Bad race, egg bakes, and yummy dinner!

On Saturday I ran my first trail half marathon. I've done a couple shorter trail races and they weren't so bad. But for me, this race was bad. There were no water stops, and since I assumed there would be, I did not bring water with me to carry. There was no food after the race and there was no station afterwards for care if needed which I needed. There were also no medals, which is just lame-sauce. The first half I did well, 1:10 if it was a road race I would have definitely been beating my previous best at that moment, but I had tripped on a tree root, landed hard and somehow managed to make my knee feel like it was about to explode. Needless to say, I walked most of the second half, every single step made me want to cry after mile 7. And I tried really hard to keep going, but decided I would rather be upset with my timing today, then not be able to do anymore races because I did something terrible to my knee. I was angry with myself afterwards, I wanted to do well. It feels much better... I honestly haven't run since... tomorrow will be my first day back at it and I feel nervous, like a kid who fell off her bike and doesn't want to get back on, but I know it will be fine. I just have to do it.

 

Have you ever made an egg bake? They are really the best thing ever. I know people make them in many different ways, but here's how I learned to do it:

My step mom and her family always made egg bakes that we called breakfast biscuits when there was a lot of family around to feed for breakfast. In this version you take a Pillsbury flakey layers biscuit, peel the layers to thirds. Get a big muffin pan. Spray it with Pam. Put a third of the biscuit on the bottom, add cheese and crumbled (cooked) bacon and scrambled egg till it is 2/3 full. Bake on 350 for about a half hour. This is my favorite version and the version I make for other people.

 

For myself, when I'm eating a little more healthy I just pick a bunch of veggies, sometimes Italian sausage, leave out the cheese and the biscuit and heat one up for breakfast everyday. This week I added Italian sausage and black beans ( I'm trying to add more beans to my diet). You could basically add in whatever you would to an omelet or a frittata. It'll hold about 1 1/2-2 scrambled eggs, you can leave out the milk. So you've got you breakfast protein covered!

 

I had a lot of extra sausage left over after my egg bake (and beans) so I came up with a creative way to have dinner this week. It's almost like a quick chili.

I threw the rest of the beans in with some sausage, and some peppers, cooked it for a while and then added just a little marinara. I like making my own pasta sauce but I don't do it very often because it takes forever. I originally thought I would make this into a type of meat sauce for pasta and then realized I didn't want pasta at all (am I getting sick?). So I threw on some cheese and pulled out a healthy bag of tortilla chips. Dip for dinner? I think yes!