I woke up this morning to the sound of pouring rain, and decided there was no good reason to get out of bed at 6:20am just to sit inside the RV. Unfortunately, what I intended to be another 1.5 hours of sleep turned into another 4 hours of sleep. But, at least by 10:30 the rain had stopped and I was able to get some work done by the lake. I did not, however, end up going for any sort of aerobic swim. Instead, I spent 4 hours painting – which I totally think should count as exercise. Either way, I’m worn out!
Tonight for dinner I made Lemon Chicken with Grilled Fennel and Onion. I had never bought fennel before… or even seen fennel before (although I think I’ve used fennel seeds). My initial thought at the grocery store was, “what am I going to do with this!?” and when I pulled it out of the fridge today, I felt pretty much the same. Alas, I chopped up the bulb into slices as the recipe said.
The marinade called for grated lemon peel, but we have one tiny mini fridge in this RV and a limited budget for ourselves. Knowing that I had no other use for the lemon, I determined that I would just use the lemon juice and nix the lemon peel. Writing this now, I realize that I could have bought a lemon, used the peel and squeezed it for the juice, and that would have worked. Hind sight is 20/20. Anyway, I also didn’t have a brush or brush-like utensil, so after I marinated the chicken I had no way to continually brush the marinade over the chicken. The result of these two things in combination was that the recipe was not very lemon-flavored. Definitely would up the lemon flavor next time – more lemon juice in the marinade, actually using lemon peel, etc.
Tomorrow I have a 1.5 mile run, and I’m praying that I can run a bit faster than Tuesday! The weather right now is mild, so hopefully it will also be mild in 10 hours when I run!
