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What I Ate for Breakfast…

In: Cooking, Food, Portland, gardening, iPhone

Blogging about what I ate for breakfast just got a lot more interesting… for me anyway. I’ve been using my new iPhone to take garden, cooking, and [nomnomnom] out to dinner pics. It was fun to import a few weeks of food pictures into Picasa! One of my favorite recent recipes was ^^^ Summer Pasta [...]

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Strawberry Shortcake

In: Cooking, Food, gardening

It’s about time for another things that make me happy list, but I decided that at the moment, strawberry shortcake makes me happy… {circa 2009} {circa 2010} {*fingers crossed* future strawberry shortcake} Recipe: everyday food

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Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes

In: Cooking, Food, Recipes

otherwise known by the long — and culturally sensitive — name: Guinness Chocolate Cupcakes  with Irish Whiskey Chocolate Ganache and Baileys Cream Cheese Frosting I spotted a link to some Irish car bomb cupcakes last week that looked a little too similar to a Smitten Kitchen recipe that I’ve been meaning to try for ages! [...]

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Banana Cupcakes Are Yummy!

In: Cooking, Food

My latest cupcake obsession has been Banana Cupcakes with Honey-Cinnamon Frosting from my dear friend, Martha. They’re super quick and especially awesome if you have over-ripe bananas that you need to use up… way tastier than banana bread. The first time I made them, I made 24 mini cupcakes — which was good, but 6 [...]

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Yay for orzo! Since I’ve had a seemingly endless supply of cherry tomatoes from my garden, this has been my go-to recipe for a quick (15 minutes!) lunch. I love how fresh this recipe is — and the feta makes it a good mix of tangy and sweet. It’s also really scalable (and for whatever [...]

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Hey remember that time I had a quarter-life crisis, quit my job, and traveled around the world for a year? Hey remember that other time the economy tanked and I spent almost a year looking for a new job? Hey remember that time I made banana and Nutella crepes for breakfast?

I probably blogged about it yeah?

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30 Before Thirty List

1. Buy a house
2. Visit Iceland
3. Run a half-marathon
4. Attend a cooking class
5. Carve out a stellar mini home office
6. Go raw for 1 week or do a cleanse
7. Start strength training
8. Learn to ride my bike outside with my cycling
shoes [without falling over]
9. Go to 1 new restaurant (or coffee shop) per week 52 in total
10. Do yoga six days a week for one month
11. Learn the Pincha Mayurasana yoga pose
12. Get an iPhone
13. Go actual backpacking
14. Take a silver jewelry class
15. Road trip Hwy 101 southbound
16. Try a new class that isn't 'my style': belly dancing or zumba
17. Ask 12 people their favorite book and read it
18. Try kiteboarding
19. Volunteer again
20. Get a car, scooter or new bicycle
21. Visit a spa for a whole day or do a yoga/spa vacay
22. Eat [hyper] local for one week
23. Cook a 5-course meal, have a dinner party
24. Buy awesome matching lingerie
25. Start a grown-up alcohol collection/declare a signature drink
26. Buy a little black dress
27. Visit all 30 breweries in Portland
28. Ask a guy out
29. --- add later
30. --- add later

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