.....just so I can have this kitchen! Well the backdrop and chalboard and fork and that chandelier only maybe a little lower and more open concept. You catchin'my flow ladies! Isn't it awesome? Would you come over and let me cook for you if my kitchen was this cool? HA! That's what I thought!
Oh Man. So I just bought the August issue of SHAPE and was reading a letter from a lady in Chicago. It goes like this:
Good Morning Everybody. Today is Britt and Ryan's second wedding anniversary. What a beautiful wedding it was. Under a canopy of trees in a romantic garden they said I do. And partied the night away in a chic lounge setting with all their closest family and friends. It was intimate and timeless, just tlike the couple!
Life without Rogue is not cool at all. I just can't believe I will never see her little face trying to sneak up on beds and couches and air mattreses anymore. Or doing her cutie princess eyes to try and convince you to let her up (It worked every time by the way)
Good Morning guys! It's friday! Whooohooooo! And today is also my tenth day of the 30 day shred which means I start level 2. I am excited to try some new exercises but also nervous cause Jillian is so tough. I deffinitly feel tighter though from the last 10 days and I will let you know on Monday if I have lost any weight.
Hi Guys, If I was home I would whip up this delish Key Lime Pie for Sue and Frankie to eat on their anniversary today. It's Sue's favourite but I'm pretty sure she would also accept a Sour Cream Peach Pie if you wanted to try that out instead.Key Lime Pie
-1 (14 oz.) can fat-free sweetened condensed milk
-1 (8 oz.) package of reduced-fat or fat-free cream cheese, softened
-1/2 cup lime juice (or juice of 3-4 small limes)
-1/2 tsp. vanilla
-lime zest (grate the peel directly into the mixture)
-1 9 inch graham cracker pie crust.
-Fat-free Cool Whip
Blend condensed milk, cream cheese and lime juice with mixer. Add lime zest. Mix on low-med speed until smooth. Add vanilla and lime zest, then mix again. Pour mixture into pie crust. Chill in freezer for two hours. Top with Cool Whip. Note: reduced-fat cream cheese is softer than regular, which means that the pie batter is slightly softer, too. If you like a firmer pie–as I do–store it in the freezer.
Viola!!!! Delicious Anniversary limey goodness!
Love and Hugs
Here's a picture of all of Sue's girls looking smokin' waiting for the Bride to arrive.
Good Morning Everybody! Four years ago on this day we walked down this boardwalk at Conrad's Beach to Sue and Frankie's wedding. It was so sunny and beautiful and warm and perfect. The most relaxed and emotional wedding ever. Sue was stunning and Frankie's shirt was loved. After the ceremony, surfers came in from the water with a chilled bottle of champagne for the couple! It was truly magical! Just like their love! Congratulations and heres to many many many more years of love and bliss!!!! We love you guys and miss you desparately!!!
Good Morning Everybody! I know you have all seen this picture on facebook but I can't resit it! I keep coming back to it. Britt is just so adorable! Don't you just want to grap her and squezze her!!! She is confidently riding her vespa around a fountain in the park above the Trastevere in Roma. Kick Ass! (and aren't those sunglasses perfect with the helmet or wha?)
Good Morning Everybody! So we went and saw the last potential wedding venue on Sat. morning and have decided to go with the Castello. (It's the one that I posted on friday.) We are just in talks with the wedding planner here to secure the date and then we can order and send out save the dates!!! Yahooo!
Good Morning Everybody! This is Castello Zamitello in Mgarr, Malta. It's our favourite venue so far and we only have 2 left to see. This great things about this place is that we can have the ceremony dinner and reception all in one place and outdoors like I have always imagined. Also there is no outdoor music curfew like all the other venues we visited previously. It also has that old world charm I have been looking for.
Good Morning Guys, I know I am obsessed with pictures of soft boiled eggs lately! What's up with that? Anyways."Yesterday I had eggs for breakfast, a shrimp and crab salad for lunch, and some cheddar cheese with dinner. And I didn’t think twice about the fact that these were all high-cholesterol foods. That’s because lately, I’ve been reading a lot of information about just how wrong we’ve been about what cholesterol is and what it does in our bodies.
Let’s start with cholesterol in food itself: For decades, we’ve been told that eating food high in cholesterol will increase our bodies’ own cholesterol. But especially in recent years, study after study’s shown that’s not the case. One Yale experiment by Dr. David Katz, for example, found that eating two eggs a day for six weeks had no harmful effect on healthy adults–even those who already had high cholesterol.
The same’s been shown with shellfish, and, as Camille’s previously posted, butter. A lot of experts say this is because the cholesterol we get from these sources is just different from what’s in our bodies. Katz has a different explanation.
He believes that since our early ancestors ate an incredibly cholesterol-rich diet (organ meats, shellfish, etc.) it makes sense that our bodies have evolved to handle the substance at high levels. What really does raise our cholesterol, he adds, is food that’s high in saturated or trans fats.
If you’re running with this idea, it leads to an interesting question: If we can effectively process all the cholesterol we eat–why do we sometimes seem to overproduce and not process the cholesterol we make in own bodies?
Yesterday, I read a Huffington Post article that really got to the meat of this. In it, columnist Joseph Mercola, MD, argues that high cholesterol doesn’t cause heart disease–it’s a byproduct of another problem: Inflammation. When our bodies get inflamed, cholesterol is released in huge amounts because one of its functions is–believe it or not–to repair cellular damage. According to Mercola, it’s the weakened artery walls that are the real concern. Reduce inflammation so you protect those walls, and you’ll control your cholesterol. How do you do that? By following, among other things, David Katz’s advice: Monitoring your saturated and trans fat intake. (There are also a whole lot more you can do, like cutting down on sugars, simple carbs, and processed foods.)
The inflammation argument makes a lot of sense to me; I especially like Katz’s point about how cholesterol’s been part of our diet throughout time. It stands to reason that we’d know how to process them a whole lot better than, say, a Twinkie or bag of Pringles."
This makes complete sense to me and is so interesting. I think another thing that can add to the inflammation is daily stress. I see this in my Dad's side of the family and am conscious of being effected as a result.So, keep my stress levels down, keep my trans fats and high frutouse syrup intake low and I will live a long healthy life......Right?
Love and Hugs
Oh my Goodness people! I would derail my diet in a second for a taste of these eggs benny with fried oysters! I found them on Serious Eats: 36 hours in New Orleans (what to eat) Oh my gosh oh my gosh I want to go back there sooooo bad! I have never had a fried oyster or an au natural one for that matter better than I have had in New Orleans! And Jazz is flying there now right? Like Liz Lemmon says, "I want to go to there!" Oh my gosh oh my gosh, take me to that plate above and I will eat it straight for 36 hours!!! :) (I would also accept a fried oyster po'boy)
Good Morning Everybody! Do you love espresso or what? My girlfriend Amberlie just got a brand new Nespresso machine and is totally hooked but not as much as I am jealous! I would drink tiny cups of espresso all day if it didn't give me extreme anixety, panic attacks and the shakes!
Hold on a second! Who is this evil looking man and what is he doing with my drinky poo?!!!!!
Goodmorning Everybody! Well it's hump day and I know I am not the only one who wishes it was friday! I was thinking later Vince and I might pop on down to the our friendly sandwich corner and grab a budget friendly pint of Skol. I only wish Blake and Ryan and Britt were here to share. As you can tell from the above picture Blake couldn't believe his eyes! Miss you Monkeys!!
Good afternoon Everybody! I am sitting over here in Malta trying to think of something to be happy about after my three favourite people in the world just left.
