Nutri Bowl

Tuesday night's dinner is the result of Wednesday morning's post. Quinoa, kale, avocado, red onion, grilled chicken and figs make up this little power bowl. It might look like hippie food, but it is mighty tasty. 

Not to brag, but this was also whipped up in the dorm kitchen! *pat on the back*

Nutri Bowl
serves one

Ingredients:
1/4 cup cooked quinoa
2 cups of kale
1 small grilled chicken breast, sliced
1/4 small red onion, sliced
2 figs, quartered
dressing (any kind of balsamic or mustard vinaigrette)* 
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
Cook your quinoa according to your package's directions. While it's cooking slice your chicken, figs, onions and avocado. As the quinoa is finishing cooking, throw your kale and vinaigrette in at the last minute to warm it up and combine it with the quinoa. Decorate with the sliced chicken, veggies and figs. Sprinkle with salt and pepper if you choose!

*I stumbled into this little olive oil shop in Capitol Hill last Sunday. I'm a huge fan of free samples, so I walked around the whole store for about 10 minutes sampling all the different olive oils and balsamic vinegars with little cubes of bread and popcorn. I then sampled this amazing mustard sauce. It was a tarragon dijon mustard and actually one of the better things I've ever tasted. I made and impulse purchase and walked out happy. 

I've been dipping all kinds of things in it and mixing it with a little oil to make a vinaigrette for my salads. I think this made my nutri bowl extra delish but I promise it will still be good with any kind of dressing you use. 

Annie

In a Flash

So my dad has one rule. If any of us are to ever get a tattoo we have to get two. The first can be whatever we want and the second has to be 'stupid' across our forehead. Don't worry dad, you drilled that into my head to make me never want to get a tattoo. Although, temporary tattoos are excluded from that rule. 

Flash tattoos have quickly been popping up everywhere. Sister Claire and I first saw them at my favorite store in D.C. Wink, (that I also mentioned here) when she was here visiting. We instantly loved them and bought a package to split. 

Since purchasing, I've seen them all over. The tattoos come in 9 different packages. I've loved mine and they are a great conversation starter to say the least when someone sees them. I even had a girl comment on them in my Barre 3 class in the middle of push-pulls...that was a new one. 

Follow along with my awkward dorm bathroom pictures as I go through the obvious steps to putting on temporary tattoos. (It seemed like a much cooler idea at the time, now I feel slightly dumb for assuming someone doesn't know how to put on a temporary tattoo).

To my experience they stay on for about a solid week. They are bringing back to the whole 90's childhood thing that is resurfacing in a much cooler way. 

You can order your own Flash Tattoos here!

Annie