good morning!

Do you want an incredibly delicious and simple breakfast idea? Look no further. Over the last three days I have perfected my oatmeal cookie oatmeal recipe.

1. Get out a microwave safe bowl.
2. Place 2 large egg whites into the bowl. Toss the yolks.
3. Add a dash of vanilla, salt, and baking powder.
4. Add a generous dash of cinnamon.
5. Measure out 1/2 cup of dry oatmeal.
6. Add 3/4-1 cup water.
7. Mix thoroughly and place in the microwave.
8. Microwave 30 seconds and stir (to ensure that the egg whites cook into the oatmeal, not by themselves)
9. Repeat microwave/stir cycle until oatmeal is thick and dense.
10. Top with a very generous dollop of peanut butter.
11. Spread the peanut butter out over the oatmeal so you get some in every bite. Enjoy!!

Breakfast is after all the most important meal of your day so you might as well make it nutritious, delicious, and very filling. Random fact: by adding egg white to the oatmeal you are gaining 8 grams of protein. Why not!  Simple enough.

song:

I am enjoying the mashups that come from The Hood Internet:

The Hood Internet - Make It Rezz (Travis Porter x Daft Punk) by hoodinternet

and I can’t wait for tomorrow to see this live:

Change. Should I?

Make a decision for me please!

Also, if you did not check out my last VLOG please do so! I really would like your input. Gosh, I am just so needy these last two days.

I am off enjoying a show. Pray I come back in one piece! I hope I didn’t just jinx myself [knocks on wood promptly].

your input please!!!!

VLOG #3 (this one is for you Anne! – I just was made aware that a girl from my program reads my blog and she requested more Vlogs so here we go….)

I realize that peanut M&M’s are not healthy snacks but they are mandatory car ride snacks.

I have also decided that this button down shirt is/has been my favorite shirt this winter.This was my favorite last winter!

 

To sum it all up: I love button down shirts and would LOVE it if you could provide me with some healthy, light, and filling snack ideas for a long, long road trip!!!

THANKS :)

xoxo Molly

preview: work & some play!

I suggest you play this song while you read my weekly, it seems to be that I post once a week, blog post.  Enjoy my latest find thanks to Sam & Pitchfork:

Reasons why I love this song stem from how artistic the song is represented in this video. The kids are plain adorable. The color blocks are amazing. Oh and the tribal sounds complete it. LOVE.

The featured homemade meal of the week is beef stroganoff:

This was a request from Sam and though I am not a fan of creamy white sauces (I think because I equate them with fatty fat grossness…) I absolutely loved this dish. That may just be because I was the cook.

Into a skillet went 1.5 T of margarine/butter on medium high heat. Cook the beef (used .6 lb sirloin) and then remove from pan and cut into strips. Sautee 1/2 cup onions in the pan and remove when browned. Add 1.5 T of margarine/butter and cook the mushrooms with some tarragon and cinnamon. Decrease the heat to low and add in 4 oz of reduced fat sour cream, the onions, and beef. Serve over egg (no yolk) noodles. This filling meal is great with a side field salad (onions, goat cheese, mushrooms) and some red wine! Enjoy :)

Other than that fabulous meal I have recently broke out my single serving magic bullet like machine and been whipping up mean nutritious shakes using frozen bananas as the base.

I have also been digging egg whites because really who needs the yolk…

 

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend and have a great Monday to start off this week (with crazy weather in the Midwest, yuck).

This week I have planned: lots of work, Das Racist show on Wednesday, and a Toro y Moi show on Friday. How exciting!

p.s. Coachella departure on April 12th… I cannot wait! I just began to learn how to drive a stick shift so I can help transport us there!!!

Random doings in the life of Molly…

1. Practice setting up a tent in the living room!

         

2. Make egg white omelets like it is your job.

3. Celebrate being Irish in a sea of drunkenness colored in green.

  

Of course, I misplaced my phone. That is a mandatory Molly move. I don’t even think I can count the number of times I have lost my phone after a night of fun. I think I have blew through 4-5 phones. Thankfully this time the phone was just misplaced in the back of a car, which just so happens to be about 40 minutes away.

Perhaps a couple too many of these went down? 

4. I have also been craving sushi for forever! Got my fix tonight in the form of shitaki mushroom with sea veggies brown rice sushi and some delicious grilled asparagus and onions.  Yum.

5. At work a regular daily drinker said

him: correct me if I am wrong, but weren’t you pregnant recently

me: no, thank God not me. I had a fat stage this year I guess.

him: oh well I was going to compliment you on your awesome recovery

So was that an insult or a compliment? Rude.

6. Has anyone watched the shows Shameless, Skins, or Californication? What is wrong with TV shows created today?

7. a song to end with!

dirty secret.

I secretly LOVE the power of 5 hour energy. I am a constantly over caffeinated human being. Is this healthy? No. Whatever. I LOVE my coffee. I like my tea. I sparingly consume 5 hour energy, vitamin B overdosing, rush of sugar free ‘energy.’

 It leads this tired looking fresh face to look like this: (and apparently turns me cross eyed)

Benefits of Caffeine:

Regular coffee drinkers are 80% less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease

2 cups a day gives you 20% less likely risk of colon cancer

2 cups a day causes an 80% drop in cirrhosis

2 cups a day prevents gallstone development by 50%

It has been shown to be beneficial in asthma, stopping headaches, boosting mood and even preventing cavities

increased mental functioning

increased metabolism by breaking down fat, freeing fatty acids and forcing them to be flushed.

Risks of Caffeine:

restlessness, irritability, anxiety, heartburn, headaches, high blood pressure, sleeplessness, rapid heartbeat, and nausea.

up for the challenge!

This year for LENT I am going to give up and/or do the following:

1- No more snacking incessantly on garlic parmesan croutons. I seriously snack on them for hours on end. I swear once you have 1 crouton you have to have another. It is an addiction, a delicious unhealthy addiction.

2- Eat out one time a week. I feel that since I already work at a restaurant and have restaurant food for 4-5 meals a week already, that I should limit myself to only going out to dine 1 time a week. Sam and I go out to eat quite frequently, so this may actually be a challenge. This means 1 Monday dinner or 1 Yogurtini…not both in a week.

[there are a few exceptions though: St. Patrick’s day & Cali road trip in April]

3- Limit myself to 1 dessert per day.

So there we have it… that will be my next 40 days. I usually am very good at following my lenten goals. One year I gave up meat and hell that lasted for about 3 years or so. Last year I gave up croutons and clearly I am addicted to those cracktons so once 40 days was up I was back to destroying them.

What I really should give up is beer…but that just isn’t going to happen! Girl likes her beer.  A non-lent goal I have also decided to start doing is just to clean up my diet some. Meaning that I want to start incorporating more health, super foods, veggie/fruit and less junk.

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Homemade dinner: Sam & Molly’s Sunday Candlelight Dinner!

On Sunday, Sam and I decided that we were going to make a homemade meal. Without a plan we headed to the grocery store and landed on the decision to make meatball subs, roasted green beans & onions, and salads topped with onions, goat cheese, and sweet vinaigrette.  Sam made the salad… YUM!

It was probably the best homemade dinner I have had in awhile. Making dinner with someone else makes it even better. Especially when it is a special someone!!

I highly suggest you duplicate this meal. You cannot go wrong with a meatball sub (or veggieball sub) and a good salad paired with red wine/beer.  Loved it! Make sure to remember to eat by candlelight!

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Other than that I have been feeling like a bad a$$….

         

using far to much cinnamon…

and rocking out to this:

and

 

<3 Molly!

study artsy cookies!

so i am really horrible @ being a student. i have a problem studying & lack the attention span to do so. i probably have the ever over diagnosed ADHD. i am sure of this. you also cannot argue with me that it is over diagnosed.

Just look how studious I was while studying. YES! taking pictures is obviously the #1 priority while one is (should be) studying.

& then I did not even realize that I was being artsy while taking a snapshot of my EmergenC ‘drank’ in a wine glass: 

Thanks Camera for messing that one up… really diggin’ the artsy rendition of my vitamin C overdose that went down.

 

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i made some stella funfetti cake mix cookies using:

1 box funfetti cake mix

1 large egg

1/4 C +1 T water

1/4 C vegetable oil

bake @375 for 6-8 minutes.

(make frosting from 1 box Jiffy vanilla frosting, 2 T boiling water, shake of cinnamon, dash of vanilla)

 

took 1/2 of these bad boys over to the boys house last night for our steak, chicken, baked potato, and mixed fresh veggie bbq. they went over quite well & made everyone grab multiples. make them now.

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Because I know you were wondering:

so off to go stare at these work walls to put some much needed $$ in that bag.

  

 

&

peace – love – Molly 

(ah haha I kid- kind of)