All Over The Place

Hey!!! Hope you're weekend is going splendidly! :D Sorry about the lack of posting....I seem to do this over the weekends....and I turned into a lazy person on Friday this week too, apparently. See, here, Friday was a holiday. St. John's holiday, I believe. It is celebrated by lighting bonfires and eating extreme amounts of corn-based food. I don't mind average corn products like grits (love) or grilled corn (love even more), but we've got some weird stuff to go along with it, such as corn ice cream and canjica, which is sort of like a corn pudding w/ a jello-like consistency. Yum. Of course, not all Brazilian corn-based snacks are bad. We also have munguza, which is hominy cooked in condensed milk and coconut milk to make a creamy, yummy dessert. It may sound weird, but it is actually quite delicious....especially with cinnamon on top.
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So besides being surrounded by lots and lots of corn, I've also got to do some fun stuff this weekend. Hung out w/ the family most of Thursday, Friday and yesterday. One of my best friends was home so we Skyped, which was super fun!!!! She also checked out the blog for the first time (I get nervous about telling people that I actually know that I have a blog....am I the only one?) and LOVED it!!!!! And then, last night, I went to some friends' house for a little while, and came home to watch some old family movies. Fun stuff. What have you been up to this weekend? 

Remember how the other day I said that I had 3 recipes for ya'll? One was the brownie, another one I had already made, and the last was in the oven. Well, the last one still needs some tweaking, so I can't share it yet, but I do have that second recipe right here for ya:

No Rise Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup oil
• 3/4 cup milk
• 8 tablespoons butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon

Directions:

1. Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.
2. Stir in oil, mix until combined, stir in milk, and mix until combined.
3. Turn out dough on a floured surface, knead until smooth, roll into a 15x8 in rectangle. 
4. Spread butter over dough, combine sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle over butter.
5. Roll up rectangle from long side, pinch seams to seal. 
6. Cut into 10-12 slices. Bake in a greased dish at 400 for 15-20 minutes.

These were delicious and much easier than typical cinnamon rolls. One thing that I found was that I had too much butter and cinnamon/sugar for the filling. So, next time I make these, I will use about half of the filling in the rolls, and pour the other half on top of them once they are in the baking dish. 



As I was typing out my recipe, I came to the realization that I haven't actually shared a workout in a long time! So, here is one of my current favorites; a 30 minute killer incline jog that can be modified to fit anyone's fitness level!!!! Here ya go:

30 Minute Treadmill Jog with Incline

Minutes 1-5                  Jog, at an incline of 1, at an easy pace to warm up. 

Minutes 5-7                  Increase the speed by 1/2 to 1 mile, jog at an incline of 2. 

Minutes 7-9                  Do not change the speed, increase incline to 4.

Minutes 9-11                Keeping the same speed, increase incline to 6.

Minutes 11-13              Run at an incline of 8.

Minutes 13-18              Decrease speed by 1/2 to 1 mile and incline to 1, run at an easy pace to recover.

Minutes 18-26              Repeat minutes 5-13. 

Minutes 26-30              Reduce speed and incline, run at an easy pace to cool down. 

I loove this workout because I can customize the speed depending on how I am feeling that day or on how hard I want my workout to be. If anyone tries this out, let me know what you think!!!

So this has been an insanely long post...sorry about that. :P

Hope you have an awesome Sunday!