Monthly Archive: October 2010

Italiano

For dinner I had pie on the brain. Pizza pie. Luckily I had a pre-made crust by Udi’s gluten free foods ready to go…thus reducing my prep time to under 30 minutes.  Rachel Ray, you’ve got some competition. Udi’s provided me with the gluten free goods to review on the blog.  In addition to being gluten free, they are also dairy free, soy free, and nut free.  Basically, they are devoid of almost every common allergen. They are thinner than the typical pizza crust, but just as soft and doughy. These were my toppings of… Read more >

BYOL

One of the easiest ways to make sure you eat well and save money is bringing your own food to work.  I’m practically a pro at packing meals to-go because I work at a job that requires it.  As a nurse, I’m often squeezing snacks and meals in whenever I can.  Unlike my days off, when I can eat whenever I’m hungry, the timing of my meals at work is instead based on my patients’ stability.  In NYC, I brought my lunch every single day.  If you add it up, those 2 1/2 years of… Read more >

‘Aint nothing wannabe about it

Evan’s vegan fudge is no joke.  I can’t put it into words.  I mean, look at that! Still not sure why he’s a “wannabe” chef.  As far as I’m concerned, this dessert is about as close to heaven as it gets.  For Evan’s recipe, click here.  I altered mine because I didn’t have some of the ingreds on hand, so I made the following changes. Ingredients: 1 cup vegan chocolate chips 2 tbsp. cocoa powder 1/2 cup coconut oil vegan butter substitute the Earth Balance was empty when I opened it 1/8 cup almond milk… Read more >

Breaking the feast

The building blocks for a delicious work lunch… Avocado and tofu.  Since I make my work lunches the night before, I am usually in a rush to get to bed.  Thus, tofu prep tends to be on the minimalist side.  I like plain ‘fu so I don’t really care much.  All I did was cut some of the block into cubes, spritz it with Bragg’s and microwave it in a glass bowl with a CoverMate cover.  After 45 seconds, I flipped them around a bit, and popped them back in for another 45 seconds.  It’s… Read more >

Good friends, good food, good times

My birthday post last left off with an unopened bottle of Gallo 2007 Cab. We took care of that. Glug glug glug. My birthday suit freakum’ dress – how’d I do Kailey?  I’m fairly certain this was supposed to be a shirt, but I’m not the tallest (ok, I’m short) so I do what I do. For dinner we went to a sushi restaurant in Santa Monica called Wokcano recommended by a friend.  There are a few other locations of this restaurant, all in Southern California. While the rest of our party trickled in, I… Read more >