Reader Appreciation iPAD AIR #GIVEAWAY!!

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You guys are my besties, and I really don’t tell that to you often enough. They do say that actions speak louder than words, however, so today a few other awesome bloggers and I are working together to give away a 16GB iPAD AIR to one of our fabulous readers!! So thank you so much for all of your endless support. And happy (almost) St. Patrick’s Day!

ipad air giveaway

And make sure you check out the blogs of the other awesome ladies who are participating!

Bakeaholic Mama • Cravings of a Lunatic • Diethood • Crazy for Crust • Crissy Page • Miss in the Kitchen • The Hopeless Housewife • Pineapple and Coconut • Eat Your Heart Out • Foodie with Family • Very Culinary • Mom On Timeout • Nutmeg Nanny • The Lemon Bowl • Rachel Cooks • Roxana’s Home Baking • The Baker Chick • Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts • Eats Well With Others

Salted Caramel Peanut Pie

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Celebrate Pi Day this year with a big slice of this salted caramel peanut pie! With it’s salty buttery crust and sweet caramel filling, it is the perfect sweet and salty mix.
salted caramel peanut pie

Whoever decided that Pi Day is not an official, national, get-the-day-off-from-work kind of holiday has obviously never made a pie.

Not that they’re sOoOoOoOo hard, but between the chilling, the blind baking, the cooling, and the baking again?

And all the intermittent cursing/pulling out of hair that inevitably comes when pie doughs rip, fillings spill, and burnt sugar on your oven floor causes your fire alarm to go off?

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Wednesday Coffee Talk

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chocolate cake

1. Remember how my New Year’s resolution was to eat LESS dessert. Well, the universe disagrees. That’s really the only explanation as to why every layer-cake-worthy holiday in my life takes place between February 1st and March 18th, the critical point at which resolutions either become a habit or a future ghost of resolutions past. This yellow birthday cake with chocolate ganache frosting? For my sister’s birthday.

2. Either that, or the universe just really hates my skinny jeans.

3. The.Boy is watching episode after episode of “Did You Know Gaming” on YouTube as I write this. He’s currently enthralled in “Pokemon Part 4”. Apparently I am marrying an eleven year old circa 1998. In fact, I believe the words “you obviously didn’t play as much Pokemon as I did” just came out of his mouth. Said proudly. I cry.

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Spinach Salad with Barley and Cinnamon Vinaigrette

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This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Organic Choice for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Feels more and more like spring with every bite of this fruity spinach salad with barley and cinnamon vinaigrette!
spinach salad with barley and cinnamon vinaigrette

Spring is sprunging.

I know, not because the temps are starting to get warmer, which doesn’t happen in NYC until June when it suddenly goes from 20 and frigid to 95 with 100% humidity, but because all my blog friends start talking about all the produce they’re going to grow in their beautiful outdoor gardens, dishing on which heirloom tomato grows the sweetest, and preemptively humble-bragging/complaining about the summer squash that’s going to take over their lives.

While I smile, nod, and try to suppress the pangs of jealousy thumping within my chest.

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Blood Orange Greek Yogurt Poppy Seed Pancakes

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These blood orange Greek yogurt poppy seed pancakes are full of bright citrus flavor and lots of protein from the yogurt, making them a healthy breakfast treat! Thanks so much to the California Milk Advisory Board for sending me a gift card to offset the cost of ingredients in this recipe. By posting this recipe I am entering a recipe contest sponsored by the California Milk Advisory Board and am eligible to win prizes associated with the contest. I was not compensated for my time.
blood orange greek yogurt poppy seed pancakes

How committed are you to this “give-up-dairy-eggs-and-butter-for-Lent” thing?

Because I’m not sure we could or should wait 40 days for these pancakes.

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