Book Giveaway & Workout Wednesday

Hiya! Hope your week is treating you well. My first two days were crazy busy, so I am hoping the rest of the week is a little more chill.

Have you ever been in the kitchen cooking or baking and realized you don’t have an ingredient called for in a recipe? I am always making substitutions, so I was super excited to receive this book, Substituting Ingredients: The A to Z Kitchen Reference (June 2010) by experienced food writer Becky Sue Epstein. Its basically the substituting bible (note: I received this product for free)!

  So what will you find inside?:

  According to the Publisher:

“Author and senior editor at Intermezzo magazine, Becky Sue Epstein includes more than 1,000 healthy, A to Z, easy-to-find, and cheap substitutions. Her goal is that no cook will ever abandon an appetizing dish for the lack of a particular ingredient, a time crunch, dietary restrictions, or for the cost to make the dish.

Substituting Ingredients includes less expensive ingredient options, nontoxic household cleaner solutions, simple recipes for condiments, sauces, marinades and spice mixtures.”

Want to win a copy of your own? Leave a comment telling me your favorite ingredient substitute. You DO NOT have to have a blog to enter!! Contest is open until Thursday, June 17 at noon and the winner will be announced on Friday.

How are your workouts coming this week? My tentative plan is as follows:

• Monday:Quick run to warm-up, taught Body Pump
• Tuesday: Taught Body Attack
• Wednesday: Run or walk (hopefully outside!)
• Thursday:  Teach 45 minute pump/45 minute step
• Friday:  Off
• Saturday:  Teach Body Step
• Sunday: Off

Enjoy your week!

Mustard Seed Meet up & Vegan Pineapple Coconut Muffins

Owww Monday! Today was a BUSY day for sure! I started my day off with a quick run and then taught Body Pump. I rushed home to shower and went into work. We had a new employee starting today and I had to get her settled. After work, I stopped quickly at home to let Frank out, ran some errands and then headed to Mustard Seed for our blogger meet up.

 

The meet up included Amelia (who doesn’t have a blog yet, but totally should ;), Myself, Christina from Hungry Meets Healthy, Blair from Reasonably Swanky and Lindsay from Pancakes and Pajamas:

 

I have been to Mustard Seed once before and LOVED it. Last time, I got the vegetable stir fry. Tonight, my tummy wasn’t feeling 100% so I went with something a little lighter, a Greek salad & some of their awesome bread(excuse the under and over exposed pictures):

Blair also wanted me to feature her beautiful Pecan Encrusted Chicken:

Sal, the owner of all the Dine with Sal restaurants, was even at the restaurant! He got a picture with one of his biggest fans, Christina!!

Not only that, he even sent us a couple of free, DELICIOUS desserts:

Such a great restaurant, can’t wait to go back!

All of the girls were so wonderful! I brought each of them a little treat, Vegan Pineapple Coconut Muffins. I used this recipe, but used 3 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon flax (instead of an egg), pineapple juice (instead of milk), and Earth Balance. I also did not place almonds on top (as I didn’t know if anyone had any nut allergies).  Josh taste tested one for me last night and gave them a big thumbs up!

 

 

Do you have a favorite muffin? Where is it from or is it homemade?