Make the holidays extra decadent with this white chocolate pistachio cheesecake encased in a buttery chocolate cookie crust.
Everyone’s all PEPPERMINT CHOCOLATE this
and GINGERBREAD that
and EGGNOG all the things.
And I’m over here like white chocolate pistachio, y’all.
It’s where this holiday season is at.
Oh, hey!
You guys, I need workout advice. Or motivation? Or something?
I think I can count on both hands the number of workouts I’ve done since Remy was born…SAD. And it’s not for lack of trying! First, I joined ClassPass, which basically gives you access to most classes in the city, but you have to sign up ahead of time and you pay for a set number of classes each month. A lot of the classes are at boutique gyms, so you definitely get a discount but it’s not the kind of thing where you can go any time, as much as you want. The benefit to it is that there is such a wide variety of class offerings that I can pretty much decide twenty minutes before a class starts that I want to go and book it, in contrast to the regular gym I used to belong to where there was almost never a class available at the (random) times I was free.
THEN, I joined Daily Burn, which is (a) really cheap and (b) online, so I can work out from home. Definite benefits to both of those things. There’s also a new workout every day and the workouts are only 30 minutes. BUT working out from home just doesn’t have the same fun aspect of actually leaving my apartment and speaking to other humans above the age of 7 months.
So now instead of doing anything, I’m just lazy and do nothing and eat ice cream every night. HELP. What kind of workouts are you guys into right now??
The eating aspect of healthy living (ice cream notwithstanding) has not been as hard as the exercising part, especially because of all the inspiration I get from our weekly healthy vegetarian meal plans! There are lots of gems this week, including my FAVORITE vegetarian lentil bolognese (you won’t miss the meat, I swear!), a one pot chickpea tikka masala, spaghetti squash with a truly luxurious vegan cream sauce, sweet potatoes loaded with all of my favorite tex mex flavors, and the most gorgeously hued beet burgers that I’ve ever seen. Happy eating!
Smoky and savory with just a hint of heat is the best way to describe this cozy sweet potato lentil tortilla soup!
If there’s one thing I can say to sum up this soup, it’s this:
KID TESTED, MOTHER APPROVED.
And by that I mean, we all gobbled it up with reckless abandon, but Remy especially thought it was the best thing since mashed peas (<– and that’s saying something).
I’m not sure I’ve ever been so proud.
Mini baked brie bites make for a perfect holiday appetizer this holiday season and are so easy to throw together!
Disclosure: This post has been sponsored by The J.M. Smucker Company and Kellogg Company. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
You guys, I offered to host Christmas.
With a seven month old.
And only EVERYONE looked at me like I was crazy!!
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas! I mean, I still haven’t bought a single gift, but we did buy a tree last weekend and we plan on taking Remy to see Santa today. Fingers crossed she doesn’t collapse into a crying heap when she realizes some weird old guy with a beard is holding her.
In other news, I have an interview free week next week! Which means lots of time for cooking and baking. No time like the present for starting to work on my Christmas cookie menu! If you have any favorites, feel free to leave them in the comments. I am always looking for suggestions.
Happy eating and meal planning this week!
Browned and bubbling cheese layered with butternut squash, potatoes, and rutabaga make this autumn root vegetable gratin a truly decadent side dish or main vegetarian meal.
The glass half full side to being utterly and truly and unfortunately late to the Thanksgiving food party is that I am almost a whole month early for Christmas!!
And almost a whole YEAR early for next Thanksgiving!!!
Probably the only time I’ll be early for anything for the foreseeable future, but hey! I’ll take it.
Welcome to Eats Well With Others, where we take a vegetable-and-cupcake laden approach to life (always with a bit of laughter on the side)!
