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Fresh Blueberry Lemon Pops
What a crazy couple weeks! Things have been turned a bit upside down for me in the past month, which has made it a little difficult to keep up my blogging routine. I know my friend Jonny has been bugging me about it haha. I posted something last week and he immediately sends me a text, “holy crap, your blog made me soo f*ing hungry”. 😉 gotta love it! I feel like you have to embrace the cards that life deals for you though. Things have definitely not been turning out how I thought they would, but I am slowly learning that I just need follow my heart and I…
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Pesto Shrimp Pasta
Hello there! I trust you had a fabulous weekend. My weekend was pretty good. Definitely went to a Mac and Cheese tasting with some of my friends, haha. Mac and Cheese tasting you say?? Believe me this was the best idea they could have ever had. Each person that came to the tasting brought their own Mac and Cheese dish. They were numbered and then we all tried the dishes and cast our votes. My Mac and Cheese came in 2nd place, woot woot! haha, I have to say it was pretty fun and all the different Mac and Cheeses?! Can we say food coma? We had a blast chatting…
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Herb Salmon with Lemoned Green Beans
It’s Friday!! I am pretty excited for the weekend to be here. This week has been busy, to say the least, and next week isn’t going to be much better. Needless to say I am totally looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Maybe I will even take the bike out for a ride since it is supposed to be so nice. Winning! Whenever it is a nice out I have a really hard time not firing up the grill every day of the weekend. You can make so many different things and it always seems to taste good. The taste of food coming off the grill just reminds me of…
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Tomato Salad
Holy tornadoes!! New England had all sorts of tornado touch downs last night. There was quite a bit of damage to a lot of Western Mass cities. Scary because I spend a lot of my time in Western Mass! I mean I have seen my fair share of tornadoes since I am from the Midwest, but never in New England! Everyone I know is alright but the damage is pretty extensive in like Springfield, Westfield, and West Springfield. Crazy stuff… Guess what?? It is Thursday already!! Woohoo! I have to say the week has been going rather fast for me. Work has been keeping me really busy. Next week I…
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Lemon Glazed Blueberry Muffins
Good dreary Monday morning to you all! New England has a forecast of about 6 straight days of rain…I mean I know it is Spring and Mother Nature tends to like rain around this time of year, but 6 straight days of rain is just plain brutal. The only good part about it being so wet, cold, and rainy outside is that I get to stay inside any make lots of goodies. I know most people really hate rainy days and while I am not a huge fan; I can at least appreciate the down time to do things inside the house, like cook/bake! These muffins I made this weekend…
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Garden Pasta Salad
Congrats Tino!! He just bought himself a brand new 2011 Hyundai Sonata, fully loaded SE 2.0T, and traded in his Ford Explorer. His exploder as we called it! He is a hard core Ford guy so I have to say I was very shocked when he decided on the Sonata, but the car is really beautiful and certainly is going to get him better gas mileage than the exploder. Although, I know he will miss his big car…but I am SO proud of him for buying his first *new* car (you know how that goes, owning lots of cars in your lifetime but never a *new* car)! In spirit of…
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Herb-Crusted Chicken with Red Quinoa
Happy Good Friday everyone!! I have been kind of MIA this week…I apologize!! After the show this weekend, which went SO well, I have been trying to catch up. Work has been SO busy and the softball and kickball (yes I play kickball in an adult league, it is SO much fun!!) leagues are starting up. BUSY BUSY! I am so excited about this weekend…want to know why?! I GET TO EAT SWEETS!!! YAY!! 😀 (I am SO excited to be involved in Becky’s Bake Sale – Check it out on May 2nd). Another thing to celebrate…I know everyone always celebrates their 100th post on their blog…well this is my…
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Triple Berry Scones
Just wanted to let you all know that the big presentation went really well on Wednesday. The staff seemed to be really impressed overall which makes me really happy. A lot of really big names in my company in that meeting, which is always a good thing right? Getting noticed by the big boys on campus. 😉 The big show is this weekend for Eclipse! I am really excited about it! Jenn, the director, has done such a great job with building the choreography and the concept of the show. The show is based on the idea that people are so connected to technology that they sometimes lack real human…
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Splendid Spiced Strawberry Muffins
Happy Monday The show for the dancing company I have been dancing with is coming up this Sunday so I might be slightly MIA here and there. Try and excuse my absence and general lack of focus this week. I promise I’ll be back to my Ravie Nom Noms self soon. We all know I have been on a muffin kick lately because of my giving up “desserts/sweets” for Lent. The following muffin was something I had been craving for some reason. Strawberries make me think of summer and since it is just now acting like it is spring outside, I wanted to make something that reminded me that summer…
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Chunky Cod Fish Fingers
::sings:: Give me that filet’o’fish, Give me that Fish! What if it were you, hanging up on this wall… If you all are wondering what the heck I am singing there, that would be the old Mcdonald’s filet of fish sandwich jingle that they played last year (or was it 2 years ago??), that used to get stuck in my head for daaaayyysss. If you don’t know what I am talking about, google that sh*t and I promise you the YouTube video will come up if you search “Filet’o’Fish”. I used to drive one of my coworkers crazy because I would sing it to him all the time haha, sorry…
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PB&J Filled Muffins
Hi everyone! Another weekend has come and gone. Amazing how fast it goes! If I could just get one more day of being able to sleep in I think I would be happy haha. First off, Happy Birthday Becci! Hope you have a fabulous birthday and thanks for letting me have one of the strawberries off your cupcakes since I can’t have the actual cupcake 😉 Second off, great job this weekend T! You did so great in the alumni hockey game! Your goal was awesome! I hope I didn’t embarrass you too much with my loud cheering, hehe 😀 Thirdly, its peanut butter jelly time…..Consider these like a breakfast…
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Black Bean Quesadillas
What a day! I am so stressed out at work…I am really hoping that because I am so busy today that Friday will come sooner than I think it will! Seems forever away right now. Keeeep positive right?? Haha I have been doing really well on my “no sweets” for Lent goal. So far I haven’t caved at all, which I am really proud of! haha I really love desserts so this has been really hard for me. I think I miss making them more than I actually miss eating them. Is that weird? Anyways, I have been doing the whole no eating meat on Fridays which really doesn’t bother…