I made these dark and early one morning while everyone was still snoozing, they were ready just in time for breakfast. Served with a side of Yahtzee, our favorite new thing to do at the kitchen table.
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Guess what?! OK, to be fair, unless you are a food nerd who reads a lot of foodie blogs, you might not be able to guess and/or be squealing the same way I did when the UPS man dropped this guy off last week. On the right? Our old blender. The lean mean muscle machine …
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I went out to lunch over the weekend with a good friend who came in from out of town for a visit. We hit up a local Mediterranean restaurant, and as we were browsing the menu, she suggested the “Banana Honey Milk” for a beverage that she’d had before and enjoyed. Bananas, honey and milk? I am …
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The first thing I need to tell you is that this was not my idea. In fact, I kept trying to change the subject every time it came up, in the hopes that they’d forget all about it. The little one made fruit shish kabobs with a group of her little friends last week. On …
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So What Are We Putting in the Blender Today?
January 31st, 2012 | Posted by in Breakfast - (7 Comments)Avocado! That’s right. We’re putting avocado in the blender this morning ’cause we’re making a chocolate avocado smoothie for breakfast. Aren’t you excited?! I’m excited too. See, I’ve never used avocado in a smoothie before because avocados usually don’t make it past salads, bean burritos or stay-at-home burrito bowls around here. But today, half an …
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This week, the girls and I found ourselves in front of a Vitamix blender demonstration at Wegmans. As I slurped down the scary delicious “Carrot Cake Sorbet” sample that Vitamix Demo Man handed me, I immediately began wishing I had an extra $500 bucks laying around to buy this miracle machine that did something amazing …
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A few things to tell you today. One: Banana, kiwi and diced oranges make the best fruit salad. EVER. I want to weep when I look at this simple salad and remember how amazing it was. But then again I weep when the Disney World commercials play on Hulu during The Biggest Loser, so take …
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Under normal circumstances, I try to avoid cereal like the bubonic plague. (I don’t know what the bubonic plague is exactly, but I do know that I like that word “bubonic”.) I had a coupon for a box of this stuff and it looked good, so I went for it. Except “normal circumstances” no longer …
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I Will Not Eat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups for Breakfast
November 4th, 2011 | Posted by in Breakfast - (7 Comments)I have Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in my freezer. Blasted Halloween. These are Maxine’s, and it was her idea to put them in the freezer. I think there is something programmed into women from birth to know that chocolate + peanut butter are best when cold. I will not eat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups for …
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I’m trying to make peace with the fact that early morning outdoor exercise is soon to be a relegated to the weekends. For the first time since early spring I busted out the pink hat (you know, the hat I knit myself) and gloves for a morning walk/run today. More walking than running this morning, …
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