Nothing better than Sunday mornings and pancakes….and chocolate. One thing I’ve been craving a lot of lately is chocolate. The funny thing is I’m not usually a sweets person but lately chocolate anything soulds like a winner to me! I’m in prep for another 5 weeks, so I had to get a bit creative in getting my chocolate fix in. Cocoa powder to the rescue! I’m obsessed with special dark cocoa dutch powder. It’s definitely […]
As I sit here on my chair next to the window and feeling the cool air flow in to the apartment. I’m dreaming about going to the fridge and heating up a nice bowl of pumpkin soup that I made last night, but I won’t, because I can’t. I did however enjoy it during lunch today and it was amazing! So did my training partner Lauren and she said it was amazing as well. 🙂 […]
Yesterday was one of those days. Instead of getting on the treadmill after work for some cardio. Vince and I hit and our four legged kiddos took a very long walk around the neighborhood instead. The weather couldn’t be more perfect. It was exactly what I needed; fresh air, leaves turning and just enjoying the outdoors. It was quite refreshing. When we got back to the apartment, I wanted to cook something eventhough I had meal prepped […]
Friday night, my coach, Yoko and training partner, Lauren came over for dinner and we watched the live broadcast of the Olympia. We made some kale chips to snack on while waiting on the delish steak dinner that Vince was grilling. Lauren suggested that we make some meringue cookies for dessert and use stevia instead of sugar. Why didn’t I think of this before??! I’ve made the “dirty” version of these cookies before and they’re […]
Perfect little pancakes inspired by the sweet and savory flavors of fall.
the cleaned up plate 