Picture-Palooza

I’ve been taking a lot of pictures but I haven’t found anywhere to squeeze them into a post so today I’m giving you a picture parade!
Here we go!

Do you ever just crave baked beans and jalapeno garlic hummus toast for breakfast, followed by pumpkin cookies? No? guess it’s just me then.

Veggie sushi made with brown rice that I acquired from the grocery.

Physics extra credit (I thought it looked high-tech)

More pumpkin pie overnight oats!

Noodles from “A Taste of Asia” box, steamed broccoli and vegenaise/mustard dipping sauce for my veggies :D Omnomnomnom.

I have no clue what happened to this picture.. (these are my adopted children)

Quinoa with lemon juice, spicy Creole seasoning, and garbanzo beans! (chickpeas!) Yay!
All in all, it’s been  good week. A LOT of homework (and it’s only going to get worse from here) but if that’s what it takes to prepare for a career..

(note: upon writing the above sentence, I wrote ‘tastes’ instead of ‘takes’ at first. I think it’s time for breakfast!)
(note 2: tummy just grumbled. Definitely time for breakfast)


Because of school I haven’t squished much cooking in, but I hope to change that next week, now that I have fallen into my school schedule. Wish me luck!

Any recipes that I “need” to try? Let me know! I eat nearly anything vegan, and could possibly try my hand at veganizing something (never done that before).

Easy Peasy

I haven’t really COOKED anything in the past few days. I mean I have, but they have all been easy things, with very little prep. I have just been feeling lazy. This could be due to my recent “re-addiction” to World of Warcraft. I haven’t played much all summer but now the fire has been lit in me once again.
In related news, my headset broke, which means no voice chat for me until I get a new one. Just randomly stopped working one day :(
Now, on to what you’re REALLY interested in (I think): Food.
Recently my mother cracked open a can of pumpkin to make a smoothie. She used probably 1/16th of the can and told me to find a use for the rest of it. One use I have found for the leftover pumpkin is Ohsheglows’ Pumpkin Pie Oats. The first time I made them, I forgot the syrup, so they weren’t sweet enough! I was frustrated, and since it was a reader top rated recipe I knew I had done something wrong. So I revisited the recipe and corrected my mistake.
It was pretty awesome, and it DID taste like pumpkin pie!

I took a picture of my new running shoes (I LOVE pink).

I also discovered a few delicious things at the grocery store yesterday. One of these delicious things was a box of Thai food.
Me and Thai food have a rocky relationship. I don’t usually like Thai food, but it always LOOKS tasty, so I try it and then I think “Eh, why did I try that, I knew I didn’t like it…” I have the same problem with cheesecake (At least I did, before I stopped consuming dairy. I guess there’s still vegan ‘cheesecake’ though). However, this box of Thai food was an exception.

I wasn’t a big fan of the peanut topping (I didn’t like having ‘crunchy’ on top of my soft noodles), but the flavor was excellent. I actually grabbed two boxes of Thai food, in different flavors, but I didn’t read the ingredients thoroughly enough and discovered when I got home that the other flavor wasn’t vegan. It had anchovies in it. Don’t make the same mistake I did! Different “flavors” of foods have different ingredients!
Item number two:

Throwback mountain dew. Made with REAL sugar! No HFCS in this baby. Still not healthy, but oh so satisfying.
I saved the best for last.

Smoked Jalapeno and Garlic Hummus. It tasted SO MUCH like Nacho cheese bean dip that (even though it had “vegan” written right on the container) I had to re-read the ingredients several times to make sure there was no cheese in it. I have been chowing down on this stuff like crazy, I can’t get enough. Danielle at work also tried some and loved it so much that she went out and got some for herself that very night! I am very eager to try and make this from scratch, because the little tub was pretty spendy!
I have not done much else, but I have recipes I want to try so I have to convince myself to do some cooking before the week is up! Until next time :)
What is your favorite chip dip? Veggie dip? Dip that is good on ANYTHING?