Two in One!

Yesterday was pretty hectic for me. Someone was sick so I ended up having to go into work half an hour after I got home from school. Then I had to stay up 'til midnight-thirty to finish the good old calculus homework.

I shouldn't be complaining though, because:

1. It could have easily taken until 1 or 2 am, and it didn't
2. More importantly, while doing my calculus I made muffins!

I wish I could say I made them from scratch, but I didn't. They came out of this box:

What I like best about these is that they are two of my favorite muffins (lemon poppyseed, and blueberry) all rolled up into one! Minus the poppy seeds! 

I had one last night and it was delightful. Fluffy and moist and good. 

These babies will be perfect to add to my packed school lunches, but they are not like big jumbo muffins so I'll need other things to accompany them (What that will be? I don't know!)

Thank the vegan gods for Ener-G Egg Replacer!

For anyone who doesn't know what that is, (I didn't before I read about it) it is a box of white powder that looks like this. After reading about it, I found it in the health food section of our local Fred Meyer (they have the best health food section of all the nearby groceries).

To use it, you mix 1tsp of the powder with 2T of water, mix it WELL, and then just add it into your recipe wherever you normally use an egg! It works brilliantly.

However: This does not work for making scrambled eggs or anything of the like. It simply mimics the way eggs act in baking and such.

This morning I also added 2 miles to my total distance for October's Go the Distance Challenge. I am starting to realize how tough this will be. 1.6 miles a day is definitely doable but I am so LAZY. This challenge is really going to tug at my motivation and force me to get out of my warm cozy bed and onto the cold, unforgiving treadmill. However it is only cold for so long, then I'm pouring out sweat so I guess that's alright ;)

Off to school with me!

What's your favorite kind of muffin? Don't like muffins? How about your favorite cookie? Don't like cookies? Well maybe you should.

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?