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Raw walnut & pecan tartlets: 2 ways

by Running to the Kitchen on February 11, 2013

Raw walnut & pecan tartlets: 2 ways

Tartlet. Funny word, isn’t it? I just want to keep saying it over and over and over… Ok, we’ll get to those. Story time first. Saturday we went out to dinner with my parents. No special occasion, just a much needed night out of the house for me with an equally as much needed bottle [...]

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Paleo challenge: day 23

by Running to the Kitchen on January 23, 2013

Paleo challenge: day 23

From Jan 1 – 31 I’m doing a strict paleo (slightly modified Whole30) challenge with my CrossFit box. I decided to journal the month in food on here (in addition to normal posting) after getting a huge positive response on my Facebook page. I’m also going to detail the amount of sleep I got, the [...]

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Chocolate almond truffles

by Running to the Kitchen on December 17, 2012

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We haven’t really created many holiday traditions in the 6+ years we’ve been married. I guess it’s a combination of  the lack of kids thing, spending 2 of the 6 Christmasses traveling when we lived in Florida and then Ulysses not really ever wanting a tree or being very festive in general. But 4 years [...]

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Orange date smoothie and other things

by Running to the Kitchen on December 7, 2012

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I have a slight obsession with orange juice. As in, if I don’t have it (no pulp Tropicana preferably) every morning, I get seriously bitchy. It’s one of the few times I deem liquid calories worth it. I hoard half gallons of it when they go on sale and stock them in the freezer, keeping [...]

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No bake chocolate coco pumpkin bars

by Running to the Kitchen on November 26, 2012

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Yesterday, around 4:45pm, single lady-dom for the next 6 months (on weekdays) commenced. And while Ginger (who has been staring longingly out the window for the past hour as I type this) and I will definitely miss Ulysses during the week, I can’t say there aren’t some things that excite me about this sudden long-distance [...]

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