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Hello beautiful people of the blogosphere and elsewhere.

New Hurr.

A New Breakfast

 Oat bran has been all over the blogosphere...especially on Heather Eats Almond Butter, so I decided to get some yesterday. I cooked about 1/3 cup with some nutritional yeast, (it was good!) a teaspoon of peanut butter, and toppings were unsweetened coconut and homemade carob walnut granola. Yum!! Like my Tinker Bell spoon?

I have this week off school, so I can actually find some time to blog! I'll just be hanging out with friends, doing an online class, and probably baking...more than usual. :) Speaking of which, I made these Chocolate Thumbprint cookies last weekend for my soccer team. They were so good!

Oatmeal :)

Hello everyone...I have a serious baking bug today. Thats not good.

Lately I've been having a lot of oatmeal. (Yeah, I used chopsticks...uhh) Usually plain-but last night i drizzled some homemade peanut butter and apple chunks on it. Yumm.

Not a whole lot to talk about. If I give in to my baking bug then I will.

Plans for today? Get school supplies for 2nd semester, maybe get a fuzzy sweatshirt. Lazyy sunday. :)

CAMERA RESOLVED....

Hello all! I had a snow day today!! Just thought I'd awkwardly throw that in there.

I have a new camera. We will not talk much about this. Its the same kind as before, only in blue :) Heres a recap of my camera mishaps if you care/are bored.

1. Red camera is dying

2. New camera #1!

3. The camera cord is gone

4. Found it. Joy.

5. So now the camera is gone.

6. And found again.

7. The camera died.

For the sake of my sanity and lack of sleep, I'll let you consume (no pun intended) these photos without much explanation.

Roasted red pepper hummus. Nom.

Barley casserole with tahini dressing from The Kind Diet.

Peanut butter/agave rice krispie treats (some w/chocolate) from The Kind Diet. Nomnomnom.

Another form of art: A painting I did on a deconstructed shoe shelf!!

A weird abstract painting.


Vegan ice cream! Almond dream. With coconut and almonds and a strawbery. Nomz.

Well, before I sign off...a recent dillemma (sp?). I had some soymilk in cereal the other day, like I normally do, (almond most of the time, but there was a sale on soy) and felt somewhat nauseous the whole day. I thought it was just a little cold, and didn't think much of it. The next day, I had some tofu at dinner, and for the rest of the night, was in excruciating pain!!! The day after that, I had a small sprinkle of soy sauce on lentils. As soon as I finished eating, the thing came back.

I'm going to give up all soy for a while. Vegan, no soy. Haha right. But as I decided upon giving up soy for a while, it occured to me that maybe I should just give up some other stuff too. All white sugar? All white flour? Should I go macro again? (didn't really talk about it, but it did happen haha.) I'm just confused about what I should do.

I gotta clean a little and go to bed, but I'll see you guys tomorrow :)

A quick update

Hello blog world, I am alive.
And working on the whole camera situation as well! Other than that, there has been lots of baking and cooking going on. I made banana butter yesterday, as well as orange scones and lemon poppyseed muffins from Vegan with a Vengeance. I made lentil soup from a new cookbook the other day, which has just been devine! Yeah, a lot of cooking has been going on. But also cleaning-I cleaned out the entire fridge and freezer of failed experiments, questionable looking things, etc. Our fridge is soo empty! I think a trip to whole foods is needed fairly soon...
But off the topic of food, the last theater production I was in just ended. It was so much fun-I barely had time to even do a little update though on the blog!! I've decided against doing the spring musical, as much as I want to, my schedule is changing a lot for school and I want to try something different.
I was also thinking that this spring, something fun to do would be to pursue my baking more, but maybe start a mini-business with it. My sister had asked me if I baked something for her once a week, she would pay for the ingredients or some portion of the money. That kind of sparked the idea, maybe just having friends email me about asking for baked goods. But I'm not starting some huge business or anything...keep in mind I am in high school!! Any thoughts or tips on that?
This week is going to be crazy, I may not have the chance to update so much because it is...

FINALS!
Yup. So much fun. Half days never sucked so much. But after it's all over I'm sure the feeling of ease and de-stress will be awesome. I'll talk to you guys (whoever you are) soon.

Surprise surprise!

MY camera went through one of these:

Yes. My camera went through the washing machine. 'Nuf said.

It is sitting in a bag of rice right now (supposedly this works?) and I have to keep it there for a week. Only 4 more days...that'll be interesting to open on christmas.
Anyways.

I've been busy busy busy baking, I have made:

Lots of peppermint bark(is white chocolate vegan? I think NOT.)
homemade peppermint-walnut chocolate
granola (vegan)
orange cookies (vegan...not literaly orange but with orange zest and liquere)
sunflower seed cookies (vegan)
sun-butter (veagn...sunflower seeds in a food processor with local honey and a tiny bit of canola)
peanut brittle (so far from vegan its sad)
more non vegan candy...

And maybe I'll just have to make it all again when I can take pictures, just for the sake of the blog :)

I have a curse. A camera curse. They hate me. Urgh. I apologize-the best time of year to blog (in my opinion) and my camera went through a vigorous washing machine cycle. Poor baby.

I guess I can just post boring wordy posts, but who likes that. Maybe I can get my hands on my dad's camera or moms. But with my luck I doubt they'd let me use it :)

Merry Kwanzicha? Merry Christmas, happy late hannukah, and happy kwanza. Or holidays. To sum it up.

Snowed in

If only today was a school day...urrghh....

Hello everyone! I haven't been here in a while...sorry bout that. I've been busy baking for the holidays, I tried some sparkled ginger cookies and they were, uh, interesting. Yummy, but very ugly.

I'll keep trying.

But I did make vegan caramels!! They are so cute! I didn't have any cream, so I made a fake 'cream' from soymilk, cornstarch, and a little powdered sugar to thicken and sweeten it. It worked, but something was weird about them. They tasted a tiny bit too healthy, almost like there was brown rice syrup. But there wasn't!!

We've been busy putting up the tree as well...while I was opening the ornament box to unload them, a certain someone found a nice place to nap.

Ah, Bourbon. The holidays have begun for all of us.

I just sat down to a big bowl of celery and carrots with homemade spicy hummus...when your body craves something like that for breakfast, don't deny it. :) I went through many phases of breakfasts, as you guys can probably see...

The oatmeal phase

The cereal and fruit phase

The granola phase

The waffle phase

The honeycrisp apple phase

The breakfast bread phase

The smoothie in a bowl phase (Thanks, Kath!!)

The muffin phase

Oh wow. Now that that's all typed up, I feel really self consious and indesicive. uhhhh....

Well today I got up at 8, listened to John Mayer, made really good hummus, ate, and blogged. I'm doing homework later, unless we get more snow therefore a snow day. If only....

December birthdays!?

We have a lot in our family. So many that we just have a joint birthday party for them...My dad, sister, nephew, and brother in law. And extended family, but this is just people that live in the area. We had a celebration at my grandmas, and I brought dessert!

The 4 year old in me was unleashed :D

Fauxtess cupcakes and lemon gem cupcakes from vegan with a vengeanceWe didn't have birthday candles!!! Wow. A food basket put together by my dad for my sister's family: Dark chocolate, clementines, marcona almonds, garlic ann arbor tortilla factory chips, olive oil soap, wasa crackers, cheese, more cheese, hummus, dates, tea, falafel chips, and salsa.

By the way...both my lights in my room are burned out. I have 4 candles lit and one is "homemade cookie" scented. YUM.

I'm pretty busy this week :D Gotta go catch up on email and homework, then make some tea. Talk to you guys soon! Thanks for reading.

Kitchen Sin Carne's reincarnation

Hello people of the blogging world :)

Since finding my camera in my couch cushion, I thought it was neccecary to post all the EXTREMELY dated food pics and other stuff...So I'll just let you sit back and look at some random pictures from like, August.

Above was a picture from thanksgiving with the family! I had a great vegan one, with sweet potato lentil stew, steamed carrots and brussel sprouts, wild rice with hazlenuts and cranberries, cranberry sauce, and salad. My tummy was very happy :) But unfortunatley, I had not found my camera yet so I didn't get any pictures...

And yes, I got a haircut.

So enjoy these pictures!

Apple Pie Crumb Cake muffins from Vegan with a Vengeance...SO GOOD.

Homemade soft pretzels. They weren't perfect, but they were alright, just a little too chewy.

Homemade seitan for....

Delicious vegan chili!! NOMNOMNOM

I'll have more to come soon, as I just got my very first bento box and I may just become a bit of a bento blogger...we'll see...

-O

I'm still alive

Hey y'all :D
Bad news: My camera is still missing :(
Good news: I'm saying hi!!
I was just in Hairspray, my school's musical. It was AMAZING! Theater is so much fun. I have an audition next week for a production as well...There will be pictures from that soon.
I've been cooking a little, I made some super amazing chocolate chip coconut blondies, which I'll have the recipe for soon :D In the meantime, I've been eating a lot of frozen fruit with almond milk, veggies with tofu, chickpeas, and carrots. The usual. I'm planning a little get together this weekend, and I'm cooking a moroccan themed meal. That's a surprise, because Hoai An, I know you're reading :)
How is everyone out there in the blogging world? I'm still reading plenty of blogs, but things are so busy right now it's hard to comment on all of them :/
Thanks for checking in guys! Hope to be having a real post soon.
O

Remember when...

I have a big post coming with tons of pictures and recipes, but I don't have time to upload them all tonight :(

But instead, I spent time today foraging through my computer, and I found some food pics that I have never uploaded before onto my blog. In fact, these were pictures before my blogging days! (shocking!) Enjoy!

(This was the failed matzoh ball soup...you can see why I didn't post it...)

Soon will be recent pictures :D Hope you liked the oldies.

So I found this little grey cord...

and it's called my camera cord!

Sparkled Ginger cookies from Vegan with a Vengeance. So very yum.

Kabocha...hmm well okay.

Cookies for Daphne's birthday! These were taken late so the lighting SUCKS. Chocolate chip :D

Roasted apple, onion and sweet potato soup from Fresh and fast vegan pleasures. Very distinct and well bonded flavors. Great for the fall!

Pumpkin oatmeal cookies from Vegan with a Vengeance. I say no more.

I'm sure you can guess what these are...

Hmm. Well I've been pretty darn busy lately, involved in a musical, art, guitar, writing, singing, sports, biking, and homework. Oh, theres also cooking :D

Things have been going very well, surprisingly, the homework load isn't INSANE. I do find time to cook in the evening, although I do the more elaborate things on the weekend. I'm really enjoying biking home, its relaxing and basically all downhill so it's an easy ride.

I missed blogging a ton!!! My mom found the camera cord (thanks mommy!) at her office, and I was very releived and excited to see that I'd be able to be connected to the blogosphere once again. Thank you guys so much for reading....I'll try to definetly post a lot! I got a new photo editing system on my computer, Adobe lightroom photoshop, so expect some strange playing around of photos to come. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a dishwasher to unload.

Olivia :)