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Giveaway!! Get your calcium ..... How?

 

Get your calcium ..... How better than in a chocolate format!?!? I received a sample from this company and was supposed to blog about it a while ago. However with dealing with my moms estate stuff, it got blown off Til now!!! I love these little disks of calcium-y chocolate-y goodness! I even brought some to a card making event I went to last winter and everybody loved them. Other than dark leafy greens or perhaps raw almonds or chia seeds, this is the tastiest calcium I've had. Leave me a comment about how you get your rda and what you would like to change in your diet this year and I'll have them send you a sample too!!! I will pick a winner of my first ever blog giveaway on Thursday Feb 2---aka GROUNDHOG DAY!!!!

Thanks for reading!!

Awesome Gluten Free/Dairy Free/Soy Free Pumpkin Cornbread Muffins!

They turned out delicious!! Used flax egg, pumpkin, melted & room temp soy free Earth Balance, fresh ginger, pinch of clove, agave & brown sugar, vanilla, some sugar free (stevia) sweetened So Delicious coconut milk. Not crumbly or rock like at all!! and YES I had to try one. it fell into my mouth when I was taking them out of the pans. True Story.

I put fresh cranberry in a few - for me- since hubs can't have cranberries. I also diced up half a gala apple into little bits and mixed that into the 2nd half of the dough which made another 2 trays full.

I altered my recipe, mixed the recipe on the bag with vegan options, and then I also used this site: Gluten Free Goddess to figure out what amts of pumpkin and other things to put into the mix. I used flax "egg" instead of regular or EnerG egg replacer. The ratio is 1T ground flax to about 3T water per egg. I used 2T flax with 6T water. The pumpkin, earth balance, agave syrup and in some of them, the apple, I think is what kept them moist w/o being gooey in the middle. They are going to be delicious with dinner tonight!! 

Made mashed vegan sweet taters, cranberry sauce, all using about the same spice wise....fresh minced ginger, ground cloves, ground cinnamon, so the rest of the meal needs a different flavor!! I think I'm going to throw some sliced zucchini in the oven when I put my Amy's Veggie Pot pie in.

But first I need rest, a long walk, a shower, in that order. Off to watch 34th street now then walk!!

Happy Thanksgiving Y'all!!! ( I have to say that since I'm in the south.) Give thanks and blessings to you and yours this day.

Pre blizzard breakfast.

Udi's and Siggi's. Two guys breakfast.

Pre blizzard breakfast. Bleh. Hate winter. Since I have to work, I think I'll have breakfast. That is all.

Salad again. with added value. ;)

Salad again. This time w/avo added & fig&brie pita crackers.

Love weekend breakfast

I absolutely {heart} weekend breakfast concoctions. Sweet tater spelt pancakes, a smidge of coconut oil in lieu of Earth Balance,  almond butter, pie spice, blueberries(heated up), ginger syrup, Sweet & Sara vegan cinn-pecan marshmallows .mmmm bye now, gotta eat!

Breakfast Assembly

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Better pic this time. sorta.

Better pic this time. Mmmmm

This salad was even better the next day! I was inspired by Charlie at SweetSaltySpicy blog and wanted to make it right away. I had most ingredients on hand, so I halved her recipe and then twisted it. YUM!

i used

1 portion size each of brown rice couscous & whole wheat couscous (should have done two pots cause the cooking instructions are diff, but it turned out ok, as long as I simmered it about 5 min more than the wheat said to-in order to get the rice one cooked) using part water and part Cranberry Spiced cider from TJ's. That gives the couscous a little bit of flavor.

Then I diced up (stickily I might add) 2 Medjool dates

Peeled two Moro Blood oranges and sliced up some fennel bulb.

Once the couscous was done I combined those items with some hand crunched walnuts (just a small handful of halves) and about 2 tbsp of oil (evoo & ginger grapeseed) with a healthy portion of blood orange balsamic vinegar. I gave the entire mixture a good shake of sea salt, some ground grains of paradise aka alligator pepper, and cardamom.

i tore up some leaves of organic butter lettuce (about 4 of them) and sprinkled the dish with some hemp seeds for more protein power.

i ate some before heading out to the Kris Carr Crazy Sexy Diet book signing in Oakbrook at Borders and the rest is lunch today and either dinner tonight or lunch tomorrow. If you have some and choose to add it, this would be awesome with some feta cheese on top too. mmmm

Thanks for the inspiration, Charlie!

Blood orange, date, couscous, fennel salad

 

Lunch. The most awesome Tomato Soup

Lunch. The most awesome tomato basil soup I found in the soup aisle at Whole Foods last week. I blinged it w/balsamic glze, some cheddar cubes. Then I added hempseeds &Parma before I et it all up!

Been a long time, been a long time....

been a long, lonely lonely lonely, time......bum, bada bum.....(insert rest of Zeppelin's drum roll here)

yah, yah, haven't been blogging, was happy posting pics from phone, but then i switched phones, and can't for the life of me figure out how to add any text to my pics from this dangnabit "non-smart" phone. My old Samsung Mythic kept freezing up and i couldn't do ANYthing, cause it was all touch screen. dead in the water. could answer a call but not make one. So after three phones, they (being AT&T---cuz I work there, but not in wireless) finally agreed to replace it prior to my contract being up to a different phone. I was all "YAY" until I found out I could NOT have the iPhone (BOOOO!!!) nor could I get a Smartphone (aka windows, crackberry, android) because my plan is a regular ole data plan, not a smartphone plan. (DOUBLE BOOO!!!!!!) So I'm back stuck picking out of the phones that not even the un tech savviest third grader would want. GRRRRR!

So I picked the Pantech Laser. This one is the newest of the "texting phones" and I can go online to twitter or facebook with just one icon on the touchscreen which only works for that. icons & the dialing when in portrait mode. In Landscape, the qwerty keyboard is only an actual slide out keyboard. This is the slimmest slider on the market, and the amoled screen is beautiful. the stock photos are extremely high def looking to me, but the touch screen is still resistive rather than capacitative I believe. It doesn't respond as well as the ones on the smartphones and sometimes is very hard to control the speed at which you just scrolled something. boo.  The camera is also very sucky compared to the Mythic's camera. Samsung's phones also have a great little photo editor program which allows you to apply effects/filters to your photos. This is only color/b&w/sepia. Boo. Not good for a foodie who is addicted to taking pics of her meals. I have gotten bad blurry pics and since there is no flash, I can't even take a picture of our black kitteh to send to my hubs. Well. I only have until NEXT OCTOBER to wait. grrrrrrrr. Then I am getting an iPhone. Whatever the latest and greatest iPhone may be out there. Hopefully it's the 5 and it blows them all out of the water. .....................I deserve it.