How to stay warm in the winter:
Option One: Hats and scarves!
I must have about a billion scarves (and lots of winter hats as well). To me, scarves are the only fun part of cold weather. Otherwise I’d be happy if it were 75 degrees all year long.
And they double as photography props, like in this oatmeal photo.
But there is another way to stay warm…
Option Two: Henry and Batman choose to park their butts in front of the heat dish.
All. Day. Long.
They even exercise in front of it:
Strrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrretch!
(Henry is very good at downward facing dog.)
Batman is just very good at being cute.
I haven’t been posting many photos of them lately, because they live at my parents’ house and I often forget to bring my camera when I visit. But they’re just as adorable as always!
Option Three: Pumpkin Bread in a Bowl.
It’s one of my favorite warm breakfasts, and it tastes especially good with raisins. Or chocolate chips, of course! I’d share with Batman and Henry… however, they won’t even leave the heat dish for food. Their hierarchy: heat > food > walks > everything else.
Question of the Day:
Do you like scarves? And winter hats?
Tomorrow: Another way to stay warm… A chocolate way 
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I do so love scarves, not just for winter, but all year ’round. And I must wear hats, I’m so sun sensitive. Hats with big-wide brims. So they’re not really winter hats. Put I just put different scarves around my hat, add a seasonal pin and it looks like I have bunches of hats. Then a scarf around my neck,
I also think Henry and Batman are cute. No dogs for me now, but I have two cats. One can be adorable, when she’s not a grouch, and the other is adorable ALL the time, even when he’s bad. ♥
I love scarves, must have a gazillion myself! Hats, not so much. I also like to stay warm by standing in front of a Zac Efron poster. I pride myself on my resourcefulness (;
Girl!
You are absolutely stunningly beautiful!
I look so funny in hats. I wish I didn’t, because I love them and they keep my head nice and toasty :).
You look adorable! I’m not a fan of winter hats/beanies but I do love my scarves. By the way, your dogs are so darn cute!
Cute dogs! Haha, I guess TX doesn’t get as cold as it does up north where I live. We have to actually wear hats instead of photoshopping them on! 🙁
Us to! Photoshopped hats just wouldn’t cut it where I live!
Katie, just to let you know if you get a lot of these bs comments (which it seems like you’re getting) they’re all from the same place. Gomi! I swear I don’t post there, but I do sometimes read the crap just for laughs at how stupid some people can be and how sad and sorry their lives are!
If I were you I’d delete the comments, because they’re TROLLS!
What is Gomi? I just thought she was making a joke about the weather by pasting on hair with a hat on it – like being ironic or something? Sorry if it was offensive in some way. I’m really confused.
Sorry Christine, but the hair in the photo is 100% mine. I have great hair… why would I need to photoshop it? 🙂
You do have great hair! I just thought you were playing a joke with the hat though. Sorry for the misunderstanding!
I agree that you have great hair!
But I don’t agree that you don’t photoshop it.
What about this photo?
http://66.147.244.204/~chocolh2/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/acorn_thumb.jpg
That photo’s from my 3000 calorie post, right? It’s obviously not a photo (in other words, I was trying to be funny with the acorn, which is obviously not really on my head!). I probably tried to fix the hair to make the acorn sit more naturally… and I say “probably” because that picture is over two years old and I don’t remember even posting it! But if you’re interested, here’s the original photo–where my hair is NOT photoshopped: https://lett-trim.today/2007/10/25/wonder-no-more/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Thanks for the info – that makes a lot of sense!
I guess I just get put off by all the photoshopping. It feels fake or forced to me.
I love your food photos. Those are really great.
I guess I was just trying to be funny. Even I think it looks dumb, in retrospect. I have another photoshopped photo of me somewhere on my blog, where I put my face on a bumblebee… I did that kind of stuff a lot when I first started my blog. Nowadays I try to use photoshop as little as possible, even for my food photos (although I definitely still do use it for those)… because–as you pointed out–I’m not very good with photoshop! I’d rather spend the time trying to learn how to make them look good straight out of the camera :).
Im a registered dietitian and have worked many years feeding people in all sorts of clinical situations including people who could not eat by mouth and were fed by a feeding tube.You know exactly how many calories a patient is receiving and for your information there are people who are “hypermetabolic” who do not gain weight no matter how many calories I gave them via a feeding tube . I do not know Katie personally so I cannot vouch that she eats 3000 calories a day or not. But I think it is unfair to her to say that someone cannot gain weight on 3000 calories a day. Katie- I think you are a beautiful, lovely young lady and I appreciate your blog as a registered dietitian to make desserts and treats healthy and good for you. Ive made several of your recipes- all of which have turned out deliciuos. Keep up the good work and dont let the negativity get to you.
3000 calories? You actually claim you eat 3000 calories a day????? You must be the exception to the rule of thermodynamics, the missing link, the only human alive who can eat more calories than they consume and continue to maintain an unhealthily low body weight.
I hope you get help some day.
You have the audacity to comment on this blog claiming CCK is unhealthy and underweight! There are many people who do, in fact, eat that plus more and don’t gain weight. You have some nerve picking at people you know nothing about. Keep your ignorant and foolish comments off this blog!
She didn’t say anything about your hair ..? I’m confused as well.
um yes she did. learn how to read, mel!
sorry katie, feel free to delete my response if you wish.
I love scarfs, but not hats. Chocolate ways are the best ways to stay warm! 🙂
Aww your puppies are so cute!! I don’t blame them- I’m the same way when it comes to my space heater. Staying near it reigns supreme so I try and do all tasks while sitting RIGHT in front of it. And mmm I needed a new warm breakfast option so I’ll have to make that Pumpkin one!
Haha I don’t have a choice – I live in Chicago! I have a knee-length puffy coat, a hat, gloves and tons of scarves!
Katie, those dogs of yours are total cuties! I have two little dogs myself that I use for heat–yorkies make great lap, leg, and feet warmers 🙂
Yummy! You are way to inventive.
Love a good woolly hat!
You are gorgeous, CCK! Proof of that healthy vegan diet you eat? 😉
I’m transitioning to vegan, and you’ve been a huge influence. You’re amazing!
No need to photoshop! Your fans will still love you, Katie, even if you show them how you look without “enhancement” or fake hats.
Katie, if you get a lot of these bs comments (which it seems like you’re getting) they’re all from the same place. Gomi! I swear I don’t post there, but I do sometimes read the crap just for laughs at how stupid some people can be and how sad and sorry their lives are!
If I were you I’d delete the comments, because they’re TROLLS!
I’m not sure you know what the definition of “troll” is in terms of Web forums, S. Katie, I really meant it when I said that your fans love you. How is that trolling?
Looks like your pups have their priorities straight, lol!
I, too, am transitioning to vegan and find myself coming to your website more and more. Thank you!!!!!
One word: AAWWWWWWWWWW 😀 😀 😀
And yes, I looove scarves! I never get to wear them much in Florida, though 🙁 I have 5 really cute ones, too!
Adooooorable. And I do like scarves, and hats. Unfortunately I don’t love shopping so I haven’t accumulated like… any of them. Maybe two. And they were gifts, lulz.
Just thought you might be interested, I tried making your classic carrot cake recipe yesterday! It seemed to turn out well, and I used this particular kind of carrot in Tokushima called a “kintoki” carrot. It’s a vibrantly red-orange color, and I can’t wait to see what it does to the color of the interior of the cake. I still need to ice it before I serve it, but I will take pictures and link you when I do =D
Ooh I’m excited to see!