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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...