The blog world is filled with talent.
My Google Reader, Pinterest boards, FoodBuzz inbox, and browser bookmarks are jam-packed with recipes and ideas from other bloggers. In fact, I rarely read cookbooks anymore!
That’s why I was honored to have received a smorgasbord of awards from one of my favorite bloggers, Kimberly @ Grubarazzi.
Along with the award comes with a “10 Things You May Not Know” obligation. I’m pretty much an open book… so I thought I’d do a little twist on it.
Below is a list of 10 things. 9 of them are true. 1 is a lie. Can you pick out the lie?
- I started walking before I learned to crawl. I was 6 months old.
- Like Kim, I hate voicemail. I purposefully let my mailbox fill up so that you can’t leave a message.
- In undergrad, I minored in Religious Studies.
- I rarely make the same thing twice. Except for last night when I made Blueberry Cilantro
BulgurQuinoa.
- I use Excel to keep me on track with workouts and meal ideas during the week.
- I have never eaten a fast food hamburger.
- Sometimes when I think about the future get totally overwhelmed. There’s so much to accomplish/do!
- I eat raw spinach by the handful while standing in the fridge door.
- Monday night I ate octopus for the first time.
- My lucky number is 13.
I’m passing these awards on to a few of fairly-recently-discovered blogs:
- Meg @ A Dash of Meg
- Kushboo @ Kushboo’s Blog
- Laura @ Laura Lives Life
- Choc Chip Uru @ Go Bake Yourself
- Rachel @ My Naturally Frugal Family
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I’m catering a wedding shower this weekend – can’t wait to share the creations with you guys!
Are you doing anything special for Easter? Who’s excited to break their Lent restrictions?
How do you keep track of recipes you want to try?
Oh! And could you pick out my “lie” from the list?
Catering a wedding shower! I can’t wait to see what you make. I want you to cater my future wedding 🙂
I’m making my bf a basket for Easter basket. Also, I come from an Italian family and every year my mom would get easter bread from the bakery so I’m going to hunt some down. And we are going to color eggs – but with TEA.
Let’s see I think the lie is # 9…I think monday was not your first time encountering octopi.
My recipes are all over the place! I need to get them organized – pinterest, google reader, word docs, iphone, post its…
Happy friday!
I would LOVE to cater your wedding. 🙂
Awesome! Food is taken care of. Now I just need to bf of 7 years to put a ring on it.
LOL! You’re a LOT further than I am. 🙂
I think the octopus is a lie! I know you don’t like seafood. Is octopus seafood? I guess it comes from the sea.
You nailed it! (Though I should tell you… I discovered a love of swordfish.)
Excel is my best friend. It’s the best tool ever. And I hate voicemail too. It’s such a process to check it, etc. Ha!
oooh have fun catering! i keep track of my workouts in a word document 🙂
Thanks SO much for the tag, Laura- really appreciate it :)! Even though I’m not Christian, I wish I gave something up for Lent purely for the thrill of breaking it…better remember this next year! I am guessing the bit about never making the same thing twice is a lie? If not, I take my hat off to you! Have a great Easter weekend, hopefully chocolate-filled 🙂
You gave up something for fun?! LOL! I love it.
That wasn’t it… there are too many new things to try for me to repeat recipes a lot. I’m crazy, I know. 🙂
Good luck this weekend – I don’t think you need it though because you are a rockstar! 🙂
Spending this weekend with my family in MI. The gang is all here now and the fun is about to begin…starting with mom and daughter pedis…yeah!
xoxo from Michigan
Hmm. I agree with other commenters that you’ve had octopus before, so #9!
I have a huge bookmark folder full of recipes I will probably never make. I only pin the ones that I think are exceptionally stunning.
Good luck on your catering job this weekend, I know you’ll rock it out. I’ll be out of town for Easter stuff or I’d offer to be your sous chef!
Noooo… I can’t do the tentacles. 🙂
I would LOVE for you to be my sous (or to be YOUR sous) one day!
I hate voicemail too…I have the snarkiest voicemail message that goes something along the lines of, “Only leave a message if you absolutely have to.” If I see someone called, I’ll call them back! No need to tell me, “Call me back!” but make me go through thirty steps of voicemail-listening to get to that. Okay, mini-rant there 🙂 I like the idea of neatly organized recipe ideas. I have a word document, some bookmarks, some jotted notes–just generally all over the place.
I wish I could have my office voicemail message say something like that!
I am also an Excel addict…I don’t know how I’d track workouts or meal plan without it!
Okay, so you’re 10 are tough to pick a lie out of! You are such an amazing lady, I think they all could be true – but I’m going to say the making the same thing twice (unless this is a “sticky” one, because you made slight tweaks to the recipe)? My favorite number is 13 too – and I’m supersticious about it. I wouldn’t play soccer in HS unless I was wearing 13.
Thanks for awarding me – I think this is a perfect weekend post idea!
Nope! I gave myself a loophole by saying I rarely make the same thing twice. 🙂 It was the octopus.
Definitely hard to pick out a lie, babe. The last one maybe?
Anywho – I cannot even begin to thank you enough 🙂 And I love the twist to your 10 things! How fun! 😀
Seriously, thank you so so much for the award 🙂 I hope you are enjoying my blog, babe! I enjoy yours daily and look to you for inspiration <3
Like I say quite frequently, I love the way you eat! Love the looks of the bulgur salad! Isn't bulgur amazing!? Oh goodness – love you Laura!
Anytime! You know I LOVE your blog. 🙂
I think it MIGHT be the fast food hamburger… even though I have not eaten one in ate least a decade… I think one might have happened in a drunken stupor…maybe? LOL. Glad you enjoyed getting these awards! You deserve them!
Believe it or not, I have indeed made it through life (so far) having never had a fast food burger.
The lie has to be about fast food hamburgers…everyone has gone down that road at least once in their life.
Have a great time catering this weekend!
Nope! I’ve eaten a few burgers in my day, but never fast. 🙂
Good luck with your catering! I can’t WAIT to eat some Robins Eggs once my sugar free Lent is over! 🙂
Congrats!! I agree, I typically turn to blogs for recipes now a days! And good luck with catering, that’s awesome!!
Congrats on the award!! I use Pinterest to pin recipes that look interesting, I move them to a shopping/meal-planning tool when I’m actually planning them for the week.
That’s where I miss a step – I need to move more from Pinterest boards to grocery lists!
Omg congrats congrats congrats on the wedding shower news!!!! I wish you could cater my wedding which is at least 10 yrs away 😉
Thank you very very much for passing the award on to me my friend and congrats on receiving it 😀
I will keep up your tradition of 10 things true, 1 false 😉
By the way which I believe to be eating octopus… 😛
Happy Easter!
Choc Chip Uru
You let me know in 10 years if you are still interested. 🙂
Octopus was the lie – good call!
Walking at six months before you could crawl is pretty impressive. That’s a tough list but I would have to say teh hamburger is a lie because I can’t imagine anyone escaping through childhood without having at least one fast food burger. Congrats on all the awards. xx
I escaped! when I was little I wouldn’t eat red meat.., by the time I started eating it, I had discovered the world of gourmet burgers. I guess that was a little like walking before crawling too. 🙂
I can’t imagine a baby walking at 6 months– wow! I’m going with #1, even though I’m probably wrong. 🙂 Love the look of that blueberry quinoa salad!
Nope – I did indeed walk before crawling. Story of my life. 🙂
AHHHHH!! You ate octopus!? Good for you! I don’t know that i could ever wrap my head around that!
Nope – that was the lie! I could never stomach those tentacles.
Oh okay phew! I feel better about myself 🙂
Hmm I will go with the octopus being a lie… just because I know you have tried most foodie things at least once! Although if you have NEVER eaten a fast food burger then I’m super impressed! I used to love them when I was younger (thanks Mum, for getting me hooked! lol!) can’t stand them now, haven’t eaten one in a good few years! Also I don’t know if 13 is my lucky number but it’s always the one I pick, when I’m asked to pick any number. Does that count?
You were right but for the wrong reasons. I have never eaten octopus… bad foodie. 🙂
P.S Good luck with your catering gig!!! 🙂
I prefer voicemail over texts. Texts are so impersonal. Call me if it’s so important. I want to hear your voice. 🙂
I try to keep track of my recipes by bookmarking them on firefox or printing them out. But it never works because I always find more recipes than I can make in my lifetime and now I have a long list of recipes that make me say “I really need to make that.” and printed recipes all over my desk.
Good luck at the shower and congrats on the award.
I’m fine with the phone call… the the having to check messages that I don’t like. 🙂
At one point (when I was printing every recipe) I started a binder to store them. I should probably go back through those…
Never ever? U dont want to eat a take out burger bleck. So… What did u think of the octopus? Too chewy for me. I do like snake and cactus. 😉
The octopus was the lie – I have never (and most likely will never) tried the thing.
You ate snake?! What was that like?
Thanks so much for passing this one on…I will have to think hard about 10 things. Not that I mind sharing I just have a hard time coming up with 10 interesting things.
As for your lie I have to go with fast food hamburger.
I hope the shower went well and that you enjoyed a good meal on Easter.
Anytime! 🙂
Not the burger… to this day I’ve never had a fast food burger!
I hope the spinach thing is true…because I do that too. 😉
Please. You KNOW that’s true. 🙂
So I cheated and know which one is the lie. 🙂 I’ve eaten octopus before. And probably won’t again!
I also eat raw spinach in front of the fridge all the time too! Same goes with arugala.
And man, your facts are all fascinating! I love it! I would have guessed the lie was #4.
I get overwhelmed about the future too! One day at a time….
Good to know I’m not the only one – both with the spinach and the overwhelm. 🙂