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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.

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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.

Red Cup Day!

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Heyyy everyone. Hope you all had a great day!

Today was an interesting one. I think I’m fighting off some kind of illness ’cause this morning, getting out of bed at 7am was not happening. Usually, I can talk myself out of bed and get to class, but this morning just wasn’t the case. Luckily, it was my first (and I plan on last) absence in my PR class for the semester. However, some extra sleep under my belt, I went about my day rather successfully. :)

Today was the first red cup day of the holiday season, at Starbucks.  It’s silly, but I really do love the red cups. :-)

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I did really well on my Ethics midterm paper – honestly, didn’t expect that one. I’m a good student, but philosophy just has never been my cup of tea, so to speak. However, I was happy to see a good grade on that paper.

Dinner has been in shifts. First, I made myself some brown rice, soy sauce, sesame oil, and chili sauce. I added about a cup and a half of raw baby spinach to it. It’s amazing how much leafy greens can wilt down.

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I also chopped up a sweet potato and made some sweet potato “fries”. Yummm. I found my favorite honey mustard again, and I was excited to have something to use it on!

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While the sweet potato fries baked, I whipped together some fat free vanilla pudding — I jazzed it up a bit by adding about a tablespoon of creamy peanut butter. I’m excited to see how it turns out!

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First, I need to finish the sweet potato fries though. Munch, munch, munch. :) Lots to do tonight!! I’m well rested though, so I hope to get a lot accomplished! Plus, Biggest Loser tonight!! and my guilty pleasure of The Hills…even though I swear I lose brain cells while watching it.

Hope everybody’s doing well!!

Peace, Love & Munchies.

Spooktacular Weekend

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Gooood eeeeevening *in dracula voice…* haha How’s everybody doin? I hope well! Happy Weekend and Happy Halloween! haha I have managed to mostly avoid candy, which I’m happy about. The stores were CRAZY today. I wasn’t even in “Halloween” stores and they were ridonculously  busy at like 3:30pm.

I ended up napping for a couple of hours this afternoon – I did NOT sleep well last night. I drank tea too close to bed, and couldn’t sleep — then I had some pretty gnarly dreams. Perhaps its the scary crap on tv, but they were not pretty.

Anyway, this afternoon, I made myself some Trader Joe’s Pomegranate White Tea and had some tabbouleh for lunch. I got it at Whole Foods this morning. I was torn between the tabbouleh and a quinoa salad…but they added sugar to the quinoa salad so I went with the tabbouleh.

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I went out in search of some stuff to refill my fridge, and to use up a Borders coupon. I bought some more brown rice, some hummus, some flax seeds and some sunflower seeds. I also picked up “Barefoot in Paris” from Borders. I’ve always wanted the book; the recipes look delicious and the pictures are just gorgeous. Not everyday food, obviously, but special occasions…for sure!

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I’m looking forward to adding flax to my meals.

When I got back, I immediately popped some popcorn and whipped out the Sabra that I bought. It smells like an everything bagel, yum. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t have bought this flavor normally, but it was literally the last Sabra left. It’s really good though.

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For dinner I made my normal soy sauce, brown rice, chili paste, etc. mix, and I mixed in about a cup of baby spinach. Mmm, mmm good. I also made myself some more tea. haha I’ve been a tea freak lately, huh.

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Now, I’ve got to go get ready and all that jazz. It’s my one night this weekend to do something, seeing as I work Sunday. haha

TGIF!!! and Happy Halloween!

Peace, Love & Munchies.