Lemony Shrimp Pasta

January 16, 2012

Lemony shrimp pasta with white beans is a favorite in our household – lemon, shrimp, cannellini beans, scallions, garlic and pasta – how can you go wrong?  I bought the shrimp to make this dish a few weeks ago but something happened and it never made it to our dinner table.  While grocery shopping this [...]

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Weekly Running Rundown: January 7-January 13

January 13, 2012

Working on increasing my mileage for my 10 mile race on February 19, 2012! Saturday, January 7: 4 miles with Matt Matt and I were loving the warm, sunny weather for today’s run.  We have been wanting to try a new route and today was the day.  This new route involved a little bit of [...]

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Portobello Mushroom Burger

January 12, 2012

For our Mushroom Bolognese recipe a few days ago, I over bought portobello mushrooms and have had 4 in my fridge ever since.  In an effort to use them up, I made the portobello mushroom the star of the show tonight – in the form of a burger.  Here is the anatomy of a delicious [...]

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Pizza Puffs

January 11, 2012

While reading blogs a little ago, I found a recipe for Pepperoni Pizza Puffs on Stephanie’s blog.  Seeing as pizza is one of my favorite food groups, I thought I would try the recipe swapping out mushrooms for the pepperoni – mushrooms are one of my favorite pizza toppings and slightly more vegetarian friendly than [...]

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Baked Oatmeal with Strawberries, Bananas and Chocolate

January 10, 2012

Through some peer pressure (ahem Cindy and Maribeth), I succumbed to joining Pinterest.  After spending a little while few hours on it this past weekend, I realized I needed to make this recipe for Baked Oatmeal with Strawberries, Bananas and Chocolate.  How could you go wrong? I omitted the orange zest because I am not [...]

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Chocolate Chip Mug Cake Anyone?

January 9, 2012

Matt and I spent almost all day cleaning yesterday.  I mean from noon until 6:30 pm.  We made some serious progress – we have been cleaning out our apartment one room at a time – all that is left now is our kitchen and 2 closets.  I was looking for a reward for our hard [...]

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Weekly Running Rundown: December 31-January 6

January 6, 2012

I have truly missed running.  A lot.  The end of last semester was crazy with a few things at work that really got to me and caused me much stress and angst.  I am not a big fan of New Years Resolutions but I want to commit to finding races that keep me motivated to [...]

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