Well let me tell you: 1 cup hot cocoa made with heavy cream, cacao, and sugar, with a splash of coconut rum and frangelico. Splurge! Pad Thai from Sundeck … I ordered it just with veggies and shrimp (no noodles) but the peanut sauce and its inevitable accompanying sugar are a splurge. 1 bloody mary…
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Around the Fitness Horn: Deep Thoughts and Good Stuff Edition
“Let it be and let it not be what you want it to be.” Sometimes you fight and fight and fight, and in the end you have to let it be and not be what you want it to be. It still is, just something different. Really good breakdown on who should and should not…
Paleo Cookies Recipe
Last weekend, one of my dearest friends (non-paleo, non-crossfitting) texted me asking for a paleo cookie recipe. What?! I was super excited. She said that she was baking for her mother-in-law, who eats mostly paleo for health reasons … yes! I sent her the following email: Here is my all-time fave paleo chocolate chip cookie…
Effing Gluten and Sugar
We ALL know not to eat that junk, right? I’m pretty good about it–particularly the gluten, less so the sugar. But yesterday was my birthday. And That Ripped Guy of Mine(TM) was going to make me an almond flour cake but ran out of time, so after a sunset picnic atop Aspen Mountain (awwwwww!), he…
Here’s How I’m Gonna Un-Overtrain
If I’m even overtraining 🙂 Anyway, I’m gonna take on this 24 Day Advocare Challenge that Megan (and Alex … and Jess) is so pumped up about. I’ve only tried Advocare once before, during Spartan last year, and I didn’t think it made a huge difference. BUT so many of my friends swear by it…
My silly baking: paleo pumpkin chocolate chip cookies
I really enjoy baking. I also really enjoy eating Paleo (no processed food, no grains, no dairy, no sugar), and the two are not very compatible. So I constantly quest to bake as Paleo-ish as possible. I have more failures (well, what’s a failure, really? I’ll eat it, but I wouldn’t feed it to friends)…
Weekend Cake
Austin is getting its own Ace of Cakes this weekend with the That Takes the Cake sugar art show and cake competition. Hell yes. See what top bakers from around the country can do with fondant, the pliable confection used to create lavish, 3-D cakes, and watch demonstrations. There will be kids’ cookie and cupcake…
Free food today!
Free cupcakes and pancakes! They don’t call it Fat Tuesday for nothing … Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop (home of the most delicious peanut butter cupcake I’ve ever eaten) is celebrating their half birthday–that’s 183 days old–by giving away any baked good in their shop to the first 183 customers. After that, everything is half off! The…
Snow Pea Bento Box
I had a lovely day in my Brykerwoods neighborhood! I woke up and took a nice little jaunt with the pup to the Starbucks inside the Randall’s, where I bought a Venti Soymilk Sugar Free Cinnamon Dolce Latte (yes, I’m a pain) to enjoy while I worked on some articles. A few hours later, I…
Yelp Open Party: Resolution Revolution
Man, I love yelp.com. Once again they’re hosting an open party with free drinks, food, and swag. Only this time the free drinks are Treaty Oak rum and some other vodka I’ve never heard of and FREE SUGAR MAMA’S CUPCAKES. I apologize for the screaming, but you know what Sugar Mama’s cupcakes do to me.…