Fun and Fearless Friday Five

Can I just say one more time how long this week has been?  I feel absolutely drained from the craziness of this week and I am so ready for the weekend!  So, I wanted to share five things that I'm truly excited about today:

1.  Breakfast tacos!  Back in August, Tristan of Enjoy Life With Breakfast asked me if I'd like to contribute a guest blog post for his blog.  Since I love whipping up a hearty breakfast on the weekends, I was definitely interested but traveling, work, and life in general had me put this guest blog post on the back burner.  Last weekend I finally decided to get to work on my guest blog post, which led me to make egg white and mushroom breakfast tacos!

If you love breakfast as much as I do, please head over to my guest blog post and check out my breakfast tacos!

2.  Hood New England Chef's Challenge: The folks at Hood have asked me (along with my fellow local food bloggers Meghan and Athena) to serve as judges for Hood New England Chef's Challenge.  From what I understand, a number of New England chefs will create a holiday-themed recipe featuring Hood Sour Cream.  They will be given 60 minutes to prepare, cook and serve their recipes to the judges.  It's a tough job but somebody's got to do it!  I've never judged a food competition before so this should be interesting and I'll definitely recap the event here on my blog.

3.  Portland, Maine:  The folks at Hood were gracious enough to give me a complimentary hotel room for the contest so Bret and I decided to make an entire weekend out of it.  Since we had such a blast in Portland during our last visit, we're planning on hitting up a few of our favorite spots, along with trying out some new food-related destinations!

We'll definitely be grabbing some more bagels from Scratch!

And we'll be stocking up on some oils and vinegars from LeRoux!

4.  Boothbay, Maine: On Saturday night, Bret and I are planning on heading up to Boothbay to visit our good friends Alan and Tanya.  From my first visit to trips where the car broke down, I've never had a bad time in Boothbay and I'm excited for a return visit.  I'm especially excited since Alan and Tanya are expecting their first child and I haven't seen them since we heard the good news!

5.  Halloween: Okay, I actually am not a huge fan of Halloween.  I hate dressing up in costumes and I don't find the appeal in dressing as a "sexy" ______ (fill in the blank) to be appealing.  That being said, Bret adores Halloween and in an effort of compromise, I try to cheerfully dress up when he coerces asks me to.  Since Alan and Tanya are having a Halloween party on Saturday night, I bought a costume.  I won't tell you all what it is but I will say that it is food-related.  Until then, I'll leave you with a picture of me from last year's Halloween when I dressed up as Britney Spears (a la Circus).

Happy Friday! What fun plans do you have this weekend?