Elise

About Elise

I’m a nurse. An exercise lover. A whole foods connoisseur. A health enthusiast. And I have IBS. No need to cue the sappy violin music yet... I’ve found that eating a mostly plant-based diet has allowed me to continue to live and love life to the fullest. Although moderation isn’t something I do well, I’m 100% devoted to giving my body pure, wholesome, quality food. Nutritious and delicious, all the time. Hungry Hungry Hippie is a way for me to share my daily dealings with food, fitness, and everything in between.

One hit, one miss

I made this a few days ago, but never got around to posting it…because I had a few issues along the way…so in case you thought all my recipes ended in success, here’s a bit of a reality check. I got this acorn squash at the farmer’s market. Issue #1 occurred with my lack of knife skills (slash intimidation with big shiny metal). If you feel comfortable making a crushing blow down on a squash, more power to you, but I’m not quite there yet in my culinary career. As a result, my cut ended… Read more >

Elise October 11, 2010 Uncategorized Read more >

Tens

Happy 10/10/10 to all my fellow number lovin’ freaks 🙂 Friday Kyle & I headed up to the Bay Area to spend the weekend with my fam. Saturday was harvest at my fam’s vineyard. and the Cal v. UCLA football game. And today, Sunday, we are heading back to So Cal. Here are some pics from the weekend, some food, some not. Eats for the I-5 Cheerios, raw nuts, pumpkin seeds, carob chips, and raisins. PB & Jizzle (ew?) & Gingerfizzle (so glad Synergy Kombucha is BACK!!!) K-Sizzle (ok, I’ll quit it with the -izzles now…)… Read more >

Elise October 10, 2010 Uncategorized Read more >

Rehearsal recap

If you’re sick of all the wedding posts, you may as well skip this one too. Ok just kidding. I promise there are no photos of me in a white dress, but I do feel obligated to do a post featuring the delicious cuisine from our rehearsal dinner. This is a food blog after all. Faz is a gem of a restaurant. It’s located in Danville – on the cutest street – and showcases classic Mediterranean food. As if I’d have a rehearsal dinner that didn’t feature hummus!?! Puh-leez. So after practicing this… …we all… Read more >

Elise October 9, 2010 fish, hummus Read more >

Garden Therapy

Moving back to CA, one of the things I was most looking forward to was having a balcony. A balcony allows me to have two very important things: 1) a BBQ 2) a garden Ok, it’s not quite a garden, yet. But it’s getting there… As an early birthday present from my in-laws, I got organic rosemary, basil, and thyme to give my green thumb a jump start. Since it was raining the other day, I was in a zen kind of mood. I blasted classical music on the iHome and got to work repotting… Read more >

Elise October 8, 2010 avocado, chocolate, Ezekiel muffins, fish, greek yogurt, hummus, nutbutter, tea, veggie burger Read more >

Restaurant week LA

I know yesterday’s AM eats weren’t well documented at all, but I promise to make up for it with yesterday’s dinner. It’s restaurant week!! Three courses complete with wine pairings (included in the price no less) for $34. You can’t turn that down. I was initially going with Ethel, my FPIC, but Kyle got out of school early and decided to join us. There were so many restaurants participating…it was a hard choice, but in the end we settled on La Grande Orange (mostly because of how fun it was to say in a ridiculous… Read more >

Elise October 7, 2010 beets, big salad, fish, nuts, quinoa Read more >

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