Yesterday, was another busy day - I literally was non-stop from the moment I woke up at 5:45 am for my gym workout until I crashed out in my bed around 10:00 while watching the news…
After my workout yesterday, I am very proud to say, I changed it up and had a strawberry, banana, acai and hempseed smoothie. Totally delicious.
I used some time at lunch to make a run to Whole Foods to decorate my very empty fridge and grab some lunch. I had sesame broccoli and tempeh (yum!!).
After work, I had to rush over to Sports Basement to pick up some additional supplies for bootcamp since all of a sudden, I have a lot more bootcampers! Finally after all that running around, I went home and decided to do a little therapeutic cooking. I whipped up the most amazing risotto style barley with arugula, walnuts, shallots, onions, orange/lemon zest, orange slices, creme fraiche, and parmesan which I found the recipe for in Super Natural Cooking (thank you Heidi Swanson) .
Here’s the shallots, garlic and yellow onion all chopped and waiting to get mixed…
Here it is cooking - kind of looks like oatmeal..
And the final masterpiece. Delicious!
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Ooooh, that looks great! I can’t wait to start making risotto again!
Hi Jaimie,
Thanks for visiting my blog! I can tell that you, too, are a busy woman and if you can keep the blogging up, so can I! That healthy risotto looks awesome… I will definitely keep reading and look forward to learning more about how you stay healthy, happy, and sane with all that you do! :)
Mmmm that risotto DOES look like oatmeal. Nothing wrong with that!
i feel ya girl on the busy day! i wish there were more hours in the day! Glad you got to Whole foods thought! yay
Hi Jamie! Thanks so much for visting my blog :) I’ve had a bag of barley in my pantry forever, and have been looking out for some good ideas of what to do with it…this looks delicious!
I’m so glad you provided the link to your blog! I’m really enjoying it and can’t wait to keep reading. You know I love starting my day out with a smoothie… yours sounds delicious! And I’m such a fan of tempeh. My favorite is actually eating it raw in a pita stuffed with veggies! So good!
xxoo
Heather
Wow, even with your super busy day, you managed to pull together an amazing risotto? I am seriously amazed! That risotto sounds and looks deeeelicious!
Oooh yum, look at all that sauce on top of the tempeh!
It seems like everybody is making risotto these days! Now this is one craze I would LOVE to join in!
Everything looks delicious. I’ve been using tempeh a lot lately. YUM.