Rest day/Make up/Mobility work.
Stuffed Acorn Squash
-Erin O’Brien
2-4 servings
2 acorn squash
½ pound ground beef
1 small onion, diced
8 ounces mushrooms, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
¼ teaspoon chipotle powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon coriander
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Salt & pepper
Preheat oven to 400F.
Cut each squash in half and scoop out the seeds. Place the squash halves, cut-side down, on a baking sheet and roast until tender (approx. 30 minutes – time will vary depending on the size of the squash). Remove from oven and set aside.
In a skillet, heat a couple tablespoons of oil over medium heat. Add the diced onion and sauté until translucent. Next add in the ground beef and cook until browned. To the onion & beef mixture, add the garlic, chipotle powder, cumin, coriander and oregano and stir to combine. Finally, add the mushrooms and sauté until they have given off their liquid and the beef is cooked through. Taste mixture and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Remove the mixture from the heat.
Fill each of the squash halves with some of the beef mixture and place in a baking pan. Add enough water to the pan to just cover the bottom – this will help prevent the squash from burning and sticking to the bottom of your pan. Place pan in the oven and cook for 15 minutes – until filling is completely heated through. Remove from oven and enjoy!
Get out of my head (and kitchen), Erin! This (with chorizo) is on the menu for this very evening. Squash is a way of life in the Fuller-diLeonardo house, though I have never tried adding the mushrooms directly into the meat saute. Good idea.
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I picked up some food for Astro (Wellness Core Grain-Free) for $30 shipped. Normally $55 at Petco/Kilmers/etc.
Hey ladies of Crossfit, if you’re interested, some of us are going bowling Saturday at 6:30 Diversey Rock and Bowl. It’ll be fun! :). Hope to see you there!
Worked on finding my midline today with OHS- no weight, just the bar and some pvc pipe work against the racks. Ah, my technique is in dire need for some TLC, thanks for the help Kelly!
Meg just the ladies? The fellas like to bowl too ya know!
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Last chance, get your orders in for any meatboxes you’d like. Email me at zack at crossfitchicago. See the options at http://www.meadowhavenfarm.com/box_specials.html.
They will be at the box from around 9:30 to 10:30 Saturday morning and will have individual cut options and eggs available. No need to pre-order those.
@Dana – I’m always down for chorizo so I will definitely have to try that variation.
Hmmm…”down for chorizo.” I think the Extremity Tingles may have a name for their first album!
400 m run
5 sq clean thrusters @135
10 pu
4 rounds + 400m run
24 people at 6am, so what. It’s quality not quantity. Cause when you take the bus, you get there.
Happy birthday Joel.
Did Mondays WOD
3 rounds + 400 meter run. 115#
pull ups unbanded
We originally planned ladies, but we may have an extra lane or two.. Any boys want in??!!
Happy Birthday Joel! !!!!! We missed you at the noons this week!!
@Nighthawk- I couldn’t have said it any better.
Monday’s AMRAP
4 Rds + 400m run
squat clean thrusters @ 85#
pull ups- no band
Need to work on my kipping- finished the middle two rounds by doing singles, last round Kelly encouraged me to string 2 together.
Happy (late) Birthday to Joel!!! We are lucky to have you. Hope you have a relaxing day with your wife!
Thank you so much for the birthday wishes! I miss the nooners like crazy! I miss it so much that I will be there tomorrow at noon because I’ll admit that I have been going to the 9am and 4pms due to scheduling, but I know where I belong.
But there are definitely some really great athletes in both the 9am and 4pm and I mean no disrespect to you guys by saying the noon is where my heart is. As for the 6am crew, we’ll save that for some time in January…
4PM with coach Kelly J.
Made up strength WOD
1 Snatch/Squat plus 3 OHS
Worked my way up to 135lbs….reached PR’s here for the snatch/squat and OHS. I think I can pull harder and bust out my hips for some more lbs on the snatch squat.
POST: Walked home
@nighthawk: Well, I take the bus (two of them, in fact) to the 6 a.m.
Happy birthday, Joel!
LOL @ Joel…have you ever met anyone so nice. Loves the noon but wants to make sure that people know the nooners rock w/o hurting the feelings of any of the other crews. That’s why we love you man! Happy BDay brother!
@ alex, thanks for the wall ball substitution. i had thought of it, and then thought, that might not be a good substitute…i hate thrusters way more than i hate wall balls. :)
@ jean, kudos to you. that’s some early morning effort! especially when it’s cold and dark outside.
@Woody- SO TRUE!!
Did Wednesday’s AMRAP today, and had my mind set on 10 rds. Gamed it, started with a good pace, but damn those TTBs dropped off quicker than I expected. Disappointed.
9 rds + 6 TTB
Had Ben there to keep me on my toes (to bars) and he was on the high bar while I felt like I was cheating on the low bar. By the time we got to singles I was able to put my feet down, reset, and go again, while Ben was stuck hanging between, definitely wouldn’t have gotten 9 rds up there. I’m going high bar from now on, no slacking!
Did Wednesday’s AMRAP
8 rounds +1 WB
Modified Operation Strong Like Bull for a jacked up upper body!
3×8 Good mornings at 53#’s
Kept these super light as I didn’t know what my strained rhomboid would feel like.
3×8 3 position lunges with a 20# and a 17# vest
3×5 GHR
3×10 back extensions
3×10 GHD’s
VERY SORE TODAY. WOW.