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From Successories …..Essence of a New Day
This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind…let it be something good.
My Best Buddy...Shane. He is 17 mos. old in this picture
A RRCA Certified Running Coach: Email me at applecrumbles1@yahoo.com if you are interested in running. I will help you discover the joys of running whether you want to lose weight, run for a longer distance, improve your speed, or finish your first race.
Certificate in Sports Nutrition: Tips and diets for better athletic performance. As defined by Wikipedia:
Sports nutrition is the study and practice of nutrition and diet as it relates to athletic performance. It is concerned with the type and quantity of fluid and food taken by an athlete, and deals with nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, supplements and organic substances such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Although an important part of many sports training regimens, it is most commonly considered in strength sports (such as weight lifting and bodybuilding) and endurance sports (for example cycling, running, triathlon).
Cooking/Baking/Recipes:
Custom cakes and cookie trays are baked for local customers and delivered to their door. Baking is a hobby for me, it’s how I express my creativity. Contact me if you would like a custom cake or cookie tray delivered to your door. Email: applecrumbles1@yahoo.com The Apple Crumbles kitchen was inspected by the NYS Department of Food Safety employee before I engaged in Craft Fairs and sold to the public.
In New York State there is an exemption from Article 20-C (license for processing food) for small scale production of non-hazardous foods (baked goods, candies, cookies) . This enables home bakers to sell their products provided general clean health standards are met.
My Bio:
A passion for living a healthy lifestyle and sharing that passion with others.
Offering discussions and facts relating to food safety, nutrition, healthy food alternatives, product evaluations, cookbook reviews, and restaurant reviews.
Creating recipes which are nutrient rich, healthy and tastefully rewarding.
Over 69 credits in Baking Science.
16 CEC’s for Road Runners of America Running Coach Certification.
4 CEC’s for Sports Nutrition Certification.
Bachelor of Science in Marketing and M.S. degree in Management Technology.
On blogging: I like to exchange recipes, talk about running, offer and get exercise tips and motivations … you name it. I want to hear about it, talk about it, laugh about it!
MY RACES: Halfs and Full Marathons.
First Half Marathon: The Skunk Cabbage April 11, 2010 1hr 54 min 50 secs.
Second Half Marathon: Hall of Fame May 23, 2010 1 hr 51 min.
Third Half Marathon: Delta Lake September 20, 2010 1 hr 48 min.
First Marathon: WineGlass Oct. 3 2010 3hrs 46 min and 51 sec. Boston Qualifier.
Second Marathon The 115th Boston Marathon, April 18, 2011. 3hrs 47 min and 14 sec.
Boston Marathon Training Log Found Here.
Current 2011 Race Schedule:
1/1/11: Completed Hangover Run, 10K @8:23 per mile
2/5/11: Didn’t Run. Injured Beer and Chili Run, 10K (last year 55:36, pace 8:56)
2/19/11: Dasani Half Marathon, Myrtle Beach, SC – Results: 1:49:22 chip, 1:51:00 gun tim. First year running it. Great event.
3/5/11: Heart Run: 18 mile course (last year, pace 9:21 for 10 miles– stopped for photos and had fun). THIS year (2011), 9:38 ave. for 30K with injury. Not so fun, but I did it.
4/2/11: Fort2Fort, 10K (last year, 50:37) PR’d! 2011, 1st in Age Group. 47:14, pace was 7:37
4/9/11:
Skunk Cabbage Half Marathon (last year, 1:54:50, pace 8:46)Too close to Boston. Chose not to go.4/18/11: AH! The BIG ONE! Boston Marathon. Training plan can be found here: Boston Training and..drum roll please, my first marathon can be found HERE. 3:46:51, pace 8:39 BOSTON RESULTS: 3:47:14, Pace: 8:40
5/22/11: The Hall of Fame Half Marathon and a NEW PR: 1:46:51
7/10/11: Boilermaker 15K (last year, 1:14:07, pace 7:57
8/19/11: Turning Stone 5K Run *A new race this year
8/21/11: Turning Stone Half Marathon *A new race this year
11/20/11: Philadelphia Marathon
A quote by George S. Patton. US Army AND a 1912 Olympian.
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired… You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going”.
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Hi Joanne – thanks for checking out my blog! I would be honored if you added me to your blog roll!
You have so many great recipes that I can’t wait to check out!
As for gingerbread bagels, sounds like a great idea to me! I don’t have a recipe, but I will be on the lookout. If I find one, I will be sure to pass it on …
Cheers!
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Good job!
I’d like to know if you’d be interested in having me as a guest writer for your blog. I am a features writer working with MiracleFruitPlus.com. I’d like to write a free 300 to 400 word blog entry for you. I have a few years experience and would really enjoy writing one or two guest blog entries for your blog.
If you’d like to take me up on my offer, please send me a topic and a quick outline of what you’d like the article to say. Please give me as much detail as possible so I can make the blog entry meet your specifications as much as possible.
In exchange for this free blog entry, I would like to request a linkback to MiracleFruitPlus in the body of the blog entry somewhere using the title tag “miracle fruit.”
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Hi Joanne,
I found you through Kat Flinn’s site. Very good stuff! I started a blog for the same reason as you … place to write, exchange food ideas, ramble, and find interesting sites in the process. I’ll check back regularly. My blog’s right off my website.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am new to all this so if you have any advice that would be wonderful.
Have a wonderful day~
We were interested to know were you are because you said there was a sticky toffee pudding ice cream?? we have never seen this…best, s
Thank you for your kind comments – if you made the cauliflower quiche, I hope you enjoyed it.
My husband and I live in London and our son is living in Toronto with his partner. We love Canada, and visited Montreal this year and thoroughly enjoyed our trip – it’s a lovely city.
Kindest regards, Shirley I.
Hi Joanne, great to know more about you and this lovely space of yours
hey joann
since we are on the subject of food.. check this out if you will and your comments. just started a blog greattribalcuisine.wordpress.com mainly because so much of the healthy cuisine of this part of the world needs more attention.
Black lentils and chicken
North East India is relatively unknown to pretty much most of India, let alone the world. It’s a mystical land of dense jungles, pretty valleys, roaring untamed rivers and great wildlife. The people who inhabit these lands belong to the mongoloid stock although their specific anthropological origins are so vast and different. The different language, colour, food of these lands would be enough to keep a blogger like me engaged for decades!!!. So, i have decided to focus on the food and cooking styles of these lands. They are unique, simple, tasty … and in these days of our techno crazed, cholesterol building, artery clogging food habits will seem …distinct… so go ahead and scroll down
This is a great dish to have an idea of tribal food from north east india. Its basic but yum when done right. Free range chicken works best although spring chicken will also do. Use cuts of leg, chicken ribs, etc . Chicken breasts not preferred as they are too tender and would turn rubbery when cooked for long with the lentils.
Ingredients
500- 750 gms chicken with bone, 200 gms black lentils (kaali daal in hindi), 100 gms ginger julienned, 2-3 chillies, cooking soda( sodium bicarbonate), 2 onions julienned. Soak the lentils overnight in water, use this water to cook the lentils later.
Method
Heat oil in a wok. Saute the onions and the chicken and keep stirring till the chicken gets lightly browned. Make sure the flame is medium.
Put the black lentils in a pan with about 3 cups of water ; add the ginger and chillies.Let it simmer till the lentils are tender. If you are using a pan with a closed lid, it will take around 45 ins;Alternatively you can pressure cook it for 20-25 mins.
After the lentils are cooked add the chicken to the lentils and bring it to a boil; Add about a teaspoon of the cooking soda. The broth will simmer to the top.dont panic!!. Just lower the flame and it will settle down to a simmer. Simmer the dish for 10 mins before serving.
Enjoy with rice.
Hi Joanne! Thanks for stopping by my blog – I’m looking forward to reading yours!
Hi,
So very impressed with your blog. Just started myself and yours blows me away. I love to cook also and in the same vicinity as you. Your photos, and layouts are eye-catching and fun. The recipes are the best; I just love local cookbooks. Keep writing as you have a new reader!
Hello, I just stumbled upon your blog at fuel my blog site and I love it. Maybe you could take a look at mine since mine is similar to yours and give me a few pointers to enhance the blog. When I read that you were from Utica, I thought that meant Utica, KY not Utica, NY I live near Utica, KY. Anyways, how can I subscribe to your blog? I love cooking too and sharing the moments. Keep blogging!!!!
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Hi Joanne!
Thanks for stopping by my blog – reading yours and seeing the recipes you have put up makes me think we have a lot in common! I eat mainly vegan but will do an egg (if I get them from my in-laws who keep their own very happy and healthy chickens) or very rarely a bit of fish… I absolutely love tofu and beans!
I love your blog and am so excited to keep reading! It’s really nice to have a fellow food/lifestyle blogger with a full time job, sometimes I feel like I’m the only one!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I’ve added you to my google reader – your recipes look great!
Can’t wait to read more about your running, too. You go girl!
Love the blog Joanne, i’m going to bookmark it. Nice pictures.
Look at you go!! Awesome! Look forward to exchanging recipies and tips as well. The way I figure it, if I read enough running blogs about people faster than me surley I’ll get faster
Cheers,
PS LOVE the name of your blog!
This is very inspiring. I wish I could road run again as I have done a few half marathons but I find that my knees hurt too much now. So I’m confined to do my training on a cross trainer which seems to work perfectly and I go for long walks instead.
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