving this year. For the past three years we’ve been anywhere from 3 to 6 people, but this [...]
Archive of posts tagged salad
Gringa Tacos and “Purple” Yams
I wasn’t going to post tonight’s dinner because I wasn’t sure how good it would taste. We all know I love my Mexican food—in fact, I went “off-campus” for lunch today to a local Mexican joint and had some yummy grilled fish tacos. Well, before I knew what I was doing for lunch I had [...]
Bootcamp Done and Done! Final Results
It’s been quite the 12 weeks, friends. About a month into the program, I knew that time would go by really fast and before I knew it, I’d be finished with my bootcamp. And here we are. Today was my last bootcamp workout, and tomorrow I’m going to have my “after” photo taken by a [...]
Healthy Twists at Dinner Parties
Well…this is a BIG week over in the Healthy Twists household. Last week of bootcamp! It’s been quite the 12 weeks, friends. I’ll go over my general reflections about my experience later this week, as well as the results of my final weigh-in, but I wanted to thank all of you who have stuck by [...]
BSI Entry: Arugula with Strawberries and Balsamic-Shallot Vinaigrette
For my BSI: Strawberries entry, I decided to recreate a salad that I’ve gotten a few times at The Prado, a really great yet somewhat pricey restaurant here in San Diego. Their recipe is a pressed arugula salad with sherry-shallot vinaigrette, and it contains strawberries, figs, candied walnuts, shaved Parmesan cheese, and strawberries. For my [...]
