tea

Two on, one off

I don’t have a particularly fantastic work schedule at the moment, but at least I’m on day shift for the entire month.  So I’m certainly not complaining! After a sweaty morning sesh with Jillian, I enjoyed a scone before heading into the office hospital.  Here’s the stash I brought along. What a snack scene!    That would be, dehydrated apple rings, dark chocolate covered edamame, candied ginger, Nature’s Path Chococonut bar, mini PB cookie Larabar, mixed dried fruit, and a baggie of home-made cereal/nut/dried fruit trail mix.      Breakfast number two was oats with a… Read more >

A whirlwind work weekend

I’d try to label these meals, but since I’m still on a bizarre night shift schedule breakfast is dinner, dinner is lunch, up is down, left is right…who knows…time is irrelevant in my life now.  I’m not really normal anymore. I made a PB & AB sando.  Yeah, skip the jelly, my sandwich was all about nutbutters.  I ate some straight outta the jar too.  I have no shame.  I just sat on my butt, spoon, jar, spoon, jar, spoon…you get it.  It occurred to me (after slowly licking 1/2 cup of nut butter) that… Read more >

Chai chia oat pudding

This is one you’re gonna wanna bookmark.    Assemble the following food army… CHAI CHIA OAT PUDDING Ingredients: 1/2 cup whole rolled oats 2 tbsp chia seeds 1 1/2 cup hot water 1 chai tea bag 1/4 cup milk 3-5 drops NuNaturals liquid vanilla stevia (or 1 tsp vanilla extract and stevia to taste) 2 tbsp raisins 2 tbsp Tropical Traditions shredded coconut 1 tsp Tropical Traditions coconut peanut butter   Once the chai tea has finished steeping in hot water, add the liquid to the oats and chia seeds.   Next add half the… Read more >

Readers request: high tea

If tea drinking were an Olympic Sport, I’d have broken Michael Phelps’ medal record long ago. So when readers ask about my favorite teas, it’s hard to answer in anything other than a full post.  So here’s the deal. Fact: I drink a lot of tea.  Connoisseur that I am, I go through my fair share of newbies on a regular basis.  There are just so friggin’ many, it would be a shame to miss out on what could be my tea next obsession due to a lack of taste testing.  And yet, there’s nothing… Read more >

Please don’t pinch me

Happy (belated) St. Patrick’s Day!  I seriously forgot to wear green – yikes!  My grandpa would disown me if he knew such a thing!  This is also the first St. Patty’s in a long time that I didn’t celebrate with green beer.  I’ll try and make up for it this weekend.  But more on those plans later.  I definitely had a rough time waking up yesterday morning.  It didn’t help that midnight came and went and I was still awake… My alarm buzzed me back to life at 4:20, at which point Jillian and I… Read more >