A Fishy Incident: the red snapper cake caper

In September, Tim thought it would be fun to try out some new recipes. We spent the weekend with cookbooks, magazines, and recipe cards spread out across the living room. We selected 20 recipes to make over the month of October. We headed out to Super Target with a giant shopping list. We had to store stuff in the basement we bought so many groceries. The next month was a BLAST! We had so much fun trying new meals and making them together. We had so many leftovers that our freezer was full and our lunches were awesome. We cooked so much in October that we didn't really need to cook new meals in November or December. In January we started again and found a bunch of new recipes to try. Cooking became our new hobby.

When I decided to go back to Weight Watchers and try the Core plan, we bought a new cookbook and have been making very yummy Core meals for the last three weeks. We have had steak, tilapia, tuna puttanesca, black beans, cous cous, and our new favorite meal -- Salmon Burgers. We are eating so well and thank goodness Spring is here because we are grilling almost every night.

Today was supposed to be the nicest day of the week, so after my Pilate's class I figured I needed to finish thatching the yard. That three months of snow on the grass has really done a number on the lawn. I worked for several hours last week on the front and finally was able to move to the back today. Today was my cross training day, so I thought I would wear my HRM to see if the thatching was good enough for a workout. Oh my gosh, I can't believe how hard it is! I thought that since I did it last week I wouldn't be as tired, but I was. I worked for 4 hours and finished about 3/4 of the backyard. I burned over 700 calories and my heart rate was about 60 - 65% the whole time. I counted that as my workout.

Because I was in a zone, I never made it to the store to pick up dinner. I called and asked Tim to get the ingredients on his way home from work. Because we have enjoyed the salmon burgers so much, we wanted to try the Red Snapper Cakes. I thought they would be more like burgers, just with an added egg and some corn meal. In all of our cooking attempts we have really never had a problem. We accidentally added too much red pepper to some Shrimp Scampi once; we over boiled some asparagus once; and we heated some yeast to a very high temperature once -- but really everything else since October has been good. Yumm-o even.

Until tonight. We couldn't even eat the cakes (which were nothing like burgers.) We didn't even let Maddie eat them. Oh well, one flopper every few months isn't bad.