Author: Jess
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Popovers
What to make for dinner? What to make for dinner? This question is always lingering around in my head before I head home from work. Do I want to take the time to make something, or just throw something together really quick? As I sat at my desk, pondering what to make, I thought about…
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Making People Fat for the Holidays
Over the past several years, my mom, sister and I have gotten together to make Christmas cookies. It has been a blast. Usually, we just make my grandma’s awesome White Cookies and then maybe one or two other cookies that we are familiar with making. Last year, we spent hours decorating the white cookies with…
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An Indoor Winter Wonderland
Over the last couple weeks, my friend and I had the opportunity to plan our work Christmas party. Our owners decided to hold it in our new greenhouse located at the store I work at. In the past years, we have had the party in our downstairs conference room. Though it is a decent size,…
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Nike+ Women’s Half Marathon
(Photo taken from the N+ WHM registration page) A while back, I “liked” the Nike Women’s Marathon facebook page to find out information on my sister-in-law while she was running the marathon. I am so glad that I did because I found out about this awesome event. Nike is putting on a Nike+ Women’s Half…
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Broccoli Cheddar Soup
A soup I have been wanting to make for a while! Now I have finally done it and it turned out great. I am excited to attempt to make it my own version. There are some ideas I have to make it better. For a first try though… It was mighty tasty. Then a side…
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Not too sure how I feel about this…
On Saturday, I convinced Brent to run part of my planned twelve mile run. I figured I could come up with a nice six mile loop that would bring us back by the house. Brent was unsure if he could really run any more than this. In the last month, he has only been running…
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Turkey Bolognese
I made another meal with leftovers last night! This time it was so good, I am sharing the recipe. Well, most of it. I had to make my own marinara sauce with this, but I will not go into that recipe. Turkey Bolognese Ingredients: 1/4 cup olive oil 1 onion, chopped 4 garlic cloves, minced…
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Turkey Enchiladas
Of course we had even more leftovers than just the smashed harvest veggies. We have a ton of turkey! My favorite Thanksgiving leftover. Last year I tried turkey soup and a turkey pot pie. Both of which turned out great! This year I decided to give turkey enchiladas a try. That is what I spent…
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Smashed Harvest Veggie Ravioli
There are always so many leftovers from Thanksgiving. I decided that my smashed harvest veggies would be tasty inside some ravioli. Tonight I decided I would give making my first ravioli a try. (First noodle making experience as well). It was a little difficult considering I do not have a pasta machine, but I rolled…
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My First Turkey
Brent and I hosted Thanksgiving again this year, but we were in charge of the meal. I woke up bright and early at 6 to prepare our post Huffing for Stuffing Race caramel rolls. While the dough was rising, I prepared my first turkey. I was kind of nervous because people tend to make a…
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Flexibility
Flexibility, that is what I have decided that I need throughout this winter. The other day I wrote a blog pretty much just complaining about the effects of snow on my running. Those days that I have my runs planned and then they get ruined by weather are hard on me. I look forward to…