What a beautiful morning! It’s cool and crisp, yet bright and sunny. It’s the perfect fall day. I can’t wait to go outside and enjoy this wonderful weather. Fall in Boston is my favorite season. There’s nothing better.
Breakfast
I woke up with a grumbling stomach, so I headed straight for the kitchen to make breakfast. I started with a couple of pieces of Manna bread with Teddie peanut butter spread on top.
I also drank a smoothie made with banana, strawberries, shredded zucchini, ground flaxseed meal, and vanilla soymilk.
Smoothies are so delicious. Why don’t I drink them more often?!
Actually, I know why I don’t drink smoothies more often. I hate cleaning up the mess. I’m so lazy sometimes.
ThinkFood
Check out what came in the mail for me yesterday!!
My recipe for Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies is published in this cookbook! ThinkFood features 50 brain-healthy recipes from bloggers around the globe.
I’m a real life published author! So cool!!! 
Blog Bake Sale to Support TNT
Thanks to everyone who sent me their Blog Bake Sale donations!! They’re greatly appreciated!
I’ve decided to move the Blog Bake Sale to support Team In Training to Tuesday, September 14, so I hope this works for everyone’s schedule. If not, just let me know.
If you’d like to contribute something to the Bake Sale, please send me an email at tina@carrotsncake.com with your name, the baked good(s) that you would like to donate, a short description of it, and a photo and/or link to its deliciousness by next Sunday, September 12. You don’t need to be a blogger to participate. All baked goods are welcomed!
P.S. Today is your last day to enter the raffle to win a custom banner for your blog! Details here!
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Congrats on your recipe being published! I still have to bake up some of those tasty little guys. You can’t go wrong with a combo of oats, banana, and chocolate
Ooh you’re world- famous now! Or even more so than you were
Courgette in a smoothie – awesome idea!
Wow! That ThinkFood cookbook looks gorgeous- I’ll have to check it out. It’s so awesome that you are published in there!
Smoothies are AMAZINGNESS. Period. Worth the cleanup…although I always white about it as well!
How fun!!! I am definitely going to pick up that cookbook!!
I am definitely with you on the smoothies. Blenders are such a pain to clean!!!
If they made easy to clean blenders I’m pretty sure I would be eating smoothies nonstop!
Congrats on having your recipe published Tina, that’s amazing!
I would love to be a part of the bake sale, I’m sending you an email right now!
I loovee smoothies, too! Have one most days
Congrats on your featured recipe!! That’s awesome!
That is so cool on the recipe being published! It feels great when that happens doesn’t it? Enjoy the weather!
Is that posit science’s cookbook?
That’s so great that your recipe got published!
I just had a slice PB & honey toast, and a smoothie would go ooooh so well
I love smoothies too but I’m totally with you on cleaning the mess. I hate it.
Just curious about the donation. When you go to the information about the banner and donation it says the raffle ended Friday. Does it or is it today?
Congrats on being published!
I’m going to look into the Blog Bake sale, I think I might like to participate!
I love smoothies too — but I hate the mess and sometimes they fill me up and sometimes they make me hungrier! Depends on the day I suppose!
@whitney: Today!
Congrats on your recipe being published!! That is very cool! I am glad it is a beautiful fall day in Boston for you
Those are the best!
Congrats on getting your recipe published! I need to try those cookies out!
I LOVE smoothies, but I’m with you on being too lazy to clean up the mess on a daily basis!
Congrats on the recipe getting published! That’s so exciting! I love how they have the “About the Blogger” section on the bottom
congratulations!
Wow! Congrats on being published! If there’s one thing I miss about Boston it’s the Fall. And for a few years I lived out in Lenox in the Berkshires; the colors on the trees! I miss foliage, lol!
Wow congrats on the recipe!!!!
Congrats! That’s awesome!
Ahhh that’s so cool!! Congrats! I’ll have to try that recipe soon
so cool about your recipe!
we have had a beautiful weekend here, too!
Congrats! The cookies look awesome, too. I’m with you on smoothie clean-up. I rarely even use a blender because I hate cleaning them!
Congrats on the published recipe!
I’m with you on the smoothies– love ‘em but hate cleaning blenders, haha.
I’ve been baking your cookies all over the place! Sooooo tasty.
Fall is my favorite season, too. The crispness of the air combined with the colorful leaves and delicious seasonal produce makes it a winning time of year.
That’s the same reason I don’t make smoothies more often. I hate cleaning the blender afterward!
Congratulations on being published! I’m going to try your cookie recipe soon!
Congrats on being a real life published author! That is definitely so exciting….and those cookies look amazing!
Congratulations! And soon you’ll be a real book author, too. So exciting for you!
Congrats–I love to hear about all the fun opportunities that come your way!
I’ve found the easiest way to clean a blender is add a drop of dish soap, half a blender-full of warm water, put the lid back on, and run the blender! Dump out the soap, rinse, and ta-da! This has usually worked for me, except with uber-sticky stuff, (hummus, nut butter, etc.)
I placed an order for manna bread after seeing a picture of your breakfast. Yum. Congrats on being published – looking forward to trying out the recipe.
I am the same way w/ smoothies!!
I am so happy for you that your recipe was published in such a beautiful book! Congrats!
That cookbook looks wonderful! SO COOL that you have a recipe in it – and such a yummy-looking one!
What is manna bread and Teddie PB? I’m assuming Teddie PB is simply the brand, but just wondering…have you tried Better ‘n Peanut Butter, which is about 1/2 the fat and calories of most normal natural peanut butters? It’s delicious, but does have to be refridgerated, which minimizes the room temp creamy goodness I love about PB!
@Tara: Yep, I’ve Better ‘N Peanut Butter. I don’t like it.