Happy #thinkingoutloud Thursday! No idea what I’m going on about? Click here!
1. Is there anything cozier than a warm coffee shop on a rainy day?
I’m currently writing this post from my favourite booth in Starbucks with a warm cup of Pike and the rain hitting the big window beside me. Creative bliss.
2. I’m also witnessing a little girl trying to pick out a baked treat from the oh-so-appealing bakery display. With all the amazing breads, cookies, and pastries to choose from, she went for the Marshmallow Dream Bar. But let’s face it… those crispy rice squares are amazing. No matter how many fancy desserts I’ve had, there’s something about the simplicity of Rice Krispie Squares that can’t be beat. I should really get around to making these Rice Krispie Energy Bites again…
3. Since we’re on the topic of sweet treats, let’s talk Easter candy. I just recently learned that Kinder Surprise eggs are banned in the States because the FDA deemed them too dangerous. Say whaaaaat? Apparently the toy inside is considered a potential choking hazard. I get it, but… really?!? They turn a blind eye to worse things while simultaneously robbing kids of fun. And I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone here choking on a Kinder toy. Just saying.
It’s a real shame, too, because Kinder chocolate is freaking tasty…
4. And now for a very important question… What’s your strategy to eating the Easter bunny?
Do you start from the ears? The tail? The nose? The toes? I take the random approach, and I tend to cycle through my starting points so that he never knows what to expect. This year? The toes…
5. Also… please don’t tell my dentist that I’ve been eating so much chocolate and Easter candy lately. I have an appointment coming up next Tuesday and I’m already having anxiety attacks. It’s only a routine check up and I’ve been cavity free for years now thanks to becoming totally anal about my oral health, but still — it’s still the dentist, and that chair is still the source of many cringe-worthy memories. Pray for me, friends. Pray for me.
6. On a happier note… new books!
I asked you guys for some book recommendations last week, and you definitely delivered. I picked these up earlier this week and I can’t wait to crack into them, but I’m having a hard time trying to figure out which one I should start with. Thoughts?
7. I’m also having a hard time trying to figure out which recipes I want to post first. I have a running list of about 20 recipe ideas that I want to share with you guys, and that list just keeps growing and growing because I usually only manage to fit in two recipes per week in between WIAW, ToL, and Link Love posts. I keep going back and forth on the idea of posting more/less recipes because I don’t want Spoons to become too distant and impersonal, but I still want to share good foods. Thoughts?
8. On that note, here’s what’s coming at ya tomorrow… Can we say cookies for breakfast? Yes, yes we can 😉
More places to find me!
E-mail — [email protected]
Twitter — runwithspoons
Facebook — runningwithspoons
Pinterest — runwithspoons
Instagram — runwithspoons
Bloglovin — runningwithspoons
Cookies for breakfast?? I’m coming over…like yesterday!! I’ll bring the chilled almond milk & champagne glasses because we’re classy like that ;)! I adore your recipes so I’m definitely down to see more of them….I also adore your photos so it’s a double win. As for your super important question: I promise I am not evil buuut the ears are the first to go when it comes to chocolate bunnies. Anddd now it’s time to get my hands on some chocolate :)!
Cookies for breakfast! HELLO.
Aahh I love cosying up in a coffee shop, you can’t beat it. As we get into autumn here I feel my coffee shop addiction (because there is such a thing) might get a bit out of control…
I remember being given a time limit when I was little to choose my treat – the chocolate counter was a particularly tricky place, if I didn’t choose in time I wouldn’t get one! In fact, I think I still need a time limit as I am still as indecisive as ever!
Have a lovely day 🙂
If I survived my first trip to the dentist in four year (I thought it was three, but apparently it had been four…) without even one cavity, you will be fine :-p Think happy thoughts!
As for the bunny…the ears. I always start with the ears. I didn’t get any actual bunnies this year though, but I am working my way through a box of truffles and two giant Reese’s Eggs. So delicious. So much sugar.
As for recipes, I think 1-2 a week is perfect. Your recipes are amazing, but I love the personal posts..
Gah – I have a dentist appointment this morning! HELP MEEE!! It’s like they know to schedule them after Easter… 😉 I never knew that about Kinder eggs! We do have some Kinder chocolate here and I totally, 100% agree – best chocolate EVER!
I scheduled my appointment last year when I had NO idea when Easter was. Easter needs to take after Christmas and be on the same day every year — it was on March 31st in 2013 😡
I usually start with the ears on the bunny 🙂 And it goes fairly quickly from there… haha
I can’t wait to start my new book! It’s Learned Optimism 🙂 http://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393
And wowww yes, cookies for breakfast. Amen, sister! Happy Thursday!
So excited for more recipes!! I’m in dire need of more as I just don’t have the creativity to make my own…haha!
First of all… I am soo jealous go the kinder eggs. We need to write a letter to the FDA about this. Secondly… I am loving the new song “Beautiful Times” by Owl City. Reminds me of the fight anyone with an ED goes through and the strength you feel when you see yourself coming out on top. Reminds me of the ups and downs that I am going through but I still appreciate every moment of the fight.
I love any recipe you have to share! And as a matter of fact, I now need to go make Rice Krispie treats of some sort. Thanks again for hosting this blogger linkup! Love seeing all the thoughts others have to share 🙂
It is SO true about the Kinder eggs and I have to admit it is a huge disappointment for me! I never heard of them until a co-worker brought one in for me years ago. We often talked about them after that date because let’s face it, no matter how old you are, they are really.flippin’.awesome! He told me the same thing about how they no longer sell them in the US and how you can’t even ORDER THEM from out of the country, to be sent to the US. This is probably one of the most ridiculous and disappointing things. Especially when you’ve had the pleasure and joy of having one and then realize you never will again. 🙁
You know what’s just as ridiculous? That you get in trouble big time if you try to bring them back in your suitcase — it’s like you’re trying to smuggle in crack or something!
Those rice krispie treats have crack in them. I even asked our mayor and he confirmed this for me!
Kinder eggs? Really??? Kinder chocolate is so tasty; that’s a shame. Have an extra for me!!
You can consider me strange, but I don’t love Kinder eggs. Well, it is chocolate, but it too sweet for me. We can continue to communicate? I very much like posts of your blog, and I wouldn’t like any changes. But… if the blog becomes even better, I only will be glad 😉
Of course we can still be friends! It just means that we won’t have to fight over chocolate 😉
I love Kinder chocolate but had no idea why it wasn’t in the US. Also, completely agree with the warm coffee on a rainy day – pure heaven.
Can you believe I haven’t had ANY Easter chocolate this year? I haven’t seen my mom in a couple weeks so I’m hoping when I visit next she secretly has an Easter basket stashed away for me 🙂 And I really liked Under the Never Sky (and its sequel).
Every single one of your recipes/food pictures makes me drool. I can honestly say no other blog has the ability to cause me to immediately need whatever picture I am looking at.. I think our taste buds may have been separated at birth 🙂
Please update us on the books! I just read Red Rising and The Fault in Our Stars and then picked up The Selection by Kiera Cass. I was looking into Graceling as well and definitely am interested to see how they are and what I should get next!!
Graceling was actually the one I ended up starting with last night! Not far enough into it yet to say how it is, but I like the writing style and setup so far. I’ll definitely be sharing my thoughts about ’em in future posts 🙂
It’s amazing to me the crap the US will ban all to protect the kids, but then we feed them garbage food and have the highest childhood obesity rate. Obviously we’re missing something or perhaps we’re too easy bought and sold by food and drug companies.
I’m still working on the 5th GoT book and I have not made much progress these past few nights. A couple pages and I’m totally out. I also haven’t made much progress on my recipe revamp for my blogging staycation. It might be time to rethink my approach. On Thursday. More than halfway through the week. Eek.
I love you started with the bunny toes. This was he can’t hop away. Very smart. 😉
I always wondered why we didn’t have Kinder Eggs here but I never knew why! WHen I was a kid, my best friend’s mother worked as a stewardess for British Airlines and would bring them back for us from London when she traveled. I always thought they were just too classy for us to have here in the states. Ha ha. I am assuming they still put toys inside? What were in yours?
I only opened my biggest one so far, but it was a frog-themed memory card game. The little toys are usually goofy and useless, but sometimes you come across something that’s kind of fun 🙂
Poor bunny lol. I think I used to always start with ears (bottom is thicker and more delicious). It’s definitely your blog so you should decide what would make you happy but I think the amount of recipe posts you have is fine. Personally I tend to read the non-recipe posts but I know there are SO many out there that love your recipes so it’s totally up to you!
I am loving the look of that breakfast….As for the bunny, I would start with the ears. I honestly can’t recall the last giant chocolate bunny I ate though. Weird?
This past week, I have just been eating everything and anything chocolate related. I think my sweet tooth since Easter has been out of control LOL.
I love chocolate with some sort of filling in it. Caramel, or more chocolate is good with me. As long as it doesn’t have mint filling.
The holidays always do a crazy number on my sweet tooth. I feel like I just recovered from Christmas and now Easter had to come around and kick my butt. Ugh. Maybe I’ll be recovered by next Christmas 😆
Ah good thing I no longer live in the States right now because I’ve enjoyed my fair share of Kinder Chocolate this past holiday!!! Those folks really are missing out on some gooddddd chocolate. I hink we should just eat a couple extra in honor of our US friends? You on board? Ha Ha!
When it comes to eating Easter Bunnies.. I don’t. I find it to be too much chocolate and it actually hurts my teeth. Dont ask me why I can eat other chocolate, because I do not know why it’s different LOL
You’ve reminded me I’m in desperate need of a dentist check-up! You’d think we could have scheduled before easter right!? Haha that’s amazing about kinder eggs being in banned in the US – they’re one of my few childhood favourites that are still on regular snack rotation! And considering what kind of junk is allowed past the FDA it’s pretty shocking (though I’d love to hear some of the lawsuits that comes from people biting into the toy!)
Kinder eggs are sooo yummy! The US does a lot of other, much more dangerous, things to us. Pretty sure we can protect ourselves from choking on a little toy. Lol.
aaand good luck at the dentist. I’m having anxiety just thinking about the dentist!!
So if you want to send me a Kinder egg I will send you one of the many (usually rightfully so) banned foodie products from the US! Seriously the US allows so many food items pass (like MSG…really???) but one with a toy in it–no go!
I want to read Ender’s Game!
I also want one of those Rice Krispie energy bars!!!!
Thanks for the fun link-up as usual. 🙂
You know what? I actually think it’s illegal to even try to send Kinder eggs into the States. I know you get in big trouble if you try to bring them over the border, so I imagine the same applies to gifts. Ridiculous.
Whaaaaat!! Kinder eggs a choking hazard! Health and safety gone mad! Then again I never wanted the chocolate, just the toy! Do you remember the terrapins? they were the toy inside for ages!
I really enjoy your recipes, don’t worry about being impersonal, your fab personality comes through no matter what you do! 🙂
You know I’m a huge fan of cookies for breakfast after making my breakfast cookie dough on rotation…well weekend rotation.
I just asked my sister how to eat a bunny. She said do what she did- let the lindt gold bunny melt in your car and then it becomes a deformed block. She’s a smart one.
😆 That actually might just be the most brilliant thing I ever heard. To bad it’s not warm enough here around Easter for chocolate to melt in the car…
Looooove Kinder Eggs. And now after ALL these years of their existence they found out that they are dangerous? Come on.
Can’t wait for that recipe – it looks superdelicious! Something like baked oatmeal maybe? I’m in!!
Recipe posts – I think you roll just fine with 2 per week. My trouble is, that there are so many delicious recipes in the blogger world, I can not even keep up. Talking about hundreds of pins on my recipe pinboard….
Kinder eggs are the boss! Although here in the UK they’ve “gendered” them – pink for girls and blue for boys, so the toys are gender appropriate. Not a fan of that!
I’m all for more recipes, Spoons would never be impersonal with your voice shining through 🙂
I’ve started to see those gendered eggs here too! Totally crazy. I’d have to buy my [eventual] kids one of each… and maybe that’s their clever ploy — to sell more eggs 😆
Cookies for breakfast? I cannot wait – this recipe looks amazing already. Is it a possible cure from our oatmeal addiction or does it drive us even deeper in 😉 ? Actually I have my oatmeal recipe coming up tomorrow, but now I wanted to share some random thoughts first and have a final ToL from France. Sad sad week it is… I think cookies might help…
YES to cookies for breakfast (and any time else)!
Spoons could never “become too distant and impersonal” whether you post more recipes or more other random fare! You manage to shine through no matter what your posts are about, my friend!
As far as the FDA – you are spot on – have you seen “The Dallas Buyers Club” yet? -Speculation or not -its a good little peek into what might really go on!
I haven’t, but do I really need more reason to hate on the FDA? 😆 Happy Thursday, Shashi <3
For once I might be glad I didn’t get a chocolate Easter bunny this year because ‘slaughtering’ it is the hardest part. I never know where to start though trying to remember I think the ears used to go down first for me.
And yes, I’d heard that about Kinder surprise eggs. Ridiculous. Just ridiculous. The same goes for warnings on anything packed in a plastic bag coming with a label warning of potential danger of suffocation. I get it but still.
I’m very intentionally skipping #5 in this post. Please don’t remind me of how long it’s been since my last visit and how overdue an appointment is…
Regarding the recipe posts I think two per week are a good amount. If you wanted to share a few more every other week I wouldn’t worry about getting too impersonal. Just please keep Spoons from becoming a full-own food blog, okay? Not because your recipes weren’t tempting but I’d miss your random musings.
Happy Thursday!
Oooh lalaaa baked oatmeal is bomb! I was on a major kick sometime ago…can’t wait for your recipe!
Wha? Definitely kinda totally shocking about banning the joyful Kinder eggs..everyone loves ’em here and has never choked on the toys. Oh did you try the Kinder beuno? My favorite Kinder chocolate for sure. That said, you aren’t allergic to hazelnuts right?
Ditto on having the hardest time choosing a specific book to start on from a pile – kills me every time!
I’m not -entirely- sure how I react to hazelnuts, actually. I don’t think I have an issue with them, but I generally try to avoid anything that’s straight up hazelnut/pecan/walnut/cashew/etc. I should probably experiment and see, but it’s kind of freaky to mess with allergies 😆
I love coffee on any kind of day! However, I am from Seattle where there are a bunch of coffee lovers and it rains a lot here, so I can totally relate to what you’re saying!
I usually eat the ears of the chocolate bunny first! I have no idea why but that’s just what I do! I’m due to see the dentist soon and I think I might hold off before seeing him due to all the chocolate I’ve been eating! lol
Oh my gosh, the chocolate bunny made me laugh out loud! Poor bunny. 😉
I haven’t had a kinder egg in years! I used to love them, though the toys were never the great attraction, aaaall about the chocolate 😀 recently my chocolate egg consumption has moved to the creme egg (ofc) and the cadbury’s caramel egg…noms
As far as the bunny goes, I didn’t get one this year but last year I had a giant Swiss white chocolate bunny, (a gift from someone, I’m not really a big white chocolate fan to be honest) and I do believe I started at the ears. Probably because the chocolate was thicker at his feet, saving the best for last!