For the past couple weeks I've been patting myself on the back for how faithful of a blogger I've been, however, I realized this afternoon that I have been MIA for a while now, and I thought I should get back to you!
The past 3 weeks have been a struggle in terms relieving stress. Thanks to midterms, I've found myself up until all hours, sacrificing sleep and peace of mind for the all-important grade. I've also found that when I stress, I eat, unhealthily and often. I know this is a problem many of us can relate to -- how many times in the past week did I head for the dark chocolate rather than the pile of homework looming over my desk? Last week was a real doozy, combining school with personal and computer problems into a Molotov cocktail of explosive stress. When my adrenaline was at its highest, I felt like I was in danger of getting up and bolting out of class to go run laps around U-hall and when I had squeezed out my last dregs of frenetic energy, I felt like a limp noodle. Let's just put it this way, the past three weeks have been rough.
However, now I am home in Oregon for Spring Break, which came early this year, for which I am eternally grateful. Now that I have some distance from the craziness vortex which has become my life on the Bluff, the dust has begun to settle, and my head is starting to clear. This week I am focused 100% on my family. Since they don't get Spring Break for another month, it's just Chance (my hound) and me kickin' it at the Jones ranch this week, and though the peaceful quiet was a little difficult to get used to at first, I'm now thoroughly enjoying it.
Now that I'm in a place that has an oven and stove, I feel my old love of cooking coming back into full swing, and since Sunday when I got home here's a list of what I have concocted, all of it from scratch:
- Macaroni and cheese (+ tuna)
- Brownies
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Sausage, mushroom, red pepper and onion pizza, vegetarian pizza (minus sausage) and my masterpiece: margarita pizza based off what I remember eating when I was in Italy last summer
Since I have a lot more free time than normal, I have decided to post both the healthy and indulgent recipes I prepare for my family this week for your viewing pleasure. Rest assured, they will probably feed at least 5 people very well (I always bulk up recipes when I'm home on account of my 2 voracious teenage bros) and they will make your taste-buds positively dance. That being said, I haven't decided what's for dinner tonight, but I will keep you posted.
The past 3 weeks have been a struggle in terms relieving stress. Thanks to midterms, I've found myself up until all hours, sacrificing sleep and peace of mind for the all-important grade. I've also found that when I stress, I eat, unhealthily and often. I know this is a problem many of us can relate to -- how many times in the past week did I head for the dark chocolate rather than the pile of homework looming over my desk? Last week was a real doozy, combining school with personal and computer problems into a Molotov cocktail of explosive stress. When my adrenaline was at its highest, I felt like I was in danger of getting up and bolting out of class to go run laps around U-hall and when I had squeezed out my last dregs of frenetic energy, I felt like a limp noodle. Let's just put it this way, the past three weeks have been rough.
However, now I am home in Oregon for Spring Break, which came early this year, for which I am eternally grateful. Now that I have some distance from the craziness vortex which has become my life on the Bluff, the dust has begun to settle, and my head is starting to clear. This week I am focused 100% on my family. Since they don't get Spring Break for another month, it's just Chance (my hound) and me kickin' it at the Jones ranch this week, and though the peaceful quiet was a little difficult to get used to at first, I'm now thoroughly enjoying it.
Now that I'm in a place that has an oven and stove, I feel my old love of cooking coming back into full swing, and since Sunday when I got home here's a list of what I have concocted, all of it from scratch:
- Macaroni and cheese (+ tuna)
- Brownies
- Chocolate chip cookies
- Sausage, mushroom, red pepper and onion pizza, vegetarian pizza (minus sausage) and my masterpiece: margarita pizza based off what I remember eating when I was in Italy last summer
Since I have a lot more free time than normal, I have decided to post both the healthy and indulgent recipes I prepare for my family this week for your viewing pleasure. Rest assured, they will probably feed at least 5 people very well (I always bulk up recipes when I'm home on account of my 2 voracious teenage bros) and they will make your taste-buds positively dance. That being said, I haven't decided what's for dinner tonight, but I will keep you posted.
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ReplyDeleteGlad to see you are enjoying Spring Break as much as I am! Keep up the good work Kate, see you when you get back to good old SOCAL :)
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