The Diamond Behind The Chocolate
I'm always all of the following:
-Shoe Humanitarian
-Wine lover
-Storm chaser
-Chocolate addict
-Sweat obsessed
-Daydreaming of traveling to Sicily
-Mathematically challenged.I'm sometimes:
-Rude
-Irate
-Insensitive
-The main character in a chick lit novel (usually a bad thing)
-In a love affair with leafy greens, HIIT workouts, and VH1.I'm never:
-A sports girl.
-A soapbox preacher.
-Old man winter's friend.
-Interested in driving (limo, please?)-
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Tag Archives: vanilla
Hot Chocolate Protein Pancakes
Is it just me or are we hearing “historic”, “record breaking”, and “storm of the century” a bit too often these days? I have no qualms about it since I’m a weather aficionado, but the media is completely abusing the … Continue reading
Me + Silk Almond = Milky Bliss
Did you know that you + me = calculus? In the short lived boy band’s (2Gether‘s) terms, it made sense. In my adolescent hearts for eyes over my favorite one of the group, QT, it made more than sense, it … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
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#WIAW- Guess Who’s Back, Back Back, Back Again…
No, I’m sorry to disappoint you, Shady is not back again. Unless you count the other day when I walked into the gym through a separate entrance to avoid the chatty cathies…and they approached me as a team of flesh-eating … Continue reading
Posted in #WIAW
Tagged amy's organic, apples, banana, chocolate, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, comfort, Cooking, dessert, fitfluential, food, holidays, hurricane sandy, ice cream, kale, Kitchen, lindt, peas and crayons, protein, salad, soup, sweet potato pie, vanilla, what i ate wednesday, whole foods
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#WIAW- The Land of All Things Mini
I think I was about 5 when I had my first real Hello Kitty memory. It was a tiny HK set of markers with a tiny journal to match. I loved it because I was able to grasp the markers, … Continue reading
Posted in #WIAW, Recipes
Tagged apples, baby cakes, blog, cakes, carrots, chickpeas, chobani, chocolate covered diamonds, chopt, christy dean, cinnamon, cupcake maker, desserts, dinner, eggs, fall, food, garden of life, greens, hello kitty, lunch, mini, muffins, nutmeg, nyc, panera, protein, pumpkin, salad, snack, steel cut oatmeal, sweets, vanilla, watercress, what i ate wednesday, yogurt
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Vanilla Protein Pumpkin Mini Muffins
When I say pumpkin, you say how much? To say I’m obsessed with pumpkin would be the greatest understatement ever made. I have been consuming so much within the past month or so that my skin has adopted an orange … Continue reading
Posted in Recipes
Tagged babycakes, baking, cake, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, food, garden of life, muffins, pepitas, protein powder, pumpkin, recipes, vanilla
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-Things To Try Thursdays- Sun Warrior Chocolate Protein Powder
During last night’s #FitFluential chat, it dawned on me that I had never actually reviewed my favorite protein powder on here before. If you missed the #FitFluential chat, it was regarding soy and soy protein and all the benefits/myths involved … Continue reading
Posted in Things To Try Thursdays
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Goodness of My Heart- Cookies & Mini Muffins
You know what scares me? Machines. The other day I realized we not only have machines controlling our money, but our minds too. There’s the self-checkout, automated bill pay, SIRI, brainy vacuums, and even preliminary surgical machines overtaking the ER! … Continue reading
Posted in Goodness of My Heart, Recipes
Tagged apocalypse now, appliances, bake sale, baking, carrot cake, charity, chocolate, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, church, cookies, Cooking, eating, food, friday, goodness of my heart, granola, i-robot, life, love grown foods, mini muffins, movies, my brave little toaster, oatmeal, raisins, reality, siri, treats, vanilla
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