Friends, I am miserable. Not only has Seattle been hit by a “monstrous” (well, not by Colorado standards) winter storm that has shut down the entire city (not exaggerating), being on the cleanse makes the entire experience extra rotten because we can’t do the warm cozy stay-inside activities that we typically would. We haven’t baked… [Read more…]
January 16, 2012
My enthusiasm for writing about the cleanse has dwindled right along with my enthusiasm FOR the cleanse. It’s so much cooking! There are so many other things I’d rather be eating! Our kitchen is always a mess! I can’t have smoothies or candy or anything I WANT. But overall, save for Saturday night, I’ve been… [Read more…]
January 12, 2012
“IT’S ONLY DAY 4!” I wailed to Heather as I walked in the house this evening after being SO GOOD and not eating any of the delicious food that was served in each office at the Tour de Vance open house tonight. I was SO GOOD! I only drank water and I skipped the bites… [Read more…]
January 11, 2012
I’m ready to admit that maybe we’re just BAD at breakfast. This morning Heather got up early to caramelize onions for our two-egg caramelized onion omelet and I woke up to their delicious smell around 6:30am and then fell back asleep. Around 7am, I re-awoke to the smell of burning onions and Heather cursing whatever was happening in the… [Read more…]
January 11, 2012
I think I should make it clear (or more clear) that this cleanse isn’t really about CLEANSING. It’s not like a juice fast or something that involves a supplement. It’s for people who like to cook and who want to phase out of all the dairy and carbohydrates that accompany the holidays. It’s also about… [Read more…]
January 9, 2012
I’ll be honest with you: after breakfast this morning, I was worried about how this was going to go. Breakfast was some kind of hot cereal with walnuts and blueberries, which are totally not in season and made for the occasional sour mouthful. Heather put it all together and each step seemed to be accompanied… [Read more…]
January 8, 2012
So I’m back in Seattle and gearing up to start Bon Appetit’s 2012 Food Lover’s Cleanse. This is not a cleanse in any traditional sense – there will be no fasting, no juices, no consuming an absurd amount of flax seed. It’s simply a two-week plan to cook food that is good for you and… [Read more…]
January 2, 2012
I make and break my New Year’s resolutions within weeks, if not within minutes. I have already resolved and failed to drink more water – a relatively simple thing to improve upon since I so rarely drink water at all. So perhaps if I call them something else I will be more successful in achieving… [Read more…]
November 6, 2011
Ways in Which My Roommate Has Tried to Kill Me (that I know of)*: 1. Poison by Salmon Five days before we surprised Kendall with a trip bachelorette trip to Las Vegas, Heather cooked an awesome Sunday dinner. It was delicous but I woke up the next day and something was NOT right. I endured… [Read more…]
July 18, 2011
A lovely surprise arrived on my doorstep from Junior! Errr, I mean, Elizabeth R. They were delicious – thank you! (Also, if you can stand to correspond with this Etsy seller, let them know that they’d likely get more business if they included some (any) information about themselves in the package!) … [Read more…]
March 14, 2011
For dinner tonight: Cod baked in a parchment packet with bok choy, shittake mushrooms, shallots and lemon. Hoping it comes out of the oven as light and mouth-watering as I’m expecting it to, though I had to make several last-minute substitutions and am not quite sure WHAT I threw in that packet. For breakfast/lunch/dinner for… [Read more…]
January 11, 2011
I want my hair to be the color of Beyonce’s in her new Feria commercial. Chewsy is fun. Can’t wait ’til they have an app for Androids. I will be on Bainbridge on Saturday visiting Bainbridge Graduate Institute… that’s right! I’m thinkin’ about grad school. Sometimes, I feel like the staff at Fonte kind of… [Read more…]
January 3, 2011
I always have a gazillion New Year’s resolutions that I break within about a week, so I thought that blogging about them might help keep me honest… This year, these resolutions are kind of unusual. I’m not resolving to lose weight or eat better because I’ve already learned that if I don’t work out then… [Read more…]
December 29, 2010
I was so excited to get all retrospective-y with a year-end blog post. I felt like reflecting on what a transformative year it’s been. I mean: I left my job in December of 2009 and have been formally fun/un/self-employed ever since I’m considering grad school I finally came up with a name for my business I did… [Read more…]
November 28, 2010
Wii bought a Wii on Black Friday. Wiiiiiiiiiiiiii! I’m experiencing a bit of buyer’s remorse, but not because of the price. I feel like we got a screamin’ deal at Best Buy and Target thanks to Black Friday, and I did some tricky maneuvering with a gift card and another weird deal on a game,… [Read more…]
September 13, 2010
My instincts have suggested that we’re in for a long, cold, miserable and wet winter, and I’m taking that to heart- even in early September. I’ve already packed away my summer clothes (many that I never even wore) and have pulled out the sweaters and scarves. I’ve even been caught wearing closed-toed shoes and socks,… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
Just woke from a dream in which I mis-used the word “literally” in casual conversation with President Barack Obama. Of course he called me out on it and I was completely humiliated, but then he said he liked my style and offered me a job.
August 11, 2010
August 10, 2010, in crappy cell phone pictures: Cirque du Soliel on the IMAX! High-rise bicycling! Naked mole rats and dinosaurs and a game of Chinese Checkers (or a version thereof): Butterflies on citrus! Elastic acrobatics! Happy hour at Ruth’s Chris! El Diablos at Tango! Oops. Not pictured. Whoops. More Facebook birthday wishes than I… [Read more…]
July 17, 2010
I’ve been having the most exciting dreams between the hours of 6-8am. I usually wake up at 6, check my email and read until I fall back asleep. So far this week, I’ve dreamt that: 1. Best Fried Joanna made us re-enact her wedding days later and we were supposed to assemble at 1, but… [Read more…]
July 15, 2010
Yesterday I got up at 7am, went to meet my friend Leslie for coffee, went to the gym, hopped on the treadmill, actually JOGGED for 3 minutes, and hopped back off and went and took a shower. Thank god my philosophy on going to the gym is that if I simply GET there, it’s a… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
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