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Adventure Begins in the Kitchen

More Gasparilla, In Pictures

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Breakfast: Leftover Pancakes with Raspberry Jam

Lunch: Veggie Chili Salad with Avocado

Various Gasparilla Cookbook Snacks

Krista and Me with Mrs. Gasparilla!

Cocktail: Gasparilla Cookbook Rum Punch

Real Dinner: Spicy Kale (sans pasta) x2

After typing away on the computer all day, I headed over to Datz for The Junior League of Tampa’s second event celebrating the 50th anniversary reprint of The Gasparilla Cookbook (check out the first event here).  Krista and I had been planning this week’s Datz events since early this summer and it was nice to have another successful event under our belt.

I snacked on some veggies and homemade chips/pretzels during the event, but I was ready for something substantial by the time I got home.  I made a huge bowl of spicy kale and sat down to watch the season premier of New Girl (whether or not I dig the show is TBD) and ended up making another batch during a commercial break.  Yum!

Did anyone else watch New Girl?  What did you think?

Football And Chicken Wings?

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After a steamy day of taking new blonde blog photos with Patrick (you should check his website out, he’s AMAZING) and Justin, it was time for some cold beers and football.

We made it a middle school affair by meeting up with the other Kristens, both of who I met at the fresh age of 11.  It’s crazy to think it’s possible to know people for 17 years and counting.   And I love that years can pass and we can still reunite and be just as silly as the day we met.

I was craving wing sauce like nobody’s business and I didn’t hold back, not one bit.  I’m still eating about 99% dairy free and 90-ish% meat free since the LA meat debacle. But since hearing Dawn Jackson Blatner, author of The Flexitarian Diet, speak at HLS, I’ve decided that it’s not the end of the world if I occasionally do the meat thing on special occasions.

And if Gator Football isn’t a special occasion, then by golly, what is??

What are your favorite special, splurging occasions?

Hipsta-Sushi

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I made a mental note as I walked out the door this morning to pack my camera and, whattayaknow, I left it on the kitchen counter.  Luckily I have the Hipstamatic app on my phone, which does its best to mask the terribleness of the iPhone 3 camera.  Where are you iPhone 5!?

Robbie, who I can usually convince to go wherever I want for lunch, has been a tad difficult lately.  I mean, seriously, what’s wrong with wanting to go to Cafe Hey every day for lunch?  Anyway, I lost that battle, and we settled on The Rack where I could get sushi and he could get man food.  I would never let him know that it worked out for the best, but it did, because the tuna and avocado salad was pretty much my dream lunch.

Don’t for get to check out my guest post on Then Heather Said!

Breakfast With Gram

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With all of this traveling, it’s been super difficult to find time for the hour drive to see my gramma.  So last night as I hung out lazily at home, I called her to make breakfast plans, set my alarm for 7:30AM (yikes for a Sunday, right?) and stuck to it.  Crawling out of my cozy bed this morning was tough, but once I hopped in the car and sung my heart out to sweet tunes, all was good in my world.

I picked her up and we headed to her regular breakfast joint, The Ram’s, where we were cordially greeted by the owner.  The place was packed yet quaint and had the perfect amount of bustle for a weekend meal.  We both ordered our own version of the two egg breakfast and did some long overdue catching up.

And on our way home, we stopped by my uncle’s house to see The Pie!  It was a lovely Sunday morning indeed.

What is your idea of a typical Sunday?