1. On a cold and rainy day, only a hot breakfast will do.
Pumpkin cakes!
- 1/2- 2/3 pumpkin purée
- 1 egg white
- pinch each cinnamon, nutmeg, ground cloves, ginger, salt
- 1/2 tsp sweetener (optional)
stir stir stir
Depending on the size of your bowl, you’ll need to microwave it for about 3 minutes or so. Because I used a big ramekin, mine was closer to 4:30.
Toppings:
- Greek yogurt
- cinnamon
- banana
- chunky peanut butter
Nom nom nom.
2. That muscle I always pull? In the same spot on my back? It’s inflamed again. It happens a handful times a year (probably from Saturday’s spontaneous long run), and it is literally always in the same spot. It feels like a spot I need to crack, but nothing releases it. To add insult to injury, this time it’s traveled up the right side of my body and into my neck, too. Whenever I turn my head to the left, I feel tension and soreness from the base of my skull to the side of my right shoulder blade.
This stretch helps, but are there any massage therapists-in-training looking for bodies to practice on? I’m happy to volunteer for the cause 
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Baby spinach with lentil-pumpkin soup, roasted chickpeas, red pepper, feta, and lemon
3. Speaking of running, I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately. That’s all I’ll say.
Apple + Somersaults (I want more of these!)
4. I watched this movie yesterday. And now I will never forget this. (And holy cast, by the way… everyone is in it!)
Locally grown: details to come!
5. Thanks to your suggestions, I’ve got some ideas for my Fall fruit stash… which doubled in size yesterday when I went to my CSA.
This week has felt so strange…. I thought it was Thursday on Tuesday, and now that it’s Thursday, it feels like Wednesday. As long as I don’t wake up tomorrow and forget to go to school and take my Chemistry test, I can make it to the weekend!
I hope it’s as beautiful where you are as it is here. New York in the Fall (ignoring the blustery wind) is truly a sight to be seen. Hope to do some exploring this weekend!
Quick! Tell me the first five things you think of.
The lentil pumpkin soup looks SO good and the somersaults are so adorable! I know it sounds weird to say food is adorable but seriously, those look so cute.
1. I am so glad it’s Thursday. Because tomorrow is Friday.
2. I’m psyched for the awesome salad beast I packed for lunch.
3. I really need to get a pretty camera. Yours seems pretty awesome!
4. There is not much for me to do at work today and I both love and hate it.
5. I have class tonight and I’m looking forward to it b/c I’m a nerd!
Haha…I need to find a masseuse who needs practice over here, too
Hope you get the kinks worked out!
my first five things today:
1. don’t forget about your conference call.
2. go get more ginger chews.
3. feed the cat.
4. do some yoga to relax
5. get rid of my cold!
That breakfast? Amazing. Want! I’ve never seen that movie. Five things: 1. I’m working, my daughter is at daycare and I miss her! 2. This week has been CRAZY 3. I can’t wait to go to the pumpkin patch this week 4. I want another coffee 5. I want it to be 3 PM
1. My hands are cold!
2. What am I going to eat for lunch?
3. Work, work, work.
4. Shopping on Saturday. Can’t wait! I need some new fall wardrobe essentials.
5. Must try pumpk-cake for breakast tomorrow!
oh my goddd i totally forgot about just plain pumpkin cakes! mm i totally want one right now haha. i’m always using pumpkin to make cakes with flour but i forgot how amazing it is just solo with an egg white. thanks mama!!
hmm, do i hear thoughts of a winter race in your head?
1. my entire body feels like jello from yoga this morning, and the class wasn’t even that hard.
2. i am so excited to not travel anywhere until thanksgiving.
3. i’m turning 26 in 4 days!
4. i tried bourbon + hot cider for the first time in maine last weekend, and i cannot stop thinking about buying a bottle of bourbon.
5. i miss you. lucky for me that will change very soon.
l. Halloween!
2. Time change!
3. Walking through leaves!
4. Hot chocolate!
5. Winter coat!
ooooo, your breakfast has my name all over it and I can’t wait to make it!!!
1 – I too have been eating a lot of pairs
2 – Chocolate looks good
3 – How does that breakfast cake not have flour
4 – Mmmm (currently eating lunch right now)
5 – I must be brain dead. I didn’t think of five, but thinking that I’m bread dead counts as the 5th.
I repeated pull the same muscle too–I come down with piriformis syndrome every few months! Agh!
1) AWESOME football game last night. My school’s team beat our rival, which hasn’t happened in years!
2) I kept smelling this weird berry-like smell coming from under the stands.
3) Sometimes at cross country practice there’s this street that smells like this strong weird cinnamon.
4) Once at cross country practice we saw a dead chihuahua.
5) I’m a weirdo. Maybe I shouldn’t try to write down the first five things I think of. Because I am very sorry you have to read about a dead chihuahua.
Have a great weekend, and good luck on your chemistry test!