Sausage stuffed tomatoes

Today was a lazy day, i was going to go for a run but didn't. See i have been suffering from shinsplints for the past few weeks and have been trying to recover. This really hurt me because i was training for my first ever 5k in a few months and i'm not sure if i will be ready for it now, but im really pushing to start up again tomorrow.

Today went like this.

I woke up and had some homemade ice coffee.
6 cups strong brew good coffee
1 tray ice cubes
chocolate syrup to flavor
fresh milk to flavor
VERY SLOWLY pour the hot fresh coffee over half the tray of ice, add chocolate syrup and milk to flavor.

My drink  for the day is my usual drink; iced tea.
Boil 2 tea pyramids/bags, flavor of choice in a full saucepan of water.
Pour very slowly over ice in large cup. 
Refrigerate leftovers for further uses.

For breakfast i had some fresh oatmeal.
1 cup organic oats, prepared to directions with water cut in half.
Replace half of water with yogurt.
Fresh cut fruit such as bananas and strawberries.
A spoon full of organic or homemade jelly.

For lunch i had some basic jasmine rice with soy sauce.
1/2 cup jasmine rice prepared to directions to package.
1 tbs soy sauce.

Dinner was a super bean salad and sausage stuffed tomatoes.

Bean salad was way way too sweet for my taste i cant say it was bad. I will reconsider this again with a homemade italian dressing of some sort; something i will have to play around with.

Bean salad
1 can beans each;
kidney
was
lima
green
1 chopped green bell pepper
1 chopped red bell pepper
3/4 cup sugar (where the too sweet come from)
2/3 cup vinegar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp each;
dry dill
dry rosemary
dry basil
salt and pepper to taste.
Mix beans with onion and bell pepper in a large bowl with lid.
In a small saucepan heat vinegar, oil, sugar and herbs over med heat until dissolved. Do not boil.
Pour warm mixture over beans and allow to marinate in refrigerator for a min of 2 hours.

Again, i must say this bean salad was super super sweet and i will never, ever make it again according to directions, but it may be good for people who like sweet things or maybe even for a BBQ as i thing it would go well with some good sweet BBQ sauce.

The sausage stuffed tomatoes were quite good. My only complaint was the tomatoes were a bit juicy, but if you like stuffed green peppers you will probably like these.

Sausage stuffed tomatoes.
Preheat oven to 300-350 depending on oven.
4 very large slicing tomatoes, or 6 large reg tomatoes. Core and gut tomatoes with spoon and parry knife
Reserve 1 cup tomato "guts" (seeds and goo if rind, chop)
1 package (just over 1lb.) of fresh italian sausage, casings removed. (To remove casings just take a knife point down the center of the sausage, the fresh meat should come right out with the casing in on piece. I also like to mush the links together in my hands to made a uniform sausage mixture.)
1 cup chopped onion
6tbs minced garlic clover, 2-4 for the not so garlic lovers.
1 cup/hand full torn spinach.
1 cup mozzarella cheese
Cook sausage until no longer pink and remove from pan. In same pan cook onion for a few mins until just starting to caramelized; add garlic and spinach, cook until the spinach just starts to wilt. Return sausage and tomato guts to pan and heat to mix.
Spoon mixture into tomato shells and cover with cheese. Bake in a deep baking dish for 15-20 mins.
If you wish, i do believe serving this on top of a long grain white rice would be quite good.

Snack was my R&R from cleaning, cooking and everything in between.
I had one serving pretzel thins dipped in hummus
and 4 wheat bears