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Easy and quick meal for summer nights when I don’t feel like cooking? Get an organic roasted chicken from the store and carve off some meat and add to green salad with home-made EVOO & white balsamic vinegar (my latest obsession) dressing. Top with toasted pine nuts. Super yummy.
I think I’ve found my web design mojo, I love doing 3-Day-Wonder websites! Launched another one today and it went like a dream: client was prepared and available for feedback on all three days, and loves the result. . I definitely sense a confluence of everything I’ve learned over the years; I’ve designed more than 60 websites since I started my business and I learn something with each project and am intimately familiar with the templates and able to make design choices quickly and smoothly. . With this site I used a video banner for the first time ever! I’m not really into ‘moving’ components on my websites but here it works great, plus they provided fabulous photos which always helps 😉 . Needless to say, looking at these photos for three days made me want to eat croissant all the time! . Check it out at www.ironroosterbakery.com 💛
It’s been such a beautiful week! The beginning of summer always means blisters for me as I switch from my heeled boots to summer wedges. As many of you know, I need 2-3” heels to be able to walk normally, wearing flat shoes hurts my ankle and makes me limp, due to an old ankle injury. This makes walking in the summer a bit tougher. My summer wedges (exclusively Dansko) are very comfortable but there are always blisters after a long winter of wearing socks. Nonetheless, I love this walk so much that I don’t care, and my feet will hopefully adjust soon ☀️
Love local client meetings, especially when they are a European style bakery!
The garden in our new house is going to be tiny but I’ve started looking for inspiration around town. Loved this front garden! 🌿🌺
Giving up the diet mentality is not easy when you’re still very overweight and want to lose weight for health reasons. I am a quite terrified that I’ll gain even more weight if I surrender completely to “eating what and how much I want.” That fear makes it hard to fully embrace Intuitive Eating and relax around my food consumption. . So I am taking it one day at a time and practicing “mindfully eating less”. I start every weekday with a lovely smoothie and I’ve been cooking more and getting smarter with leftovers and easy meals, like these baked chicken thighs with leftover rice mixed with sautéed garlic spinach. I try to eat more slowly and also eat at the table more because the nice meals simply deserve that kind of full attention. . After months of daily (Justin’s) peanut butter cup binges I have not had any in ten days. I’ve been wanting them out of habit but then was surprised to realize that I wasn’t really craving them. My body felt nourished and satisfied because I was more consistent with giving it wholesome foods. Given the busyness of the last few weeks (GDPR anyone?? 😬), which usually has me reaching for the sweets and comfort foods, this was a nice turn of events. . I miss blogging about all this stuff! And will hopefully be able to write a new post on the Reluctant Cook soon, I’ve just been too occupied with work stuff 😊