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May 29, 2012
cleaneatz: Broccoli and Chicken Quesadillas Ingredients 2 ounces of pre-cooked shredded chicken ½ cup of steamed broccoli, chopped up 1/3 cup of part skim shredded mozzarella cheese 1 whole grain tortilla 2 tbsp plain, no fat Greek yogurt 1 tsp red pepper sauce Directions Combine Greek yogurt with hot sauce and set aside. Heat chicken and broccoli in a large non-stick pan over medium heat. Once heated through remove from the pan and place in a medium bowl. Toss chicken and broccoli with salt, pepper and garlic powder and then set aside. Place tortilla in the hot pan and allow to heat through on one side. Flip the tortilla and sprinkle half of the cheese over one half of the tortilla. Top cheese with broccoli and chicken and then sprinkle the rest of the cheese over the top. Using a spatula fold the tortilla over on to itself (into a half moon) and top with something heavy (ie. A weighted pan or my personal favorite, a teakettle). Allow to cook for a minute or two OR until the bottom lightly browed. Flip the tortilla and cook for another minute or two on the opposite side. Remove Quesadilla from the pan and allow to cool for a minute or so before cutting into wedges. Top with spicy yogurt and Enjoy!! Nutritional Analysis Calories: 390; Total Fat: 13.6g; Saturated Fat: 6.2; Cholesterol: 74mg; Sodium: 451mg; Carbohydrate: 29.1; Dietary Fiber: 6.1; Sugars: 1.7; Protein: 36 Being home sets me off on health kicks and I love it. So, I’m gonna need to make this ASAP. But, you know, minus the chicken and wheat tortilla. I’m learning how many things can be made, what my mother calls, “Lindsey-friendly.”

cleaneatz:

Broccoli and Chicken Quesadillas

Ingredients

  • 2 ounces of pre-cooked shredded chicken
  • ½ cup of steamed broccoli, chopped up
  • 1/3 cup of part skim shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 1 whole grain tortilla
  • 2 tbsp plain, no fat Greek yogurt
  • 1 tsp red pepper sauce

Directions

Combine Greek yogurt with hot sauce and set aside.

Heat chicken and broccoli in a large non-stick pan over medium heat. Once heated through remove from the pan and place in a medium bowl.

Toss chicken and broccoli with salt, pepper and garlic powder and then set aside.

Place tortilla in the hot pan and allow to heat through on one side. Flip the tortilla and sprinkle half of the cheese over one half of the tortilla. Top cheese with broccoli and chicken and then sprinkle the rest of the cheese over the top.

Using a spatula fold the tortilla over on to itself (into a half moon) and top with something heavy (ie. A weighted pan or my personal favorite, a teakettle). Allow to cook for a minute or two OR until the bottom lightly browed. Flip the tortilla and cook for another minute or two on the opposite side.

Remove Quesadilla from the pan and allow to cool for a minute or so before cutting into wedges. Top with spicy yogurt and Enjoy!!

Nutritional Analysis

Calories: 390; Total Fat: 13.6g; Saturated Fat: 6.2; Cholesterol: 74mg; Sodium: 451mg; Carbohydrate: 29.1; Dietary Fiber: 6.1; Sugars: 1.7; Protein: 36

Being home sets me off on health kicks and I love it. So, I’m gonna need to make this ASAP. But, you know, minus the chicken and wheat tortilla. I’m learning how many things can be made, what my mother calls, “Lindsey-friendly.”

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May 21, 2012
Love this.

Love this.

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May 21, 2012
This with my boy. I’ve needed/craved this since finals.

This with my boy. I’ve needed/craved this since finals.

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May 16, 2012
"Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them."

— Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via shalott)

Love.

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May 11, 2012

On Happiness.

I can safely say that I’ve never been so happy in my life. It’s so strange. And yet so exhilarating. I get to spend my days doing what I love to do at a university press, and spend my nights laughing and laying around with my wonderful boy watching our favorite tv show. It takes a lot to get to a point like this. I’ll never pretend that it doesn’t. It was hell for a while there. But you know what? We made it through everything so far, together, a unit growing stronger with each day. And if we can make it through what we did, with outside forces trying their hardest, then we can make it through anything.

And that’s what I’m planning on. What we’re planning on.

Relationships aren’t easy. No way. Sometimes you want to kill each other. But if there’s communication, that moment passes in an instant, and you’re lying in one another’s arms once more, laughing about it all. But when you find the one person you know you want to work through it with, the one person who gets you better than anyone else ever could, it’s pretty amazing.

I know that things happen. Believe me, I do. But I truly believe in the power of hard work and dedication. I found someone I love, someone I’m dedicated to, and I’ll be damned if I don’t work my ass off for as long as I can to keep growing through it all.

He’s so excited for that computer game “Diablo 3” to come out this next week. I, somehow, find it absolutely adorable how excited he is, and how endearing the quirks can be. Oh, I’ll probably pout when he’s giving more attention to the computer screen than to me, I won’t even deny that. But that doesn’t change how happy it makes you to see someone you care about so excited for something (Me & HP, equivalent), no matter how corny it may be. You’re happy being happy. You’re happy making someone else happy. No matter what it takes in the end.

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May 01, 2012

“Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” - Elizabeth

Attempting to study for my final (that begins in a few short hours), I’m reminded how much I love this book, how it is my favorite, and how Jane Austen has the unique ability to quite simply write some of the most amazing declarations of love for her characters. And, in this case, she’s taken the words right from my mouth. For you, my (crazy) Cuban.

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April 29, 2012
I’ll achieve my goals and dreams if it’s the last thing I do.

I’ll achieve my goals and dreams if it’s the last thing I do.

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April 18, 2012
Yes, I am an English Major and a nerd. Yes, I’m proud.

Yes, I am an English Major and a nerd. Yes, I’m proud.

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April 18, 2012
WOMEN are the new men: Do we even need men?

womenarethenewmen:

WE NEED MEN IN ORDER TO SURVIVE.

(CNN) — For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men.

Man’s response has been pathetic. Today, 18-to- 34-year-old men spend more time playing video games a day than 12-to-…

Reading this definitely made my day.

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April 16, 2012

The Optimist’s Daughter

“Well, I’m an optimist.”
“I didn’t know there were any more such animals,” said Dr. Courtland.

I’m slowly growing to love Welty even more. The fact that you have to slow down to read it, like with Woolf, really threw me off at first. Now, I’m learning to see the beauty in her writing. She really was amazing.

Today at the Press I was thrown into the word of author correspondence, CIP data entries, and even more indexing. It took three of us to figure out how to code a typescript for a minute. It was absolutely terrifying until one of the editors appeared in my office with a striped mug and a handful of Keurig coffee packs. Then production just started pulling up Bon Qui Qui videos on youtube, and making fun of everything, and it solidified even more that if I can find a job with those type of people, doing what I love, then I’ll have fulfilled life.