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Weekend Favorites

MissyMaintains — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:00:39 +0000

This weekend included a few of my favorite things…..

1) 5 Burro margaritas!

2. Chips and salsa

3. Guacamole

4. Dinner with blog friends!

5. Fajitas

6. Piles of vegetables

7. Shots!

10. Mixing shots with Vitamin Water Zero at bars!

11. Breakfast to cure hangovers the next morning

12. Drinking again at 3:00 in the afternoon to cure hangovers.

13. Beer pong!

14. Pretending I’m in college again

15. Fun times with friends!

What are 5 of your favorites from the weekend?

Your Salsa is Saved!

MissyMaintains — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:04:06 +0000

A few days ago I received the coolest bowl ever. I got an email from 2 recent college graduates that said they just started their own product design company. They asked if I wanted to try their first invention, a dip bowl that solves the problem of salsa spilling over the rim and onto the table. Genius!

The Salsabol solves the salsa-spilling problem with a patent-pending lip which pushes your salsa or dip back onto your chip for the perfect scoop,
every time.

Mike and Tom also sent me some chips and salsa so that I could test out the bowl!

How Exactly Does the Bowl Work? (source)

The three-step process for perfect scooping:

Dig into your salsa
Scoop up the high side of the bowl, letting the salsa gracefully fall back onto your chip.
Celebrate your scooping victory.

What’s the secret?

Look closely at the raised side of the Salsabol. It curves back over into the bowl to form a perfectly-engineered ramp to guide the salsa directly onto your chip. Just scoop your chip up the high side and the ‘bol will do the rest! The three-step process for perfect scooping:

I was very excited to test out the bowl! No more spilling salsa all over my pants!

Step 1: Dig into your salsa

Step 2: Scoop up the high side of the bowl, letting the salsa gracefully fall back onto your chip.

Step 3: Celebrate your scooping victory!

After playing with lots of chips and salsa last night, I made a lovely salad for dinner. I poured the salsa all over the lettuce, veggie burger, and broccoli. Talk about a celebration!

If you are interested in purchasing the cool bowl and supporting some recent college grads, you can head on over to their online store. The Salsabol is great for parties and for people (like me) who tend to spill food everywhere! Their blog is also very entertaining if you are looking for some laughter today!

1) If you could invent any kitchen product, what would it be?

2) Are you a salsa spiller?

Walmart Winner and Weekend Fun!

MissyMaintains — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:06:19 +0000

Hope everyone had a nice holiday! I will start off with the winner of the $15.00 Walmart Gift Card and then do a little weekend recap!

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The winner is Eunice from Food 4 Fitness. Her 4th of July plans were: “to sleep in, eat pancakes, lay by the pool with my book, and maybe fireworks by the beach at night. ”

Congrats Eunice! Please send me your address and I will mail out your gift card!

Eunice’s plans sounded very similar to my weekend! On Saturday I woke up and was very sore from intenSati so I decided to do the Body By Bethenny with Bethenny Frankel DVD. This was a mix of yoga and strength training- exactly what I needed! I felt so much better after the 45 minutes of yoga. I will do a review once I try the DVD one more time

I worked up quite the appetite after my workout so I decided to make some Purely Elizabeth pancakes! Elizabeth is a fellow IIN graduate so I love to show my support!

The pancake mix is gluten free, sugar free, dairy free, and wheat free. I used almond milk, 1 egg, olive oil, cinnamon, a banana, and some chocolate chips!

They look messy but they tasted delicious! I made enough for 3 days worth of pancakes! Perfect for the long weekend!

Saturday afternoon I had plans with Angela from Miss Chubby Hubby and Dori! We went to Angela’s apartment for some delicious sangria.

After a few drinks, we headed over to P.S.1 for a party they have every Saturday called Warm Up. It was a lot of fun! They were playing all house music so I was happy!

Angela and I

It was one huge dance party!

After the party we headed over to Water Taxi Beach for some more drinks! We were all starving so we just ended up eating some dinner and heading home. I got a yummy veggie burger.

It was a great day! Angela and I actually grew up 15 minutes away from each other in Philly! Small world!

On Sunday I woke up and got a nice hangover breakfast from a nearby cafe. I got a mushroom and feta cheese omelet with whole wheat toast.

I relaxed and enjoyed the sun all day around Queens. At night we decided to head downtown to watch the fireworks by the Hudson. We ate dinner at Southwest, the same place we ate after my race! I enjoyed 2 margaritas!

I went with the Broiled Tilapia. It came withasparagus, shrimp and jicama salsa. It was kind of small for the price but extremely delicious!

My friend got the whole wheat pasta with sausage, peppers, and onions in garlic oil. I had a taste and it was great too!

We were about to leave to watch the fireworks until we saw 3 girls at the table across from us pouring their drinks into soup cups! We asked our server if we could do the same! He brought us 2 margaritas and 2 soup bowls. Amazing.

Pretty view from the table!

After the fireworks we got hungry again and spotted a Whole Foods! We made some salads before heading home. I must say, my salad was a great drunk munchy food!

Yesterday I knew I wanted to be outside but had no idea where. My friend and I decided to walk to Forest Park in Queens and lay out. We knew it was far but I don’t think we realized just how far! It ended up taking over an hour to walk to! At least we got some sun and exercise at the same time! We walked around the park and explored for another hour before getting too hot and tired. Eventually we took a cab back to the movies and saw Toy Story 3 and Eclipse. Both were really good! I am not a crazy Twilight fan and have never read the books but do love the movies. I love Edward too just in case anyone was wondering. We finished the weekend with some margaritas and Mexican at 5 Burro!

Lovely way to end the long weekend! What was your favorite part of the weekend??

Will the Margaritas Pass the Test?

MissyMaintains — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:41:34 +0000

Hello! Yesterday was a nice and healthy day..until dinner. That’s usually the story of my life so it’s okay! Margaritas were involved but did you expect anything less in this warm weather?

After my morning gym session I picked up some pineapple cottage cheese for breakfast.

I’ve never had it with pineapple but really enjoyed it. There were little chunks throughout the container. I also had some ~~crack espresso~~ Click Espresso to drink. Love this stuff. It has 15 grams of protein and wakes me right up!

I also snacked on an apple later in the morning.

During lunch I walked around a little and tried to get a 30 minute tan! I also stopped at Westside Market and created my own salad.

It had chickpeas, broccoli, goat cheese, and pesto chicken. Delicious.

After work I got my taxes done. They were very generous to me this year because of my tuition bill! I decided to go celebrate with some margaritas! I met a friend and we wandered around near Union Square until we found a cute Mexican restaurant called EL Cantinero. It had an outside patio which I was very excited about.

We were trying to get a shot of the patio without people thinking we were taking pictures of them eating!

We were served chips and salsa of course. I was dying of hunger so I may have went a little overboard on the chips.

We weren’t even halfway through the basket and the server brought us a fresh basket of chips without even asking if we wanted more. Nice service!

I was debating between a margarita and sangria but decided I needed to see if any margarita could compare to the one at 5 Burro! I went with Mango.

At first I thought it was not as strong as the one at 5 Burro. I ended up being very wrong. This one was very refreshing and not too sweet. I downed it..a little too fast!

I got the Vegetarian Fajitas. I had to see if these could compare to 5 Burro’s fajitas too!

I loved how pretty the plate was! The orange slices gave the dish a nice touch. There was also tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, celery, carrots, lettuce, and peppers, and avocado slices. I love giant piles of veggies!! They were less greasy than the veggies at 5 Burro which was nice. I do prefer the zucchini and mushrooms at 5 Burro instead of celery and carrots but this was still very impressive. There were too many onions once I got to the bottom of the pile so I took that was my cue to stop eating!

The dish also came with Spanish rice and flour wraps but I skipped those since I had plenty of chips before the meal.

Sorry about the finger. The tequila was setting in.

Halfway through my meal I ordered another margarita. Totally not necessary. I went with Blackberry this time!

It was delicious but I could only drink half. Missy not able to finish a drink?? That should probably tell you something about how strong the drinks were!

Overall I was very impressed by El Cantinero. The prices were a little steeper than 5 Burro but the food was delicious, the drinks were strong, and the service was great! The outdoor patio was a nice bonus as well.

I’m not sure how I ate dessert because I was stuffed but I guess I can never be too full for The Lite Choice! Cookies N’ Cream softs serve is always a wonderful way to end the night.

Hmm… I guess we can disregard yesterday’s post about continuing on my Passover diet! I did wake up for the gym again today at least! I did 35 minutes on the elliptical and 15 minutes on the treadmill. I ran for 7 of the minutes until I got a cramp. Very annoying. Tonight I am also going to Core Fusion with a blog reader so margaritas and soft serve are fine in my book!

P.S. CALL FOR GUEST BLOGGERS! I am going on vacation next week and do not plan on bringing my laptop so let me know if you interested in doing a guest post! Have a good one!

And the Challenge Continues….

MissyMaintains — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:54:06 +0000

Hello! Last night was day 3 of the Core Fusion Challenge! I took an Open class at the location near my work. There is one thing that bothers me about that location. There is a cute small gym with a few ellipticals, treadmills, and weight machines. I get off work at 6:00 and Core Fusion does not start till 6:45 so I have a lot of time to spare. A little extra cardio before class would be nice! Apparently the gym is only for hotel guests so I have to sit there and stare at the gym for 45 minutes while I wait for class to start. It is always empty so I wish I was allowed to do a little cardio! Oh well!

Last night I got changed and sat outside the gym while drinking some of their delicious Earth tea. I guess I should cherish the relaxation time before class!Eventually class began and I was happy to see that the teacher was the same girl Dori and I took class with one Friday morning. She was really nice and a great teacher. She also has the most beautiful curly red hair that I just kind of stare at during class!

We started off with a plank which seemed extra long! I was really struggling with it last night. It seemed like a good 3 minutes that we held it while doing different moves with our legs at the same time. We then moved onto push ups which I could also barely do! I was able to do them better midway through the class. I guess my body was warmed up later on.

We moved onto hand weights which I always enjoy. Next was the dreadful leg section against the bar. My legs were shaking uncontrollably. Other girls were cursing under their breaths. It burned! We did butt on the floor next. My legs were shaking more than ever during this as well. This was a reminder that I should not go more than a week without taking the class! We finished with abs using the bar and the ball. I always have a tough time getting low enough in the c-curve position. I really hope my abs get stronger once this challenge is over!

I left the class feeling great as usual. I was wobbling down the subway stairs on my way home! Everyone needs to try this class at least once in their life!

I found out today that I was accepted into another challenge!! It will begin on Sunday and end on February 7th. I will explain more in a future post but it involves a one month membership to Equinox and taking a new class! I was beyond excited when I got the acceptance email this morning!! Janruary should be a good month to get me back into shape! I kind of slacked off the past couple of weeks and it shows. I am hoping to lose around 5 pounds and get stronger and toned. We’ll see!

Eats!

I had a very random breakfast yesterday!

I picked up this sandwich at the health food store before work. I really did not want oatmeal again! I also had to train someone yesterday so I knew I needed a quick breakfast. It was a delicious sandwich and did a nice job of keeping me full till lunch!

I packed lunch and brought it with me to work.

It was low-salt ham and American cheese on a flax wrap. I had some Dr. Kracker’s on the side. I ate it in the Chelsea Market. Guess who was there? Nigel from America’s Next Top Model! I missed him but my coworker said he walked right by us!

I made my usual Mexican salad for dinner! I started off by making a salad with grilled mushrooms and cucumbers.

I then made a package of Lightlife Mexican Crumbles with red peppers and squash.

A little brown rice on the side…

I topped the Mexican crumbles and brown rice over my salad with some low-fat mozzarella cheese.

I used a few different salsas for dressing!

Yummy!

Dessert was a Glow Gluten Free cookie!

I will review these cookies in my next post! Let’s just say I got 4 different flavors and was very curious to try each one right away! I consumed many many cookies yesterday!

I made up for it with the gym this morning because I am not sure if I can go to Core Fusion tonight! I burned a nice 463 calories on the treadmill and elliptical. I like being all done for the day!

What time of day do you like to work out and why?

Today is the last day to enter my New Year Giveaway!