Day 12 of 30- Salmon salad

This past weekend I made the commitment to join a yoga studio.  After the 20 dollar unlimited week, I decided that the people there were awesome.  The studio is great and the atmosphere is fantastic. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but it felt like a huge commitment and a huge step forward in one of my resolutions.  Tomorrow is Ashtanga Tuesday, so we'll see if there's any improvement since last week :-)  I'm pretty excited.  I feel like this is a lifestyle that's been waiting to be embraced, and I hope that I can improve myself and let that improvement help others around me.

In addition to the yoga studio, I feel like my colleagues and I have accomplished an incredible feat this weekend and into today.  We began our surgery interest group tutorials this past weekend, and it was such an amazing experience.  Talk about curriculum development, preparation, and execution-- I think we managed to nail it.  We were able to integrate functional anatomy with embryonic development, gut rotation, physiology, nutrition, radiographs, clinical correlates, and demystify inguinal hernias.  The students loved it and really truly appreciated all the neat clinical cases and presentations related to their anatomy class.  Honestly, it is such a rewarding experience for those who participate-- the students and the peer educators both.  I hope it continues to go on as a successful venture and will also cross over into future years.  It's been a challenge trying not to step on toes, cross lines, and keep things under the radar, but in the end, we are students helping students help students... and nobody should try to stop that.

Meals today were pretty interesting.  And it was a fanatasically whipped up delicious treat, especially after a really long day.  Many thanks to D! Just look at all those beautiful colors!

Salmon Salad over a bed of lettuce with sliced carrots

Oven baked chicken coated in mustard and spices on lettuce with baked yams, oil and vinegar dressing

Today's is a variation of the crab salad recipe..... but made with SALMON! and much tastier :-)

Salmon salad

Ingredients

1 can salmon (remove bones etc.  removing skin gives you a prettier colored salmon salad)
1 lemon's juice
celery, chopped
green onion, chopped
dill
curry powder
2 hard boiled eggs
MAYO.

1.  Hard boil eggs.  Remove bones and all things ugly from the canned salmon.
2.  Break up salmon and eggs into small pieces and mix with lemon juice, mayo, green onion, and spices.  Salt and pepper to taste.
3.  EAT.

This salmon salad is deliciously simple and very tasty.  The tang from the lemon, crunch from the celery, flavor from the curry and dill.  it is perfection.  Serve a dollop over greens and make it a satisfying salad!  like I've said before, don't be afraid to be creative!  explore flavors!  textures!  colors!  As much as I complain about wishing I could eat that snickers bar or munch on some salt and vinegar chips..... this challenge has really forced me to TASTE my food and MAKE IT TASTY (not that it wasn't tasty before ;-D)

til next time, EAT WELL and BE WELL!!!!!!!