Monthly Archive: January 2012

Salty, sweet, savory, scrumptious

Any resemblance this sweet & salty snack has to an eight legged arthropod is completely unintentional. I made them on the late night because I was craving both chocolate and salt at the same time and couldn’t find anything on hand that would satisfy my sophisticated palate.    I would rather die before heading to bed with an un-sated appetite, so clearly I had to make something to get my dessert fix.  cocoa powder peanut flour water raw almonds pretzel sticks turbinado sugar (or stevia) Mix the cocoa, peanut flour, sugar, salt and water until… Read more >

Crockpot Steel Cut Oats

Are you ready for this? Slow Cooker Irish Oatmeal Ingredients: 1 cup steel cut oats 4 cups liquids (I used 3 cups water & 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk) 2 tsp cinnamon 1 apple, skinned & chopped 1/4 cup raisins stevia to taste Directions: Add apples, raisins, and cinnamon to crock-pot.  Plus 1 cup steel cut oats.  Then 4 cups liquids. Stir everything up and set crock-pot to low setting for 7 hours. Above is what it looked like at 10 pm. Below is what it looked like at 5 am. Ok, you can’t… Read more >

Two cool photos

One: Business School Chocolates   Two: Pink a$$ running shoes   And you thought my work shoes were pink.  Ha!  My new running shoes take the girly girl color to the next level.  Just thought I’d share.  Back to my regular programming tomorrow.

They aren’t all amazing

I think there’s a misconception about how I eat.  For every new recipe I create and share with you guys, there are five others I don’t show because they look like this… Oatmeal with melty peanut butter, cinnamon, and raisins.  Not exactly reinventing the wheel with this one.   I don’t have magic spells that bake cakes while I’m at work (Sleeping Beauty reference anyone?), nor do I have ingenuity oozing from my pores.  Especially after 12 hours of nursing.   Simple is fine by me.   So whether it’s oats with the works or… Read more >

Wine Winner

I came home to this scene the other day.    Whaaaa? It was like the twilight zone.  Donuts?  Chocolates?  Just lying out on the counter?  Who’s apartment did I mistakenly walk into?  Turns out Kyle had a business meeting and someone else brought them over. I also found out later that he threw the donuts away (but kept the chocolate).  That’s what you call hippie-fluence. Anyway. Drumroll…   #39 Ashley @ Cooking for John wrote “I tweeted- @ashveg!” Congrats!  Send me your mailing address so I can get your CalNaturale wine on the way 🙂