by niccolapiccola | Sep 24, 2013 | books, food, yoga
This is my new personal trainer. His name is TRX and he gives me a total body workout through suspension training, without all the yelling! Never heard of suspension training? The TRX leverages gravity and your bodyweight to perform fun and different resistant...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 22, 2013 | Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food
Happy First Day of Fall! It’s about 80 degrees here today, but I’m celebrating with pumpkin chocolate chip cookies anyway! The cookies are for my good friend Sara who had a birthday on Thursday, and we’re having a belated BBQ/party for her, with the...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 20, 2013 | animals and such, Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food, Quick dinner ideas
Did you all see the Harvest Moon last night?? It was big and bright, and made me think about re-harvesting my garden for the start of fall on Sunday. I’m big into squash right now in all of it’s forms- spaghetti, acorn, table queen and my favorite,...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 19, 2013 | Baked goodies, Desserts and Yum Yums, food, Quick dinner ideas, yoga
And cookies, cakes, breads… Make me desserts and yum yums and I’ll train even harder! It’s no shocker that I love to eat but not at the cost of my waistline anymore. These days there’s so many substitutes for sugar, flour and butter that...
by niccolapiccola | Sep 17, 2013 | Quick dinner ideas, slow cooking
Does anyone else out there miss Seinfeld? Gosh, I do. My friend Lynn and I quote lines and act out little skits from our favorite episodes that are prevalent in our life. We are quite funny, at least we think we are and really, that’s all that matters! My...
