Sharing at A Southern Fairytale
Y'all, I am SO thrilled to be guest posting today at A Southern Fairytale. If you've never visited Rachel and her charming blog about food and family and photography, then there is not time like the present.
Inspired by Rachel's love of Texas, my love of Kentucky, and EVERYONE's love of chocolate, I created a new popsicle that is delicious if I do say so myself! This is my first popsicle recipe since the bourbon and Ale-8 popsicles I created for herKentucky last summer.
I swear I can create popsicle that don't contain bourbon...I just chose not to!
Click on over to A Southern Fairytale for the complete recipe!
A school district in Boone County, Kentucky recently received a great deal of media attention. There were no new test scores or viral videos or even school violence. No, the district got a lot of attention for a new rule.
That’s right. No more cupcakes. No more ice cream. No more frosting or sprinkles or icing.
And, let me tell you, people are in an UPROAR.
I love to eat. I live to eat. I truly believe it is one of the fundamental joys of life.
Only one problem, I do NOT love to cook. I like to bake. I like to make a warm breakfast for my family. I like to make popsicles and cocktails and all manner of optional treats.
But cooking? No thanks.
What an amazing day! I'll be the first to admit that some of these "holidays" are silly. Do we really need a Humiliation Day? (January 3 in case you were wondering.)
But Chocolate Cake Day!?! THAT I can get behind.
In August of 2012, my family and I took the Whole30 Challenge. For 30 days, we ate real food - no sugar, no alcohol, no grains, no legumes, no dairy, no white potatoes - just healthy meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and oils. (Here's what we ate.)
In 30 days, I lost ten pounds. Over the course of the next two months, as I learned how to incorporate some of those prohibitions back into my diet (and discovered ibuprofen makes me sick, sick, sick to my stomach) I lost another 10 pounds.
I have maintained that weight loss for over a year.
Sarah Holland
One of Nicholas's New Year's resolutions was to try freezer meals. He'd prepped meals for the week on and off through 2015 and wanted to see how it would work to prepare an entire month's worth. Then, we could just pull a meal from the deep freeze, throw it in the crockpot, and on a busy day dinner would be waiting for us.