Thank you Easter Bunny!

Well I have to say all my hard work paid off.  I busted my butt working out and managed to lose 2.4lbs in one week.  It was exhausting, especially working out both Saturday and Sunday nights at 8pm.  Now I just hope I can stay on track to lose 5lbs by May 14th.  I need to average 5lbs a month to reach my goal by November 14th.  After this week's loss, I am very positive that I can make it or come pretty close to it.

Mom, Dad (still chewing a carrot), and Jeremy

 

 

I have to say I was pretty pleased with the Easter dinner spread.  I am lucky that I only had to cook for 4 people.  I did make a bunch extra to feed Jeremy and myself for the week though.  The cooking was the  easy part, it was finding the nutritional value and serving size on the recipes that was the hardest.  I spent hours researching the whole thing and met resistance from people not wanting to change from traditional ham.  Of course after they tried everything, they realized how silly they were. 

The total meal consisted of seasoned pork tenderloin, parmesan mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, roasted carrots, and reduced fat crescent rolls.  The pork was the best and where I had the most trouble.  I first forgot to marinate the pork for 2hrs.  So our normal lunch time Easter dinner, actually became a dinner time Easter dinner.  Then I had trouble cooking the pork.  Broil for 6 minutes on each side.  Ok I can do that, but on hi or low.  Well lets put it on high.  "Sniff"...whats that smell.  Oh thats the pan roasting.  Stupid aluminum cooking sheets.  So then I freak out and put it on low.  Not good.  It ended up being a little rare and had to go back in the oven for some time.  My second favorite, of the dinner, was the mashed potatoes.  Super easy make.  Maybe a little dry, but lots of flavor.  The asparagus was great and I am not a huge fan of asparagus, but still enjoyed it.  The carrots were a little undercooked and the rolls got a little over cooked.  Oh well, its my first time.  This also was the first time in forty five years that my mom hasn't hosted Easter.  Is that what I have to look forward to?  Anyways here is the end results of all my hard work.

Dad's plate definitely was the best display

Now for dessert.  If you know me at all, you know I take dessert very seriously.  Very really do I skip dessert.  Maybe thats my problem.  I made chocolate brownie cake and made the icing.   Chocolate brownie cake needs vanilla ice cream, of course.  I was going to go with frozen yogurt, but decided to get slow churned instead.  Toppings included strawberries and fat free cool whip.  Can I just say, YUMMYY!!!!

My plate of course

Well I definitely had a great Easter.  The food was awesome.  The weather wasn't great, but still managed to get it two walks.  The Celtics swept the Knicks and I got to see my dad do jumping jacks.  Now that was something I was I had on video.  Too funny!  See you next week.