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Happy Easter and FREE Peanut Butter!

Ω April 4th, 2010 Ω Tagged Aerogarden, caption contest, cheese, Crofter's, giveaway, oatmeal, peanut butter, Saratoga Peanut Butter Company, waffles, Waffles on Insane Greatness Ω 108 Comments

Happy Easter, everyone! What are you all doing for Easter? Peter and I are taking it easy (well, I’m doing homework, but at least that’s easy :P ). We made some Waffles of Insane Greatness this morning with King Arthur white whole wheat flour.

Pouring the batter:

Smothered with Chillin’ Chocolate and Adirondack Jack from Saratoga Peanut Butter Company, topped with sliced banana and a dab of Crofter’s raspberry jam.

Who would have ever guessed that this waffle was made with whole wheat flour? The waffle was light and fluffy, with a wonderful buttery taste (no butter in it). The secret to this recipe is the cornstarch – if you look at the recipe, you’ll notice that it has 1/4 of cornstarch in it. Insane! But, ESSENTIAL to making a fluffy waffle with crisp edges.

Everywhere I look I see celebrations of Easter! My Aerogarden marigolds decided to show themselves :)

And my favorite peanut butter is hanging out in the sun:

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I have often waxed poetic about how much I love Saratoga Peanut Butter Company. Their peanut butter is smooth and rich, and the PB’s only ingredients are peanuts and salt – perfect! I’ve never eaten a smoother peanut butter. My food processor only wishes it could make PB that good.

So! In honor of Easter and of my 66th post (did you know that 6 is the first perfect number?), one lucky THIH reader will win TWO jars of Saratoga Peanut Butter Company peanut butter! The winner will get to choose between one of the following two options: (1) TWO jars of Plain Jane Creamy peanut butter, or (2) ONE jar of Plain Jane Creamy peanut butter and ONE jar of Plain Jane Chunky peanut butter. I would offer two jars of Chunky as a choice, but I only have one jar :P

There are several ways to enter, most of which involve some kind of shameless self-promotion on my part.

(1) Come up with a caption for the picture below. Not required, but I will gather all the captions I get and post them in my next entry like I did in the last caption contest.

Sample: “What? You say there’s a what behind me?”

(2) Tweet about the giveaway. You can copy and paste this: I want FREE Saratoga Peanut Butter from thehappinessinhealth.com! @JessieHealth

(3) Mention the giveaway on your blog and link back to this post.

(4) Add THIH to your blogroll.

(5) Almost forgot! Add THIH your reader for another entry.

Leave a comment for each entry so that I can enter you in the contest! The winner will be chosen this Friday. Good luck! :D

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Before I go, I want to wish my wonderful friend Marie a very happy birthday today! Happy Birthday, Marie! :D

I also want to wish my dear friend Amy a very happy birthday this upcoming Tuesday! I know it’s early, but due to a huge project coming up in school (we’re catering a huge meal!), I won’t be able to post again until Wednesday at the earliest. Here we are in high school:

This wonderful gal has seen me at my my best AND my worst. Love ya, Amy! :D

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Have a very Happy Easter, everyone! :)

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What Would Maddie Say?

Ω March 18th, 2010 Ω Tagged Aerogarden, Annie's Goddess Dressing, Barbara's Bakery, caption contest, Chobani, chocolate, Clark Howard, oatmeal, peanut butter, raspberry, salad, Saratoga Peanut Butter Company Ω 22 Comments

Hi everyone! How are yoooouu?? (Slowly drawled in a Clark Howard voice.)

I knew I would be getting back from clinical late today, and I so wanted to enjoy this gosh darned nice weather, so I decided to take an early morning run. After sitting on my bottom in my car for 2.5 hours per day the last two days, I knew I needed to get the muscles going.

You know, the only aspect of daylight savings that I don’t like (besides, you know, the lost sleep and disruption of my groove and such) is the fact that it’s so DARK in the morning. If I had been running outside at 6:45 am last week, it would have been sunny. Even so, there’s something nice about moving around when the rest of the world is still asleep. The lake next to the bike path rested serenely under a drifting mist. No pic, of course.

Breakfast!

Enjoyed while perusing … the competencies for my dietetics program? Not sure why that was there.

Today, my clinical group started our rotation at a new hospital. This hospital is TINY! I know it’s good to get experience at as many different hospitals as I can, but I do miss the electronic health records at the previous hospital :( I’m not very good at interpreting chicken scratch. Overall, our first day at the new site went well – mentally exhausting, but I think I’m getting the hang of clinical.

Isn’t it nice that we have daylight until nearly 7 pm? I’ll gladly trade my early morning light for enough afternoon light to take a long walk with the doggies. Which we did upon my return from the hospital :)

I almost forgot to show you! Remember these sprouts?

Well, after returning from Utah on Sunday, this sight met our eyes:

It’s a jungle in there! Needless to say, we’ve been having a lot of salad all week. I don’t think I’ll grow lettuce in the Aerogarden again. Organic lettuce is $1.99 a head at Stop & Shop, and since I grew two head of lettuce, I saved … $3.98. I think next time I’ll devote Aerogarden space to a veggie more worthwhile, like organic red peppers – those things are PRICE-SAY in the supermarket. Once day, Nicole, I’ll have a garden just like yours! :)

Dinner was leftovers from this day, plus a couple of lamb chops Peter cooked sous-vide on Monday (I didn’t post that day). I’ll post about them at some point, because Peter set up the sous-vide himself and it’s impressive!