Weekly Round Up: Journey's End

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week I tried a new-to-me tofu product, I finished my hiking challenge, I've got book stuff to talk about, and I'm sure there will be a few puppy pictures as well.

Eats

I've got one for the tofu fans.  On my last trip to Trader Joe's I picked up some tofu skins but wasn't sure what to do with them, so they've been in the freezer ever since.

Meanwhile, Hungry Runner Girl mentioned Brocc Your Body's Shrimp Sesame Noodles.  An inventory of the kitchen revealed that I had everything on hand except shrimp, so I decided that it was time to get out the tofu skins.  I wasn't sure exactly what I was supposed to do with them, but my crude plan of thawing them in the microwave, ripping them into bite sized pieces, and then adding them to the noodles right before adding the sauce worked out wonderfully.

The first time that I had this I forgot to add chili crisp, and it was good but not spectacular.  I added a spoonful to all of the leftovers which kicked it up into Next Level territory.

(For the to-do list: find tofu skins at the Asian market.  I'm pretty sure they are a standard item and they're a great "instant" option for those nights when you don't feel like prepping tofu.)

Workouts

Yawn...the same ol' same ol' during the week.

On Saturday I had the happy/sad experience of finishing the hiking challenge.  The journey of 100 miles that I started on New Years day is over!  I took this picture a few minutes before the end of the journey.  I'd just gone up a giant hill and could see the final hill in front of me.  Now that I know what these routes look like in the winter I'll be repeating them in the summer and fall.  10/10 would recommend a hiking challenge that starts in winter as a way to shake things up.

Watching

Still not much and I'm good with that.

Reading

Buckle in and I'll get you up to date!

I finished This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Began My Life.  Last week I was a bit irritated at what I felt was filler historical material.  The segue to talk about Henry VIII just wasn't landing with me.  I'll stand by that criticism, but if you take those sections out there is still an excellent book here that's worth a look regardless of your marital status.  Make that mandatory for the single folks.

In fiction reading, I needed to find something to tide me over while I was waiting for a library hold to come in.  No problem, I've got the Alphabet series and the Amish murder mysteries for that.  But the horrors, the next book up for both series was checked out.  I laughed at myself since all of these books are stand alone so the order doesn't matter.  I decided to hold out and keep reading Alphabet in order for right now and then I dove with reckless abandon into the Amish series.  Gone Missing by Linda Castillo is #4 in the series, and just like #1 and #2, was a great read.  I just have to remember that I haven't read #3.

Finally my library hold came in for the book that I really wanted to read: The Breaking Wave by Nevil Shute.  As you know, Shute is one of my all time favorite authors that I started reading in middle school.  I think I've read this before, but if I have it was a loooooooong time ago, so I remember nothing.  It's about a WWII veteran who moves back to Australia to take over his elderly parents' farm.  He's expecting it to be somewhat boring, but that's not what happens since the night before he arrives one of their servants commits suicide.  Everyone liked her, but it turns out that no one knew anything about her and she left no paperwork behind to say who she was or how to contact her family.  While his parents are trying to convince themselves that it was an accidental death, the son knows that there's more to the story.

The reason that I picked this up was because Jenny is going to read it!  I figured I'd join in for an informal CBBC sesh.

And Finally

Doggo says it's naptime.

See everyone next week!