Most Halloween recipes are pretty unhealthy. It’s a holiday that focuses on candy and sugar. It was really hard to find any ideas for savory foods, especially healthy ones. It’s easy to snack on candy while you’re waiting for trick-or-treaters, so I decided to Halloween up a favorite quick, hand snack food of mine. It’s… [read more]
Pumpkin Krispy Treats
Everyone loves Krispy Treats and, as far as sweet treats go, they aren’t the worst thing you could eat. Depending on the size, one of these is about 150 calories. That’s not too bad. Fun sized candies are about 80 calories each, and these are at least a little more substantial. You can even get… [read more]
Creepy Candy Apples
I love Halloween. I always go all out. This month, I’m blogging my menu from last year: Dark and Light Creepy Candy Apples Pumpkin Krispy Treats Jack-o-Lantern Vegetable Tray Bat Cheesy Egg Rolls Pumpkin Ravioli Creepy Sugar Cookies Snake Calzone It’s really hard to come up with healthy and savory items for Halloween, but I… [read more]
Rainbow Cupcakes for Marriage Equality
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same sex marriages are legal in all 5o states, granting equality under the law to everyone. Hoooray! This ruling has no effect on anyone who isn’t a same sex couple. Churches are exempt from discrimination laws. They can refuse to marry gay couples if they want… [read more]
The Inaugural Avengers Half Marathon
I participated in my first Disneyland Race last month: the inaugural Avengers 5k and half marathon. It was fun, but it doesn’t have the same magic that Disney World Races have. I’m not sure I’ll do another Disneyland race anytime soon. I really thought I would love the race, because I love Avengers and super… [read more]
Low Carb Diet Wins Against Low Fat Diet..Or Does it?
We’ve seen this time and time again. It seems like every new study that comes out says that fat isn’t exactly the monster we’ve made it out to be. This latest study from the Annals of Internal Medicine pits a low-carb diet (less than 40 carbs a day were prescribed) against low fat diet (less… [read more]
S’more Krispie Treats: You Always Want S’more
Happy National S’Mores Day! To me, nothing says summer like s’mores. Whenever I go to the lake, or have a BBQ, I always buy the fixin’s for s’mores. There’s just something about them that says summer. I make lots of variations on the sweet treat. This year, I’ve made ice cream and pudding based… [read more]
Grilling Gone Bananas: Grilled Desserts
I go through periods where I just want to write, and apparently this is one of them. This is my second post in as many days. I’m also trying to be better about scheduling and posting stuff too. We’ll see how long that lasts. Yesterday was American Independence Day, or a good excuse to grill… [read more]
Geeking Out My KitchenAid Stand Mixer with my New Cricut Explore
I am going to write a full review of the new Cricut Explore when I have had some time to use it a bit more (so far, I really like it), but I wanted to show this off. This is an example of how intricate the cuts the new Explore makes are. I would have… [read more]
Race Report: Yellowstone Half Marathon, 2014
This was such a fun race! I would do another Vacation Races event again, but probably not this one (there are just so many other places to see). This was my first time in Yellowstone and I had been planning this trip before I even heard about this race. The Expo: The Expo was ok. … [read more]