Hi friends!

I wanted to put out a quick post to let you know that I am still here and haven’t given up on blogging, LOL!  I spent a crazy amount of time buried under homework this week.  Who’d have thought that coming up with one’s own recipes from scratch, shopping for them, testing them, tasting them, then tweaking them to get right, etc., would take so long?

This week’s assignment required:

1 appetizer
1 salad with dressing
1 soup
1 main dish with sauce
1 vegetable side dish

While we only need to prepare one dish, I am also working on an externship project concurrently so all 5 (well 7 including dressing and sauce) have been prepared this week.  Then we write about health benefits of certain ingredients, enter into a nutrition program, write a recipe analysis and include costing.  Let me just tell you that costing takes FOREVER when you are trying to figure out how much that 1/8 teaspoon of cinnamon REALLY cost you.  I will think twice next time before adding a “pinch of this” and a “dash of that” if costing needs to be done!  ;)

Just 5 minutes ago I finished this week’s homework assignment that is due on Monday.  I worked on it Tuesday, Thursday and all day today as well (you know, those days that I typically try to get a blog post written!).  Tomorrow I will need to proofread my 14 pages and then send it off to my instructor.

A glass of wine to unwind is definitely in order.

And then I’ll begin working on my recap of week 4, which I really hope to post by Monday.

Anyone try the Indian Spiced Quinoa yet?

Also a BIG SHOUT OUT to Cindy who will be running her first 5K tomorrow!  Hop on over to her blog and wish her luck!

– Shari B. =)

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