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Raisin Bread for St. Patrick’s Day
Amid all the chaos of the coronavirus situation, I am writing from my parent’s dining room table in Central Maryland. Social distancing has led to a lot of baking and cooking from my end! In honor of St. Patrick’s Day (one of the best days of the year), I wanted to make a fresh loaf of Irish Soda Bread. From all of the recipes that I’ve read (here and here), this is basically a bread loaf-sized cakey buttermilk biscuit made with flour, salt, butter, buttermilk, baking powder, baking soda, sugar and raisins. This sounded like a great idea, except, along with toilet paper, the grocery stores were also fresh out…
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SOUP-er Golden Coconut Lentil Soup
Howdy folks! It’s been a while since I posted, so I wanted to hop on and chit chat about my life and lunch today. Work for me has been super crazy busy for the last couple of weeks. #NationalCerealDay is coming up on WEDNESDAY (3/7), which means that there has been a lot on my plate for my General Mills work. I’ve also had a couple of freelance projects with tight timelines. But, I’m doing my best to stay on top of everything. Whenever a busy period like this happens, I crave spending time in the kitchen. Chopping vegetables and tasting my soup forty-five times really refuels my pursuits. This…
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Banana PB Overnight Oats FTW
Happy Monday folks! Hope all of the Minnesotans out there are doing well with all of that wet snow piling up today. I have been boarded up inside for a good part of the day giving me some time to write. Time management can be tricky, but do you know what helps? Overnight oats! (Yeah, that connection was a little bit of a stretch) If you have been following my instagram/Facebook for a while, you know that last year I went through a major overnight oats phase. Like an every night prepping, every morning eating, kind of routine. I fell out of that cycle, majorly, last fall. I don’t remember…
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Getting Senti-Lentil with Coconut Lentil Soup
Today was work from home Wednesday (woot! woot!), and I carved out an hour of time to make a new recipe I saw on Facebook earlier this week. Vegan Coconut Lentil Soup from Bon Appetit. And it did not disappoint one bit. Before I go any further, a note on lentils, as I reminisce and get a bit… Senti-Lentil… tee hee. I don’t know if I’ve ever had lentils before… Maybe they were snuck into something, but I can’t remember ever eating them. I definitely don’t remember cooking them. With that in mind, I spent a solid 15 minutes in the grocery store searching for the darn little legumes. That’s…
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Sunny Days and Summer Squashes
I can’t believe that July is over and August is HERE! I am a Leo, so this is a pretty exciting part of the year for me. NEVERTHELESS — This past week (and really this whole summer) has been rocking at full throttle, and I wanted to check in and let you know about a few fun life updates that went on in the month of July: Vacationed with the best of them. Between an amazing 4th of July trip to Texas and a family vacation to the lake trailer out in Wisconsin to celebrate three birthdays including my sister’s 21st, July has been a wild ride! But, big news, I…
