Five Things for Friday
1. Over the weekend I did some recipe testing on a paleo coconut flour pancake. About $20 worth of ingredients later, I pour my first pancake and it turns out like THIS! Such a fail. I made this first thing in the morning and assumed they would turn out perfect and we could eat them for breakfast. Right after I “flipped” it Shawn poked his head in the kitchen and asked when breakfast would be ready. I yelled, “Get the eff out of the kitchen! Things aren’t going well!”
We had eggs instead.
2. Do you all listen to podcasts? I listen to a ton. At work, or when I’m driving, or walking the dogs, or cleaning, or cooking. You get the picture. I just found the funnest food blog podcast, The Chopped Podcast. It’s pretty new, but so far has had some great guests. Handle the Heat, Pinch of Yum, Bev Cooks. So fun! Food blogging friends should check it out!
3. I finished editing that gorgeous family maternity session from last week. Could this family be any cuter?! You can see all the pictures here.
4. Shawn was working out of town Monday-Thursday again! He drove down there Monday thinking it would be for just 1 night, but they ended up needing him to stay for 3 more days.
Please look at what Shawn brought. A lunchable for his lunch (what 28 year old guy brings lunchables to a construction job site?!), and he “packed” his stuff in that gray hat next to it. Yup, just 1 pair of socks, 1 white t-shirt and 1 pair of boxers. I could not stop laughing at this picture. So Shawn.
After day 2 he went to the drug store and bought a toothbrush, a 2 pack of underwear, socks and t-shirts. After day 3, I missed him so much I drove down there on Wednesday after work to stay there the night. Was worth the 4 hour round trip commute.
5. Another prank tape victim! This time it was Shawn, and payback was sweeeet!
14 Comments on “Five Things for Friday”
beautiful maternity pictures Natalie! I love them all. I wish you didn’t live on the other side of the country, I’d love to get advice from you. So talented :) Love that spot too!
Expensive flops are the worst! At least we can laugh at them though! Thank goodness for trusty eggs :) Thanks so much for pointing out that Podcast! Going to look into it now!
Oh my gosh, I have been SO obsessed with podcasts lately!! I actually, for the first time since I first got an iphone over 4 years ago, got a text saying I had used 75% of my data. Whoops! Can’t wait to check out Chopped! Those pranks never get old…
Awhile back I was doing a paleo diet with my sister and we made muffins with coconut flour…it was a complete disaster! I haven’t touched the stuff since! lol I have had plenty of recipe fails and I think a little piece of me dies every time! haha Thank you for the advice on the podcast, I am headed out to Vegas today and plan on listening to them the whole way. =) Happy Sunday Natalie!!
Nat, thanks a lot for writing about the podcast. I’ll listen it for sure! What a beautiful picture you edited. They are such a lovely family. I hope you have a great weekend ;-)
Ugh, I hate when I have a recipe flop! It’s such a devastating thing to throw something out. It’s funny you mention paleo pancakes – I have them coming up tomorrow on my blog! I didn’t mess with coconut flour though, I used almond. Coconut flour still sacred me a little – haha! That’s so cute that you drove to see Shawn. Hilarious that you got him with the tape prank! :)
This whole posts cracks me up. I showed Clayton the pancake picture and the comment under it and he said “yep sounds like a food blogger” hahaha!
We take our food seriously!
Aaw, sorry to hear about the pancakes :( It’s always so heartbreaking when recipes don’t work out. I’m still on the hunt for a good coconut flour one too that the hubs will like and haven’t been winning either. Yay for eggs though :) Love all those pics from the photo shoot, they’re gorgeous and I loved the lighting! Happy Friday Natalie and have a great weekend!
What a loss of ingredients !!! Sorry about that … may be next time it will be better. This family is so cute.. but I wonder they are having 3 BOYS already and dare to try their luck for a 4th one :).. I have 3 boys and would not dare go for a 4th hahahaha .
i pretty much grew up on lunchables but they never had Reeses in them :( hehe
I hate when that happens — you buy expensive ingredients, sure a recipe will turn out, and fail! It happens, and when it does, it sucks! I have never listened to a podcast, but Chopped really sounds great! I need to look into that. And that family is so adorable! Wow, do they have a lot of kids! haha
Oh the kitchen flop; I’ve had plenty, but what’s worse is wasting ingredients.Poor Shawn, he didn’t know he was going to get that kind of response asking his question (I had a good laugh!). Haaaahaaaa… Natalie! Shawn’s a funny guy… what’s up with that lunchable? I gasp at what I see Rob with sometimes. Recently he bought this huge bag of some chocolate crunchy things from Costco… upon my analysis of the ingredient list I cringed and pointed out said ingredients to him. He gasped but continued to much on the chocolatey clusters.. OMG.
Thanks for the chopped podcast! Looking forward to it! Have a fabulous weekend Natalie!
That totally stinks about your recipe, Natalie! I’ve had that happen plenty of times too, but it’s always worse when the ingredients are pricey! And your photo shoot turned beautiful! And I hate to admit this, but I sometimes bring a lunchable to work, too. Although I only get the kind with crackers and cheese, as that’s the closest to an “adult” version to me! :) Have a great weekend, friend!
Awww! That pancake story still makes me cringe a little, because I still remember how terrible my “paleo pancake flop” was. LOL. Yay for eggs to save the day, though! Haha!
And YES!! You finally got Mr. Prank! *high five* :) Happy weekend, Natalie!