Potato leek soup

I need to learn to talk slower in my videos, but I was also all over the place in this video hahahaaha.

The finished product, minus cheese and sour cream garnish. It was simple but delicious. Like a giant baked potato with all the trimmings.

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Paired it with an apple, onion and cheddar grilled cheese for an amazing dinner!!

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Book Review**Operation Ironman: One Mans Four Month Journey from Hospital Bed to Ironman

This was another easy fun read that got me pumped to workout. I also laughed out loud a few times while reading this.

His journey is pretty awesome and totally makes me think I could complete an ironman, though I can guarantee it would take more than 4 months of training for me hahahahaha.

Overall fun, good read.

The terrible reason I have been MIA…

On January 3rd my brother took his life. He had, unknowingly to us, been battling depression for the better part of 20 years. Michael was the first to crack a joke and always offered to help. I don’t know why he didn’t ask us for help, there is not a person in our family who wouldn’t have dropped everything to come help him. There are many questions that will never be answered. Most of my immediate family has spend the last week-ish in Reno taking care of all things you have to when someone dies. My family is heartbroken. I will try and get back on my posting schedule this coming week as life attempts to return to normal.

Michael and I shared a love of cooking. Our connection was food and the kitchen. He far surpassed me though. I cooked simply for the joy it brought me whereas Michael went on to become the executive chef of a restaurant in Reno. He loved to locally source food and create amazing dishes. He will be dearly missed from our lives.

his adoption photo

This is the last set of photos we will have will all of us in them…..

The Pants of Perspective: One Woman’s 3,000 Kilometre running adventure through the wilds of New Zealand

Good morning! Yay I got one good read before school, we will see if I can squeeze in another one.

I liked this book a lot, it was a fun, easy read. It helped motivate me to get to the gym and do my workouts on days I wasn’t super into them. For me reading about someone’s adventures always makes me keen to keep my plans in motion. I can’t currently pick up and get out there for a long term adventure but I can continue on my own adventure which this year consists of a half, full and ultra marathon with my love.

It doesn’t hurt that one of the blogs I really enjoy reading, she is currently hiking the same trail in New Zealand as was run in this book so that was cool! You can check her blog out here.

All in all a good fun read, I can tell it wasn’t thoroughly edited by a big publishing company as there are a few snags here and there but it was a fun read, motivated me and I read it for “free” on kindle unlimited (I say “free” cause it’s $10/month but lets me read a bunch of books on my phone, tablet, and computer so I can’t complain too much.) When I am too busy with school or life to make the $10/month worthwhile I just shut down my subscription and come back to it when I have time, Amazon is great like that.