Problems, Problems.

Ok, well I am starting to get better at this posting thing! Only at posting though, as you may have noticed, I have yet to post any pictures of food!
I got online last night and had all my pictures ready to go to be talked about and I was then clueless as to how to upload them. I know I could upload them to a picture hosting site, but I am too lazy to go through all that work and I thought there was an easier way to upload them staight from my desktop. If anyone could be of assistance that’d be great.
Unfortunately, my blog has encountered another problem as well. I have no idea how to change the theme! There are tons of themes that I like a lot better than this one! But I can’t seem to figure out how to change it. Once again, help would be nice!
All right, so since I don’t have any pictures for you, I would describe what has been going on in my stomach!
This morning I was so enthused to make an “Elvis Smoothie” from Veggiegirl (linking to other pages is also something I don’t know how to do ahh!!) Anyways, I walked downstairs and looked in my freezer for a couple bananas I had frozen a while ago. I pulled out the bag and there were 4 banana chunks. Four chunks!! What kind of smoothie could I make with 4 chunks of banana!!! A very small one, that’s what!I quartered the recipe and ended up getting about 4 slurps of Elvis, and every one was delicious!
Since it is summer, I have not been getting up early enough to eat a filling breakfast and be hungry by lunch time so I haven’t any breakfast favorites. I have really been craving them too! I was so close to making pancakes for lunch today, but almost as soon as I pulled the pancake ingredients out, a craving for a veggie burger was flung on me by some evil veggie burger force. Luckily, we had just bought some vegan boca burgers. (Even though I wish my family were vegan, I am glad that I get to eat whatever I feel like each meal rather eating what my family eats)
As of late, I like most other bloggers have been trying hard to eat healthier and perhaps lose some of those freshman 15 pounds!! Unfortunately, veggie burgers are not low in calories. (No surprise there) We also made pizza for dinner which was okay. I haven’t mastered the art of vegan pizza yet. I don’t know which toppings are good to combine and which ones are nasty. Tonight, I used FYH mozzorella cheese and black olives on my entire pizza. Then on one quarter of it, I put roasted red peppers and on another quarter I put some broccoli (following Jennifer McCann’s example). Usually I have an open mind about things and am pretty creative. I think it was the fact that our fridge was low on veggies and the idea of bread, tomato sauce and said veggies would not meld too well. All in all, it was not bad, just blah, really.
Currently, I am at home a lot! Like all day. Right now, I only have a job on weekends. For now, that is good for me because my things still need to be cleaned up from moving back in, but in June, I will starting a new job and probably will have less time to cook (which I am ashamed to say is lacking even when I have plenty of time.)
Ending on a happy note, I hope you all have a great Wednesday!!

At home.

Hey! I am positive I don’t have any readers at the moment, so I am not too worried about updating frequently. Although, when I made this I got excited and had planned to post lots of things. Well I came home the weekend before finals and the computer that I used at home basically crashed. Well, my parents were also gone that weekend and when they are gone, I tend to do a lot of baking/cooking. Which I did! So I really did have tons to blog about but my computer I guess had other plans. Anyways, I still took pictures and they are still planning on being put up. I have just gotten lazy. But they are coming soon, I promise. So for now, a survey which I have done before but not on a blog!

1. Favorite non-dairy milk?
I like almost any. I always buy something different when I go to the store, but at the Asian market I can get a quart for 99 cents so if I am going to be doing some baking that uses a lot of soy milk, I tend to buy that. Alone, it’s not too great, but you can’t taste it in baked goods. But I guess I love Silk Chocolate Milk, Almond Breeze, and Living Harvest vanilla hemp milk mmm..
2. What are the top 3 dishes/recipes you are planning to cook?
1) I have tried to lay off the baking..or lay off fat in general, but I really want to make the raspberry chocolate chip blondies from VwaV!
2) Chickpea cutlets–I’ve never liked garbanzo beans, but I have heard nothing but good things about these!
3) A falafel waffle! How awesome are those?
3. Topping of choice for popcorn?
I have been craving popcorn for the longest time. I have never made vegan popcorn, but I would love to try vegan kettle corn from the VeganYumYum website
4. Most disastrous recipe/meal failure?
Hmm, I haven’t had any failures that I can recall. Maybe trying to veganize some chocolate chip peanut butter cookies from a cookbook. They tasted great, but were hard and super thick.
5. Favorite pickled item?
I tried pickled ginger with my sushi they other day and it was delish!
6. How do you organize your recipes?
I really need to. My mom gave me a shelf in our pantry for all my vegan cookbooks, but the recipes that I print off, I just kind of stick them all in one random cookbook. Although, I am thinking about creating a three ring binder to put them all in.
7. Compost, trash, or garbage disposal?
We have both trash and garbage disposal.
8. If you were stranded on an island and could only bring 3 foods…what would they be (don’t worry about how you’ll cook them)?
I am going to cheat and pretend that there is a mango tree on the island with tons of mango hanging from it!
1) pita bread
2) chocolate
3) peanut butter (hey if I am going to be stranded, I might as well chow down on unhealthy food!)
9. Fondest food memory from your childhood?
Playing in the snow when my family lived in Ohio and making snow cream (not sure what all was in that concoction, but it was awesome!)
10. Favorite vegan ice cream?
Soy Dream mint chocolate chip (tastes just like Breyers mint chocolate..my favorite ice cream pre-gan!) Although, after reading many blogs about coconut sorbet I have searched and searched for such sorbet with NO SUCH LUCK
11. Most loved kitchen appliance?
Blender and KitchenAid mixer.
12. Spice/herb you would die without?
cinnamon!!
13. Cookbook you have owned for the longest time?
I got like 5 of them for Christmas which started my collection, then about 5 more for my birthday 4 days later and so the collection progressed. Of those 5 I got for Christmas was Vegan with a Vengeance, which is the one I use the most out of them.
14. Favorite flavor of jam/jelly?
SEEDLESS RASPBERRY!! YUM
15. Favorite vegan recipe to serve to an omni friend?
Are you kidding? My omni friends won’t touch my food with a 10 foot pole. I’ve only served them desserts, which apparently are much more appetizing because they don’t contain *shriek* vegetables!
16. Seitan, tofu, or tempeh?
Honestly, I have only tried tofu. I guess Seitan and tempeh would have been a good answer to the “which food do you want yo make?” question. I have some tempeh in my fridge and promised my mom that seitan was easy to make, yet I have yet to touch either of them.
17. Favorite meal to cook (or time of day to cook)?
breakfast..although unless it’s a special occasion or I can’t sleep, I am too lazy to wake up early to make it. Breakfast for dinner is amazing!
18. What is sitting on top of your refrigerator?
A peppermint bark tin and some kitchen decor.
19. Name 3 items in your freezer without looking.
1) ice cream
2) frozen fruit (for smoothies)
3) Lightlife Chik’n strips that I got for a manager’s special price at Kroger and decided to freeze them before they expire.
20. What’s on your grocery list?
I really need/want some quick cooking oats, brown sugar, cinnamon, and more pimentos.
21. Favorite grocery store?
Well, I am super lucky to have Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe located about 45 minutes from me (6 minutes away from my school!) And a few other amazing vegan grocers an equal distance, but I also have a Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s a little closer (20 minutes), although they don’t have the biggest vegan selection!
22. Name a recipe you’d love to veganize, but haven’t yet.
Oh! I used to have a really good answer to this question, but I have forgotten what it was.
23. Food blog you read the most (besides Isa’s because I know you check it everyday). Or maybe the top 3?
I have a list of about 50 blogs. I think the ones I look forward to reading the most are VeganYumYum, because all of her recipes seem extremely thought out and thoroughly tested. Second, the Vegan Lunch Box: even though she doesn’t post very often any more, I have gone through all her posts twice, just reading them, and it is the best one I have come across! Third, Fatfree Vegan Kitchen because she tries to make everything low in fat, which is definitely nice!
24. Favorite vegan candy/chocolate?
I don’t eat too much candy. I tend to eat more of those nasty processed desserts. However, now that I am home, I promised myself that I won’t be buying any more pre-packaged desserts as I have an entire kitchen and pantry stocked full of baking supplies to bake my own. But to answer the original question, I would have to say the “accidentally vegan” Golden Oreos.
25. Most extravagant food item purchased lately?
I went to Whole Foods a couple days ago and I was close to getting some Monkey Brains (the most delish oatmeal I have ever eaten), but I decided against it. I suppose it would be some Soy Protein powder for my morning smoothies.