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Here’s some more. No sentiments, just pics.

Breakfast Time

Fibre One cereal with frozen banana, cocoa powder and almond milk

Strawberry smoothie

Strawberry cocoa smoothie with Chocolate Cheerios and red toes

Strawberry spinach smoothie

Coffee cocoa spinach strawberry smoothie in a peanut butter jar

And since this peanut butter jar is clearly now empty, I am out of peanut butter. How to solve such a dilemma? Take the easy route and buy another jar? Or…

Make a fresh batch of almond butter –>Better plan.

This smoothie got coned. And then the cone got…smoothied? Smoothies are about 1.3x more fun when eaten out of a cone.

Greens and Misc Garb

Raw veg and cold potato morning snack with salsa ranch dressing and the end of Eat, Pray, Love

Greens salad topped with potoato bites, salsa, crumbled turkey burger and hummus

Spinach and slaw salad topped with sundried tomato tuna

Another random pile of vegetable junk.

Kale Salad Oh She Glows style

Turkcauli burgers with mustard, baked potatoes, greek salad

Baked potato stuffed with hummus, spinach, melty cheddar, and topped with sour cream

Sweet and white potatoes and broccoli roasted in sundried tomato vinaigrette

Couscous and mixed bean salad with red onion, red pepper, cucumber and the same sundried tomato vinaigrette as I roasted the above potatoes in. (I was using up the bottle since it was a little gag-worthy on top of salads but worked significantly better when tossed among other more substantial foods.)

Some of those earlier roasted potatoes on top of some kale dressed in balsamic vinegar.

Grilled chicken Petita from Pita Pit stuffed with a garden of veggies and honey mustard (I usually get baba ghanoush but I find it doesn’t hold me over very long so I thought chicken might do a better job. It didn’t really, and I missed my baba.)

Veggie burger salad: cabbage slaw, tomatoes and pickles topped with a grilled veggie burger and grilled potatoes, all of which were topped with ketchup and mustard latticework.

Raspberry almond butter cookies based off of Lauren’s cashew blueberry recipe. (like my appealing bitten and battered display?)

Aforementioned cookies with apple slices and black coffee

And to end it all on a simple summer note: a popsicle

Good times.

Back to slightly more regular/less giant food recap style posting…soon? As long as this food relationship of mine starts becoming a little less abusive. Food and I are really going through a rough patch right now. I’m very resentful of him and his taunting ways. Time to start laying down the law!

Or…something. I think a baking hiatus is in order. All of my half assed, half delicious attempts that no one else cares to touch are doing nothing more than finding their way into the garbage disposal that is my stomach, their then crushed and condensed remains housing themselves snuggly onto my thighs. And along a similar note, a sugar hiatus would also be very helpful, though likely less plausible. A sugar decrease, however, is not an entirely crazy idea.

(weheartit)

**Recommendations for a desperate food addict needing to tone the insatiable sugar cravings down? Aside from a kick in the bum and a hefty dose of willpower, those are (sad) works in progress.

I can’t stop complaining about this relationship until Food and I are finally on the same page again, what can I say. It’s an arranged marriage with divorce as a non-option so somehow we’re gonna have to make it work.

Plethora of Pictures: Plates Edition Part 1

July 11, 2011

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The other day I left off feeling an irritated stress over an overabundance of unused food pictures. I unloaded a few in the first edition of the (very short) Plethora of Pictures series (I don’t predict this one to be a box office hit) featuring a random mess of products but have since neglected to empty out the rest. So I’m doing that now…

The PLATES – a random selection from the last 10+ days. In multiple parts. Here is the first smattering.

And GO!

Plates

Vegetable-based Platters

Salad with taco topper

Spinach with honey mustard and roasted squash

Greek salad with leftover roasted squash and cottage cheese

Raw veggie and turkey dipping platter

Another raw veggie dipping platter with corn and bean salad

Spinach and cucumber salad with tuna topper (mixed with light sour cream, dijon, wasabi) and a side of pasta salad

More of the spinach and tuna combo

Vermicelli noodles topped with chicken and vegetables stir fried in a teriyaki sauce (made from a powdered mix I randomly found in the cupboard. Would not buy again)

Veggie burger on multigrain with spinach, dijon, sundried tomatoes and goat cheese

Sweeter Side

Fruit plate with strained yogurt

Banana topped with yogurt mixed with peanut butter and a side of dates

A blend of frozen banana, cocoa powder, coconut flour, almonds, sweetener

The morning green smoothie with a side of green tea and Peanut Butter Puffins

Shreddies and apple chunks topped with a splash of almond milk, cinnamon and strained yogurt

Apple chunks heated and topped with a mix of light sour cream, cinnamon and vanilla stevia drops

Cocoa smoothie frozen and stirred every 5-10 minutes about 3x until reaching icy ice cream-like consistency for maximal snacking satisfaction

Sweet tortilla chips – tortillas dipped in cinnamon butter mixed with almond milk, baked at 400 for 8-10 minutes, flipping half way

The rest coming soon…

Happy Monday!

Scooter Girl

May 11, 2011

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Can someone build a gasless car and deliver it to me by the end of the week? Otherwise I’m never leaving the house again. That or I’m going to invest in one of those motorized bicycles. Or maybe a really sweet scooter. Considering I work at a motorcycle shop (Didn’t know that? Now you do :)), this idea just might be plausible. Thoughts?

I think I could rock a scooter (please excuse the hairy legs…and arms).

Seriously though, gas prices make me want to cry… along with the rest of the population since that’s all the news and anyone who drives seems to talk about lately. I just heard the prices are supposed to skyrocket even more? And I’m down to a quarter tank…sob.

While a scooter might not be on the agenda for this week at least, green smoothies have been. Smoothie weather has arrived!

For Breakfast…

…AND lunch.

Yes, those are three entirely different smoothies. How exciting am I, they all look the exact same and I can’t even be bothered to switch it out of a Bullet cup. That’s just another dish to wash though and the Bullet cup fits oh so nicely into the hand.

The contents of the three above smoothies vary slightly but include:
Chilled green tea, unsweetened almond milk, ice, large handful spinach, ~1/2 scoop chocolate protein powder, frozen strawberries, cinnamon, barley grass powder, xanthan gum (and maybe some guar), a bit of sweetener if needed.

Aside from smoothie binges, last night I chomped on a veggie burger on a slice of rye with dijon mustard, Laughing Cow cheese, sundried tomatoes and spinach.

Can we just focus on the faux grill lines for a second? Are they supposed to give some sense of real burger authenticity? It kind of makes me laugh…but I totally felt like I was eating a big juicy burger hot off the grill…or not quite.

It was even better that the real thing. Thumbs UP to veggie burgers.

DOUBLE thumbs up to Pita Pit. I hadn’t had a Pita Pit pita in ages but I finally had one again the other day. Isn’t it beautiful?

A babaganoush and vegetable-loaded bundle of joy: baba, romaine, red onions, pickles, hot peppers, tomatoes, green peppers, mushrooms, honey mustard.

Last night I was also in a baking mood so I baked granola!
Making granola is a little more like concocting than baking but it satisfied the urge and mom’s request for granola. Two birds, one stone.

I based mine off of this recipe, making a much smaller batch with the ingredients I had on hand.

My batch included:

Dry: 50 g rolled oats, 50 g quick oats, 10 g puffed rice cereal, 1/4 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp sea salt
Wet: 1/4 cup applesauce , 2 tbsp honey, 2 tbsp packed brown sugar, 1/2 tbsp safflower oil, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Add-ins:1/4 cup chopped almonds and cashews, 1/4 cup chopped dried apricots, cranberries and raisins

Baked at 300 for 20 minutes without the fruit and nuts.
Then stirred and baked for another 30 minutes with the fruit and nuts.

This granola came out beautifully. Lightly sweetened, super crunchy, with some of those oh-so-coveted granola clumps in the mix.

Be sure to check out the original recipe, which breaks down all of the steps to a perfect batch of granola.

Still on the topic of baking, I was recently sent a bag of Emerald Forest Xyla brand Xylitol, an all-natural sugarless sweetener extracted from natural fibrous sources such as birch trees. It has the same sweetness as sugar with 40% less calories and 75% less carbs.

Considering it can be swapped 1 to 1 with sugar, I decided to try it out on a miniature batch of flourless peanut butter cookies: 1/4 cup peanut butter, 1/4 cup Xyla, 1/4 egg (this was a little tricky).

Though they’re no substitute for the real thing, the Xylitol puts an interesting flavour spin on the cookie and they’re plenty sweet. I think I’d cut down on the Xylitol a bit when using it again as a swap for sugar in baking.

That being said, I finished off the last cookie last night atop a bed of plain yogurt, banana and peanut butter. Mmm. I’ll have to see what other good uses I can come up with for the Xyla. Ever used it? Any suggestions?

Wow, where did the morning go? I think it’s about time I get a move on…preferably not via driving, though I now also have a nice big chip in the windshield after a rock came shooting at me off the highway the other day. Swell. So I need to go get that repaired stat.

Do you drive? Are you crying right now because of it? Are these rising gas prices making you change or consider changing your driving habits?

I sure am less motivated to want to go out anywhere. And I’m definitely trying to figure out how I can use bicycle transportation more often. Sadly I live in the burbs so everyone and everything is a bit of a hike out of the way. Otherwise I’d be doing a lot more walking to where I need to go! Motorized shoes perhaps?

*Don’t forget to enter my Tuesday Tea Giveaway!

Rodeo Roundup

December 4, 2010

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It’s Saturday and I’m doing the day away with…another essay! However, this legitimately deserves an exclamation since it’s my last one… aside from final edits on a couple others, but those are cake after the actual content is complete. One to go, one to go.

Come on December 21st. Who’s ready for the holidays?!

Here goes a heavy food roundup with minimal explanation. Visual appeals because who really has time for tons of reading at this time of year?

Greens, protein packed with leftover lentil dal and cottage cheese.

Veggie burg on toasted multigrain with laughing cow, dijon mustard, spinach and sundried tomatoes.

Sauteed cabbage slaw and broccoli topped with crumbled veggie burger, mustard and BBQ sauce.

Spinach, broccoli, red peppers and tomatoes topped with crumbled falafel balls, light sour cream, salsa and mustard. Few crackers on the side, a few more down the gullet.

Tuna mixed with light sour cream and dijon mustard. Served with dillies because dill pickle + tuna = perfect combo.

Steamed brussel sprouts and broccoli topped with a mix of light sour cream, dijon and nooch + a drizzle of Frank’s Red Hot. The pizza box that I nibbled out of was hidden behind this.

Taco-ish salad bowl (Miss GC does these best): greens + tomatoes + red peppers + ground chicken cooked in random seasonings + light sour cream + salsa + sprinkling of shredded cheese + roasted sweet potato chunks.

REAL egg done over-easy (? – who’s all up on their egg terminology. It was dunky) on rye with ketchup. I eat egg whites so often that I just seem to forget about the real ones. Well it’s not happening anymore, these are making a way more regular appearance this winter. <3 EGGS.

OH! Here’s another! Runny eggy unloaded on lightly steamed spinach.

SOUP season has also begun. For some reason I rarely crave soup but after trudging through snow and wind to class (just from my car, I’m such a whiner), soup drags me right in.

This bowl = butternut squash and red pepper with steamed broccoli and mushrooms, drizzle of Frank’s, sprinkle of pepper and rye for sop-up.

But what about Breakfast?

Whole wheat waffle topped with yogurt/pb mix, smashed raspberries and blueberries.

Instant apple oatmeal packet mixed into the last of the cottage cheese container with berries and peanut butter.

Plain yogurt hidden underneath banana and apple slices, Vector cereal and plenty o’ cinnamon.

Strawberry fruit-on-bottom mini cottage cheese container mixed with peanut butter and Shreddies. I should probably get these more often, I down the big containers in embarrassingly short time periods. PS LOVE Shreddies.

Overnight Oats with Amazing Grass, blueberries, cottage cheese + ORANGE.

Uglier overnight oat BRAN. Cooked the night before in who knows what – I threw a bunch of stuff in there. Eaten in the morning with some yogurt stirred in and soybutter on the spoon, accompanied by essay editing, my most loyal breakfast date.

Cakes in a pan inspired by PB&Jenny cakes. Topped with plain yogurt mixed with syrup and almond butter + blueberry syrup.

It may be winter but a little bit of liquid gold (green?) is always welcome. As long as the heat is cranked and the coffee is brewing.

Chocospinach Smoothie: water + almond milk, BIGGEST handful spinach, scoop chocolate protein powder, scoop chocolate Amazing Grass powder, handful frozen berries, 1/4 orange, cocoa powder, xanthan and guar, ice.