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I Scream, You Scream!

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So a while ago, I won fabulous vanilla beans from Angela via Vanilla Food Company. This weekend, I finally made use to some of them!

And, if you couldn’t guess what I made by the title of this post, I made ICE CREAM!

Okay, I made it in my ice cream maker, but still. I put the ingredients together and whatnot, so in my mind, I made it.

I got the beans out of five vanilla pods by cutting them in half length-wise and then running the non-sharpened side of the blade to scrape out the beans. It made my fingers smell deliciously like vanilla!

Here’s a close-up of the beans:

Now, to really get the flavour out, apparently you heat them up on a stove in milk and whatnot, but I’m lazy and didn’t. Next time!

Then, I mixed up my milk and sugar until my sugar was all dissolved, then I added my heavy/whipping cream and the vanilla. Then I poured the mixture into my handy-dandy Cuisinart Ice Cream machine:

The machine is SO LOUD! Like, ridiculously loud. But – the end result? Delicious ice cream!

The vanilla beans really make it look so much more gourmet! I had a little taste already and it’s SO good! It’s now in the freezer hardening up. Can’t wait to have a bowl – and maybe I’ll share. No promises though!

Have you ever made home-made ice cream?

Guest Post: Reese’s Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Hi guys! I’m TWO days away from getting married and today I have Angela from Craving Cupcakes guest posting! Angela makes some of the yummiest looking baked goods I’ve ever laid my eyes on! Today she’s sharing one of her favourite recipes – and one I’ll have to try making in the future!

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Hi! My name is Angela, and I blog over at Craving Cupcakes. My blog is sort of a mixed bag when it comes to what I post about. Posts range from my every day life to the things I bake. I’m a nanny, an avid baker, and I live with my boyfriend. We moved into a townhouse several months ago, so some home related posts may creep in from time to time. Like the ever so awesome Kara, I’m a fellow Canadian. In fact, we live in neighboring provinces! I figured that for my guest post, I’d share what I do best: baking. This is one of my favorite recipes that I’ve blogged about before.

One thing you’ll learn quickly through my blogs is that both my boyfriend Stephen and I are peanut butter and chocolate fiends, with Reese’s peanut butter cups being one of our favorite treats. When I came across this recipe from Recipe Girl, I knew it was a perfect match. These cookies were amazing, and didn’t last long around my household. I highly recommend you try them! It also helps that they’re fairly easy to make.

Before we get to the recipe, I just wanted to say thanks to Kara for letting guest post, and hopefully she has a happy wedding week!

Reese’s Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

From Recipe Girl

(Printable Recipe)

  • 1/2 cup room temperature butter
  • 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • 12 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (regular sized)

1. Preheat oven to 350F.

2. Whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

3. In a separate bowl, cream together butter, peanut butter and sugars. Add in egg and beat well.

4. Fold flour mixture into the butter mixture. Fold in chocolate chips.

5. Scoop out a tablespoonful of dough and flatten it. Place a peanut butter cup on top, then top with another tablespoonful of dough. Shape the dough around the peanut butter cup, making sure that you can’t see any of the cup peeking through. Only bake 6 cookies at a time, because they are quite large.

6. Garnish with additional chocolate chips if desired. Bake for 12 minutes.

Enjoy!

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Don’t they look delicious? Thanks for sharing Angela!

Diet + Exercise = Confusion

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I love food. I tolerate exercise. So, how on earth do I combine the two in the healthiest way? Apparently, I haven’t been doing it right at all.

For example, eating a high calorie, high carb energy bar AFTER my workout and then parking my ass on the couch is a huge FAIL. Makes sense though. My body’s in “go” mode and I’m making it do nothing. Fail #1.

Also, after I came home & showered, I devoured a bagel with cream cheese (light cream cheese, in my defence!). Fail #2. What can I say? I’m a carb whore!!

Anyway, Kyle informed me of my mistakes (Darn him and his BCRPA certified mom!) and now I’m going to try and make a better effort to eat properly after my workouts. I guess giving my body fuel and then not using it isn’t so good. Goodbye carbs! Hello healthy stuff! Maybe I’ll even bust out the blender and start making myself smoothies. I just have to find myself a meal plan I guess.

On a random side note: My laptop is down for 2-3 “business days” :( My USB 2.0 drives stopped working and my camera card reader (more times than not) freezes my computer completely. I’m a little sad about it, but at least we still have Kyle’s desktop PC. And thank Cheesus that my cellphone is uber wicked-awesome and I can catch up on my blogs on there :)

On another random side note: My wedding dress arrived today and I’m picking it up tomorrow. I’m SOOOO excited to get back into it!

Any post-workout munchie tips for me?