1. I recently booked a trip to visit my friends Kara and Craig in Denver. I am absolutely stoked and cannot wait for our adventure! I am so excited to pioneer out west!
2. I was able to catch up with my dear friend Genna over dinner.
3. I was recently asked by my principal if I would like to go to a "Thinking Strategies" conference in DENVER. What the heck?!?! I have never been to Denver and I will be going twice within 4 months. CRAZY COOL!!!! I am excited to learn by the mountains. :)
4. I am following the comments a few readers left on one of my more recent posts. My friend Michelle suggested I checked out Pinterest for some easy recipes. There I found stuffed peppers. Oh.My.Goodness!!! So easy and so delicious!!!
Ingredients:
1 lb of ground turkey
3 red bell peppers
2 cups of spaghetti sauce
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp salt and pepper
1/2 cup spinach
2 tbs Parmesan cheese + 6 tbs mozzarella to garnish over the top of each pepper
Before the oven!
After! SO YUM!!!
*Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with foil (helps with clean up).
*Wash red peppers. Remove the stem and cut the peppers in half.
*Cook ground turkey over medium-high heat.
*When turkey is almost completely cooked through, add the sauce and the seasonings to the pan.
*Stir and continue to cook until the turkey is completely cooked.
*Add the spinach and Parmesan and stir until everything is well combined.
*Scoop 1/2 cup of turkey mixture into each pepper.*Sprinkle 1 tbs low fat mozzarella over each pepper.
*Bake (the recipe I saw said 20-30 minutes) I set my timer for 20 and took my peppers out at 17 minutes. The picture above is after 17 minutes and they tasted perfect. You may prefer a little less or a little more time.
Not sure why, but I only bought 2 peppers and the recipe calls for 3. I still have some of the ground turkey mixture left. I am thinking it will go great with some whole wheat pasta.
Next week its.....Taco Soup!
5. 46 of 650 miles down. 604 to go!
6. I have officially started round two of my National Boards work. I met with my new cohort for the first time over the weekend and I forked up a large sum of money. I CAN do this!!!! FOUR POINTS people!!!! Out of my four choices of retake selections I chose my Social Studies portfolio entry (Luckily that's the only entry I can redo.) and that darn Integrating the Arts Assessment. I am retaking two portions because I do not want to put all of my eggs in one basket.
7. I mean....how can this lovely face not make one smile?!?!
8. After school Monday I worked out with a few other teachers in our school gym. We chose Insanity as our workout of choice. Let me tell you....it's tough, but so worth it. I was so amazed at how much better I felt this time compared to my first every Insanity work out last spring. I can tell that my work is paying off.
9. I am thankful that someone had the instinct to call me this evening.
10. I have said this so many times, but I feel like it's so true that it deserves to be said over and over and never loses any value because it's so true. The people I work with are AMAZING!!!! From my awesome partner to my dear friend across the hall. To all of the teachers that I pass in the hall and by the copy machine. They all rock!
#11 just because. Tomorrow is a new day and that makes me smile.
What's your ten for Tuesday?!?!
xoxo-Kim
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