• Cooking,  Food

    Recreating the Mixed Grill

    Happy Monday everyone. Today, it was back to reality for me, after a much needed, relaxing vacation. Catching up? Here are my posts about my trip to Pittsburgh: Fried Pickles in Pittsburgh Exploring Pittsburgh Trader Joe’s in Pitt Colossal Sandwiches and Carousels Last night I finally had some extra time to spend on making food! I have been craving steel-cut oats, in the worst way! (Check out the post I wrote about the different types of oats!) Thankfully, I had just enough left to make a whole batch! I also added in some oat bran. They came out fab. I’ve been missing the crunch of steel-cut oats! I also mixed…

  • Cooking,  Events,  Running,  Training

    Fall is Coming??

    Did you enter my Chobani giveaway yet?? You have until September 6th at midnight! DO it! — Notice anything different about my blog? I changed the header this morning in honor of the first day of September, and of course, the start of my favorite season, fall. Hope you like it! Although, it doesn’t feel much like fall right now, as the weather has been above 90 for the last few days. I was driving home tonight and summer is still in full force. Even though I’m excited for fall, I’m trying to savor the last bit of summer, because it will be gone so fast! My training continued yesterday,…

  • Baking,  Cooking,  Food,  Recipes,  Running,  Training

    Monday Musings

    Does anyone else hate Mondays? I’m so glad Monday is over. So yesterday I had a nice relaxing Sunday. I recovered from the Freihofer’s/DMB Concert by running a seven mile Long Run as part of my Boilermaker training! I woke up later than usual…at 9 AM! That’s the latest I’ve slept in a while! And it felt nice! I ate three blueberry pancakes made with Fiber One Instant Pancake mix, not caring about whether or not that would affect my run. I topped them with home-made blueberry sauce. Yum! I can’t stand eating light maple syrup on my pancakes anymore…yuck. (Although I will admit that it was good choice while losing weight.) The weather was…