Well, you guys. This is it. I’m off to go get married!

It feels surreal that the day has finally come. When I get back, I’ll be twenty eight and married {we get home on my birthday!}. I guess that makes me an official grown up? Weird. It feels like a whole new beginning in my life, one that I am undeniably excited and ready for!

Like I said last week, I’m powering down now but can’t wait to share all the photos and details of our big day and honeymoon with you guys when we return in June. Now what usually happens when I travel is that my Type A personality drives me to work on overdrive for weeks prior to the trip, storing up enough recipe posts to get us through until I return. This time it’s a little different. I had to let go of all that because, quite honestly, I just didn’t have enough time this go around. Between my job here, my volunteer job, Noonday and wedding planning, there literally hasn’t been an extra hour in my day for months. But that’s okay. I let go of the mentality that I have to do it all and instead, have done what I can and now just am going to go enjoy the moment. Can someone say vacation honeymoon?

So all that being said, I felt like I had to leave y’all with one last REALLY GOOD recipe.

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Italian Tuna Salad

by jenna on May 20, 2013

Hey y’all!

It’s wedding week! I truly can’t believe it. I really feel like just yesterday we got engaged…the time has just flown by, as everyone promised it would. And as excited I am for the big day on Saturday, I’m trying to just pause, take a breath and relish the moment….all this sweet anticipation and excitement inside that I’ll never get back. I want to bottle it all up and hold onto it forever. I also can’t believe that this time next week, we’ll be in Paris!

I have a nice and easy recipe for you guys today. It’s one of my favorite lunches and I thought that it was high time I share! I’ve always been a fan of tuna salad, and this is sort of a “mature” tuna salad. No globs of creamy mayo, no funky metallic tasting tuna. I think this is how tuna salad was meant to be eaten —- lots of bright flavor and texture. It takes under five minutes to make and keeps me full all afternoon!

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Whole Wheat Apricot Crostata

May 17, 2013

The other day, in the midst of honeymoon packing and wedding seating assignments {what a headache!}, I baked something sort of ugly. Well. Okay. Let’s call it rustic. I baked something sort of rustic. I had just enough ripe apricots left over in the fruit bowl and some lonely whole wheat pastry flour in the [...]

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I’m Going To Ethiopia

May 15, 2013

Yep, the title of this post pretty much says it all! This August, I’ll be traveling to Ethiopia with my lovely friends over at FashionABLE to meet the inspiring women behind the gorgeous scarves. I have talked about FashionABLE many times on this space in the past, but if you’re new, they are a nonprofit [...]

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Fair Trade Giveaway

May 13, 2013

Happy Tuesday! I am super passionate about Fair Trade and am excited to give away this absolutely amazing package of Fair Trade treats to one lucky reader today! Here’s a little description, courtesy of Fair Trade USA, of each yummy item in the package as well as the twitter handle of each brand in case [...]

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Double Chocolate Fudge Cookies

May 13, 2013

Well, you guys. It’s finally time. I can finally say that I’m getting married next week. That’s NUTS. That being said, you can probably imagine what this week is like for me. I’m scrambling. I’m packing for our wedding + honeymoon {we won’t be back until mid-June}, finishing up all the wedding details and all [...]

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Lemon Blueberry Muffin Bread

May 11, 2013

Good morning. This is for those in need of a last minute Mother’s Day brunch recipe! This breakfast bread that tastes exactly like a giant blueberry muffin. And who doesn’t like a giant muffin?! No one. It’s so good slathered with salted butter that I can’t even stand it. Pin It

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Beet Pesto Pasta {GIVEAWAY!}

May 9, 2013

I’m just so excited. I feel like SO many of my lovely friends have cookbooks out this spring and I’m so proud of them! I had been waiting a long time for this book to come out by my sweet friend, Heather Christo, and it did not disappoint. You guys — this is, without a [...]

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