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Hello there beautiful!
Meet the gorgeous Mitsubishi Outlander GT 3.0 AWC! Continue reading
Flan was one of those things I never liked as a child. I remember my grandmother and great aunts making it often, but it would always turn my stomach for some reason. I think it was the texture and the overall “look” of it. But with age, I’ve learned to like traditional flan, and have learned to LOVE Flan de queso!
Flan de queso is like flan and cheesecake got together and had a dessert baby. It has the flavor of traditional caramel flan, but with the texture of a creamy cheesecake. It is DIVINE!
I was watching a hilarious video about flan the other day when it hit me- flan (and flan de queso) can TOTALLY be made to be low carb and keto friendly! With a few tweaks to the batter, and making the caramel sauce out of a healthy sugar substitute, this modification might actually work!
And it did, my friends… it totally DID. 
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Happy Christmas Eve Eve!!!
I’m SO excited about the upcoming holiday!
The stockings are stuffed, the presents are wrapped, the food is prepped (or ordered!), and the cookies are baked!
A few days ago I posted about all-things-CHRISTMAS COOKIES. Well I’m back to add one more cookie to the list!
There’s still time to bake up a batch of these chewy, crispy, buttery, chocolately, low carb, sugar free, keto friendly chocolate chip cookies to share with family and friends this holiday! These cookies are a winner. They’re SO delicious you’ll think you’re snacking on the real thing! 
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It’s no secret that I love to bake.
Especially around the holidays!
Baking dozens upon dozens of Christmas cookies for family and friends was a tradition my mom and I started way back in once upon a time time when I was a child. Her friend Mary Kelly would join us and we would literally bake all-night-long.
Oatmeal fudgey bars, rum balls, Tollhouse cookies, Spritz cookies, jam dots, snickerdoodles- the list goes on and on. By the time we were done, we’d have enough cookies for my dad to take to work, my mom to share with her co-workers at school, and a plate for just about everyone else!
My mom loved the holidays, and I’ve carried on that enthusiasm in her absence by continuing these fun traditions that we started long ago. 
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When I was around 7 or 8, my grandfather, Abuelito, built me a treehouse.
It wasn’t fancy or elaborate, just a big wooden platform, about 7 feet off of the ground with a ladder to get up to it. He even added green indoor/outdoor carpeting over the wood to add a little extra something, but other than that, it was a super simple design (unlike my life-size, walk-in, air conditioned playhouse him and my dad built me when I was a toddler which WAS elaborate, but I’ll save that for another post). Continue reading
There really is nothing else to say about these bars than:
Last summer my supervisor added an assignment to my scope of work, supporting new teacher mentors in 13 rural districts in Northwestern Tennessee. The work would take place at the University of Tennessee’s satellite campus in a small town called Martin, TN.
I had been to Tennessee dozens of times- Nashville, Memphis, The Smoky Mountains- but Martin? Where in the world was that? Continue reading
Lately I’ve been hearing similar messages from friends, family, internet acquaintances, and even random passerbys:
I’m ready for the next two months to be over with.
I just need to get through the holidays.
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Since I started living a low carb, no sugar, high healthy fat (ketogenic) diet back in August, I have had the holidays on my mind.
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Last night I had a group of my nearest and dearest over for a little pre-Thanksgiving celebrating!
