Many many years ago, I was introduced to this “new” burger placed called Red Robin. There weren’t very many of them in our area, and everyone I talked to said it was “SO GOOD” and they had neverending steak fries. I was in! On one of our very early dates, Adam and I met for [...]
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Sunday would’ve been my dad’s 60th birthday. Instead of planning a surprise party, or fancy dinner, or a trip out to visit him, I spent the day doing things that reminded me of him. I made homemade bagels, and topped them in the best way I knew how: ‘ I always remember going to get [...]
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I had every intent of holding this giveaway as a “last summer fling” kind of post with a recipe for this glorious-looking grilled pizza: It was a Fitnessista-inspired grilled pizza with goat cheese, mushrooms, caramelized onions, and a whole wheat crust all cooked on the grill. Little did we know though, that rushing to put [...]
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**LONG POST AHEAD** Months ago, when it was announced that the Healthy Living Summit would be held in my hometown of Chicago, I got really excited! To be honest, it wasn’t because I necessarily wanted to go to the conference, but because DOZENS of my favorite bloggers would be coming to our fair city! Then, [...]
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Every summer for as long as I’ve worked at camp, we’ve gone to Green Meadows Farm for a day on a real working farm. Last year, it was the first week of camp, it was a bit chilly, and most photos have me in my sweatshirt. This year was a different story. I’ll let the [...]
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In case you haven’t noticed in the dozens of post I’ve done on the matter, I get food nostalgia. I have so many memories of specific dishes, recipes, smells, that remind me of different times in my life. This is an odd one though. There are few foods that I remember loving as much as [...]
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Today marked the halfway point of my 11th summer at camp… just a few photos to help illustrate what went on this week. Pom-poms, Chicago skyline, amazing contrail, Skylar (and all my other campers!) as Rosie the Riveter, and my happy Friday grill. Have a great weekend!
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I know you’ve been waiting since yesterday for this macaroni and cheese recipe. You’ve been sitting at work, wondering “when will Mara be posting that recipe?” Yeah. Right. I did promise that you’d get it though, and I’m not one to go back on a promise! Once our guest list for our 4th of July [...]
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Have you entered to win free Chinese food and TWO tea sets yet?? Camp today did something that I don’t really ever remember it doing before: it made me want vegetables. Usually, I crave candy or something cold (like a popsicle) after camp, but today, something about the breezy and comfortable weather made me want [...]
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It was brought to my attention (Thanks Lizz) that I didn’t do a Wednesday in Numbers this past week. You see, one of the problems with working with as many children as I do is that, well, children have germs. They managed to pass on a lovely cold/sore throat/earache/headache lovely disease from Tuesday until yesterday, [...]
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