In honor of Valentine's Day taking place in a few days, I have a delicious dessert recipe to share with you all today. It all started when I heard about Davida's Valentine's Day Bake Off. Naturally, I wanted to participate, but there weren't any baking ideas immediately popping into my head....and then I thought of making a homemade version of Nutella. Since it's V-Day, the idea of strawberries were also on my brain. Technically there isn't any baking involved in this recipe, but I figure that there's no room to be a stickler for rules when chocolate is involved, right? ;-) I think many people would agree with me when I say that Nutella is heavenly tasting. I think it's slightly ridiculous that people see it as a "nutritious" thing to eat for breakfast, but I do not pass up the ... [Read More]
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A Few of My Favorite Eats This Week
Hi friends! Since we're on the backend of this week (YAY for Friday tomorrow!), I thought I'd share a few of my favorite eats from the past several days. While I wasn't feeling green monsters last week and sort of took a short hiatus from them, I've been back at it this week drinking them as my morning fuel. This week's pick: strawberry apple cucumber spinach swiss chard juice. My thoughtful, wonderful grandma made my day at the beginning of the week when I opened my door to find this Edible Arrangements fruit delivery from her. She sent them to me as a "hope your foot feels better soon" gift. I've been enjoying the fruit from it every day! This is the grandma whose hospital bed I sat by in the ICU for weeks back in February in NJ, who just finished chemo and is now starting ... [Read More]