Facebook, you have let me down.
Because tomorrow, while one of my coworkers is getting married, I will be lugging all of my belongings along with a shiny new set of IKEA furniture up three floors (and for clarification, by “I” I mean The.Boy., and by “lugging” I mean taking an elevator) so that he and I can cohabitate.
Ever and anon.
Everyone’s really into cleanses lately. Mostly of the juice variety, although some are doing the Whole30 and others are merely (ha) giving up sugar for a period of time.
(Don’t you like the flippancy with which I use the word “merely” as if it were something I could do with my eyes closed. When really it’s something I could do not.at.all.ever. Yeah.)
They sound almost like the kind of thing I’d be into except…they are freakin’ expensive! Truth be told, I’d rather buy a whole lot of cheese for the same amount of money. Which is perhaps part of the problem. But whatever.
If you’ve been in the blogosphere for long enough you’ve almost undoubtedly heard of Lori Lange of RecipeGirl. She recently relaunched another site of hers, Culinary Covers, to which I will be a contributor, along with a whole slew of other awesome bloggers, in the months to come! If you’ve asked yourself whether a given recipe deserves to be on the cover of a cookbook or cooking magazine, then this is definitely the site for you because that’s exactly what we’ll be doing!! For my first post, I made the cover recipe from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook – Tomato Scallion Shortcakes with Whipped Goat Cheese. Head on over to check it out here!
Now, I do realize that Earth Day has passed but we are still in April, which is Earth Month, AND we kind of live on the earth all day every day…so it should really be Earth Day 365 days a year. Recently, I stumbled across this fun site that Whole Foods has put together to celebrate Earth Month – EarthlingMonth.comhttp://earthlingmonth.com/. Basically, this site is a collection of photos, tweets and videos that give a snapshot of all the things people are doing around the world to celebrate Earth Month, no matter how small or significant that action is. It really is a celebration of earth’s beauty and bounty as well as an inspiring snapshot of all that is going on at a given moment in time to inspire change and maintain our planet’s beauty. To participate, feel free to upload a photo, tweet, or video here or tweet or instagram using the hashtag #WFMearthling.
In addition, there are a series of fun Earth Month-centered events going on at Whole Foods this month. For instance, I know at my local Whole Foods there have been awesome events centering around Earth Month including interactive classes and sales on eco-friendly spring cleaning products. To encourage you to head on over to your local Whole Foods and check out what’s been going on, Whole Foods has been kind enough to give me a $25 WHOLE FOODS GIFT CARD to give away to one of you guys! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment telling me what you’ve done to celebrate Earth Month (or something that you plan to do). I will choose a winner next Tuesday!
There was a world of chocolate in my weekend.
On Saturday I ate a dinner that consisted almost entirely of wasabi and crystallized ginger dark chocolate brownie edges.
(It was an accidentally-on-purpose kind of situation.)
And then on Sunday I learned from that mistake life choice by dedicating a WHOLE.SEPARATE.MEAL to dessert. You know, so that I could still have all the nutrition from three normal semi-healthy meals. But with an extra meal of butter, flour, and sugar added in.
I woke up this morning to chaos. That’s really the only way to describe it.
A shooting on my alma mater’s campus. One suspect down. One at large.
Lockdown. Bombs. Grenades. Manhunt.
It’s really too much to fathom that this is the world in which we now live. The world of the future.
Did you guys know that April is Grilled Cheese Month? If you didn’t, don’t worry, you still have exactly thirteen days to stuff yourself full of as much grilled cheese as possible.
And when you do, I truly hope you’ll consider incorporating this open-faced grilled cheese with refried beans, caramelized onions and avocado on cornbread into your menu plan. While I do crave a simple grilled cheese every once in a while for nostalgia’s sake, I also like to try new takes on this classic. And with all of these awesome flavors that are topped off with a good smear of Hidden Valley’s Spicy Chipotle Sandwich Spread, this is truly a grilled cheese to be reckoned with. To check out the recipe, head on over here to Relish!
And click here to enter the “Create Craveable Sandwiches” Sweepstakes for your chance to win $1000!
Thank you to Hidden Valley™ Sandwich Spreads & Dips for being a sponsor. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective. All opinions expressed here are my own.
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