Cinnamon

Like the Neil Young song.

The bad news is that I didn’t end up making the new recipe last night for dinner because I realized I was missing a key ingredient. It was getting late, I’d had a long day at work and I didn’t feel up to making a trip to the store before eating dinner. The good news is that I will be making it sometime this week and I wound up having a delicious veggie filled dinner.

Spaghetti squash I baked on Monday night for the week with some jarred tomato basil sauce (don’t judge- I was hungry) and left over grilled veggies, corn and asparagus.

After dinner I had a bit of a sweet tooth and this locally baked bread starting calling my name.

I don’t know what it is about cinnamon, but I love it. I can’t get enough of cinnamon breads, cinnamon in my oats, cinnamon swirl peanut butter, the list goes on. Things really haven’t changed much because growing up Ccinnamon Toast Crunch and Cinnamon Life were my favorite cereals.

I had half a slice of this heavenly bread (notice the intricate cutting job) with some PB&CO cinnamon swirl peanut butter.

After sitting around the house for a good while reading blogs and debating on whether or not I should go work out, I finally mustered up the energy to grab a book I started on vacay, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and hit up the gym.I was happy that I went because I ended up walking an hour on the mill while immersed in the book. I was nearing the end (about 40 pages left) when I pried myself off the treadmill and headed home. I spent a tiny bit of time scooping a bowl of Julie’s Organic Cinnamon Apple Frozen Yogurt and then settled back into reading. (I just can’t get away from the cinnamon.)

This was a new to me yogurt and I was pleased, as it was smooth and decadent and felt as though I was eating Apple Pie a la mode. I ended finishing both the yogurt and the book. I’ll let you guess which was finished first?

So, the yogurt was good, as for the book- it was heart wrenching, but overall phenomenal. It’s a fictional novel, but I enjoyed the political and historical undertones that were dispersed throughout. It never seemed like a history lesson, but I feel that I learned quite a bit about Afghan culture, their view of women, and what the people who lived there during war endured. It definitely made me appreciate the many things I take for granted in life!

I highly recommend A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

Have you read this one or Hossenini’s other book, The Kite Runner? What did you think?

Happy Humpday!

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