Hungry Hungry Hippie

Monthly Archive: December 2011

Yay Area

I’ve managed to create my own personal Twelve Days of Christmas: 12 hours night shift-ing 6 miles bike riding 10 minutes showering 0 seconds sleeping 350 miles I-5-ing 2 stops for peeing HOME SWEET HOME!   We arrived to an empty house (family was out seeing the new Sherlock Holmes movie), but it still felt warm and home-y thanks to the decorations. I immediately raided my parents’ kitchen (as I do whenever I get home). It’s a hippie dream come true! The winner of all snacks?   Trader Joe’s Iced Triple Ginger Biscotti Hell to… Read more >

December 31, 2011 granola Read more >

A parrilla in espana

After covering Madrid on foot, you’d think I’d just want to pass out rest before dinner.  You’d be correct.  Then my dad got inspired and somehow dragged me into checking out the hotel gym with him.  “Just to see it.”  One thing led to another and suddenly I was roped into a 5:30 pm workout date with my pops.  Damn.  I had totally come to peace with my exercise free vacay.  Sure I was slightly annoyed that I had wasted precious cargo space on my running shoes and other cardio gear, but I like being… Read more >

December 31, 2011 Uncategorized Read more >

Clean Food Cornbread (with a side of eggs)

Another Clean Food success story.    Since I was working on the 25th, Kyle made me Christmas dinner, which included Terry Walters’ skillet cornbread recipe.  He made it in a casserole dish instead, with a few changes, indicated below. Clean Food Cornbread 1/2 cup corn flour 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal 1 cup unbleached all purpose flour 2 tsp powder egg replacer 1 whole egg 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup rice milk almond milk 3 tbsp maple syrup 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 1 seeded, minced jalapeno… Read more >

December 30, 2011 clean food recipe, corn nuts, eggs, food should taste good, lollihop, oatmeal, seitan, Read more >

Butter me up

I’m sorry for leaving you all in suspense after the nutty teaser. I made this trio of nut butter spreads for Kyle’s dad… Holiday Spiced Peanut butter Chocolate Cake Almond Butter Coconut Peanut Butter There weren’t really leftovers…mostly because Kyle kept poking his head in the kitchen when he heard the food processor stop…smart boy.  But I did make an extra batch of the chocolate one.  Because you can never have too much cocoa almond butter. Since we’re on the subject of chocolate, I may as well start with that recipe. Chocolate Cake Almond Butter… Read more >

December 29, 2011 almonds, nutbutter, nuts, peanut butter Read more >

Cavity central

Our apartment is a dentist’s nightmare.  The only thing I brought back from Argentina was chocolate.  Chocolate bars, chocolate cookies, chocolate covered this and chocolate covered that. Cadbury makes so many products you can’t get here in the states, so I obviously had to bring home several to sample.  And since I fell in love with alfajor cookies, I brought a dozen or so of them back with me too. Needless to say, I have a few pounds of desserts to work through in 2012 and I’m very happy about it. Add on top of… Read more >

December 29, 2011 chocolate, larabar, lollihop Read more >