Fall in Love With Fall

Ahhhhh!!  It finally feels like fall up here in the Northeast.  It may have been a cool, rainy, and somewhat uncomfortable day for some, but I am just enjoying the fact that my favorite season is once again here.  I am also pretty excited that I am headed home tomorrow night and looking forward to trying something along the lines of a pumpkin baked good :)

Another thing fall gets me excited for is, of course, the holidays!!  I know that you all probably do not want to hear anything about snow, cold weather, Christmas, or anything of the sort but, as it turns out, there are only 87 days left until Christmas.  Around early September I started listening to Holiday music so I am well prepared to start off the holiday season.  Not to mention all the baking and all the posts I can do!

Sorry for the short post, but I am headed to bed!  Have a fabulous Friday all!

Lazy Tuesday

So Tuesday is my busy day (contrary to the title) with four classes, gym time, and homework all squished into the 16 hour block that is my day.  By this time at night, it's time to relax! 

I was thinking today, how surprisingly easy it can be to eat healthy in this day and age compared to even a few generations ago.  Now, I LOVE food.  There is nothing wrong with loving every aspect of a chocolate cake or a Thanksgiving diner.  However, I also enjoy being healthy and eating smart.  Everything is fine in moderation in my view.  How cliched is that? But no, really!  All you see these days are articles on what not to eat, not what you can eat and still feel good about yourself.  So, in my humble opinion, eat what you want (again in moderation), exercise regularly, and keep up on your sleep and you can lead a very healthy and still pleasurable life style.  I just know that I would be miserable if I had to give up cake and iced cream for the sake of following some strange fad diet.  In many of my recipes, you will see that I make some substitutions.  Usually I will put these as a side note, and you are more than welcome to just ignore it.  I promise though, the recipes I put up, I have tested with the substitutions and I wouldn't put them up if they didn't work! 

Have a good Wednesday all! Hope to post again Thursday :)

French Toast Sunday

Yesterday was my parent's 29th anniversary and since nobody was home yesterday, I made French toast this morning.  On  my way home from school Friday, there is a very small bread shop, all made in a house (I know; people still do that?!).  Anyway, she has all sorts of different kinds of bread and though I know her cinnamon raisin bread is to DIE for, I wanted to try something new.  Walking into the bread shop was like walking into heaven.  I would pay big for my own house to smell like that.  Perfect air freshener.  I spot exactly what I was looking for.  She has the mini loaves sitting there temptingly on her shelf.  Besides the cinnamon raisin, plain, and asiago cheese, there was maple walnut as well as cranberry orange; both of which I got.  Might as well have variety!
So! They turned out wonderfully and I think the overall favorite was the maple walnut bread.  It just seemed to work better with the maple syrup... I'm thinking next time I may try making a fruit syrup like cranberry maybe?  Anybody have any good recipes for that?

Made the trek back up to school and all I want to do is sleep for the next week or so.  Trying to battle the startings of a cold.  I'm hoping that if I will it away, it will just leave...I'll let you know if that works.

Hope youhad a relaxing Sunday all!