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TV Dinner

May 5, 2010

Ciao bloggies :)

I ate breakfast solo yesterday so was able to eat out of one of my favorite bowls this time. I painted this mug in college a Color Me Mine. It’s a studio where you can go with friends, pick a ceramic piece, design/paint it, and then have it fired in their kilns. I had chosen a mug and saucer set but the mug is humongous so I use it as a bowl :)

I tried Cascadian Farm’s muti grain squares for the first time. Interestingly enough, they’re made in Canada. I miss Vancouver :(

Anyways, they were pretty good, have tons of vitamins, and a good ingredient list. They served me well for my run afterward. I ran 4.5 miles in 40 minutes, at which point I met up with Cassandra and walked 3 more miles. Mark finally put music on my ipod so I ran with it. I think the reason I don’t mind running without it is because I end up zoning the music out anyways!

I picked up Mark afterward to take him to the DMV, but needed some fuel before hand.

The DMV was suprisingly really quick! He registered his car and got weird new license plates. Since when does NY have yellow plates?

We came back to his house for lunch. I made myself a repeat of last nights dinner, but in a wrap.

Then we went shopping for what seemed like hours. It was torture. Unless it’s food shopping, I don’t want to be there! I did get a present in return for my patience though :)

A rice cooker/ food steamer. My current rice cooker looks more like a crock pot and spews out steam/water all over the place when the rice is cooking.

I didn’t get home until 7, at which point I decided to proceed to make the meal I had planned. Little did I know it would take me 2 hours! Since Ayla recommended Fat Free Vegan Kitchen as a good blog for meals, I’ve been looking around for a couple days. Last night I tried the Herbed Polenta with Beans and Bok Choy. The only thing is that you have to wait for the polenta to cool, which took hours! I actually didn’t even let it cool all the way so we had half mush and half solid polenta.

I was delicious though! And it was ready just in time for Lost. We ate it in front of the TV like a real American family…

Question: What appliance could you not live without?

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Hey, Soul Sister

May 2, 2010

Happy Sunday and Happy May!

May started out gorgeous in New York. Yesterday it was 86 degrees and sunny. It felt like summer! I made sure to get up EARLY to go running since I’m incapable of running in the heat. I drove to town for my run and right when i arrived, Train’s Soul Sister came on the radio. It’s my favorite radio song right now so I pre-gamed by blasting it and then had it in my head the whole run. Sometimes I’m in the mood to run with music but right now I have no songs on my ipod so I was out of luck.

After running, I went to free yoga at Lululemon. Strangely enough, the yoga instructor was late and when they called him, Soul Sister was his ringback song.  During the class, Soul Sister was also on his ipod. I’m always dying to hear the song on the radio and yesterday I jgot a Soul Sister overload! Needless to say, it was a good day – It’s just a happy song :)

Yoga was perfect right after my run. The guy seemed to have us hold the poses for a longer time than I’m used to. Yes, I’ll admit it, yoga is tough!

After a 4.5 mile run and a yoga class, I decided to reward myself with finally trying this S’mores flavored Spiru-tein protein packet.

I shook it up in this free sample mixer cup I never thought I would use and drank it straight out of there.

It was really good! And s’mores is one of my favorite flavors, so I don’t joke around. It resembled it with a graham cracker-like crunch and lots of mini marshmallows.

For dinner I followed another internet recipe off of Recipezaar for Roasted Parmesan Garlic Cauliflower, although I added shrimp to make it more of an entree and served it over brown rice.

Questions:

  • What’s your favorite song right now?
  • What’s your go-to recipe site?
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Rewind

April 26, 2010

Thanks for all the blogiversary wishes :) I hope we’re all blogging for many more years to come!

I had a fun food weekend so I thought I’d do a rewind post.

SUNDAY

I celebrated my blogiversary by throwing a party and eating lots of cake.

Haha, just kidding. Actually, it was my Dad’s and cousin Joe’s birthday this weekend so the cake/party was for them.

I made a frozen peanut butter pie for the event. I got the recipe here.

As I was cutting it, my Dad says “It’s made from tofu!” He was just joking because they all think I’m some crazy health freak but he was actually right. It was made from tofu! Nasoya silken tofu to be exact. After some hesitation, everyone tried it and agreed it was good :) It tasted like peanut butter ice cream pie!

I also made carrot cake muffins/cupcakes to bring to work that morning.

Sorry, I’m not a very good baked goods photographer. I had to Cassandra-fy (no corn products allowed!) the recipe a bit:

  • Used 1 tbsp flax and 3 tbsp water in place of each egg. This really works and is a great substitution for people with egg allergies.
  • Made a cream of tartar – baking soda mix in place of the baking powder
  • Replaced salt in recipe with sea salt

I also made the cream cheese filling recommended on the recipe page and put it on half. Those half didn’t turn out too well. The cream cheese caved in! Well, all that matters is they tasted good. They just weren’t fit to travel.

SATURDAY

Today was my Dad’s actual birthday. He got to pick the breakfast and he chose one of my favorites: banana walnut pancakes with maple syrup. We have them like every weekend but, as the old saying goes, don’t fix what isn’t broken! These pancakes are never disappointing.

Afterward we rollerbladed for an hour on the trail. I wore my Garmin this time on bike setting and figured out that we went 6 miles. The trail goes from town to town. It was only a short way to the next town but we couldn’t make it yet. We need a few more practice runs to build up endurance!

We made pizza for dinner – one of the best ones yet. Veggie’s always the best! He put everything we had on: broccoli, roasted red peppers, string beans, tomatoes, broccoli rabe, feta, tomato sauce, and mozzarella.

FRIDAY

I started Friday with a glorious 5 mile run. I say glorious because that’s always the word that comes to mind after I finish a great run. It’s really weird because I never use that word! I guess running is the only glorious thing I know.

Remember the stuffed sweet potato my Pop made me and I put in my oats? I finally had a chance to eat a real one. I had it with a strawberry breakstone’s 100 cal cottage cheese and string beans for lunch before heading to work.

Work food was leftovers from fried rice night. I mixed brown rice with vegetables and added some orange-ginger Shoprite brand dressing to give it some flavor. Then I topped it with peanuts. I also brought grapes on the side that I bought like a week ago and totally forgot about because I put them in the produce drawer.

I really just wanted to post that meal because I love my big glass travel bowl-mugs! They come with rubber tops with a closeable hole in the top so you can microwave them. Way better than plastic tupperware!

More work for me today. “See” you tomorrow!

Questions:

  1. What does your family think of your food blogging habits?
  2. What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘glorious’?
  3. Have you ever used tofu in a dessert?


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