Life

To come back and blog yesterday – doh! I have a doctors appointment next week and needed to have blood work done ahead of time and completely forgot about it.  I already had lunch plans downtown, but I was able to get in and out of there and make my lunch plans. If I was by myself yesterday though I would have hit up one...

I am happy to be working with Cabot Cheese again in promoting not only their cheese which is fabulous (I’ve been eating their 50% reduced fat cheese on nearly everything since I bought a two pound package at Sam’s a week ago!) but also promoting Chop Chop Magazine. “ChopChopKids is an innovative non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and teach kids to cook real...

I am working this morning for a private party, so I am taking the train downtown this morning.   I like working private parties because I usually get to put the appetizers together and may be able to demo some of the recipes.  And I love this chef I am working with.  Her name is Tara, she’s a couple years older than me, but she has...

Since I didn’t start work until 5:00 on Friday, I decided to beat the traffic and head downtown earlier in the day and hit up the YMCA before work, which is just three miles from my work.  That was kind of a great decision.  I’ll get to that in a minute. My Y membership lets me go to any YMCA in the Chicagoland area.  It...

Next to pizza, I think breakfast tacos may be another favorite meal of mine.  I like how you can throw anything into it, with some egg whites, and call it breakfast.  I remember telling my farmers market Alberto that my local grocery store sold blue corn tortillas and he adamantly told me that I was not buying blue corn tortillas.  I argued “but they are...

Lately I’ve been eating later breakfasts, which basically turn into lunch and I may or may not have a snack of a piece of cheese in the late afternoon to hold me until dinner.  What I have to do is go back to how my schedule was when I had a regular 9-5.  Because even on a work day when I don’t have to be...

What a whirlwind weekend I had!  Not only did I work Apple Fest Saturday and Sunday, Saturday night was my 30th high school reunion.  I’ll post a few pictures of that tomorrow, because today we are talking about pie and pork. Since this was my first Apple Fest I really didn’t know what to expect.  What I discovered though is that in all the years...

When I was grocery shopping with my Mom earlier this week, we both picked up a package of Healthy Life English Muffins.   This brand is my go to brand for hamburger and hot dog buns, and never realized they made English muffins.  So I made an open faced breakfast muffin with lots of chopped cilantro – love the cilantro/egg combo! The verdict?  I loved them,...

I like to think if you add any type of egg to tacos, no matter what the filling, you can call them breakfast tacos.  Yesterday morning I chopped up 1.5 ounces of my leftover Nashville Hot Chicken and 1/2 ounce of fries leftover from Heaven on Seven.  Tossed in some chopped broccoli slaw and egg whites and scrambled that and tossed it into 3 corn...

OMG, the sleeping weather last night was amazing!!  So amazing I slept in until 9:45 this morning.  And I am scooping up my Mom and have to leave soon to have her birthday lunch in Chicago with my sister at Heaven on Seven. I haven’t been to Heaven on Seven in years.  Back in the day I used to walk a mile from my office...