fitness..but first, the kimburger

I've started to get re-motivated & get into summer shape. It was easy to stay reasonably healthy in Vancouver cause I had no car and living in Yaletown, I could walk everywhere! It was a hilly 20 minute walk each way. Not the case here + southern food is not the healthiest.

I'm currently attempting to work out 3-5 times a week. I'm training myself to do 5K right now (I think that's equivalent to 3 miles). So far, so good. I'm on week 2 of 9. I also squeeze in turbo jam when I can.

Eating healthy is a whole 'nother challenge. As my "last meal" before counting calories I made AMAZING burgers last night with roasted taters. I've never made burgers before so I was quite impressed. Here's kind of the recipe..I don't really measure so....

THE KIMBURGER

• 2 lbs ground chuck
• 1 finely chopped onion
• 3 finely chopped jalapenos
• 4 finely chopped garlic cloves
• couple tbs butter
  
• 8 slices cooked bacon
• 16 small cheese cubes (I had 8 monterey jack, 8 cheddar)
• couple handfulls finely shredded sharp cheddar
• whatever seasonings you like for burgers. I think I used salt, pepper, worsch..ire sauce?, grill seasoning, A1

1. In pan, melt the butter and saute the onion/jalapenos/garlic with a bit of salt til everything's soft then cool mixture.
2. Mix the chuck, above mixture & whatever seasonings you put in your burgers.
3. Divide the mixture into 8 equal portions
4. I flattened each patty, then put a flattened piece of jack/cheddar cubes in the middle with a crumbled up bacon slice.
5. Take the sides of the patty and bring it up towards the middle so u cover the cheese/bacon and re-flatten.
6. Grill these suckers. I prefer a charcoal grill..adds so much more flavor. Few minutes on each side should do.
   
7. put a patty between a burger bun and EAT!
   

These burgers were bangin. I was scared the jalapenos would make them too spicy but they were perfect...great amount of heat. Biting into the middle with a burst of cheese/bacon made these soooooooooooooo yummyyyyyyyyyy.
I looked up the calories for this on my ipod app..comes out to 474 calories per burger or something with mustard/pickles. Not as bad as I thought.

Crispy garlic parmesan roasted taters

• 4 med size white or red potatoes, cubed
• garlic powder..no idea how much..sprinkled into:
  
• some sort of fat..since I cooked bacon, damn right I used the bacon fat. Not sure how much, maybe 1/4 - 1/2 cup?
• handful of grated parmesan cheese

1. Put the cubed taters into cold water in a pot
2. bring to a boil and boil for 5 minutes.
3. Drain the taters onto paper towels and cool completely.
4. Toss the cooled cubes with the fat/garlic powder mixture and sprinkle with salt/pepper to taste and the parmesan cheese.
   
5. bake in a 9x13 pan at 400 degrees F for 20 minutes, stir/flip then bake for another 25 minutes at 425 degrees.