I’ve been slacking bad on the blog this week. I’ve been swamped with both jobs and a workout program that Jane and I started 14 days ago. Where to start…

Last weekend we had rough plans to ride out to Dan’s house to see the progress on the new bike. We weren’t able to go there, but we made a run to Columbia city to try out the Skillet food truck. It is run out of an airstream trailer and goes to a new neighborhood every week. They update the menu pretty often and serve amazing food. I definiately recommend tracking it down. Seattle needs more street food.

Jane got a burger with their (quickly becoming famous) bacon jam. It was a complete winner. I can’t say enough good things about it. I mixed it up with a fried spaghetti sandwich and a side of poutine. The sandwich was very good, but didn’t really touch the burger. The poutine though… my god. Heaven is a heart attack. Beautiful.

To offset that meal, Jane and I just wrapped up 14 days of the P90X workout program. I was pretty hesitant to start it for a number of reasons. The first and formost, the people running it struck me as… well… pretty douchey.

Secondly, I am not at all interested in bulking up. Riding my bike is a (notice I didn’t say “the”) main love and anything that would hinder that is evil. I just wanted to get in better shape and I know that Jane feels the same way. I thought that it might be a little too extreme for our needs. A friend that tried the program a while back always talked about how much it kicked his butt and how sore he always was. It wasn’t the most welcoming invitation to a program.

Why did we try it? I have no idea. There the DVD’s where though, and Jane was really motivating to give it a go.

The first two or three… or hell, maybe the whole first week was pretty brutal. It was painful in a wonderful way though. It was never so hard as to be discouraging, just hard enough to know that you need to get better at it. The program runs every single day, so you really need to find a way to fit it in to your schedule. That is definiately the hardest part of the process. An hour isn’t that long, but when Jane gets home at 6:30-7, and we still need to eat dinner, work out, relax, and do whatever around the house before bed at around 10-10:30 (for me)… it really takes some effort.

Still, we haven’t slacked a single day on it so far. We are both finding muscles that we weren’t entirely sure were there. I am really pushing my weak areas and it feels good. That said, I’ve bene pretty sore in the mornings and have only commuted by bike a few days in the last couple weeks. I am hoping it is just an early trade off for better overall fitness. Time will tell.

I’ll leave you with a pretty solid recipe for a weeknight. It is great by itself or over some rice.

Seared Baby Bok Choy with Tofu & Shitake Mushrooms
via Fine Cooking

• 1/2 lb. extra-firm tofu
• 1/3 cup chicken broth – original calls for low sodium… don’t bother
• 1 small jalapeño, diced
• 2 tsp. Asian sesame oil
• 1 tsp. granulated sugar
• 3 Tbs. canola oil
• 1/2 lb. baby bok choy (about 2), split in half lengthwise
• 1 tsp. kosher salt
• 1-1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and thinly sliced (about 2 Tbs.) - In the future, I’ll probably grate the ginger… the flavor is always too strong when I get a piece of it all at once
• 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced (about 1 Tbs.)
• 3-1/2 oz. fresh shitake mushrooms, stemmed – I went a little light on shitakes because of the price. I kind of regret on substituting the remainder with crimini or white.