So last night Sam and I were deciding what to do, right around 9:15. We had to stay at home and watch the 9 o'clock news because I had been interviewed earlier in the day and wanted to see myself! Sure enough my friend Jacqui and I were on!!! I believe I've reached a celebrity status ;)
I was searching on Foodgawker, as soon as Sam saw these chocolate peanut butter cookies he decided we HAD to make them ASAP. I unfortunately forgot to take any photos :( but they turned out splendidly. They tasted way better this morning than they did immediately out of the oven. Be warned they are quite rich. Oh and we substituted half of the all-purpose flour for whole wheat flour.
Today's agenda included a run, ice cream, homework and work. I already ran and it went well. Sam ran with me today and we managed to do 6 miles in 50:30. I was pretty impressed though I was definitely getting tired by the end! After stretching and showering we headed over to Pumphouse Creamery, where I enjoyed Pumpkin and Sea Salted Caramel and Pecan ice cream. Absolutely delicious, though I think the pumpkin ice cream could have had more pumpkin and less nutmeg in it.
Now I'm sitting here avoiding homework before I have to head to work at 5 PM. Hope you're all having a great day!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Feelin' good
So I don't think that I've mentioned this yet, but... I am running a half marathon Halloween weekend. If you're a local it's the Monster Dash Half. I did it last year and it was extremely fun. Almost all of the runners are dressed up in costumes, from Ketchup and Mustard Bottles to a bikini and speedo (mind you these people had a nude colored body suit on... it is Minnesota after all :) ). I mention this because I had a 7 mile run today that went really well. I've been having problems during my runs lately, mostly just a general tiredness during my runs. I couldn't put my finger on what the problem was, but after a weekend full of sleep I felt great today! So more sleep is on the agenda for the next few weeks here!
I had a half busy day today. Run, class, my rentals house, work and now HOME! It feels great to just sit down. Work was busy tonight, or at least I was busy. It was a gorgeous day and I was serving on the patio, so I had primarily all the tables :) I made some good money though so it was definitely worth the constant work. Plus the time goes by much faster when I'm busy! I'm working on taking more pictures of my food... and cookies are to come this weekend as it's my brothers birthday on Saturday. He's not a cake person so he's requested some cookies. Super excited for this!!! I need to bake, I just haven't had much time.
Hope everyone had a happy Monday!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
My brain hurts
Today was a surprisingly LONG day.
It all started when I woke up at 7:42 this morning, my bus leaves at 7:24. Whoops! Thankfully I have a great roommate who drove me down to campus. I was only 5 minutes late to my class and still looked somewhat decent today. Unbelievable when you wake up almost an hour late!
After my first class several of my cohorts and I worked on our Epidemiology homework, which took us forever to complete. This weeks assignment was the kind that involved a lot of discussion, which ended up lasting over 2 hours. After that I still have a lab, and two looooonngg lectures to get through. Somehow I survived and now I'm sitting at home, beer in hand with dinner in the oven. Only thing left on the agenda tonight is beer pong with the boy :)
It all started when I woke up at 7:42 this morning, my bus leaves at 7:24. Whoops! Thankfully I have a great roommate who drove me down to campus. I was only 5 minutes late to my class and still looked somewhat decent today. Unbelievable when you wake up almost an hour late!
After my first class several of my cohorts and I worked on our Epidemiology homework, which took us forever to complete. This weeks assignment was the kind that involved a lot of discussion, which ended up lasting over 2 hours. After that I still have a lab, and two looooonngg lectures to get through. Somehow I survived and now I'm sitting at home, beer in hand with dinner in the oven. Only thing left on the agenda tonight is beer pong with the boy :)
Monday, September 20, 2010
BUSY BUSY
So I haven't written in a while, but I want to start writing every day. With school just starting, work and trying to still have a social life I have been MORE than busy!!! It seems like I haven't, and probably won't have, a free day in a few weeks. Since last writing I have made a few cakes, one in particular was for Kalyn and Pat's Wedding.
It wasn't a huge cake, mostly because the wedding was up by Brainerd and thus required a 3 hour long car transport. Needless to say the cake melted a little bit and 'shifted'. All I can say is thank god for RIBBON!!!
On running notes I've started training for the Monster Dash 1/2 Marathon! So far training hasn't gone too well. I have only had about 2 days that I actually felt good about running. I have a 7 mile run today so I'll let you know how it goes! I ate a HUGE balanced breakfast this morning. Some eggs, with peppers, chorizo, ham, yuca fritas and black beans. NUMMY! Karen and I went to Victor's 1959 Cafe. It's a little whole in the wall restaurant a few blocks away from our house. I had a test this morning so we both decided that a treat was necessary :)
Have a great rest of your day!
It wasn't a huge cake, mostly because the wedding was up by Brainerd and thus required a 3 hour long car transport. Needless to say the cake melted a little bit and 'shifted'. All I can say is thank god for RIBBON!!!
On running notes I've started training for the Monster Dash 1/2 Marathon! So far training hasn't gone too well. I have only had about 2 days that I actually felt good about running. I have a 7 mile run today so I'll let you know how it goes! I ate a HUGE balanced breakfast this morning. Some eggs, with peppers, chorizo, ham, yuca fritas and black beans. NUMMY! Karen and I went to Victor's 1959 Cafe. It's a little whole in the wall restaurant a few blocks away from our house. I had a test this morning so we both decided that a treat was necessary :)
Have a great rest of your day!
Monday, August 16, 2010
First Post
Well hello :)
Since this is my first post I'll give everyone a little background information.
I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2008 with a B.S. in Biology as well as a Chemistry and Art minor. The question upon graduating was "What to do now?" I played club lacrosse during school, which took up a large portion of my time. I hadn't done any work within my field and found it extremely difficult to find anything other than a lab position as far as a job went. I was blessed with an extremely short attention span and working in a lab for 9 hours a day was not appealing to me. Baking, lacrosse and friends were what appealed to me most and so I decided to just do that for the past 2 years. To fund these endevors I continued to work at Doolittle's Woodfire Grill, which was perfect since I had great friends who worked here also. Going to work never really felt like work, except when you get those few "special" customers ;) I worked, and currently still work, as an assistant coach and Director of Fundraising for Winning For Life. This is an organization created by my high school and college lacrosse coach which strives to create personal leaders out of female athletes. This past spring I was also hired by the Academy of Holy Angels to coach their high school girls lacrosse team.
Throughout all of this I also bake on a weekly basis, cookies and cakes are my specialty. The biggest baking endeavor that I have undertaken thus far was making the wedding cakes for my roommate, Karen's sister's wedding. With the help of Karen, her sister and uncle we pumped out 30 almond raspberry cakes to sit as the center peice for each table. It was a LOT of time but so much FUN! Baking is one of the most enjoyable activities I can do. It brings people together both during the baking process and when you're sitting around a table enjoying the wonderful fruits of your labor.
My other love in life is running. As I already said I played lacrosse during college, so upon graduation I needed to find a new form of exercise to keep myself in shape. That fall I ran, mostly between 3-5 miles a few days a week. However anyone who lives in Minnesota knows that it is difficult to continue a running schedule once it hits 20 degrees and I was at a loss of what to do. Pilates videos bored me and I was too cheap to join a gym. Plus those things SUCK you in and try to take all of your MONEY! To get my butt in gear for the spring I signed up for a half-marathon. As soon as I crossed that finish line I knew I was hooked on distance running. There is almost no high better than the one you get from finishing a big race. Since that half I have completed 2 others, for a total of 3 and I am currently signed up to run another one in October. I decided that I would participate in 2 a year so as not to over work my body, especially my joints.
Food is constantly on my mind. I am always reading recipes and thinking of new things to come up with. I hope that you find my life interesting ;)
Since this is my first post I'll give everyone a little background information.
I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2008 with a B.S. in Biology as well as a Chemistry and Art minor. The question upon graduating was "What to do now?" I played club lacrosse during school, which took up a large portion of my time. I hadn't done any work within my field and found it extremely difficult to find anything other than a lab position as far as a job went. I was blessed with an extremely short attention span and working in a lab for 9 hours a day was not appealing to me. Baking, lacrosse and friends were what appealed to me most and so I decided to just do that for the past 2 years. To fund these endevors I continued to work at Doolittle's Woodfire Grill, which was perfect since I had great friends who worked here also. Going to work never really felt like work, except when you get those few "special" customers ;) I worked, and currently still work, as an assistant coach and Director of Fundraising for Winning For Life. This is an organization created by my high school and college lacrosse coach which strives to create personal leaders out of female athletes. This past spring I was also hired by the Academy of Holy Angels to coach their high school girls lacrosse team.
Throughout all of this I also bake on a weekly basis, cookies and cakes are my specialty. The biggest baking endeavor that I have undertaken thus far was making the wedding cakes for my roommate, Karen's sister's wedding. With the help of Karen, her sister and uncle we pumped out 30 almond raspberry cakes to sit as the center peice for each table. It was a LOT of time but so much FUN! Baking is one of the most enjoyable activities I can do. It brings people together both during the baking process and when you're sitting around a table enjoying the wonderful fruits of your labor.
My other love in life is running. As I already said I played lacrosse during college, so upon graduation I needed to find a new form of exercise to keep myself in shape. That fall I ran, mostly between 3-5 miles a few days a week. However anyone who lives in Minnesota knows that it is difficult to continue a running schedule once it hits 20 degrees and I was at a loss of what to do. Pilates videos bored me and I was too cheap to join a gym. Plus those things SUCK you in and try to take all of your MONEY! To get my butt in gear for the spring I signed up for a half-marathon. As soon as I crossed that finish line I knew I was hooked on distance running. There is almost no high better than the one you get from finishing a big race. Since that half I have completed 2 others, for a total of 3 and I am currently signed up to run another one in October. I decided that I would participate in 2 a year so as not to over work my body, especially my joints.
Food is constantly on my mind. I am always reading recipes and thinking of new things to come up with. I hope that you find my life interesting ;)
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