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new snack and fabulous blog award

9. September 2009

Today I was going to mention my new obsession from Trader Joe’s, and then found out I was tagged by Rebecca with a Fabulous Blog Award (more on that below). The food crush is a new one I discovered yesterday at the T.Joe’s sample counter (who doesn’t love a good sample counter, really?). While shopping, [...]

hamburger cupcakes

18. August 2009

At this point, I know I’m a borderline blogger cliche making the infamous hamburger cupcakes for Chiblogo. These little guys are super popular on blogs. I first fell in love with them on Bakerella. I then made them for a Fourth of July barbecue and now for Chiblogo this weekend. The recipe is simple, the [...]

the new whole foods

17. August 2009

This weekend was a blur of fun and food. I will start off by saying I’m busy editing and finishing the photos from the first Chiblogo event which was a huge success! More on that in the next day or so. The New Whole Foods (AKA): “Date Night” I’ll start off this morning with a [...]

the magic bullet – is it really magic?

28. July 2009

I apologize for taking two precious minutes out of your day to talk about something really unimportant. So meaningless, I totally condone moving on to the next blog in your reader or site on you toolbar. Go ahead. Move along now. For those that are still reading (hi, Mom!), I have a confession to make. [...]

do you know about stanley’s? it’s da bomb

13. July 2009

I’m having an affair. My indiscretion with Stanley began a few months ago when Kaitlyn of Eat My Blog introduced me to this fruit and veggie all-star. Until that point I was in a monogamous relationship with a man called Trader Joe. But once I met Stanley, everything changed. Stanley lives at 1558 N. Elston. [...]

weekend in review

13. July 2009

Good morning! Rather than do my typical quick recap of the weekend in just a few sentences, I thought I would share my weekend using photos as well. This is one of my favorite weekends so far this year. Keep reading to see some of the highlights. To start the weekend, I ran my long [...]

marisa’s cherry and vanilla scones

7. July 2009

I mentioned a few weeks ago that my good college friend, Marisa came to visit armed with awesome scones and I have finally gotten around to posting the recipe. My apologies for keeping you from this delicious breakfast food for so long. My favorite part about the recipe, besides the fact that it was pretty [...]

june PBA update: quantum wellness cleanse

22. June 2009

Good morning! Today is the start of my first full week of work in the past three weeks. And I’m looking forward to it. As much as I love traveling, I enjoy returning to my routine. This weekend Erwin and I hosted our college friends Marisa and Pat. It was great to catch up with [...]

yummy pumpkin dip

15. June 2009

One of the highlights of my family visit was this modified version of my mom’s awesome pumpkin dip. Traditionally the recipe is filled with powdered sugar and is not quite the most health friendly treat. But with a few simple new tweaks, the dip is practically calorie free and though it is not for the [...]

june’s PBA: food cleanse

8. June 2009

Reviewing May’s PBA Intention First, let me take a moment to review last month’s Personal Bank Account [revised] intention of eating four salads a week. Though I didn’t keep official count, I think I hit the mark a few weeks and probably fell two salads short during the final week of May. So I wasn’t [...]

stuffed artichokes

2. June 2009

Two weeks ago, my friend Kristin and I cooked a special dinner for our friend Bernard’s birthday in his awesome kitchen. Kristin found a recipe for stuffed artichokes which was so simple and easy to make, I did most of the prep for the dish, while she tackled the more complicated risotto recipe. At first [...]

new food crush and everything wholesale

20. May 2009

So the new PBA of eating salads four times a week has been way easier to accomplish thanks to this bag of vegetable sunshine. It costs about $4.50 from Trader Joe’s and has three servings of baby spinach with dried cranberries, blue cheese, candied pecans, and raspberry vinaigrette (three lunches for just $1.50!*). If anyone [...]