5 on Friday

Happy weekend! It's that time once again to link up with some of my favorite bloggers like Christina with Carolina Charm, April from A. Liz Adventures, Natasha with Hello Happiness and Darci from The Good Life Blog. This week was my first full week back to work since December 20th so things have gone by rather slooooow. However, I'm super pumped for the weekend because we have 2 house tours this afternoon and then we're heading to NC to stay with the Peck's (my crafting bff) for a fun night out! This will be the first time honey gets to come since his schedule is always so crazy. Anyway, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend & thanks for stopping by!

Monday's are the new IT day! Like I blogged earlier this week, The Bachelor is back and I am beyond thrilled for the drama roller-coaster of a season I'm sure it will end up being!

Speaking of Bachelor Monday's, lots more wine will be consumed in my household...by me.. and I am running out of canister space to hold my wine corks. Look at this new craft I found! I'm thinking this is great and may be a must-try!

 

I realized I forgot to post an awesome recipe from the Holidays ya'll! I made a quick and easy spicy craberry cream cheese crostini appetizer and they were absolutely delicious!

Ingredients

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1 (12oz) bag fresh cranberries, finely chopped

1 C sugar

2 green onions, thinly sliced

2 jalapenos, seeded and diced

3 Tbsp fresh cilantro, finely sliced

1 (8oz) package neufatchel cream cheese

1 baguette, sliced ½ inch thick on a diagonal

olive oil

additional cilantro leaf and quartered cranberry for garnish

Preheat oven 400 degrees..

Place baguette slices on baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil

Bake 5 minutes until golden brown, let cool

In mixing bowl combine cranberries, sugar, green onions, and jalapenos

Let marinate for 5-10 minutes.

Drain juice, add cilantro, mix well.

When ready to serve spread 1 Tbsp cream cheese on each baguette, a dollop of cranberry

mixture, garnish with additional cilantro leaf and cranberry if desired. Enjoy!

So hubby & I are trying to start eating a little better along with consistent exercise (he is SO much better than I am at the eating part) and we've decided that strict diets just don't work for us (haha) We've been sort of curious and reading more about the Mediterranean Diet everyone has been talking about and it seems really doable. Have any of ya'll tried this?

Happy Weekend! (And just think...it's supposed to be like 60 degrees ya'll!!! Goodbye polar vortex!)