Thanks for stopping by! I'm Cori and I'm happy you've found your way here. If you're wondering why my blog is called "Let's Eat Grandpa," it's an old grammar joke: Let's eat, grandpa! Let's eat grandpa! (Punctuation saves lives.) 
What magical foodiness came out of my kitchen this week? Well I’m glad you asked!
First up was Fingerling Potato-Leek Hash with Swiss Chard and Eggs, from Cooking Light Magazine.
What a weird recipe. As I was cooking it, I was like…you want me to crack eggs into this?
I made it because I had some potatoes and the eggs and the rainbow chard at the farmer’s market looked tasty, so I thought I’d give it a shot. My friend Hannah invited me over for the afternoon, and we cooked it together for dinner — which was good, because I’m not sure how it would have held up for leftovers.
We didn’t change up the recipe too much, but we did add a couple handfuls of cauliflower that she had on-hand. If I make it again, I think I’ll cook the leeks and potatoes a little less, and throw in the cauliflower earlier. And, as with a lot of Cooking Light recipes, it needed more salt. But other than that, pretty tasty!
Rating: seven out of ten chards!
A generic meatloaf. Not actually the one I made.
Next up was meatloaf! I can’t find a picture of the one I made out there on the interwebs, but it was a recipe from Cuisine at Home. Oh! This lovely blogger made it yesterday and gives the recipe and all the steps to prepare it. Obviously she is a much better food blogger than I am. Also, her meatloaf kicks my meatloaf’s ass, even though we made the same thing. Hers is pretty…mine looked like something you might call the EPA about. Then again, I made mine in a regular meatloaf pan because I didn’t have a wire rack to cook it on.
But man was it tasty. Like the blogger above, I used all beef instead of half beef, half pork. The all-natural, grass-fed beef was from my friends Brittney and Robert’s cow (they split a cow with some friends — they each got 1/4 of a cow. It’s a LOT OF MEAT). It was so juicy and had a ton of flavor. Mine fell apart a little bit, probably because I didn’t mince the carrots and the celery small enough. But overall I thought it was really delicious and definitely something I’ll make again.
Rating: eight out of ten loafs!
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This week’s Couch to 5K runs went really well again. I had a little tightness in my ankles and arches, but that’s something that’s been an issue since I started playing sports in high school. The last run I thought I’d pick up my pace a little, and made it home three minutes earlier than for my other runs. This week has been painfully hot outside, so I’m looking forward the cool-down in the forecast. No one wants to run when it’s still 90 degrees at 9pm.
I’m also doing some weight-lifting circuits and I failed miserably this week. I just could not work up the energy with this heat, plus I was chowing down meatloaf and no one wants to do circuit training with a loaf of anything in their stomach. Next week I am starting training with my friend Carolyn — we’re hoping that doing it together can boost our enthusiasm for this part of our training.
