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ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »970Mikaela1 wrote: »
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
Maybe I need to come work with you.
Me too!
The view from work.0 -
Today's treat: Eggnog Pie with a side of Market Pantry Hot Cocoa Ice cream.
The Hot cocoa ice cream was really good... I was expecting the marshmallows to be stiff/hard... they weren't. They were nice and soft. WIN!0 -
970Mikaela1 wrote: »ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »970Mikaela1 wrote: »
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
Maybe I need to come work with you.
Me too!
The view from work.
So much better than my view... where is that?
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes
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Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: salted caramel cupcake
Day 14: dark chocolate whiskey cupcake
Day 15: salted caramel cupcake-- just as good as the first time.
Day 16: Blue Bell Southern Blackberry Cobbler ice cream, toffee shortbread cookie
Day 17: French toast, meatball sub, Talenti sea salt caramel
Day 18: Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream
Day 19: B&J Candy Bar Pie, homemade caramel
Day 20: chocolate cupcake with salted caramel drizzle
Day 21: talenti sea salt caramel with a little Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream
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970Mikaela1 wrote: »ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »970Mikaela1 wrote: »
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
Maybe I need to come work with you.
Me too!
The view from work.
So much better than my view... where is that?
Lovely Durango Colorado. A bit chilly today.0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
22- cinnamon roll,cinnamon twist,chocolate cake donut.
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I keep getting behind and/or confused on what day this is. I think today (Friday Dec 19th) is the 24th day of the challenge - does that sound right? Since we started on the Weds before Thanksgiving?
Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies
Day 16: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, a snickerdoodle...
Day 17: Peach cobbler w/ ice cream, homemade pizzas
Day 18: Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream, Holiday Dinner including maple bacon donut holes
Day 19: Cappucino and yummy brunch, roast beef dinner, TJ Jo Joes
Day 20: Snickerdoodles
Day 21: Work dinner - braised lamb shank w/ mashed potatoes, creamy tomato soup, couple bites of gooey butter cake dessert, pinot noir...
Day 22: Work lunch - catered Italian, no desserts (WTF!?). Book Club holiday dinner - shrimp and grits, peanut butter kit kat dessert, half baked brownie sundae
Day 23: White chocolate popcorn, Ghiradelli peppermint bark square
Day 24: TBD - another work luncheon, and a holiday open house for kindergarten parents. It's at someone's house though so at least we will have booze with our cookies!0 -
Day 24: TBD - another work luncheon, and a holiday open house for kindergarten parents. It's at someone's house though so at least we will have booze with our cookies!
I'm jealous! I'm not big on alcohol, but I'd like to spike my eggnog, or indulge in some champagne cranberry concoction or what have you.
I guess I'll have to live vicariously through you all!
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Day 1: gingerbread cupcake
Day 2: Thanksgiving food, hummingbird cake
Day 3: gingerbread cupcake
Day 4: carrot cake (had to throw out the rest of the cupcakes)
Day 5: one of Mr. Acrylics' cinnamon raisin bagels and Jeni's brown butter almond brittle
Day 6: homemade caramels
Day 7: made Jack Daniels bacon mac and cheese for dinner. Talenti sea salt caramel for dessert
Day 8: eggnog covered almonds, which were pretty good but not super eggnoggy. Mostly they tasted like white chocolate. And Hot Cocoa & Cream Peeps, which were very good.
Day 9: homemade caramels and Hot Cocoa Peeps
Day 10: Baileys chocolate truffles
Day 11: Haagen Dazs pralines and cream, Baileys chocolate truffle
Day 12: Homemade caramels, talenti sea salt caramel
Day 13: salted caramel cupcake
Day 14: dark chocolate whiskey cupcake
Day 15: salted caramel cupcake-- just as good as the first time.
Day 16: Blue Bell Southern Blackberry Cobbler ice cream, toffee shortbread cookie
Day 17: French toast, meatball sub, Talenti sea salt caramel
Day 18: Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream
Day 19: B&J Candy Bar Pie, homemade caramel
Day 20: chocolate cupcake with salted caramel drizzle
Day 21: talenti sea salt caramel with a little Haagen Dazs Pralines and Cream
Day 22: Jeni's salty caramel, which I found to be much better the second time
I must have missed a couple of days then Karen. You're right that we should be on Day 24 but I'm not sure where I missed any so I'm just going to continue on.
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Part of tonight's spread:
The cake in the corner... was vanilla with a raspberry filling in the middle and whipped cream topping. OMG it was so good. There were also cake balls, which is like a chocolate covered cake batter... /drool. Not pictured was the Sweet italian sausage with peppers & onions, meatballs and sausage queso.
So many yummies were had.0 -
Turkey Hill Egg Nog (one cup) & one serving of Cracklin' Oats on top.0
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1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
22- cinnamon roll,cinnamon twist,chocolate cake donut.
23- plain cake donut, dreyers chocolate chip cookie dough, medium popcorn at movie
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Later Turkey Hill Egg Nog (one cup) & some Cracklin' Oats0
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1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
22- cinnamon roll,cinnamon twist,chocolate cake donut.
23- plain cake donut, dreyers chocolate chip cookie dough, medium popcorn at movie
24- waffles,butter,syrup..mmmm
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I didn't really have anything "holiday" yesterday, just a twix bar on the road.
Today I had tiramisu and some turtle biscotti.
Tomorrow starts the holiday baking-- I'll be doing biscoff truffles and peanut butter balls tomorrow.0 -
1-tamales
2-Turkey day stuff. Strawberry cheesecake. Trader Joe's cookie butter cheesecake. Banana cake. Baklava.pumpkin pie.pumpkin beer.more cheesecake.more banana cake.
3-baklava and more baklava.
4-strawberry cheesecake, last of the baklava:(
5-peanut butter pie. Strawberry cheesecake. Banana cake.
6- 1/2 pint talenti pumpkin pie.
7- ^ other half of pumpkin pint
8- whole pizza.
9- 1/2 pint of old world egg nog and 65 grams of dryers cookie dough.
10- 2 smores quest bars. 2 home made pork tamales.
11- felix fire burger
12- 1\2 pint talenti caramel Apple pie with added caramel from the can experiment.
13- other half of caramel Apple. Pie.
14- talenti peppermint bark.
15- dreyers summer in the city cheesecake
16- pecan caramel croissant
17- 2400 calories of all you can eat McDonalds pancakes for a buck. Brown sugar jalapeno Hawaiian pizza for lunch.
18- everything I looked at. Summer in the city cheesecake.
19- Captain Crunch cereal.
20-summer in the city cheesecake ice cream.
21- work party. Prime rib, crab,oysters, crab mushrooms, bloody Mary's.
22- cinnamon roll,cinnamon twist,chocolate cake donut.
23- plain cake donut, dreyers chocolate chip cookie dough, medium popcorn at movie
24- waffles,butter,syrup..mmmm
25- monkey bread, sugar cookie dough,caramel sundae
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had cookies for breakfast yesterday...
and cookies for breakfast today.
I'm not keeping THAT kind of track as you fine folks- but I'm definitely putting a hurting on the cookies!0 -
Part of tonight's spread:
The cake in the corner... was vanilla with a raspberry filling in the middle and whipped cream topping. OMG it was so good. There were also cake balls, which is like a chocolate covered cake batter... /drool. Not pictured was the Sweet italian sausage with peppers & onions, meatballs and sausage queso.
So many yummies were had.
I love cake balls. I love playing around with the flavor combinations - my favorite for the holidays are red velvet cake with cream cheese icing dipped in white almond bark with red sugar on top... When cake pops got so popular a couple of years ago I ended up getting two different type of cake pop makers (a pan and an electric thingy) but honestly the way I used to make the cake balls (bake a box of cake mix in a 9x13, crumble it into a bowl, add a can of packaged frosting, roll into balls, freeze till firm, dip in almond bark) tasted better and was less putzy than the pops.
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Day 1: apple pie
Day 2: all the Thanksgiving stuff
Day 3: pumpkin pecan cheesecake bars and movie theater popcorn/raisinettes
Day 4: Thanksgiving Part 2 and Pumpkin Challenge
Day 5: Pumpkin bread, Gingersnap Cookie
Day 6: Steve's Coffee and Cinnamon Ice Cream, frosted holiday cookies (the little ones with the white icing and the nonpareils - love those!)
Day 7: Graeter's Salted Caramel Ice Cream
Day 8: Peppermint Mocha creamer in my coffee and a chocolate cupcake with white icing
Day 9: Peppermint Mocha creamer, white frosted holiday cookies
Day 10: all the fried foods at a bar
Day 11: holiday party appetizer smorgasboard
Day 12: Breakfast with Santa (actually really good food), Ravioli Dinner, Chocolate Chip Cookies (pre-made dough)
Day 13: More chocolate chip cookies
Day 14: Peppermint mocha, half of a very average Snickerdoodle from Cheryl's cookies that were sent in a gift basket, breakfast for dinner and white frosted holiday cookies while watching Rudolph!
Day 15: Snickerdoodles and some of those pretzel/rolo/m&m candies
Day 16: Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup, a snickerdoodle...
Day 17: Peach cobbler w/ ice cream, homemade pizzas
Day 18: Chocolate Peppermint Ice Cream, Holiday Dinner including maple bacon donut holes
Day 19: Cappucino and yummy brunch, roast beef dinner, TJ Jo Joes
Day 20: Snickerdoodles
Day 21: Work dinner - braised lamb shank w/ mashed potatoes, creamy tomato soup, couple bites of gooey butter cake dessert, pinot noir...
Day 22: Work lunch - catered Italian, no desserts (WTF!?). Book Club holiday dinner - shrimp and grits, peanut butter kit kat dessert, half baked brownie sundae
Day 23: White chocolate popcorn, Ghiradelli peppermint bark square
Day 24: work holiday lunch - turkey avocado club sandwich and flourless chocolate cake. Holiday happy hour for kindergarten parents, by the time I got there the food was pretty picked over. There was another late arrival which was really yummy - the lady took a log of goat cheese, rolled it in sunflower seeds, drizzled honey over it and served it with raspberries. I'm going to have to remember that one...
Day 25: date night with husband - mussels and clams with pomme frites. Caramel popcorn at the movie with a few glasses of wine throughout the evening.
Day 26: Breakfast with Santa (again) - eggs, bacon, biscuits and gravy. Kids ate all the donut holes... Made a double batch of Pioneer Woman beef stew for dinner and a double batch of chocolate gooey butter cookies - took half over to a friend.
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I swear I'm not slacking on the holiday challenge. I'm just lazy. I've had cookies everyday. LOL.
Today I will be having Turkey Hill Eggnog ice cream. Also of note, I went out to lunch with hubby today and I got a "Cuban" burger at this local "Mexican Grill". It had Pepperjack type cheese, chipotle mayo, fried jalapenos, pineapple and ham on top of the burger. It was AMAZING. No idea how many calories that sucker was, but I know there was some major protein going on in that guy.
Also, Dannon Light & Fit Greek yogurt has a new limited edition Salted Caramel flavor out. I tried it yesterday. It's decent. Not fantastic, but decent. I think it would be great with maybe some chocolate chips or something added to it to "beef" it up. But it's at least worth a try. I'm still in love with the Caramel Apple Pie flavor though.0
