Category Archives: Dinner

Eat, Pray, Love: My Culinary Journey

Happy Tuesday everyone! Over the last few days, I’ve really been getting into Eat, Pray, Love. Unfortunately, because I read before bed/in bed, I can only get through 5-6 pages at the most each night. But, I’ve finally made it through the “Eat” part. Of course, after reading this section, I now want to move [...]
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Closing Down the Bar with Banoffee Pie

Bonjour everyone and Happy Bastille Day! If you’re not sure what Bastille Day is, it’s the French Independence Day. Celebrating Bastille Day in the US is easy – just do something French! At the very least, you could order a French café and listen to French music on Pandora Last night after work, I met [...]
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A French Sangria Night

Last night, Scott and I had the “night off” from parenting. We took advantage of our time alone and headed to a local French bistro. Although I love going out for French food, I don’t usually stray too much from what I normally eat – salad, chicken, fruit, etc. Of course, we started with drinks [...]
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Oooh, So Spicy!

Hello All and  Happy Monday! After my 4.5 mile interval run, I had an another awesome, and very French, breakfast.. I try not to eat a whole lot of bread, but when I do I want it to be good. This morning, I smeared some Bonne Maman raspberry preserves and all-natural peanut butter on a [...]
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Yogurt Sundae

Hello Everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing Sunday. After my typical Sunday morning run, I made a super yummy yogurt parfait for breakfast… I layered the parfait with the following awesome ingredients… 5.3 ounces of Trader Joe’s nonfat Greek yogurt, vanilla 1/4 cup Galaxy Vanilla Almond Granola 1/8 cup blueberries 1 huge [...]
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Spring Tease

Not sure how it was by you today, but it reached 61 degrees in Chicago and was sunny for most of the afternoon! Too bad that I didn’t get to enjoy much of the weather since I was inside all day But, just feeling the mild temp and seeing the snow melting gave me hope [...]
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It's like I never left…

Hey All! Going back to work after being on vacation always seems a bit hectic. I didn’t check a single work email for ten days, so I had to sift through about 600 email messages – non of which were too urgent. Luckily, I anticipated a very long day and started out on the right [...]
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Olympics Guilt

I have a confession to make. I have not watched any of the 2010 Winter Olympics. I’m talking – NONE! And for some reason, I feel a bit guilty that I’m not watching them. It’s not that I’m unpatriotic. It’s just that I do not really watch television and, quite honestly, I’m not really into [...]
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My Peanut Butter Reality

Evening everyone! I had a great early morning run today – started before 6 AM which I haven’t done for a while. After 4.5 sweaty miles running from 7.0 to 7.6 on a 10% incline, I was sooo ready for breakfast. I couldn’t wait to try my new Oikos nonfat Greek vanilla yogurt… Hmm…not so [...]
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A Little Soup To Go With Your Bread?

Hi All!  We all have our food/snack vices. Many of these are outright or blatant vices – things we know we can’t resist when they are offered to us or when they are lurking inside your pantry. Yet other times, these vices sneak up on us when we least expect them too. That is what [...]
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