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Balancing Intake of Information with Intuition (yeah, right)

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I had the weirdest and grossest dream the other night. 

I dreamed that I started lactating again, but Beck was her same age and wasn’t all of a sudden nursing or anything. My whole life was the same, but my boobs started SPEWING milk. It was super painful, so I squished them over the sink and they behaved like the hose attachment on the faucet. Buckets of milk, shooting out down the drain, and then they started to get clogged like when the faucet nozzle gets black gunk under it and you have to scrape it off. I had (?) to scrape off the ends of my nipples in this dream to essentially remove human butter and keep spewing milk that was coming from nowhere. …

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Quick Sesame Ginger Stir Fry

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Because stir fry sauces are honestly just unnecessary.  

Here’s how my life works:  I’ll go months and months with making lots of healthy foods, have hardly anything processed in my house, then go to Trader Joe’s when I’m super tired or hungry and be like I NEED CANNED TIKKA MASALA. Not that there is anything wrong with this thought, but I’m perfectly capable of making it myself, usually have all of the ingredients on hand, and enjoy cooking.  It just hits me sometimes that I want premade stuff.  Currently I have TWO jars of premade curry sauce in my pantry from two different stores that will probably sit there for 6 months because I can’t remember for 2 days that I’ve purchased something.  Luckily I have two.  

All that to say….I don’t ever buy stir fry sauces.  I think they serve a place in the world, but I find that making stir fry is so quick and easy that it’s just not worth the extra cost or space in the cabinet to keep sauces around.  I love chopping up veggies, whisking sauce together, and seeing dinner finished so quickly because the veggies are just barely cooked so they stay crisp, and the sauce thickens almost immediately from cornstarch.  


This particular sauce is very basic in preparation and taste.  When I made it the last time, Jay said “this is not a bad thing…but this tastes just like takeout.”  I consider this a compliment because no matter how big of a health game we talk everyone secretly loves Chinese takeout, right?  Don’t deny me this belief, I can’t be alone in this.  But Chinese takeout is one of those things that we eat very rarely for health reasons, so having a similar sauce that you can make super quickly is helpful to curb the sodium cravings.  

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Black Bean Salsa with Avocado

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Because football! And because snacks. 

And because we need snacks with our football, right? Especially because for those of us that don’t 1. understand and 2. care about the sport, snacks are kind of all we have left this time of year. 

Jay, for his part, was very misleading about how much he liked sports when we were dating. Looking back, I could have SWORN that he didn’t care a ton, was all hippie and cool, cared about random bands and comedians and thought that too much money was injected into sports. He loved golf, but that was different.


Love is blind, people, love is blind. 

Between Fantasy Football/NFL and college, this time of year has us talking about football daily and watching it several times per week, mind you Jay will claim up and down that he hardly watches it and “most guys like watch so much more, we don’t even have CABLE!” The last part is true, we cancelled cable because Jay begged me to. I don’t actually mind it, but I do like making fun of Jay for “not liking sports that much,” because I’m all about embracing vices and true loves. 

Like Jay, my true who love who prefers to eat low carb and vegetarian a lot of the time. This is a definitely vegan dish and a low-carb not-so-much dish, but it is suuuuuper healthy for you and you are definitely not required to eat it with chips. I call it a salsa because it’s GREAT with chips, but it’s also great cold over rice, as a side dish for tacos or burritos, or over greens as a salad. Maybe some feta or sharp cheddar on top, I don’t know. …

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Beach Images {litchfield beach}

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Last weekend we went to Pawley’s Island for Labor Day, and we are still talking about what a freaking blast we had. 

We stayed in a perfect little condo with our friends Rebecca and Ed and their daughter Sienna, so Beck had a friend. Friends at age 21 months are tricky, they tend to whack at you and take your toys. We’re working on it. …

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