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Salted Caramel…Latte?

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Hey hey, beauties! I hope you all had an amazing weekend. It was beautiful one here in Boston, and I hope it was near you, too!! Sad to see it ending though…I cannot believe it is almost March already!! It makes me excited for spring…and the thought of flip flops!! haha

Coming back to the present…today was your run of the mill Sunday. I slept in (though originally I woke up at 6…but I just rolled over at that point). It amazed me that my building stayed as quiet as it did for most of the morning. It’s probably what allowed me to sleep in! haha It’s not that my building is loud, but usually you can hear people walking around in the stairway or something. It wasn’t until 10:30 that I heard anything.

I charged up with a Salted Caramel Latte. I have the caramel syrup (thank you, Archer Farms!)  and decided to experiment (considering how amazing salted caramels are) by added a little bit of salt to the syrup.

The results = delicious.

Even the tiny bit of salt I put in made a difference. The caramel flavor was not as sweet (a plus in my book) and it just had a more well-rounded flavor. Yumm…I will definitely be doing it again!

I accompanied my SCL with a repeat of my snack plate from last night…with the VERY last (for real this time) of my Cinnamon Raisin Swirl and a pink lady. Yumm. I love the crispness of Pink Lady apples.

Lunch was more fruit and some added cheese. haha I had a banana, sprinkled with cinnamon and Dark Chocolate Dreams. I miiiight have also had a few Sargento cheese sticks... haha They are too good to resist!

I also might have snacked on a couple of  Lindor Truffles that were left over from Valentine’s Day and tucked away in my freezer. :)

Dinner! Brown rice sauté? Brown “fried” rice??? I dunno what to call it…but I do know that it is DELICIOUS! Spicy, spicy, spicy.

Ingredients (using my Spring Mix wherever I can because it truly is on its last leg):

Final product:

Today, I was remarkably productive early on…soo technically I have everything I need have completed … DONE! I might try and get a head start on things…..maybe.

Hope you all are fabulous!!

Snow + Sabra

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Hello, hello lovelies! How was your Thurs? Mine has absolutely flowwwn by.

This morning was glorious — got to sleep in a little (yay!) and then made myself a big ol’ latte.

I lounged for a bit, and then decided it’d be a good idea to get some errands in before it really started snowing! It literally started snowing the moment I walked out the front door — so I ran to CVS for some essentials and then to TJ’s where I picked up milk (my reason for the errand) and some of their meatless meatballs (a perk to the original errand haha).

Got home — and was hungry so I had a cheese stick (and I had another one later, too) and then I sat down with an apple to delve into 40 pages of reading that I probably should have started waaaay earlier in the week. haha

I totally dove right into my apple and then thought: PICTURE!

Hence…this photo:

I settled in and read and took notes for a few hours — and then…hungerrrr. Popcorn and Sabra fit the bill.

I settled back into my reading and note taking…but I did have time to snap a picture of the snow falling:

For dinner, I had to have a repeat of last night — I’d literally been thinking about it all day, as lame as that sounds. However this time I switched up ingredients a little and tried some new stuff…this one included the same cashews, corn, parsley (the last of my bunch), brown rice, soy sauce , sriracha and spicy peppers – but I also added a little bit of pineapple salsa and 2 meatless balls. haha

Some of the gang:

Finished product:

So right now, as I type this I’m watching the beginning of a repeat of “The Office” and I’ll be finishing up my reading — hopefully soon! and then I have a few more things to do before hittin’ the hay.

As usual…some Peanut Butter and Co. product will find its way to my mouth tonight. …probbbz some Dark Chocolate Dreams.

Hope all you lovelies are doing well! Alllllmost Friday!!

A little bit of Buzzzzz

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First bit of news….you may have noticed some layout changes in the blog…

I’m happy to say that I’m now a part of the FoodBuzz Featured Publishers Program. :) Yay! I feel so legit now.

In other news….

Wednesday is ovahhh! Woo. It means the week is more than halfway done – yesss.

Today was a good day — albeit wicked busy. I had my Design Lab, French, French Lab and Journalism…alll in a row aka every single class within ten minutes of the next. It meant a lot of running around — which meant not a lot of time for eats.

In the morning, I had a coffee before I left my apartment (it was a ridonculously small “leftover latte“), and I grabbed another on my way to school (no picture of that one..but you’ve all seen my Starbucks lattes before)…seeing as I couldn’t even think as to when I would have the opportunity to eat. …I really need to start packing food.

not.enough.caffeine.

I didn’t eat a real breakfast (my bad)…so I grabbed lunch after all my classes were done with a few friends. It was great to catch up and EAT! haha I grabbed a salad because honestly..I didn’t feel like looking around the cafe.. and it was pretty good. A little soggy but good.

After eating, we waited in line for about an hour for BRUINS TICKETS! Yay, I’m excited to go to the game. :-D I didn’t finish my salad so it came back to my apartment with me where I doused it (okay…so doused is an exaggeration) with Maple Grove Farms‘ Cranberry Balsamic Vinaigrette. Quite yummy. haha

By the time this picture was taken all of the chicken and all but one of the mandarin oranges were longggg gone.

I snacked on a cheese stick (yummm love these) and then got down to business making dinnnah.

On the menu — I don’t know what to call it…my own pad thai of sorts? haha

The players:

  • Toasted (by me) cashews [just threw 'em in a hot, dry pan for a little]
  • Frozen corn
  • Brown rice
  • Hoisin sauce
  • Sriracha sauce
  • A bit of soy sauce
  • Parsley
  • Spicy peppers

Ta-daaaa:

I’m actually really proud of this one. It came out really good…especially for being a sort of “throw this in, throw that in” type of thing.

What I did:

  1. Threw the cashews into a dry, hot pan until they were a little toasty — then took them out and just put ‘em on the cutting board
  2. Threw corn in the pan until it was defrosted and had started browning (honestly as much as you want or any veggie or protein that you might want)
  3. Threw in the brown rice and let it get a little toasty.
  4. Added about a teaspoon of hoisin sauce.
  5. Added about a teaspoon of soy sauce.
  6. Add as much sriracha as you dare
  7. Added parsley — and tossed everything together.
  8. Turned the heat off and then added the peppers…just so they’d stay crunchy.
  9. Then, chopped up the cashews a bit, and a bit of extra parsley .
  10. Assemble. haha :)
  11. And most importantly EAT!

It was seriously BOMB!!

I’m going to relax for a little (aka ingest copious amounts of Dark Chocolate Dreams or popcorn or both….), and get down to business…seeing as I have a tonnn of work to do for my classes…including watch a 3 hour silent movie online. Joy. haha I’ll break out the popcorn for that one. :-p Either way, I’ll probably munch my way through the evening…per usual.

I hope you’re all having a faannntastic week.

Off Day

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Hola my beauties. I hope you all are doing well!!

Today, though no classes are on the schedule, I made my way up to campus to see if I could get a locker so that I wouldn’t kill my back carrying around 50 pounds of ridiculousness everyday. Yep — my school does lockers…how very high school, no? haha It’s rather hilarious…however, I think it will save my back this semester.

That done I made my way home, and finished up the latte that I had made and started earlier in the morning. It was really nice out today — blue skies and all (2 days in a row! w00t!!) \ — but chilly soo the toasty drink definitely hit the spot.

I think today was sort of an off day for me. I am feeling 99.5% better — though I still need a swig of DayQuil to get me through the day – but I think after a day of lugging heavy books and trudging the hills of Boston — my bod was like NO. NoNoNo. I wasn’t hungry for breakfast, and I wasn’t really hungry for meals…but I WAS hungry. I had a bunch of unpictured cheese sticks and this banana before noon.

I even had a couple of BIG spoonfuls of Dark Chocolate Dreams. I was still super hungry though…but for something CRUNCHY and not like popcorn crunchy…REALLY crunchy. I found the (naughty) answer in my freezer.

- BISCOTTI…frozen at that. …I had three. haha (at 110 calories a pop though, that’s not too terrible [read: could have been worse])

That did it though…I drifted off into a mid-afternoon nap…which I woke up from because of phone calls and because I was suddenly hot as hell. Go figs. I think my body just doesn’t like me. I’m glad I napped though..I feel much more “me’ now.

Probably due to my mid-afternoon biscotti-fest, I wasn’t all that hungry for dinner, but I knew I should eat something or I’d end up eating like another 5 million (okay…exaggeration) cookies or an entire tub of DCD later. :) So I decided ..broth. Broth with corn? Broth with corn and red pepper flakes? Sure! It’s actually pretty yummy…so I”m not complaining. I’m eating it right out of the measuring cup. haha

In action…because let’s be honest…no amount of trickery is going to make corn floating in brown liquid look appetizing. haha

I’ve got some more work to get done and then its an early bedtime for me…bright and early classes. JOYOUS!

Almost TGIF though — Woohoo!

Anyone have awesome weekend plans??

Rearrangin'

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Hey everyone! It’s been a chilly one! Brrr. It was a high of 30 degrees here! Yikes. Luckily, I think it’s supposed to “warm up” a little as the week goes on.

Today, I spent most of the day rearranging my apartment. I’ve just been restless and rather unfocused. I don’t know why…I think my brain is already on vacation.

For breakfast, I made myself a yogurt mess. I feel like I haven’t made one of these in foreverrr! It was delicious. :)

I also made myself some coffee…but that didn’t turn out that well. I don’t know why, it was just toooo strong. Too bitter. I only drank about half the cup.

(Sorry, it’s blurry and I don’t know why…if I’d noticed, I’d have taken another one)

Anyway, so I spent the afternoon shifting furniture and trying to organize my mess of a life. I was mostly successful haha. I also made myself some popcorn and had some Dark Chocolate Dreams.

Later on, I ended up watchin Elf, and munched on some string cheese and had some Green Goodness.

I got myself organized, in terms of school work, and chatted with a few friends, and by that point it was around 6. I decided I might as well make myself some dinner…so I cooked up some rice with corn and spinach (only about a 1/2 cup of rice and a TON of vegetables).

It was really good…although, I accidentally used too much soy sauce, but it was still edible. :)

I have a night full of studying and the making of study guides ahead of me…exciting, I know. haha I hope you all have more exciting plans than I do!!

Enjoy your weekend!!

Peace, Love & Munchies.