Spicy Miso Soup with Korean Rice Cakes

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Spicy miso noodle soup with crisp roasted tofu, strips of kale, shoyu-marinated eggs, and Korean rice cakes instead of noodles.
Spicy Miso Soup with Korean Rice Cakes

There are many unreasonable things about having to return home from Disney World in the middle of a northeast winter, but by far the worst is that the 37F temperatures that once felt like a tropical paradise are back to being akin to an Antarctic TUNDRA. So you come back under-dressed, overly tired, and downright irritable with a burning need for hand warmers, a cuppa something hot, and spring to happen, literally overnight.

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Little Italian Cakes Filled with Lemon Pastry Cream {sospiri}

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Sospiri, meaning sighs in Italian, are little sponge cake sandwiches filled with lemon pastry cream and topped with a sweet glaze and sprinkle garnish – absolutely delightful!
little Italian cakes filled with lemon pastry cream

I think I’m going to bake my way through the Italian language.

It’s pretty much the best/most efficient/majorly delicious way to learn, don’t you think?

Plus it will teach me the most important phrases. Example – DAMMI IL VINO = GIVE ME THE WINE. That’s going to come in handy some day.

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Vegetarian Pad Thai

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Take-out at home gets HEALTHY – this vegetarian pad Thai with peppers and Chinese broccoli is veggie-stuffed and just as tasty what you can get from your local take-out joint.
vegetarian pad thai

So……………………………………………………should I send your local takeout joint a condolence card? Flowers? A box of #sorrynotsorry chocolates?

Scratch that, I’m keeping the chocolates. But you can alert every Thai restaurant within a 50 mile radius that I am on a mission to TAKE.THEM.DOWN.

No hard feelings?

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Wednesday Coffee Talk

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mr nilsson

1. Today is my birthday!

2. I have to be honest, I’m just not that into it. I didn’t even make myself a birthday cake this year. It has nothing to do with getting older, I think it’s just that there is so much pressure for it to be the BEST day…it’s just overwhelming and, honestly, kind of stressful.

3. I much prefer it when it is other people’s birthdays and I get to ply them with sugar and butter and some sort of multi-layered confection.

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Vegetarian Carrot Enchilada Bake #GIVEAWAY

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This spicy vegetarian enchilada bake replaces tortillas with carrot rice, making for a low carb, but delicious meal filled with beans, corn, veggies, and spices to fill you up without weighing you down.
vegetarian carrot enchilada bake

I think I got a little overly emotionally involved with the Oscars this year.

Just enough so that watching Birdman win Best Picture made me want to throw my television out the window and renounce pop culture for all of time.

But not so much that I would ever actually do such a thing and risk missing reruns of Vanderpump Rules. I mean, I think we all want to see whose life Stassi is going to trash up next, #amIright?

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