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our first espresso maker

elle — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:03:08 +0000

Each morning I have to make a few important decisions. Do I get out of bed to exercise before work? Most often, yes. Do I read my book or work on a blog post while riding the train downtown? That’s a toss up. Once I’m downtown, do I hustle straight [...]

eats & exercise

elle — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:01:02 +0000

The week’s off to a good start – Monday totally flew by, didn’t it? The hubs and I have been seriously loving hanging in the city the past couple of weekends catching up on sleep and our enless list of errands. We hit up Home Depot for some plants & herb [...]

bride & groom berries

elle — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:20:13 +0000

Coming home to my new husband is wonderful but coming home to a dozen of these bride & groom chocolate dipped strawberries is utterly delightful. I tried to restrain myself and just eat the groom but couldn’t and went back for the bride 20 minutes later. These might just have [...]

happy father’s day

elle — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:17:30 +0000

Fact indeed. Happy Father’s Day to my Dad and all of the wonderful fathers and father figures out there. PS. This photo always brings a smile to my face.

danke

elle — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:59:34 +0000

Hi friends! Just wanted to say a quick thanks for all of your kind comments yesterday and for sharing your food confessions with me! It seems we all love butter, chocolate and simply can’t live without ice cream. You’re my kind of people! Eating healthy all of the time isn’t [...]

food confessions of a registered dietitian

elle — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:37:49 +0000

There’s a container of sea salt brownies in my desk drawer at work. At all times. It’s nearly impossible for me to enjoy a sandwich without kettle-cooked sea salt & vinegar chips. I cook with real butter. Give me natural, saturated fats over processed, partially-hydrogenated margarine spreads any day. I [...]

lentil sweet potato & baby spinach stew

elle — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:27:12 +0000

Spending 3 weeks in Italy eating nothing but cured meats, cheeses, homemade pasta and drinking wine left me with a serious hankering for vegetables last week. Vegetables and lentils, precisely. I’m new to cooking with saffron but just have to say, whatever ridiculous price Whole Foods overcharged me for a [...]

goodbye google reader. hello feedly.

elle — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:18:12 +0000

Come July 1st, Google Reader is bidding us adieu. I know this has put many blog reading fanatics like myself into panic mode – wondering how you’ll keep up with all of your favorites. Fortunately for me, I switched from Google Reader to Bloglovin’ back in December -for aesthetic reasons [...]

eats & exercise

elle — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:21:02 +0000

Seriously, how is it Monday already? The hubs and I had planned to get some things done around the house this weekend -like deal with our sad collection of potted herbs that didn’t fare too well while we were in Italy. Instead, we shopped for a new sofa, went to [...]

what using the word cruller might say about you

elle — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:03:28 +0000

I say soda, call coleslaw slaw and have definitely ordered a few crullers in my day thanks to Dunkin’ Donuts. I also pronounce pecan the same way I would something that might be useful, say, when stuck in a massive traffic jam. A NC State linguistics doctoral student by the name of Joshua [...]