Sweet Thursday….

I just had the yummiest dinner – but before I get ahead of myself…

Training: Swim Squad (1.6km)

This morning started bright and early with a 6.30am swim squad session. While I am doing my own swim training to get my distance / swim fitness up, I enjoy attending a squad once a week to focus on technique.

This morning's session lasted an hour and went something like this:

Warm Up
200 metres free style
200 metres IM (ie. 25 polo swim, 25 back, 25 breaststroke and 25 free x2)

Drill Set
200m - kickboard
100m side kick / free style
100m - 6 kick switch / free style
100m - scratchies / freestyle
100 m - recovery (50 breast / 50 free)

Speed
300m - time trial (ie. go as fast as you can!)
100m - recovery - easy pace

Cool down
200m - freestyle

Total: 1.6km

I love the variety in these sessions, and I find  the drill sets to be particularly helpful in improving technique. 
Whilst I may be able to swim more than 1.6km in an hour session, it is good to slow down and work on efficiency too.

Before I knew it the session was over, and I had to make a mad dash into work. The only problem with the before work swims is that once I have showered I hit peak hour traffic and it takes me AGES to drive into work. Oh well, I suppose crazy traffic one morning a week is not that bad.

Speaking of work, I had one of those busy yet productive days - where the phone doesn't stop ringing and the 'in tray' seems to grow bigger rather than smaller. It makes the day go quickly though I must admit.

Dinner

Tonight Mr BBB is out, and I knew I had a sweet potato just waiting to be eaten, so after some online recipe searching I decided on stuffed sweet potatoes.

In the end I didn’t follow a recipe as such, but just threw what I had in the fridge in the mix.

Starting with the sweet potato – baked for about 40 minutes.




While the sweet potato was baking, I sautéed some mushrooms, zucchini and spinach (and was horrified at how the frozen spinach looked like out of the packet!).




Once the potatoes were done, it was simply a matter of scooping out the soft insides, and adding it to the spinach mix – coupled with a big dollop of cottage cheese.





Then stuff – top with a little rice crumb – and bake into the oven for 20 minutes or so.





Served with a side of steamed asparagus.



Overall this was an easy yet delicious meal for one. The sweetness of the potato, coupled with the vegies, was a perfect combination. Well in my humble opinion anyway ;)

             

Questions...

I have really enjoyed the latest Q &A posts on a lot of the blogs I follow. So, I figured I should perhaps return the favour, and start a little Q & A of my own.

My question is….

Feel free to click on the link above and ask me a question. It is anonymous too so don't be shy!

Happy baking :)