Friday Favs

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Good morning and Happy Friday!!  I have the next couple of Fridays off for working the weekend and I must say it's quite nice. Running errands during the week is a much less stressful task than running errands with the rest of humanity on Saturday. Today, I plan to have a low key day -- clean, gym, errands, relax, and make a nice dinner. This weekend, we have a couple of exciting commitments that I'm really looking forward to. For now, here are my favs of the week!

The prettiest and healthiest bowl of grapefruit sprinkled with antioxidant-rich cinnamon. 

The tiniest heart shaped pancake. ☺️ 

A picturesque sunrise over Castle Island on Wednesday morning. So calm! 

Back to Townsman with my favorite gals last night. 

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I feel this way about the best women in my life. Let's be more supportive of other women. 

Have a great weekend! Xo

15 Minute Meals: Prosciutto & Spiralized Carrot Rolls

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Hayyyy friends and welcome to Wednesday! This week is jam packed which makes it fitting to bring another "15 Minute Meal" post to you all. I told you that I would get better at serving these up, so I'm keeping true to my promise! Since getting my spiralizer, I've been making up a bunch of different recipes. I am completely shooting from the hip and going with what I'm inspired by in the moment. For the most part, these creations have been coming out pretty tasty. Rob and I bit into these last week and had two reactions: 1) Whoa, these are really good and 2) Wow, these are surprisingly filling. We both kind of looked at our plates (especially him) and thought we'd need an extra side or snack to go with them, but, we ended up pretty full. (We admittedly noshed on some sweet potato chips & hummus during the preparation process, but, that's a fairly normal occurrence). Plus, can you ever, ever go wrong with Prosciutto? Um, no.

This meal was inspired by 1) Prosciutto 2) Spiralized Rolls I've seen on Instagram 3) The prettiest carrots I ever did see.

Guys... How friggin' gorgeous are these carrots? The colors are just incredible. The beet-colored ones had a yellow center. So pretty. Eat colorful veggies!

Serves 2. Cook time, 5 minutes. Prep time, 10 minutes.

NEED:
- 6-8 Thin Slices of Prosciutto
- 4-5 Shredded Carrots
- 2 Tbs Tahini 
- 4-6 Tbs of Rice Vinegar
- 4-5 Tbs Feta
- 2-4 Tbs Chopped Almonds or Pecans
- 2-3 Tbs Evoo
- Salt/Pepper to taste

HOW:
- Spiralize carrots (if you don't have a spiralizer - use either a shredder, the shredder blade on a food processor, or julienne them)
- In a separate bowl mix evoo, tahini, rice vinegar, and salt/pepper to taste
- In a saute pan, mix the 'dressing' with the carrots until they are al dente
- Turn off the heat and lay out slices of prosciutto
- Layer feta, nuts, then carrots
- Wrap and serve!

SO easy!

Remnant carrot from the spiralizer. It looks like a cute little mushroom doesn't it? Oh em gee so freaking cuuuuteeee!

Easy mixture.

Wrap & Roll! (See what I did there, heh heh)

Have an awesome day! xo

QUESTIONS: Do you like carrots? Do you think prosciutto makes everything better? Scale of 1-10, how much do you love/hate feta?

Weekend Sunshine XXIV

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Hello hello! I hope you all had great weekends! Mine was productive and fun! I was able to tackle A LOT of Spring cleaning and also spend some quality time with friends. I was even grateful to work yesterday because I have an event on Wednesday so I was able to cross a lot of prep work off my list - win! Productivity at its finest. Here are my sunniest moments of the weekend:

We kicked off Friday night celebrating Andres' birthday at Loco. Man, it lives up to the hype. The drinks are perfection, the food is crazy delicious, and the atmosphere is energetic! We had a BLAST and not just because we were drinking tequila - the company was superb :)

Becca, Janet and I sending selfies to Rae & Kim.

Laughs with Roberto.

On Saturday, I made a mean stack of gluten-free, blueberry pancakes...

... Went to the gym and took a sweaty gym selfie after. 

Cleaned my condo until it was spotless and put together a bag of about 20 pairs of shoes to donate...

Then, had the girls over and served the essentials: Cheese and Prosecco.

On Sunday, I worked and then went home to make Italian Spiralized Zoodles again. Except, this time I used organic chicken sausage instead of a fried egg. I must say, it was pretty fantastic.

HOW WAS YOUR WEEKEND? HAVE YOU DONE ANY SPRING CLEANING? DO YOU LOVE OR HATE TEQUILA? 

Have a great week! xo