Curry Turkey Soft Tacos recipe

Brianne and I went to a bootcamp workout class at Lululemon Tuesday night, and yesterday I was sore. Today, I am REALLY sore. Going down stairs is somehow the worst thing, and since I work on the 2nd floor of our office and run up and down them all time, I will be feeling that today.  I am loving these different kinds of workouts once a week, and I know if I added one or two additional strength training sessions a week I would start to see results.

Last night I had a bit of culinary experiment and the result was delicious.

Curry Turkey Soft Tacos

Ingredients:

• 1/2 pound lean ground turkey
• 4 or 5 Baby Dutch Yellow Potatoes, diced
• 1/4 of a large yellow onion, chopped
• small or medium flour tortillas
• 1/2 tomato, diced
• olive oil
• curry seasoning
• cinnamon
• salt, pepper
• hot sauce
• sour cream

1.  Put 1 tbsp olive oil in a saute pan, heat to medium high.  Add onions, cook til golden and caramelized

2. At the same time, microwave potatoes in a bowl for 5 minutes

3.  Place microwaved potatoes and raw ground turkey in pan with onions. 

4.  Add curry, cinnamon, salt, and pepper to taste

5. Cook on medium til turkey is thoroughly cooked, remove from heat

6.  Prepare tacos with turkey, onion, and potato mix, add sour cream and diced tomatoes

7.  Sprinkle with hot sauce to taste

I need to remember to take photos of my cooking, but this was very much a "just add stuff as I go" recipe.  I promise it turned out delicious! I think using sweet potatoes for this instead of yellow potatoes would be great, too.  Adding cilantro would also add some nice freshness. 

Happy Thursday!

Kelly, wine, and Snooze!

What a busy week it's been! 

Some highlights:

• Pure Barre!  I tried a free Pure Barre class at Lululemon on Tuesday with two of my friends from work.  It kicked my BUTT, but I could use some butt-kicking (and weight-lifting, thigh toning, etc.) The studio teaching the class at Lulu is based in La Jolla and is SUPER expensive, but we found a studio in Point Loma (only about 3 miles from our office) that is much more affordable and has a ten-days-for-ten-dollars trial, so I think we're going to check that out.

• Kelly! My friend Kelly got here yesterday, and will be here til Tuesday morning.  Kelly and I were Orientation Counselors together at WSU and she's one of my loveliest friends.  She currently lives in Leon, in Mexico, where she teaches Englist as a foreign language. Unfortunately I have to work all day tomorrow so I won't get to spend much time with her, but we've had a great weekend so far at the dog beach in Coronado, trying some awesome new restaurants, and just chilling in our apartment. 

• Wine Steals!  A fun wine bar I've been wanting to try that we ended up going to by default when there was a 1.5 hour wait at Slater's 50/50 in Point Loma.  Kelly, Tyler, and I went last night with Brianne and Phil and had some delish wine and thin-crust pizza.  Plus Brianne and I got to discuss  important pop culture events such as Ben the Bachelor and how he is totally going to pick Courteny (gag me) and how we can't believe Chism is gone from The Biggest Loser Ranch! 

• SNOOZE!  This amazing breakfast restaurant in Hillcrest that I've also been wanting to try.  We got there at 8 am and still had to wait over a half an hour for a table, but it was VERY worth it.  The menu is phenomenal, the service was great, and the food (and Bloody Mary's) were amazing.  I had a half order of the Chilaquiles Benedict (Carne asada steak served on a cheesy, saucy, tortilla stack topped with poached Niman Ranch eggs, smoked cheddar hollandaise, fresh salsa and cotija cheese), and a half order of the Upstream Benny (Honey Smoked Salmon on our house-crafted bacon-jalapeno spoonbread, topped with two farm fresh Niman Ranch poached eggs, cream cheese hollandaise and chives).  I still have a ton of leftovers and it was phenomenal.   Tyler had some amazing gourmet pancakes (strawberry shortcake, PB chocolate, and bourbon cherry) and he was in Tyler Heaven (which, as we all know, would involve a LOT of pancakes.) 

• SUN! Kelly and I spent at least 3 hours today laying in the sun by our pool, reading, and occasionally mustering up the courage to take a dip in the (frigid, 55 degree!) water.  They haven't yet started heating it for summer swimmers and my gosh it was cold, but it felt good to cool off in since it's TOASTY out today. 

So Happy Sunday! I hope all of your weekends were as full of friends, food, and sun as mine was! Cheers!