365- Week 48
A food related photo everyday until 2012. Here's week 47:
333/365 A peppermint cupcake at Kara's Cupcakes.
365- Week 15
A food related photo everyday until 2012. Here's week 15:
111/365 During nap time today.
Everyday Chickpea Salad
Everyday. Chickpea. Salad. Everyday--meaning this salad is so good, you could eat it every day and can use everyday ingredients to make it! Nothing fussy, nothing crazy, just GOOD simple ingredients in a delicious/healthy salad that will make you feel full AND exceptional afterward.
I'm such a sucker for adaptable salads because there's a nice ease to making stuff with what I already have in the kitchen. When I went to gather the ingredients for the dressing, I looked to see how much olive oil I needed to measure out and realized that there IS NO OIL in the recipe! Brilliant! The cashews and Dijon mustard act as the emulsifiers! The combo of balsamic vinegar and Dijon mustard make it tangy! I love how the dressing soaked into the couscous, adored the crunchy sweetness of the peppers, and loved the creaminess of the chickpeas. I'm glad to have this salad & dressing in my current rotation.
Whitney & Anna both seduced me into picking up a copy of the Appetite for Reduction cookbook. Everything is entirely vegan, low calorie, low fat, but definitely NOT lacking in flavor. I made the Brussels Sprouts Potato Hash (post coming soon!) for lunch this week and now I'm totally hooked. I have over 15 recipes marked to try! I love that feeling.
So yeah, I'm back on the salad wagon (again). It's such a nice wagon to be on. It always makes me feel fantastic, healthy and light! I hope my friend Jenny (who is going vegan for a week) LOVES this salad!
Where did the weekend go?
It's Monday. Sigh...
I'm totally daydreaming about this past weekend. I wish it was still Sunday!
Over the weekend I got to show off my freshly painted toenails & wear some flip flops!
The weather was in the 70s here in the Bay Area! It felt like summer!
My life. Summer 2010.
I check on my plants at least twice a day. I like watching their progress. I do a lot of watering.
another sunday breakfast
Last week my mom made me an Orange Glazed Pound Cake from one Ina Garten's cookbooks.
She gave me a whole loaf to take home. So dangerous! What a good momma!
So I cut into it this morning:
I cut up some farmer's market strawberries using a trick I found in the current MS Living magazine.
Just use an egg slicer! It worked perfectly!
I took some honey, plain yogurt, a slice of the cake and assembled...
I scarfed this down!
The drizzle of honey was heavenly on top of the yogurt...
My husband leaped out of bed to find this waiting for him.
You can find the cake recipe here. Just look within the whole recipe and you'll see the cake part.
Although.. a Raspberry Orange Trifle looks pretty awesome to me.
Don't you agree?
87 degrees this weekend!
It was so hot in our bedroom on Saturday morning, that we took off our thick/winter duvet cover and bought this new one. We must prepare for the warmer days ahead!
I really love it.
Our neighbors dropped off some beautiful lilacs from their garden....
I fed my green grape addiction...
I did a MASSIVE amount of gardening around the house. I'm pretty sure I will be sore tomorrow....
I put some hot links on the grill and we had ourselves a mini BBQ dinner as the sun was going down....
(*It was to honor the Red Sox game*-Casey says)
Casey helped me chop the onions...
Did I ever tell you how much I LOOOOOVE mustard??
There was nothing left in the end...
I also made chocolate chocolate chip cookies...but had a disaster! I'll share the recipe when I MAKE IT WORK.
It was a nice mellow weekend. I hope you enjoyed yours too!
Off to watch more of Carnivale!
