New Top Italian Recipe, 4 Miles, Surf & Turf,

Thanks for participating in the giveaway! For those who missed it, it's a $15 gift certificate to CSN stores - if you want to join just click here and leave a comment! Loved all of our 'towel talk' too - so fun to see little random tips like that! So my Thursday was just spent working, walking 4 miles, and then a great dinner with Austin to celebrate our third anniversary at Pampas Steakhouse. I got the same salad as last year (haha!) - this wonderful arugula salad with lemon vinegarette and fresh parmesan, then I got something new here: Surf & Turf! A wonderful 1/2 filet mignon and crusted Chilean sea bass. Amazing! It really was great - not even sure which I liked better, but I liked that having the variety in those two made me NOT want a carb or sidedish. :) We shared a bottle of wine with dinner, then came home, hung out, played pool and had a nice night in - the weather was just amazing!

Friday I woke up exhausted. I had gotten up at 4 a.m. to take Remy to pee, then never got back to sleep. SIGH. So I was crabby and tired, worked all day, then after work I went to the gym and walked 4 miles, while reading Jennifer McMahon's Promise Not to Tell - SO good - I read like 100 pages! After the gym I got home and whipped up two new recipes.

Austin snapped pics while I cooked... apparently I look angry while cooking which is so funny to me because I find it SO therapeutic! (on another note my arms look like crazy long ape arms hehe)

Here's one of the new recipes:

Mushroom and Sausage Stuffed Shells

Recipe adapted from For the Love of Cooking
Makes 4 Servings

Nutritional Information (4 shells): 441 calories, 49 carbs, 14 fat grams and 32 protein grams.

Review: AMAZING. New favorite Italian recipe. Seriously. Just the right amount of food, great mixture of cheese, the mushrooms and garlic gave it extra bite and texture and the spicy sausage was perfect - added a lot of flavor for not a lot of calories. This was a an easy recipe to put together and will DEFINITELY be made again! I'm so excited that I tried these and while I loved my last stuffed shells recipe (with 96/4 ground beef and frozen spinach), this spicy Italian turkey sausage and fresh spinach mixture blew that one out of the water. For real! I hope you try this and love it!

Check out the recipe on Healthified Kitchen!

Q:What's your favorite Italian dish? Mine is now stuffed shells. Seriously - THAT good. And I realize I could use this same mix in manicotti or whatever - but it tastes wonderful in the shells!

Q: Do you like Chilean Sea Bass? I RARELY order it. Sometimes it's just too tender for me - but this one was more on the crispy side due to the light breading - LOVED IT!