recipes

Weigh In: Week 3

March 9, 2011

Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Since i hurt mah foot, I’ve been sidelined. As far as weight goes, this week, I stayed pretty much the same. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing considering I haven’t ran, haven’t done yoga and have been getting around on crutches. Thankfully, I have a doctors appointment [...]

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Eating In Day 2

January 4, 2011

Day two of eat in month (which may end up as a week or two but I’m going as long as I can!) was a success! Never mind the fact that I completely forgot to eat breakfast because I was too concerned with taking care of credit cards – (goal #2 of 2011, pay off [...]

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Friends are Better than Money

December 22, 2010

Saturday, I spent the day galivanting around DC for some time with my gal pals for a day of shopping, cookies and general girl time. Before we left, I made cookies though! Nom nom nom. I wanted to try something aside from my usual m&m holiday cookie, so I made Peanut Butter Blossoms! Ingredients: * [...]

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Recipe: Veggie Tart

August 25, 2010

I’ve been cooking a lot this week. Given my pre-detox/cleanse state, I’ve been cooking up lots o’ veggies. I found this new amazing blog recently and one of the first things that caught my eye was this recipe. I quirked it a little bit, but all in all it came out magnificent and will definitely [...]

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Weddings and Cupcakes oh my!

August 16, 2010

{alternatively titled how I managed to see a wedding beautiful enough for a Martha Stewart magazine and duplicate her amazing cupcakes in 48 hours time} This weekend was my mother-in-law’s birthday, since we were at a wedding Friday night – {Hubs and I}, {the view in Westport}, {my gal M and I, love her!} After [...]

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Veggie Delight

July 12, 2010

I keep telling my pals I’d be a vegetarian if I wasn’t married to a steak and potatoes kind of dude. Thankfully, that steak and potatoes kind of dude is willing to try anything once and anything that I put in front of him. So I was pretty excited to try the Tempeh Sloppy Joe’s [...]

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If You Can’t Stand the Heat…Get Out of the Kitchen

July 6, 2010

I’m a lazy cook. I aspire to have the motivation to take cutesy photos like some of my favorite fitness/food bloggers of everything I eat. But let’s face it, my food is not that interesting. I’m too lazy to carry my camera when I’m running, and I just…don’t really care to ask everyone around me [...]

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Show me some sausage!

June 7, 2010

I like to think I’ve gotten ten fold better at eating better. Seriously. I have. I’m eating eggs not cereal for breakfast (per the suggestion of a coworker who told me I might as well “have a doughnut” if I was going to eat cereal. Who knew!). I bring my lunch every day. I eat [...]

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Recipe Alert: Slow Cooker Spaghetti & Meatballs

January 25, 2010

Last week we invited my in-laws down. You see, my brother in law lives about a mile from us so when they come to Stamford, they see not one of their children but two of them. Three if you include me. So I offered up to cook dinner – which I’m always happy to do [...]

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Recipe Alert: Pulled Pork

January 3, 2010

I’ve done pulled pork before, and while unfortunately, I forgot to bust out the camera, while it lacks visual confirmation if you will, I can assure you, this recipe is amazing. Hubs had bought a pork shoulder on sale a few days ago, and I finally got around to throwing it in the slow cooker [...]

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