I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
Last night my family gave in to my coercion. They all agreed to do the Rockin' R triathlon with me in Gruene (pronounced like my favorite color), Texas! It's in four weeks and one day from now. I'm so excited that they're going to give it a shot. I ran 2.3 miles today and 2.6 miles yesterday. The run distance on this triathlon is just 3.3, so it's doable. The bike is 13.5 miles and the swim is 400 meters. Now the question is do I try to redeem myself from the awful stats I had last year by shaving off at least a half hour of my pathetic finish time or do I play mamabear to my cubs if they're needing some encouragement?
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I think this is awesome. I can't wait to hear how it goes, and to see lots of pix!