Peachy Shrimp with Snow Peas
It’s the last day of January!! I wonder how everyone is doing on their resolutions…by the looks of the yoga studio, everyone is still pretty much on top of ‘em. I cannot BELIEVE how many people their were in my Hot Fusion yoga class the other day, we crammed in, 10 mats in a row for 4 rows. If it wasn’t hot enough in the room before, it definitely was once everyone was packed in and sweating!
There were even a group of guys there, which was a first for me. I mean, it’s not that I don’t know that guys can do yoga, but there’s a certain physique to a yoga-type-guy (uh, a really great thing, fyi) that these guys didn’t exactly fit? They seemed more of the types to consistently perform concentric muscle contraction exercise? I’m trying to say this in the most PC way I can, but it boils down to: their muscles were not elongated. Anyhow, they were real sports during the class and actually brought a nice energy to the room. Which was unlike the girl next to me that wouldn’t stop rushing into the next pose before the instructor had even said anything. We get it. You’ve memorized the set list, stop messing with my pacing.
But it was still an awesome class! I’m loving yoga as a way to elongate the muscles that I’m building up while weight training. Plus, two whole rest days does not jive with me. I get all antsy and can’t take it anymore, so Lindsey has given me the OK to take yoga classes as “active rest” days. Whew – crisis averted.
In any case, after the class, I came home and decided to make use of some ingredients that were about to go bad, including a beautiful ripe peach.I came up with: Peachy Shrimp with Snow Peas
Ingredients:
- Shrimp (I used maybe 6 frozen jumbo ones)
- a peach
- red onion
- snow peas
- cauliflower
- rice wine vinegar
- 1.5 cloves garlic
- as much fresh ginger as you want
- Salt, pepper, Old Bay seasoning
*** I don’t really ever measure out the ingredients that I’m using, so I can’t give those. But I have the measurements in grams if anyone wants them. I mostly calculate the grams so that I have a more accurate calorie-count***
I basically sautéed some shrimp (seasoned w/salt, pepper, fresh ginger, garlic and a lil Old Bay) and then added in snow peas, a peach sliced up, red onion slivers, leftover cauliflower bits and the rest of the garlic and ginger I had chopped up. Splash in about 2 Tbsp of rice wine vinegar and stir. The juices from the peach start to soak into the other components during the process and the result is soooo good!
In the winter, I find that by cooking my fruits in some way (roasting, sautéing, grilling even) that the flavor they seem to lack in the colder months comes surging back. Try it — it works with most fruit, tropical types and tomatoes. I also garnished with sesame seeds, just because. This whole bowl added up to about 317 calories, so that’s a success in my opinion!
I’m off to enjoy the rest of the hours left in January 2010 – adi
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