Category Archives: E

Easy Flank Steak

This is a ridiculously easy overnight marinade that tenderizes and flavors the flank steak. It's perfect for summer cookouts because it grills quickly. Scale to whatever proportions you need, but always keep the 2:1 juice-to-soy sauce ratio. Ingredients Flank steak, 1.5-2 lbs 1/2 cup orange juice 1/4 cup soy sauce 5 cloves of smashed garlic 1/2 inch of ginger, sliced Splash of ...

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Pens, Lost and Found

All my life, I wanted a nice pen. My father had a golden Cross pen and pencil set, and I just loved it. The weight conferred a sense of importance upon anything written with it, from my fourth grade Social Studies paper to my college applications. When I graduated from ...

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Gyro-Style Lamb Over Quinoa

I can count on one hand the number of times I've eaten lamb, and I've never particularly enjoyed it. While it might be a perfectly reasonable meal, I just can't get over the fact that nobody has ever renamed this meat for the sake of marketing. I mean, let's face it, we've spent our entire ...

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Views of the Pacific

Saturday: Plan: 3 "easy" miles. Completed: 3.09 enjoyable but hilly miles. Sunday: Plan: 30 minutes of cross-training. Completed: Two hours of walking around Monterey Bay Aquarium, hoisting a 30-pound preschooler. When we planned our impromptu trip to ...

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How Do You Handle a Crisis?

Last Thursday, I was on a cross-country flight from EWR-SFO. Less than a third of the way into the flight, somewhere over Indiana, the unthinkable happened: my sweet, charming boy had become the vomiting preschooler. In an instant, we went from being the subject of smiles and waves to being that nightmare in-flight story. By the ...

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Training and the Traveling Single Mom

Traveling with a 3-year-old son creates unique complications. I had tons of downtime in the hotel at afternoon naptime and after he was in bed at 8:00 p.m., but I was confined to the hotel room because there's nobody else to watch him. Add to this the fact that Philadelphia rolled out the red carpet with ...

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Cabbage Salad with Ginger Vinaigrette

This would be an ideal summer salad served with pork tenderloin or chicken marinated in teriyaki sauce. Ingredients 3/4 cup rice vinegar 3 Tbsp sugar 1 tsp sesame oil 1 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce 1 Tbsp grated ginger root 1 head green cabbage, shredded 1/4 cup cilantro (optional) 1/2 cup scallions, sliced 1 cup radishes, grated 1 cup carrots, grated Instructions Whisk the first five ingredients (through ginger) ...

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Still Training

As I look at the date of my last training post -- May 8! -- I wonder how 10 days have passed so quickly. I have been training plenty, although not in the last two days while I've been traveling solo with the boy. Some highlights from the past week: Three kickboxing classes, including the Friday night ...

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Grainy Bread, Take 2

As I'm sure my regular readers have noticed, I have a bit of an obsession with no-knead bread. I've marveled at the simplicity of it, and often wonder how such a thing is even possible. This article, from the New York Times, gives a good explanation. I had tried ...

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The 3rd 40: Days 29-32

It has been an unusual week. I don't know when the professional karma pendulum swung my way, but I received more requests for proposals in the past week than I did in the six months prior. And these aren't just returning clients; a full two-thirds of them are new clients referred by existing clients. I'm ...

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