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Smashed Roasting Potatoes
Whew! It’s Friday!! Thanks goodness too! This week has been sort of a weird one for me. Let me explain… On Tuesday, I started feeling a little strange towards the end of the day. Didn’t think much of it, my allergies have been bothering me quite a lot. I went and mowed at our pretty house because well, all the rain in New England made the weeds in my yard feel like they needed to grow about 4 feet. While I was mowing a cop drove up to our house asking me if I had seen anything suspicious because some suspects had been rummaging through mail on my street! #WHATTHEHELL??…
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Baked Goat Cheese Salad
Good Monday Morning! How are you all doing? Did you have a good Mother’s day? -OR- Did you spoil your mama? I am on the later half of that. I am not a Mom myself so I spent Mother’s day trying to do my best to spoil my own. Every year my gift for my Mom is to buy her all her vegetable and herb plants for the year. We go to a spot that she has picked out that she really enjoys and she picks out anything and everything that she wants. Not a bad deal if you ask me. Not only does she get to have an amazing…
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Lemon Scented Blueberry Muffincake
Happy Friday everyone!! I hope that you all have had a lovely week. Mine has seemed like the longest week on the planet. Not really sure why. Ever have one of those? Nothing about it was any different than normal, just was a long ass week. In other news! We have a winner for my Giveaway!! If you haven’t seen it…I was given the opportunity to try out a new product for Morningstar and I was really pleased with how they turned out. So congratulations to: Ramona @ Curry and Comfort I will be contacting you via email 🙂 Today I sharing with you a recipe that was kind of…
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Two Bean Pineapple Salsa
Whew! It has been a while! My poor blog has gotten neglected for the past few weeks. Between traveling for work, being sick and the weather being nice enough to make the grass grow…I have been a busy girl! How have you all been? I am hoping well…the nice weather has been really great to have. This winter seemed extremely long. I do love my snow, but I was ready for some sunshine. The one good thing about all the sunshine is that we get some awesome green plants and colorful flowers. I was so happy to see Patrick and my house look so green again. There is something about…
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Roasted Shrimp and Broccoli
Well hello! I am back from Portugal! I have been MIA this past week, which I do apologize for. Portugal was very much different than I thought it would be. It was a bit rainy and a tad bit chilly for my taste, but we did go at a bad time of year. Can’t really complain too much since the trip was pretty inexpensive since Patrick had to work over there. Since Patrick was working, during the days I spent most of my time wandering around the streets of Setubal, drinking tons of “café”, which is not coffee it is espresso. Honestly, it was my favorite part of the trip.…
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Patrick’s Birthday Cake
So today is Patrick’s 29th birthday! Happy Birthday Patrick! We are celebrating Patrick’s birthday this week. I didn’t plan anything crazy like I did last year. Most of you who read regularly remember that I took him up to Boston for a surprise birthday weekend. We spend the weekend going around the city to museums, art galleries and really delicious restaurants. This year we aren’t doing anything like that. We have a had a lot going on in the past couple weeks, you know getting engaged and all. My family and I are taking him out to dinner this weekend to one of our favorite restaurants J. Gilberts. By far,…
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Lemon Bourbon Cake Doughnuts
I saw this recipe over at Chasing Delicious and as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make it. Have you ever been over to Chasing Delicious?? It is always SO much fun and Russell is always doing such creative things. I love that name btdubs. If I ever have a boy, that will be a major contention for his name haha Anyways, I knew I had to try this and let me tell you they were a hit! Unfortunately, I couldn’t partake in them because it is still Lent and I am pretty sure that a doughnut counts as a sweet. Right? I froze some so…
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Black Bean Soup with Poblano Corn Pudding
So I had to give my ring up…. 🙁 Before you get too upset, it is because I needed it re-sized, but I still didn’t want to give it up haha It is amazing how quickly I got used to that pretty thing being on my ring finger 🙂 I have also determined that where I work is not conducive to my super sparkly ring. These florescent lights do nothing for me. Do you think that is a viable reason to quit? haha Because I kind of do 😉 It has officially been a week since Patrick and I got engaged. Can you tell that I am still excited? Haha…
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Pad Thai
Happy Friday!! Ok first off….really snow?? There is 2″ of snow where I work and guess how much I got at our house? ummmm about 13″ and the same at my parents place. They are out of town for 2 weeks, so Patrick and I have 2 driveways to clean that have 13″ of snow on them and there is less than 2″ on the ground 20 miles away…really mother nature? Really. Second off… I have a question for all of you out there that are married/engaged… Did people ask you when the wedding was like less than 12 hours after you got engaged? Patrick and I have now been…
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Caramelized Onion, Arugula, Bacon & Egg Sandwich
OK…is it just me or is it rather surprising that it is already March?? I have to admit, I am a little freaked out. Well, maybe “freaked” out isn’t the right word. Just seems as though February didn’t even happen haha. Oh hey February, oh bye February. I have a feeling that March is going to fly by as well. However this is Patrick’s Birthday month! How fitting for this recipe today as well. Patrick has the ability to make very simple things very entertaining for himself. For example the word Arugula… I don’t think Patrick has ever said Arugula without saying it as “AHHHH- REWWW-GAHH-LA”. ::blank stare:: Believe me…
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Polka Dot Fudgy Brownies
So apparently I never posted this recipe! No idea why, but I think it is worthy of getting posted that is for sure. I have to say that brownies are probably one of my favorite goodies. Something about those ooey gooey chocolate squares just make my heart melt. Which can be a problem… Like most women, I want to have those ooey gooey brownies, but I don’t want to go up a pant size. Not to mention it is Lent right now and I am still on my no sweets diet…for at least another couple weeks haha All of you know my quest to be healthy, and you all know…
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Banana Bread
Happy hump day How’s the week going? My week has been rather busy. Lots of things going on. The guy who came in to do our second floor refinishing is here this week. Patrick and I are having him match the floor that we bought to replace the first floor wood. So far it looks really nice. Pictures to come. I think he should be done taking all our money by this weekend. We are going with dark color and I couldn’t be happier about it. Something about dark floors with really nice colonial white molding is so elegant and pleasing to my eye. In the end, I know it…
