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Homemade Vanilla Extract

March 7, 2012

I love a good science experiment – especially one that will hopefully result in vanilla extract.  I LOVE vanilla extract and use it in recipes as a substitute for almond or other nutty extracts.  Sometimes I put vanilla in oatmeal, my coffee…really the possibilities are endless. Too bad my taste in vanilla is expensive.  I [...]

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I’ll Be Back–in 2012

December 31, 2011

Wrapping up 2011 in words… Happy New Year! Thank you for reading Running Leaner and Greener. Tweet

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Real Food Challenge

November 7, 2011

I apologize for my absence these past two weeks – a take home mid-term has been consuming my computer time.  I’ve been cooking though and for the next few days, you will find some of my recent cooking adventures! For the week of October 24-28th, I participated in the 100 Days of Real Food Challenge [...]

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Vacation So Far–In Pictures

July 3, 2011

We are in Maine right now – unfortunately the weather isn’t the best today but we had a beautiful day yesterday.  The lobster count is on: Heather: 2 lobster rolls, 1 lobster Matt: 2 lobster rolls, 2 lobsters Tweet

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Plant Progress

June 20, 2011

A few weeks ago, I posted pictures of my basil and parsley plants which I started with seeds. About a month later, do you see the progress? and the parsley We had a few weeks of no sun which I think slowed down the progress but now that we have had some sun, the plants [...]

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Do You See What I See?

May 14, 2011

Last Sunday, I planted 4 flower pots – 2 with basil seeds and 2 with parsley seeds.  Matt didn’t think they would grow, but I wanted to try.  I ordered the seeds from Johnny’s seeds which was highly recommended to me by the Farmer that works at my school.  I don’t know whether this is [...]

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TB.L.T

May 1, 2011

I have been on the search for Tempeh Bacon for months – I have been craving a B.L.T for a  while now and wanted to try a vegetarian version to see how it would compare. I finally found the Tempeh Bacon at Whole Foods last weekend and this morning Matt and I cooked a few [...]

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