Health, In the Kitchen, Photos

Summer rain

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I absolutely love not having weekend plans, where I can just sleep in and eat a late breakfast brunch and relax. I have no chores to do since I did them all on Thursday evening.

I made myself some egg muffins, a sweet potato which I cooked in the microwave for 7 minutes (pierced) and two small peaches from the farmers market with a big starbucks mug filled with water.

Right now a big ol’ rain storm is coming through and I’m here in my PJs watching it. Have to unplug all the electronics shortly.

I just gave Alfie another hair cut. His hair grows like wildfire and needs it cut about once a month to maintain his image ;) Alfie smiles

He’s checking it out for himself.Alfie admiring his haircut I wonder if he approves of the layers I cut with the blunt crayola scissors. I was going to trim his nails because I can hear them clacking on the floor again when he walks. But I lost the tool. Lucky him. I feel so bad when I tell him it’s time to clip his nails. He hates those words and cowers on the floor waiting for me to pick him up and bring him out on the balcony where I cut them.

Hope you have a great Saturday afternoon!

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Daily, Health, In the Kitchen, Newfoundland, paleo, Photos, Vacation

I didn’t quit!

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Hey, anyone still out there? I didn’t quit my blog!

A mid-day update for you folks, I’m grabbing a quick (and late) lunch from home and heading back to work in a few minutes.

As you probably already guessed, I just didn’t blog while I was on vacation back home in Newfoundland, and of course when I arrived back in Ontario my internet connection was just wrecked for a while and I couldn’t do anything. Pair that with me not being able to catch up on reading your blogs because Feedly is having some issues on iPads/iPhones so I’ve only been reading the blogs that I really know the URL of. Which isn’t many! (Iowa Girl Eats, Posh Meets Pavement, Fresh Season, Js Everyday Fashion, Healthy Tipping Point, Peanut Butter Fingers). Sooo I’ve switched over to Blog Lovin’ for the time being. #FirstWorldProblems, I know.

Ever since Paleo ended on May 7th, I said I’d take a wee break from eating strict. When in reality, I have just went back to my regular eatings. Let me backtrack here… I’m not as mental as I was in the past eating candy for breakfast. I’m not eating carbs or dairy at all. I can’t stand cheese anymore – isn’t that strange!?  So to get back on track — the first night back in Ontario I didn’t cook because I was just tired from travel. But the next day I was in the mood to cook up a scoff (hey, gotta use some Newfie terminology while I can) and made a nice paleo and non-paleo meal for the Boyf and myself.

burger-and-fries-paleo-frieHomemade extra lean ground beef burgers with spinach and mustard on mine, topped with a portobello mushroom (boyf had a regular bun), and I also made some delicious sweet potato fries.

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paleo-burger-n-friesThey’re SO easy to make: fry’er up in the pan with some coconut oil on super hot, and flip them every now and again – once done put on a plate covered in paper towels and dab off the excess oil. Pour in a bowl and mix in some salt and Mrs. Dash’s Southwest Chipotle Seasoning and you’ve got some restaurant quality fries on hand. I also made a spinach salad for us too, with balsamic vinaigrette and coconut oil as the dressing. paleo-saladI’ll clue everyone in on the adventures I had on my vacation, but for now there’s a few photos to have’a gander at. See you when my internet works again!!

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Daily, Design, In the Kitchen, Photos

Food prep, and organizing

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I’ve been de-cluttering our apartment and getting rid of things that we just don’t need, making our space here more comfortable and stress free. So far I’ve tackled the living room (with a new addition to a desk which you’ll see soon!).

Here’s my old desk:desk

Then I’ve moved onto the bedroom cleaning up the closet:top-of-closet

And also floor space, adding an Expedit IKEA book case to store some things:ikea-bookcase

Next up, the kitchen space.

As I stated yesterday I am leaving for Newfoundland and that I was going to prep the Boyf with some food so he wouldn’t have to fend for himself making just meat and potatoes. I was in the hot kitchen last night making: macaroni and cheese, creamy chicken spaghetti, chicken teriyaki stir fry with rice…food-prep

and blueberry muffins. That should tie him  over. Spoiled or what? #BestGirlfriendOfTheYear.blueberry-muffins

So that means he needs a microwave to heat things up or defrost them from the freezer. It also doesn’t help that our microwave is on its way out. So we’re going to have to look into getting some microwave parts to try and fix it ourselves. Or some handyman to do it for us. Whichever.

It’s easy to get microwave replacement parts since all you do is just type in whatever you need, depending on your brand of course. Have you ever had to fix an appliance before?

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