I'm just going to start by saying how HAPPY I am that it's the weekend! For some reason this week just seemed to drag on very slowly. Just one of those weeks, I guess! Last night MichaIel and I decided to stay around our new neck of the woods instead of taking the train into center city. The train to downtown Philly only takes about 25 minutes, but I was really tired from this week and we really haven't tried out any places around our new area since we moved in. I'm happy just to have some downtime in our new apartment this weekend!

I was really in the mood for sushi, so we tried out a restaurant near by called Hokka Hokka. Overall it was very good sushi! The cocktail menu didn't sound appealing to me at all, so I opted to start with a glass of Chardonnay and some seaweed salad. 

Michael ordered just the house salad with ginger dressing. I was expecting it to be a generic little salad, but it was HUGE. Such a nice salad.

For the rest of our meal we ordered three rolls to share: Spicy salmon, a Farmer's Roll and a Lobster Roll that was deep fried. It was the perfect amount! The Farmer's Roll was my favorite one. It had tuna inside and it was topped with salmon and eel sauce. The Lobster roll was delicious but VERY rich. It was kind of like sushi desert.

We left full and happy, but not too full to skip out on desert. Cue the Fro Yo.

Hope everyone had an enjoyable Friday night! I'm on the train on the way to teach my Saturday morning class as I type this up. Workout coming later :).

- Rach

P.S. My site got a little facelift, did ya notice?

Good morning! I have a recipe to share with you along with some more weekend pics and a workout. Last night I came home from work and felt inspired to make a quick grab and go snack. I eyeballed a lot of this recipe so these are very rough measurements!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup vanilla protein powder
• 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp rolled oats
• Roughly 1 cup almond butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp chia seeds
• 2 tbsp coconut flakes
• Water - as needed for consistency

Directions:

• Mix everything together besides water
• Add in water until mixture can easily be rolled into balls without falling apart

This is a super easy snack to make to have on hand and perfect for before or after a workout. I ate one after my early morning workout this morning. I tried a new gym only a couple blocks away from our new apartment. I wasn't feeling very creative in making up my own workout so I did this workout from one of my favorite bloggers, Jen at peanutbutterrunner.com. I switched the chest flies to pushups and added in 45 seconds of a cardio exercise after each round (burpees, skaters and jumping jacks.)

When I can get myself out of bed real early, I like to workout before hopping on the train to work because it gives me the freedom to come home and relax after work.

Before I go I wanted to share a couple more photos from last weekend. On Sunday we had brunch at Toast and it was delicious! I ordered the smoked salmon egg toasts. Such a perfect brunch meal. Michael ordered banana french toast and an egg sandwich. His french toast was definitely the best.

I also finally found a winter coat to help me survive when it gets cold...

In all seriousness though this is a SUPER warm down jacket that I got at Burlington for such a good price. And with that I'll leave you with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y3815zqDHQ

- Rach