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Last Sunday, we celebrated Easter as a team. We started the day off like any other group of people on a holiday – with long runs ranging from 17 to 23 miles. Then we all went home to rest up and prepare a dish to bring to Sara and Steve Slatterys’ condominium for Easter dinner.
I felt inspired to bring something that fit the holiday, but something that would also force me to be a little creative. After much hemming and hawing, I finally resolved to make sweet potato puree with a twist. Rather than adding marshmallows to the dish, I would add Easter peeps.
My sister and I have always loved Easter peeps. Every year, we bought a box as soon as they arrived in the stores. In the last few years, I’ve started to like them a little less, but I still crave them, mostly for nostalgic reasons. Their novelty has started to wear off a little bit now that they make them for every holiday (part of the company’s campaign called “Peeps – Always in Season”), but the Easter ones are still the real deal. I’ve bought the Christmas-tree-shaped peeps for gingerbread houses a few times, but most years I save up my peep appetite for Easter.
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Hi, this is my blog in TFS’s Elite Athlete Blog Series. Bookmark http://kateoneill.thefinalsprint.com/ and check back every other Monday for my latest entry as I strive for the 2008 Summer Olympics!
As I write this blog, I am on my way back from the Lisbon, Portugal. My plane is about to land in Frankfurt, Germany where I have a five hour layover before my 11 hour flight back to the US. So I still have a long day of travel ahead of me! On the bright side, the change in time zones will make St. Patrick’s Day seven hours longer for me! As someone who is 99.999% Irish I’ll try to find some joy in that fact, even though St. Patrick’s Day hasn’t really been the same since I moved from the East Coast and started missing my parents’ annual corned beef and cabbage dinner.
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