Pear and Greens Salad with Maple Vinaigrette

I made the most awesome-ness (don’t worry, totally a word) salad this week.

The recipe was from bettycrocker.com and can be found here.

I thought the combo of fresh fruit (pears), with pecans and a maple salad dressing sounded interesting. Scott loves anything with syrup, so I figured he would be all over it! I wasn’t sure how the maple syrup would be as the main ingredient of the salad dressing, but it turned out really delicious.

Sweet, but not too much, and a nice compliment to the pecans (I used walnuts) and pears. I also added carrots, grapes, and a sprinkle of parmesan cheese to give the salad more bulk.

If you are looking for a new salad combo – give it a try!

 

Problems!

As you may or may not have noticed with all my random “test” posts and posts that go up for a few minutes and then are removed. . . I am having some problems with blogging. I use Windows Live Writer and ever since my 1 year blog-versary (I know, I know – the irony!), it won’t let me post without giving me this error message:

“Error attempting to connect to blog at: https://running4cupcakes.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.”

I have sent in a request to wordpress for their help, I have my super smart husband trying to figure it out, I have googled- but to no answers!

If you have any ideas or have dealt with this yourself, I would appreciate any help! Otherwise, cross your fingers for me to figure this out soon, cause I have some fun posts coming up (hopefully!).

One year blog-versary

One year ago today, on February 20, 2011, I started blogging on running4cupcakes!

I really had no idea what to expect when I first started, but it has been a great (almost) year. I haven’t really been blogging for a year yet because of my 4 month break this winter but I thought I should still ‘celebrate’ the day!

If only I had a cupcake!

I just want to take this day to thank all of my family for reading from the beginning and being supportive of all the pictures I take, you know, for the blog! And to thank my husband for encouraging me to start blogging and being supportive by waiting to eat dinner until I am done taking pictures, posing in pictures with and for me, and reading all of my posts.

And of course, I can’t talk about the blog, without thanking the dog – the true star of running4cupcakes!

I also want to thank all of you (the readers who are not related to me!) for reading my posts and commenting and supporting running4cupcakes! I really appreciate it. a lot!

Taking a look back. . . my first post! I really had no idea what I was getting into – but I am so happy I took that first step. Looking forward to another year sharing my day to day adventures with you.