More nom noms!

Homemade Vegan: [really] Spicy tomato soup, veggie sandwich, and carrot raisin muffin.



The bread was a simple bread from made from scratch



The muffins!

Catch Up.

I made peanut butter strawberry scones (a play on PB&J) at The Grind yesterday. Today I made Cinnamon Ginger muffins. Something like this...

Except I made them with a brown sugar crumble topping. So good.

After I got off work, Greg (my duathlon world champion suitemate) and I went out grocery shopping for dinner. It was quite a feast. Here's the end result:

A black bean burger with lime cilantro hummus and guacamole. You might also notices the side of sweet potato chips, too. All homemade, all fervently rustic, and all delectable. The preparation was truly enjoyable. Greg and I were cooking in the moment. No recipes or measuring utensils. At one point I asked him how much olive oil he had put on the sweet potatoes. He replied, "some"--a sufficient answer which my palate later confirmed as the correct one, indeed.

We're going to try to cook every Sunday. Stay tuned.

I also am going to make more ice cream sometime (hopefully) this week. I have an idea for a homemade cone/bowl.

A bit of a Break

Well, after a few weeks of bloglessness, I have some old muffins to post.

Double chocolate!

Peach!

Healthy Flax Seed.

School's been tough. In the first three days of classes I read 180 pages, by the fourth I read 220, and by the 8th day I had made it above 400 pages. I love everyone in my resident life staff, we had a lot of fun in training. The biggest news relevant to the type of blog that this is is that I'm officially a baker! The coffee shop I am always at (literally--about 6 to 8 hours a day) hired me as the weekend baker. I'm learning a lot from the owner, and getting tons of experience that would normally cost me money and time--time I'm now getting paid for. I have some exciting new baked goods to post up and hopefully some new, original photography of them. I plan on having some great baking stories from The Daily Grind each weekend, too.

~Cheers

Junior Year!

Well, it's my first day back at school. After rearranging my new room for a frustrating three hours, I decided to make some more muffins.

Banana soy mix (soy nuts, pumpkin seeds, chopped almonds, and craisins)

Tomorrow is my first day of RA training, it's gonna be tiresome. Which means I should probably only ride about 20 miles tomorrow before we meet for breakfast at 7:45, right? Right.

Ice Cream minus the Cow.

Who says you need a cow to make a great *traditionally* dairy based desert?

Vegan: Vanilla ice cream, snickerdoodle biscotti, and caramel sauce with crushed walnuts.

I love coffee, like most people. I have a silly opinion, which may quite possibly be erroneous, that coffee, much like smiling, is a human universal. If all other language failed us--drifting into the void of forgotten nothingness, the statistical norm for much of the existence in this indifferent universe--mankind, womankind, and any other human "kind" could survive as social creatures with only coffee and smiles.

Now, with all of the words out of the way, here's a couple sentences much more delicious than any college essay or graduate thesis can provide: a coffee muffin. Please respond promptly with a smile.

Sincerely,

simply, only, Me.

A Bit Behind...

Well, I've been a tad lazy in my uploading. So, we have four this time!!!!

Lime with Lemon Zest

Rasberry Lemon Glaze

Coconut Caramel

Cherry Chocolate

I'll post my newest recipe tomorrow, It was tasty!

What We Can Do.

This book, "The Life You Can Save," by Peter Singer is fantastic! If you read one book this year, read this one twice.

Thelifeyoucansave.com is a great resource for giving.

More motivation?