Have a wonderful weekend, friends, and please enjoy my favorite finds from around the web in this week’s Friday Favorites!
Favorite twist: Red Velvet Scones. Umm, gorgeous! What a great twist on a scone and Red Velvet Cake. Some people are so creative!
Favorite place: French Polynesia. Ok, forget what I said a couple months ago about preferring a cozy, mountain-side vacay over a trip to paradise. Anything over 50, hell, 30 degrees sounds like total bliss right about now – especially a floating hut in Bora Bora!
Favorite fresh: Peach Mango Smoothies. A fresh, vibrant, good-for-you smoothie. I can’t even imagine how delicious this must taste!
Favorite Fitness: Sexy Leg Workout. Love the looks of this leg, core, and butt workout. Totally doable.
Favorite sweet: Carrot Cake Loaf with Thick Cream Cheese Frosting. Sweet, moist and slathered with thick cream cheese frosting, I would devour a slice of this loaf for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I LOVE carrot cake, especially when it doesn’t have raisins. The horror!
Favorite fashion: LC Spring Collection by Lauren Conrad. I am obsessed with the combo of pink and white. I haven’t found any of LC’s Kohls pieces to be as cute in person as they are in photos (although they look ADORBS on my friend Laura) but I’m thinking these pants are kind of no-fail-cute, especially with those heels.
Favorite dinner: Roasted Salmon with Avocado and Grapefruit Salsa. A beautiful, creamy, tropical, and tart recipe. Can’t wait to try it.
Favorite space. I’d never know what to put on top of cabinets that have space between the top and the ceiling. LOVE this idea for displaying unique kitchen pieces through see-through cabinetry, instead of dusty ivy!
Favorite bite: Buffalo Oven-Fried Goat Cheese. If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time then you know how obsessed I am with all things buffalo-flavored. Combine it with warm goat cheese then feed it to me and I will love you forever.
Favorite collection: Healthy Pressed Juice Recipes. An awesome collection of healthy, yummy juice recipes – which is a good reminder to dust off my juicer this weekend. It’s been awhile!
Favorite redo: Chex Scotcharoos. Brilliant! I would love to try these with honey chex. Can you even imagine?!
Favorite furball. Pretty much sums up how I’ve been feeling all week. Cold, and upset about it.
Favorite sip: Peach Sangria. Raise your hand if you cannot WAIT for peach season!? In the meantime, I bet frozen peaches would work really well in this recipe – they’d keep your drink cold, too!
Favorite song: Carry On – Fun. I could NOT fall asleep for the life of me a couple nights ago – this song would not stop playing on repeat in my head! Love all things Fun.
Favorite bite: 100 Calorie Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing. NEED. NOW!!
Have a great weekend!
I hope you are going to Scratch! I love the one in Cedar Falls!
Those jalapeno potato skins look so great!
I was planning to make the buffalo chicken meatballs to munch on while we watch the hockey game tonight. (We’re more hockey than football fans in my house!) While I was shopping shopping today I saw that mini hoagie rolls were on sale SO….mini buffalo chicken meatball hoagies are definitely happening tonight!
Also, that Bora Bore picture is amazing and just making me long for vacation during the snowstorm we’re having today!
Looks like Jen beat me to it about asking it you were going to Scratch this weekend! You will LOVE the cupcakes and I have great confidence you will be blogging about them soon!
The carrot cake loaf, Salmon and Buffalo goat cheese all sound SO good! You just made me hungry!
I love the furball picture! So cute! You must have had to wake up so early to get there at 5:40am. I would definitely be taking a nap right about now if I were you…
Awww so great to see you doing your thing live (well, almost!).
I agree with a little mid-winter trip to Bora Bora but if not, those mango/peach smoothies might satisfy tropical cravings for now!
OMG while I was getting ready for work this morning my husband was flipping through the news and I was like STOP STOP! That is Iowa Girl Eats!! He was like Who?! But after watching he is a fan…and wants to make those little bites of heaven potato things. :) Let us know how the cupcakes are…I hear they are AMAZING.
I agree with you on the raisins! I like raisins by themselves but not in things.
those red velvet scones look absolutely amazing. and since we’re also talking about love of all things buffalo, have you ever been to cooney’s in north beaverdale? it’s a dive bar that has popcorn you can toss with buffalo sauce. every time we visit dsm it is a requirement that we stop there!
Roasting jalapenos totally takes the edge off – I can’t even TELL you how good those potato skins are looking right now. My lunch just isn’t gonna cut it ;)
PS – I completely agree with you on LC’s clothes – I’ve ordered one too many tops online only to be bummed out. Womp, womp!
the LC clothes make me sad always. they require a store trip, and even then are a one in a million chance!
Thank so much for featuring my Oven fried Buffalo Goat Cheese! I was so excited because I read your blog daily!!!!
They are so brilliant, Tieghan! Plus I have all the ingredients already in the house, so I hope to make them this Sunday. :)
These might be better than the original poppers!
Are you visiting the new Scratch Cupcakery in WDM? I am from Cedar Falls and Scratch cupcakes are the best!! My favorites are Toffee and Peanut Butter Cup. I am not a big cake/cupcake fan, but these are to die for!
I agree Jen! I went with some co-workers to Scratch earlier this week and they were so delicious! We all split the cupcakes so we could try different ones. The Lemon Rasberry was really yummy!
You got it! I was going to go last weekend and never made it – I can’t wait!