Pancakes, Pesto and Porsches

Happy First day of May! Since yesterday’s post was dedicated to the Foodie Pen Pal Swap, I bet you are dying to know what I did this weekend. Lucky you, I’m going to tell you! 😉

Friday started out in a very delicious manner – with pancakes! Oat Bran Chia Seed Pancakes to be exact.

Munchkin was a great sous chef and poured all the measured ingredients into a bowl and stirred with a big wooden spoon. He also helped he pour the batter into the pan that though it was “oh cool.” It makes me so happy to see that he enjoys being in the kitchen as much as I do.

For dinner, I put my food processor to very good use and made pesto sauce.

I found the basic recipe for pesto – basil, garlic, olive oil and tweaked it a bit to make the sauce creamier and cheesier.

Creamy Pesto Sauce

• 3 cups basil leaves (stems removed)
• 4 cloves roasted garlic
• 1/4 cup ricotta cheese
• 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1/4 cup olive oil

Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until the desired consistency is reached. Serve over pasta, or just eat with a spoon straight out of the bowl. I won’t judge. 😉

My Saturday was spent in school. Tommy and I had plans to meet for lunch since he was working Saturday. Sadly, my lunch break happened later than we had expected and he enjoyed lunch at the Amish Market all by his lonesome. Since I didn’t know where the Amish Market was, I went to Subway for lunch. It was just eh and not picture worthy.

After school and work, my boys got haircuts. Munchkin was way overdue, but he’s not a big fan of haircuts so we put it off for a long time. Since he was a champ during his haircut, we celebrated with ice cream. I didn’t get a pic of our shared cookie dough sundae, but we will be back for sure. I even got a punch card!

We started Sunday off on an artistic note with some painting.

After we were all painted out, we got ready and headed out to Whole Foods. Instead of going into the city, we decided to drive out to Long Island to do our shopping. We had never been to this Whole foods before and were super surprised when we got off the exit and found that Whole Foods was across the street from the Americana a.k.a a huge luxury/designer mall neither of us had ever heard of. Clearly we were not in Kansas anymore!

We joked that if we tried to pull into the parking lot, security would’ve stopped us because judging by our car, we didn’t belong there. A 2002 Pontiac would’ve been an eye sore among the shiny BMWs, Benzes, and Porsches. Anyway, out trip to Whole Foods was a success. I found a lot of good stuff that I’ve been wanting to try out, so keep your eyes peeled for some foodie goodness coming up.

I also pulled something in my leg over the weekend, and I think I just discovered what caused it. I was doing Munchkin leg lifts on Saturday – he sits on my legs and I pick him up and down. When I went to workout on Sunday I planned on doing some lower body work, but after my first squat I knew my legs would be out of commission, so I went for arms and abs instead.

That sums up the excitement of my weekend! Have a great Tuesday!

What did you do this weekend? Have you ever found yourself at a place where you clearly didn’t belong? Have you ever injured yourself in non-workout situation that kept you from working out?