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Week 20: Ramping it up…
Plus Realizing Why Mom Never Let us eat Cookies for Dinner…
So, we are starting to get into the home stretch for this season’s training season. We are also in the thick of the Holiday Season, which means lots of obligations outside of training. Christmas parties, shopping, and work obligations seem to take over and come into conflict with our training schedule. However, it seems like we are still managing to get everything taken care of, even when everything seems to be going wrong… [Read More]
Weeks 13-14: Healing and Easing Back into Routine…
Plus My First Success in Bread Baking!
I must apologize for not posting my update last week as I had promised. I was honestly getting into a funk from not working out. Whenever I don’t get the exercise I need, I tend to get really tired, moody and easily frustrated. However, I’m finally out of my boot and easing back into my training, which makes for a much happier Stef! So, In honor of the return to running, I’ll provide you with a recipe for Maple Seeded Bread (for “carb loading”, of course  ) in addition to my normal training update. [Read More]
Breaking Records and Feeling Sore!
It’s been an interesting and tiring week in our household…our schedule pretty much has been: work, run, eat, sleep, repeat! The run part has finally started taking a bit more of a toll on my body, as has allergy season, which has hit me with full impact. We also were breaking records, both Mark and I ran the Susan Komen Race for the Cure on Saturday and broke our 5k race records (Mark by over 3 minutes)! All of these factors put together has yielded a very run down Stef…but not run down enough to keep me from baking for my Monday Bake Sale! This week I was feeling like I was missing home and all that is fall…so…I decided to use apples as the central theme for this week’s bake sale (apple cinnamon cookies shown above)! [Read More]
Getting Back to Basics Bake Sale and Another Milestone Accomplished!
This week was broken up a bit by a four-day weekend for me for Labor Day (which Mark unfortunately had to work), but with Mark away, it gave me an excellent opportunity to “Labor over Labor Day” to bake for my “Monday Bake Sale” (Tuesday this week for obvious reasons…). Inspired to keep a theme going, I decided to do cookies this week, but instead of experimenting as I normally do, I decided to get “Back to Basics” with Basic Chocolate Chip Cookies and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies. We are keeping on track with our training as well, I’ve introduced Mark to yoga, which we plan on doing together at least once a week. We also participated in the Brian O’Neill’s Pub Run, which is a weekly 5k held on Tuesday evenings at Rice University. [Read More]
Peanut Butter Cookies Get a Makeover!
A bit over a month ago, we had our housewarming party. One of the recipes that got great reviews from ourselves and our guests was my adaptation on peanut butter cookies! I had a friend who was attended that party that is celiac, thus I wanted to be sure I was able to accommodate her needs (and mine…I love making normal recipes into something unique). Thus were born my Peanut Choco-Chip Cookies! My Mom has been bugging me for this recipe for some time, so my Monday Bake Sale for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society gave me reason to make this one again and post some more representative pictures and the recipe… [Read More]
One Week Down…Many More to Come!
Okay…going to multi-task with this post. Planning to give everyone a quick update on my training and give out my “famous” whole wheat brownie recipe!
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Breaking in our New House with a Good Old Fashioned Party…
So, we are well on our way to putting together our new house. We now have phone (like it matters in this day and age), DSL (matters), and cable (but not yet strong enough for digital…), and even a few curtains up (custom curtains = serious $$$)! Part of the reason we are getting settled in so fast is because I scheduled a housewarming party. Not as much to get gifts or anything (anyone who knows me, knows that I’m not a big gift person…), but more so we could keep ourselves on track and get the house put together with a deadline in sight. [Read More]
A Truly Simple and Satisfying Treat for a Hot Summer Day
We’ve officially entered the dog days of summer in Houston…nearly a continuous week of 90+ temperatures (most over 95F), no rain, and no relief from the heat in the short-term forecast. I normally don’t like ice cream, but today was a day that I just really needed something to cool myself down after our evening walk (that may be going away soon…too hot…). I had inspiration from the whole wheat sugar cookies I found at the Wheat Council website. Boy am I glad I found that base cookie recipe…so versatile and it will be making many repeat appearances on my blog in various forms… [Read More]
A “Good Kind of Different” for your next Oatmeal Cookie!
I love oatmeal raisin cookies…
When I was a kid, my grandmother always had oatmeal raisin cookies waiting for us! She was diabetic, so it was what she felt comfortable making with her dietary needs. I miss those days, she passed over 10 years ago, but I still remember those cookies. Well, since for my grandmother-in-law’s passing, I decided to create my own oatmeal cookies for my in-laws to enjoy (along with my double chocolate tofu cookies with cranberries and my honey wheat chocolate chip cookies). Mine are a bit unorthodox, but I’m an unorthodox person…blueberry oatmeal cookies! They cost a bit more, as dried blueberries can get pricey, but they definitely are worth it for a special occassion or to really cheer someone up. [Read More]
Seriously…Tastes Just Like Tollhouse…Only Healthier!
Sorry for the short hiatus…I’m going to work hard to update with my new recipes and clear out my photo inventory this week in the evenings. The reason for the hiatus was my grandmother-in-law’s death and funeral. We had to fly to Philly this past weekend to celebrate her life and I wanted to celebrate by cooking lots of cookies for my in-laws and my parents (who came to visit us one evening). The first of the cookies I tried was a honey wheat chocolate chip cookie recipe that I adapted from King Arthur Flour’s website (see the others…Blueberry Oatmeal Cookies and Double Chocolate Tofu Cookies with Cranberries). Boy are these awesome cookies! I’d eat them all day if I could (thank God they are not in my possession right now, or I’d need to eat another one just from looking at the pictures). [Read More]
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