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Sally Melt and Tomato Corn Soup

Wednesday, 28 April 2010 | 12:53 am

I ran out of food again and when it was time to eat, I had to put something together that was relatively quick and easy. It’s not as healthy as the Tuna Spinach Wrap, but it’s better than just eating a burger, I think ;)

Ingredients:

Sally Melt
- Canned Wild Alaskan Salmon
- Land O Lakes Cheddarella (2 pieces)
- Butter or margarine
- Wheat bread

Tomato Corn Soup
- Campbell’s Condensed Tomato Soup
- Del Monte Whole Kernel Corn
- Milk
- Ground Pepper

Directions
In a small pot (or whatever you cook your soup in) pour in the tomato soup under medium heat. Using the tomato soup can as a guide, fill in the milk to the halfway point and then pour the milkĀ  into your pot. Drain the canned corn and then add this to the pot, as well. Stir constantly under medium heat until the soup/milk mixture begins to foam. Lower heat — just enough to keep your soup warm. (Add pepper to taste)

Butter one side of both pieces of bread. Line one slice with your cheese (I used Land O Lakes Cheddarella bites because that’s all the cheese I had; you can definitely use those cheese singles). Add the drained canned Salmon — enough so that it covers the slice of bread. Top the salmon with more cheese and then cover the sandwich with the other slice.

OCB that cheese!

OCB that cheese!

Top with salmon

Top with salmon

Add more cheese

Add more cheese

The Cheese

The Cheese

Butter the top slice (outside) and then flip over and place on your grill (or pan, if you don’t own a George Foreman Grill – ZOMG if you don’t have one!) Quickly butter the now-top side of the slice and then press the grill shut (if you’re using a pan, do NOT butter the top slice, yet. Wait until you are ready to flip it over — you don’t want to transfer the butter on your spatula as you press the sammich down on the pan).

Butter topside

Butter topside

Butter flipside

Butter flipside

I kind of burned my sammich cos I was taking piccies (lol) so be sure to cook it until it’s reached perfection (golden brown). Put sammich on plate, stir your warming soup once more, then turn off heat then serve on a bowl. Add parsley garnish to the soup, if you want.

Eat sammich with soup. ^_^

Eat sammich with soup. ^_^

The sammich turned out to be ok, but I forget to season it — be sure to add pepper to your salmon and then mix it a bit. Don’t mix the canned salmon too much or it’ll end up being mushy. The salt in the soup should compliment the salmon, so make sure you don’t add too much salt when you do season it. Obviously, if you wanna make it tastier (i.e., perhaps add spices to the salmon?) then by all means, go for it! The soup is something that we used to make when we were kids cos it was easy to do without burning the house down. ^_^

1st sports massage; Weekend (food) recap

Tuesday, 27 April 2010 | 05:12 pm

I had my first “Sports massage” last night. I thought I had a sports massage before but it turned out, the previous ones were just pseudo-sports massages. The one last night was *a* sports massage. Of course, it didn’t help that I wasn’t prepared for it (again, thinking I’ve had a sports massage before). Without getting into too many details, I wouldn’t recommend wearing a thong to your sports massage — boyshorts would’ve been the MOST appropriate attire. LMFAO.

In other news, it’s time, once again for my food mash-up! Later tonight, after my lap swimming, I’m hoping to post my review of One Good Earbud! Yesh, I got it last week and tested it out the next day so I’m going to write down my thoughts about it for posterity. It’ll be my second “formal” review. ;)

But back to the food…

(World Famous) Jeff's Burger

(World Famous) Jeff's Burger

Frozen yogurt

Frozen yogurt

Strawberry Beer

Strawberry Beer

Tenderloin tips

Tenderloin tips

Curry Salmon stuffed with crab meat

Curry Salmon stuffed with crab meat

Filet Mignon Kebabs over Herb Rice

Filet Mignon Kebabs over Herb Rice

I tried to be concious of what I ate, but I’m still struggling with making healthy choices! Haha. Still, (and I’m going to rationalise now) I think I’m still in good shape since I hardly finish the meals and end up sharing half of what I eat with my sisters (i.e., except for the burger… It was all MINE!)

Swim Training (1000m Wed; 450m Fri)

Friday, 16 April 2010 | 12:01 pm

I went to do my lunchtime workout on Wednesday — 1000m swim! I was particularly encouraged to workout by my “new” virtual training buddy Sheryl! Yesh, we have a shareable Google calendar and each entered our training timetables into it. It’s one of the better ideas that either of us had had (yet)! LOL. Anyway we’re hoping that this will help us get back to fitness and obtain the “personal records” we crave for this year: me for the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon and Sheryl for the California Int’l Marathon. I think that by being accountable to someone else’s training, you’ll find renewed vigour to your own daily schedule and you definitely won’t feel so alone when doing it! Plus, if either of you skip a workout, it’s METAL SPATULA (1:09) time! ;)

Unfortunately, that being said, I skipped my scheduled “Strength and Stretch: P90X” workout last night. Eek. But I have two good excuses:

  1. Sisy was hungry and I had to make her and my little bro supper
  2. Sisy wanted to go swim at 6:30AM on Friday (today)

So what does a good li’l sis do? Comply. Resistance was futile. ;) Checkout the delicious (yet easy) meal I made for them last night:

Marinated chicken over tortilla strips

Marinated chicken over tortilla strips

I was literally about to begin the P90X workout when my sis came home and forget to grab some take out. >_< Thank goodness that I had just gone to the market to buy food; otherwise, we would’ve been eating my “nuked salmon” dish.

In any case, since I was able to go swim with her at six-friggin-thirty this morning, I guess missing my workout last night wasn’t so bad. It turned out great that we were there when the pool just opened as there were only a handful of (senior citizen) swimmers and I got my *own* lane! At the same time, I hadn’t swam that early in the morning (and was still too sleepy!) and the fact that I have my long run training tomorroz (17 miles!), I ended up doing some sort of mini-workout with 100m drill and some paddle-board exercises (450m total for nearly 25 minutes).

Overall, a great workout week. Two and a half stars on my calendar and one big star will be slapped (for sure) after my long run tomorrow.

TGIF!

 

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