The most important meal of the day

My first food post!
A note about how I cook: I tend to modify recipes. I rarely use a recipe straight from the book or website. This is mainly because my husband can be a picky eater and I'm only cooking for two. So sometimes I reduce excess fat or add more veggies, cut recipes in half or by 1/3 etc. I also try to buy only ingredients I'm going to use. Nothing super fancy for a single meal that will result in throwing away unused amounts. If I buy 3lbs of potatoes or a large eggplant, you bet we're going to be eating several meals with those ingredients in the next week.
I apologize now for the horrible photos. I'm not a food photographer and my kitchen has very bad lighting. BUT I'm not going to let that stop me since I have so many recipes I either love or want to try and share even with my bad photos.

Recipe: Make ahead breakfast burritos
Origin: Pinterest
Modification: No hashbrowns, not the full recipe
Motivation behind trying this recipe: My husband eats breakfast at school every morning after cross country practice.  During the summer, I make either scrambled eggs, omelettes, burritos or oatmeal for breakfast every morning. Since I can't do that at school, I think this might be a good substitute for our busy schedule while still being filling and decently healthy.

What I used:
5 eggs
2TBS milk
1cup HEBs frozen fajita veggies (onion, green and red bell peppers)
4 slices Turkey Bacon
6 soft taco size flour tortillas (I like HEB original style)
1/3c cheddar cheese

Step 1. Cook the bacon

Step 2. While bacon cooks, beat the eggs and milk together and defrost the veggies.

Step 3. Cook veggies until onions are transparent.

Step 4. Add eggs to veggies and scramble. At this point, I broke the bacon into pieces and added it to the eggs near the end of cooking. I let the eggs cool before filling the tortillas

Step 5: Fill tortillas, sprinkle a little cheddar cheese and wrap in plastic warp. I over filled my tortillas so they didn't want to close on the ends. 

Step 6: For the burritos I wanted to freeze, I wrapped a layer of foil over the plastic wrap and popped them in the freezer.

To reheat, take the burrito out of the foil and plastic wrap. Place in moist paper towel and defrost for 30sec-1min. Then microwave for 1min flipping the burrito over after 30sec.  Enjoy.

Future modifications: Whole Wheat tortillas

Book Update 13-Aug

I try to read for fun every night before bed. Sometimes I finish books in a few days, others take me weeks or months. But since my bedtime routine is habit, the nights blur and I can't remember WHEN I read a book. A book I read last summer might still feel new to me. This isn't helpful when you have a reading goal such as finish 20 book this year. So below is a list of the books I KNOW I read this year.

The Hunger Game trilogy. Don't get me started I have far to many opinions about these books.

The Zookeeper's Wife: a War Story by Diane Ackerman

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks

reread Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History by Penny LeCouteur and Jay Burreson

The Medici Giraffe and Other Tales of Exotic Animals and Power by Marina Belozerskaya This was an awesome find at Half Price Books.

So that makes 9 book I know I've finished only 11 more to go.

Currently reading: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and Other Clinical Tales by Dr. Oliver Sacks

9 Aug 2012- musings

I'm not sure why I stopped listening to music that wasn't on the radio or Pandora but for the last two years I've neglected my iTunes list. Today things changed when I ran by myself during the day.  I took my iPod along for the first time in months.  I usually run in the early morning and for safety reasons don't listen to music. I was reminded why I run in the morning. The run was awful hot and I had problems breathing the last two miles. But no matter, my iPod was filled with my favorite songs from college including my old warm up playlist. It was motivating to think of all those years of running, the good runs, the bad runs, the ugly runs when I had mono. What's more motivating than looking back on a 15 yr old habit and the music that's accompanied it?

Currently listening to: Vampire Weekend