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Get Your Breakfast On

Published: Feb 7, 2017 · Last updated: Feb 7, 2017 by Marissa

Get your breakfast on with OXO! Using a few awesome kitchen tools, you can have a quick and tasty breakfast in just a few minutes, allowing you to have more time in the mornings to get things done.

I love when things are easy, especially when it comes to food and having a pretty busy schedule. You feel me?

I’ve been falling in and out of waves of motivation these last few months. I blame a lot of it on winter because the sun is nearly non-existent and it’s cold and sometimes snowy. I am missing my beach weather like whoa, you guys. I miss the warmth. I miss the sun!

Whenever I do fall off the motivation wagon, I push myself to go back to the drawing board to get things moving again. I admit it takes me a bit of pushing! It’s so easy to stay in pajamas and plant myself on the couch to binge on games or TV all day. The struggle is real, as they say.

But once I get back into blog and life planning, I start to feel really good about things again. I also start to think of new ways to incorporate food in my daily routines, especially my morning routine! We all know how much of a morning person I’m not, right? I know I’ve mentioned this many, many times in the past. Weekday morning food for me needs to be fast, easy, and delicious. These terms are non-negotiable. …

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Blueberry Yogurt Parfait

Published: Sep 7, 2016 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

Happy September, friends!

I almost can’t believe that summer is almost over. Yes, I said almost. Many people will say summer is over the moment Labor Day has passed and that is just silly to me. The first day of fall isn’t until September 22nd, so you better believe I’m going to ride the summer train until then! Also, it’s supposed to be 90 degrees this Friday in the Boston area. I’m already planning on camping out at the beach that day.

I have to admit, I’m a little bummed I didn’t get to share more recipes with you over the last couple of months. My schedule got a little hectic as I’ve been putting more focus on things outside of blogging; the main thing being “find a job!”

Finding a job is basically a job in itself. It’s tiring. It’s stressful. I mean, nobody loves the process of searching for a job, do they? I get super anxious just thinking about it….

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The Boott Mill Breakfast Sandwich

Published: Oct 12, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

I never liked school much.

I was always the type to daydream during class, I always slept in until I absolutely had to get up, which resulted in me being late for homeroom and my mom yelling at me for it, I almost always did assignments at the very last minute, and I used to skip classes a lot.

The ditching school part didn’t happen until I was in high school and it somewhat continued in college, but not nearly as much. I was just so uninterested in school (I never actually finished getting my degree). Which is kind of funny because I actually love learning…for the most part. I hate math. Math can suck it.

The only class I liked sticking around school for was Culinary Arts (shocker) because it meant getting to cook and bake! Our school had a restaurant open to the public, though teachers were our main customers, which sounds like it might have been a quiet environment, but my high school was huge. I had ~950 students in my graduating class alone, so there were probably 3500-4000 students in the whole school. That’s a good amount of teachers to educate all those students!…

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Maple-Spiced Banana Bread

Published: Aug 27, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

What up! I’m writing to you today from Seattle, Washington! I’ve been here since yesterday. I’m here for work, but I had most of the day yesterday to venture out and about. The amount of exploring going forward will be limited, but these next few days are going to be awesome nonetheless.

I’m here for PAX! You might know my full-time gig outside of food blogging is working in video games. I work at Harmonix and we make music games! I came out to Seattle to show off Rock Band 4 at the convention and I’m excited. I work in design, but I get to travel with the publishers every once in a while to help show off the cool things we’re working on. I’m actually a very anxious person and can sometimes get a bit over-heated when around lots and lots of people, but when it comes to working at conventions these when thousands of people are in attendance, I somehow don’t get anxious. I’m so happy about talking to fans of our games that the energy I feel is just pure excitedness and none of the anxious stuff. It’s pretty awesome….

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Blueberry Oatmeal Smoothie

Published: Jul 24, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

I’m going to be honest with you. I don’t actually love the photos I took for this post. I kinda want to retake them. I’m learning more about photography as I go and I don’t exactly see what’s wrong with the photos until the photo session is way over. But I’m starting to notice composition issues and how I could have fixed them, how to balance the light better, etc. and I know now what I could have done to make these photos look even better! Though there are lots of photos from older posts that look way worse that are on my radar to fix first. I’m a bit nit-picky when it comes to my own work.

Okay, that’s all! Thanks for letting me share that with you. I feel much better now.

Jason and I are really bad about having breakfast during the week. It almost never happens. It’s something we’re trying to work on and one step we’ve taken to get towards that is having smoothies!

We don’t have a good reason as to why we don’t do the breakfast thing. It’s straight up laziness. We pretty much stay in bed until we have to get up most days. And making smoothies only takes a quick couple of minutes and we can just have it on the way to work!

I’ve been making green smoothies, strawberry banana smoothies, my favorite: chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie, and as of recently, my latest obsession: blueberry oatmeal smoothies!…

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Crispy Fried Eggs

Published: Jun 1, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

OMG HI.

I know. It’s been a few weeks! I’ve been a little busy with work, life, and prepping for a small trip.

I went to NYC for an extra long Memorial Day Weekend! The main reason I went was for a food blogger conference called TECHmunch. It was a one-day event and it was AWESOME. I went to learn and meet other food bloggers. I’ll go into more detail on this in the next post (which will be up this week) and I’ll share some photos too!

I stayed with a friend who lives in the Upper East Side and the plan after the conference was to have all the fun and eat all the foods. I got to eat a fair portion, but I didn’t get to do everything I wanted because my allergies were on fire the whole time I was there. I was MISERABLE.

Rachel (the friend) was feeling pretty crappy too, so we were a pretty great team that week. We did get to drink a lot of wine at least. And binge-watched a bunch of shows and movies. Broad City is now my new, favorite show. Ilana and Abbi combined = my spirit animal….

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Potatoes and Chorizo

Published: Mar 17, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

It’s after midnight and I’m in bed writing to you while Friends is on in the background. Did you know Friends was on Netflix? I think I’ve watched it start to finish about 50 times. Not since it’s been on Netflix though; it’s only been a few months since that happened. That’d be insane! Anyway, it doesn’t get old for me. Ross and Rachel forever. Their relationship was a huge roller coaster throughout that series, amirite? Spoiler alert: they get together in the end.

I’ve been so tired getting up in the mornings lately, but I can’t fall asleep so easily at night. I might be drinking too much coffee, but I can’t help it. I love coffee! Even though I can’t sleep, at least I get to write to you and tell you about how I’m also watching Friends. I think I’ll put on Bob’s Burgers after this episode to mix it up, though.

Yeah, my mind is all over the place right now. Allow me to introduce you to Delirious Marissa. She’s kind of awesome….

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

Published: Jan 19, 2015 · Last updated: Jan 7, 2018 by Marissa

Chocolate and peanut butter, amirite? The best!

This smoothie has been my recent go-to when I either want a quick breakfast or a treat after a meal. Depending what I have in my fridge at the time, I go back and forth between whole, grass-fed milk and almond milk. It’s tasty no matter which I go with and I barely notice a difference between the two….

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