Monthly Archive: November 2012

The evolution of my grocery list

This post is semi-embarrassing, but was fun to reflect on and write.  I don’t eat a “perfect” diet now (whatever that means), nor will I ever, but I’ve come a LONG way in the past decade. *** I didn’t live in an apartment until my senior year of college.  Before that I was in the dorms or the sorority house.  We all know what dorm life is like…needless to say, moving to a gorgeous mansion with tons of girlfriends was a big upgrade.  And although living with a million other females wasn’t always such a… Read more >

Readers request: Breadmaker bread

This is the recipe I use time and time again (I’ve strayed but none are as good as this simple whole wheat loaf).   Whole Wheat Breadmaker Bread [vegan] For a 1.5 lb loaf Ingredients: 1 cup + 2 tbsp warm water 1 tbsp + 1 1/2 tsp Earth Balance 1/4 cup sugar (I usually use coconut sugar, but I’ve used cane sugar too) 1 1/4 tsp salt 3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour 2 1/4 tsp yeast (1 packet) Directions: Add to breadmaker in the order listed above.  For the yeast, make a small… Read more >

Crunch Quota

First order of business, the gardein winners.  #8 Robin O., #25 Erica Wollman, and #28 Debbie.  Email me with your addresses. Now.  Let’s do a full day of food, okay?  This is from over a week ago. I woke up way too early after sleeping way too little.  Nothing new. I had milky coffee.  And holiday waffles with an egg. Oh gorgeous froth. About two hours later, I was hungry (again), so I made a sweet potato hash. I made it the same way as I previously posted. You’d think the coconut oil would have… Read more >

Weekend of thanks 2012

I know Thanksgiving was ages ago, but I’m only just getting around to uploading photos and such because my week/end was SO packed I couldn’t be bothered to worry about blogging in a timely manner.    Shorts and a tank top in late November…must be Southern California… For the first time in as long as I can remember ever (!!) I got the holiday – PLUS it’s surrounding days – off of work.  Kyle and I took full advantage, and drove down to his parents’ house in San Clemente on Wednesday afternoon, to stay through… Read more >

“Five” balls

Dearest medjools.  You make everything taste like dessert.  And yet, you count as a fruit.  One of mother nature’s true gifts. Dearest peanut flour.  You’re so rare.  So special.  People have to seek you out and hoard you.   These two together are like…heaven.  No really.   I named these treats “five” balls because the ingredients are oh so conveniently organized in fives.   Ironically, the recipe yields more than five balls, but whatever.  I suppose I could have just made really large ones in order to honor the name.  But I didn’t.  Oh well…. Read more >