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How to Make Pad Thai at Home - Guess What... It's Easy

Recipes

How to Make Pad Thai at Home - Guess What... It's Easy

Last week I posted a pic on Instagram of some drunken noodles I made for dinner. This prompted a request from a friend of mine for a good recipe for Pad Thai. And boy howdy, was I happy to oblige. Here’s the deal. There's essentially a three-way tie for my favorite type of food between […]
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October 16, 2013

Lifestyle

The "Results" of My Healthy Living Experiment and Where to Go From Here

Health & Beauty

The "Results" of My Healthy Living Experiment and Where to Go From Here

In case you haven't been following my experiment on Instagram, this was my "final" weigh-in this morning: sorry for the blurriness Not quite 207, but close enough to where I'm not gonna get down on myself. Yesterday I ate turkey, rolls, cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole, and mashed potatoes and gravy. It was a wonderful […]
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October 14, 2013

Lifestyle

Our Miracle of Miracles

Health & Beauty

Our Miracle of Miracles

When Greta was 9 months old, we decided we wanted to give her a sibling.  And when she turned 2, she started asking for one herself. At last, 3 1/2 years later, the stars have aligned and our family is expanding.  We couldn't be happier--or more surprised (sometimes when something doesn't happen for so long, […]
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October 10, 2013

Lifestyle

What I've Learned From Weight-Loss Week 4

Health & Beauty

What I've Learned From Weight-Loss Week 4

I've been working on my little "experiment" for a month now. There have been both easy and difficult days. I've come to understand my triggers and weaknesses much more intimately than I did before, which has helped me understand why I succeed and fail. I've also been able to make adjustments in my original plan, […]
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October 7, 2013

Lifestyle

How to Make Really Good Fried Rice

Recipes

How to Make Really Good Fried Rice

So I had a request from one of our readers a couple weeks ago to do a post on fried rice. Fried rice is like a lot of dishes, in that everyone makes their own version. Ingredients can vary, and that's ok. In fact, it's encouraged! The goal of this post is not to give […]
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October 2, 2013

Lifestyle

Autumn Soup & Salad: Roasted Squash and Sweet Potato Soup, with a Salad of Mixed Greens, Apples, Feta, and Cider Vinaigrette

Recipes

Autumn Soup & Salad: Roasted Squash and Sweet Potato Soup, with a Salad of Mixed Greens, Apples, Feta, and Cider Vinaigrette

I love Fall, and it seems like our weather knows Fall has arrived, because pretty much over night we're all wearing jackets and the leaves are jumping off their branches. Every year when the weather changes, I just get so excited. From October to December, we have my birthday, Halloween, our anniversary, Julia's birthday, Thanksgiving, […]
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September 30, 2013

Lifestyle

Costume Party Prep: Invitations

Entertaining

Costume Party Prep: Invitations

While we still have a lot of house prepping to do before we throw our costume party, we knew we had to get our invitations circulating.  We went back to the format of our first party's invitations and decided to dress up for a quick photo for a few reasons.  First, although we've always had […]
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September 26, 2013

Lifestyle

Braised Beef Shanks with Plums and Pearl Onions

Recipes

Braised Beef Shanks with Plums and Pearl Onions

My parents have a plum tree and this year's crop was crazy. Like, plums out the ears. Every time we go out there, Greta picks 4 or 5 and eats them as she runs around the yard, leaving the pits strewn across the patio, swing set, garden etc.. Because the tree had so many, they […]
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September 25, 2013

Lifestyle

Healthy-ish Chicken Quesadillas with Chive Yogurt Dip

Recipes

Healthy-ish Chicken Quesadillas with Chive Yogurt Dip

Something that bugs me is when people use the word "healthy" to describe anything that addresses a food allergy or restriction. For example, I've seen so many recipes for "healthy pizza with cauliflower crust" - I mean, it's cauliflower! Soooo healthy!!! Yeah, then you read the ingredient list and find out that you use as […]
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September 18, 2013

Lifestyle

In Celebration

Lifestyle

In Celebration

Although I haven't been feeling the best, last night we went out and celebrated the sale of our first home--officially. Whew and Par-tay! Selling a home is stressful even when it goes relatively smooth, but when things go wrong--you might just feel like the world is against you. We have learned that anything can go […]
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September 17, 2013

Lifestyle

Julia's Absence and What I've Learned From Weight-Loss Week 1

Health & Beauty

Julia's Absence and What I've Learned From Weight-Loss Week 1

For those of you who don't follow us on Facebook, you've probably been wondering why there's an overdose of Chris posts lately, and not so much Julia. Jules has been sick and is taking a break from blogging. I'll leave it there for now and let Julia give the details when she's ready. She misses […]
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September 16, 2013

Lifestyle

Prosciutto-Wrapped Chicken Thighs

Recipes

Prosciutto-Wrapped Chicken Thighs

So for anyone who follows me on the ol' Pinterest, you may have noticed I have a board titled "Inspiration Recipes." Honestly I don't use Pinterest very much, but in looking for better ways to eat healthy, I've been finding good recipes that I feel like I can adjust (either a little or a lot) […]
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September 13, 2013

Lifestyle

Red Quinoa Salad with Corn and Mint

Recipes

Red Quinoa Salad with Corn and Mint

A couple days after we moved into this house, we were sitting on the swing set outside and had a visit from one of our neighbors. Greta was especially excited about this visit, because it was a 9 year old girl (Greta loooooooves other kids). Eleanor (the girl) was very friendly and excited to meet us. […]
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September 11, 2013

Lifestyle

Astonishingly Good Grilled Green Bean Fries with Spicy Mayo Dip

Recipes

Astonishingly Good Grilled Green Bean Fries with Spicy Mayo Dip

Don't you hate it when people say stuff like, "You don't even feel like you're dieting!" and then they share a dish that is clearly diet food? Like last week there was this guy on the internet who was all, "I'm gonna start losing weight, and I'm not going to eat diet foods." But I […]
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September 9, 2013

Lifestyle

Selling the House 2.0

Lifestyle

Selling the House 2.0

Yesterday marks 5 weeks since we officially moved from our Utah home and thought we closed on it. Some of the details around the demise of that sale we don't feel are appropriate to share here, but we knew it was time to move on and try to sell the house again. We had a […]
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September 5, 2013

Lifestyle

Roasting Tomatoes That Will Be Eaten Whole (not used for sauce or stuff like that)

Recipes

Roasting Tomatoes That Will Be Eaten Whole (not used for sauce or stuff like that)

You know what I love about roasted vegetables? The fact that you could be talking about anything when you say that. What kind of vegetables? Sweet potatoes? Green beans? Broccoli? Doesn't matter, as long as they're roasted. But perhaps one of the least roasted vegetables of all, is the tomato. So why don't people roast […]
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September 4, 2013

Lifestyle

Asian Chili Glazed Carrots

Recipes

Asian Chili Glazed Carrots

What a great time of year this is. Especially since we now live in Idaho and I have free-reign of my parents' garden. The last time I took Greta out there to pick tomatoes, I became a little engrossed in what I was doing and failed to notice my daughter had snuck away from my […]
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August 30, 2013

Lifestyle

Gluten-Free Coconut Shrimp, and It's Way Easier Than You're Thinking

Recipes

Gluten-Free Coconut Shrimp, and It's Way Easier Than You're Thinking

When I lived in Louisiana, I met a man named Skip. Skip was a young Cajun who made a living catching crawfish out of the bayous and shrimp from the gulf, and selling them roadside out of 2 old coolers. He lived a simple life, spent most of his time alone, and always smiled. And […]
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August 25, 2013

Lifestyle

Not Good News, But Not All Bad.

Lifestyle

Not Good News, But Not All Bad.

Long story short: Yesterday was not a good day, but we are going to be okay. Long story long: If I were to write this post a few hours earlier, it might have sounded very different. Very angry. Our buyers (who I have since purged the blog of) had another excuse why their money wasn't in […]
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August 21, 2013

Lifestyle

Crazy Awesome Gnocchi, And It's Gluten-Free

Recipes

Crazy Awesome Gnocchi, And It's Gluten-Free

Hey! I'm blogging again! Ok enough small talk. Let's do this!Something that Jules has learned about me is that, once I get in my mind that I want to try making a dish, I won't stop thinking about it until I actually make it. So when I stumbled across a tutorial on making gnocchi on […]
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August 19, 2013
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