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Kale Lasagna Roll Ups

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Kale Lasagna Roll Ups-EDIT 2

Well the holidays are officially over. It was nice to have two 3-day weekends in a row. Now it is time to tackle 2016!

Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I mentioned this Friday, but I don’t usually do resolutions at the New Year. I make goals throughout the year, but don’t typically start anything at the beginning of each year.

Jodi is challenging us this round of bootcamp to come up with two goals. One is health related in terms of exercise and eating. The other is a health goal as well, but a lifestyle goal. I have some in mind, but I need to sit down tonight or tomorrow and really think about what I would like to accomplish. [Read more…]

Mexican-Style Quinoa Bake

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Mexican-Style Quinoa Bake-edit

Don’t worry, I finally got our Christmas tree up yesterday! It is decorated and everything. Not only that, we also got our outdoor lights up! I had to work Snowzilla (more on that later) until 2pm and then the Broncos game started at 2:05pm.

The weather was perfect to put them up, but I wasn’t sure we’d get them done. Donny ended up getting all the lights out while I was gone and started putting some of them up on the front of our house (the hardest part). He had just made it around the first corner when I showed up.

I decided to take over for him because I honestly don’t trust him on a ladder. First of all, he has a bum knee. Second of all, he fell off a ladder once and got really messed up. No bueno. We ended up recording the Broncos game and then watching it about an hour after it started. Donny doesn’t mind that because he can fast forward through the commercials and the dead time.

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Chipotle Chicken Soup

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Chipotle Chicken & Sweet Corn Soup-edit

Yesterday was a very productive day for me. I went to bed fairly early Saturday night so I woke up about 6:30am. Donny partied a little bit (maybe a lotta bit) so I had about four hours all to myself to get things done. The surprising thing was that Doug even stayed in bed until about 10:30am! He rarely does that…. [Read more…]

White Chicken Chili with Sweet Potatoes

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White Chicken Chili-edit

Another weekend gone. They seem to fly by waaaay too quick sometimes. I took it very easy Friday night. I messed around in the kitchen for a while making nut & seed bars (post headed your way soon). I didn’t want to do anything too crazy because I knew Saturday would be a long day getting ready for the museum dinner for the Heritage Foundation.

Let’s just say it was a long day. [Read more…]

Spinach Artichoke Farro with White Beans & Roasted Tomatoes

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 Spinach Artichoke Farro-edit

I have a new appreciation for people that do manual labor for a living. Donny & I spent between 6-7 hours doing yard work in our backyard this weekend and most of that was spent tearing out this concrete slab we had in the back. The people that we bought the house from bred dogs and they poured concrete back there to put their dog kennel on. [Read more…]

Chicken Cordon Bleu Grilled Cheese

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 Chicken Cordon Bleu Grilled Cheese Edit

Donny & I like to try out new restaurants all the time. Doesn’t matter what type of cuisine or how fancy it is, we just really enjoy trying new places and seeing how creative the chefs can be these days. Denver has a million cool restaurants that have been around a while or some that are fairly new. It really is an up-and-coming food city in my opinion. [Read more…]

My Go-To Afternoon Snack: Cottage Cheese with Avocado & Tomato

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Cottage Cheese with tomatoes and avocado

Guess what tomorrow is? Friday yes, but it also happens to be the day that Season 3 of Orange is the New Black comes out on Netflix!!! I haven’t had a show lately that I was so addicted to that made me miss it when it wasn’t on. I seriously miss OITNB. The characters are fantastic and they have just the right mix of drama and comedy. Good work Netflix, good work. [Read more…]

Low-Carb Mexican Stuffed Peppers

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Low Carb Mexican Stuffed Peppers

First of all, I had a blast in Austin over the weekend! I found out I cannot drink like I could 4 years ago when we started these girls trip. However, I did get to hang out with the gals, consumed my fair share of alcohol and ate at quite a few food trucks. Success. I did in fact take and actually use a new compact digital camera. I will go through my pictures and share them with you soon! [Read more…]

Baked Ziti with Turkey & Zucchini

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Baked Ziti

It is officially April and a couple days away from Easter and guess what?! We have snow!!! I love spring here in Colorado… I mean 80 degrees one day, snowing and 40 degrees the next. Crazy. It’s like Mother Nature is on a hormonal roller coaster! Just cannot make up her mind. 

Today is Good Friday and I love Good Friday! We get all the major holidays off of work but don’t get many other days as paid holidays. We do get Good Friday though! I never thought much about that until the first year I worked at Media Logic and noticed that other people still had to work. The banks are even open! That’s the only holiday that we don’t work and other people do! It’s usually the other way around…..it’s the little joys in life, right?! I also apologize for gloating if you have to work on Good Friday.  [Read more…]

Buffalo Chicken Quinoa Bites

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Buffalo Chicken Quinoa Bites

Did you watch the Oscars last night?! I did not. Want to know why? Because Donny & I decided to watch 45 episodes of Orange is the New Black. Ok, 45 might be a bit of an exaggeration, but we did watch OITNB all day yesterday. It is just such an awesome show! It has very dry humor throughout it, but also has a lot of drama and suspense. I love it.

Donny suggested that I watch it while he was gone on his last trip so I assumed he had seen Season 1. I watched all of Season 1 and then a few episodes of Season 2. When he got home he informed me that he had only seen like 3-4 episodes…. whoops! He had some catching up to do. He is now caught up to me so we can start watching episodes I haven’t seen yet! There goes my free time…. if only I had self-control! [Read more…]