A few days ago my dad (who is also a runner) asked if I was going to run the “Johnny’s Runnin’ of the Green” on Saturday, the annual St. Patrick’s Day race here in Rochester. I said no, I was too busy with half marathon training – and besides, I’d rather be Eatin’ of the …
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A Beet Broccoli Cottage Cheese Orange Juice and Strawberry Smoothie
February 15th, 2013 | Posted by in Morning Craziness - (0 Comments)Yes, Really. I’m not exactly sure where to begin with this one. I guess I’ll just tell you that a reader named James has left a couple of comments on the Mama’s Weeds Facebook page about smoothies/health shakes he’s made. The first one was with sweet potato, banana, orange juice and cinnamon. Sweet potato in …
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A Little Link Love: Productivity, A Healthier Gut and Kobe Bryant
January 31st, 2013 | Posted by in Morning Craziness - (1 Comments)I have a confession. The kitchen is not always clean before we go to bed at night. This has been especially true this week with a husband who was laid up with a man cold. I’m picking on him a little, but we really are a team when it comes to keeping this house clean. His …
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A Chili Morning (for a Not-So-Chilly Kitchen)
January 28th, 2013 | Posted by in Morning Craziness - (6 Comments)It’s cold here. (Like, really cold.) It’s so cold that it’s possible some mornings I turn the oven on before I even turn the coffee maker on. Just kidding. (Let’s not get ridiculous.) But it’s true that it’s cold, and it’s also true that cooking in the morning is a great way to warm up …
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I slept with my camera on the bedside table last night, ready to capture my daily wake up at the ass crack of dawn. (It came at 4:32 yesterday!) When I heard the squeakmobile coming down the street this morning, it got all lights, camera, ACTION! up in here. Now I can show you exactly …
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A Chocolate Banana Cocktail Car Bomb
August 10th, 2011 | Posted by in Morning Craziness - (3 Comments)This is the story of how an SUV in need of new shocks inspired a sweet, frosty post-ride treat today. Ready? Every day at approximately 4:55 AM, the squeakiest newspaper delivery vehicle this side of the Mississippi river squeaks down my street. It makes two or three unbelievably squeaky stops at the houses directly across …
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What Do Your Squirrels Eat for Breakfast?
June 3rd, 2011 | Posted by in Morning Craziness - (1 Comments)Mine eat sunbutter and jelly sandwich Ezekiel bread crusts out of my compost bucket. For about one second this made me consider planting marigolds on my back steps, but then next I foresaw coming downstairs one morning to find a squirrel sitting at my kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee with organic half and …
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We have two cats. They’ve each had re-occurring guest appearances here before but what about what these cats eat? This is a food blog for crying out loud! Until recently, our cats subsisted on dry cat food alone. About a thousand years ago we would give them canned cat food sometimes as a “treat” – …
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