Thank you all for your comments on my last post, it is nice to hear I am not the only one who gets stressed out with pressure of posting. I have to admit taking a few days off from blogging really helped me clear my head, come up with fresh content and catch [...]
“You are an Athlete”
“Your body will thank you later”
“Remind yourself why you are here”
“It’s your body, make it happy”
I went spinning yesterday morning. I love the Saturday morning instructor, she is very positive and a great motivator, when I hear those words I push [...]
Raymond and I had a low key New Year’s eve, we went to see Avatar at IMAX-3D and really liked it. If you have an Imax theater close to you I would highly recommend seeing this movie there. After the movie we came home and had some cheese and crackers, opened a bottle of champagne and [...]
It is a gorgeous day today, the outside temperature is 27 and sunny. I left work early yesterday since it was snowing crazy here. I stopped at the grocery store to pick up vegetable broth to make Lentil & Veggie Soup, figured it was appropriate.
While the soup was cooking ever so slowly, I took Sadie out in the [...]
Ingredients:
Completely cooled red velvet cake (see recipe)
Cream Cheese Frosting – 12 oz (see recipe)
Baking chocolate; white and dark
Directions:
In a large bowl mix together crumbled cake and cream cheese frosting. thoroughly with 1 can cream cheese frosting
Roll mixture into quarter size balls and lay on cookie sheet
Chill for several hours. (You can speed this up by [...]
Ingredients:
Cream Cheese – 12 oz
Unsalted butter – 12 tbsp
Confectionery sugar – 3 C
Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
Directions:
Mix together the butter and cream cheese until completely smooth
Add confectionery sugar to the mixture 0.5 c at a time, increase or decrease the amount of sugar depending how sweet you like your frosting
Add vanilla extract
Let chill in the freezer [...]
Ingredients:
Unsweetened cocoa powder – 2 tbsp
Red food coloring – 1.5 fl oz
Buttermilk – 1 C
Salt – 1 tsp
Vanilla extract – 1.5 tsp
Vegetable Oil – 1 C
White sugar – 1.5 C
Eggs – 2
All-purpose flour, sifted – 2.5 C
Baking soda – 1.5 tsp
White vinegar – 1 tsp
Baking Instructions:
Grease two 9 inch round pans or 9 [...]