Pumpkin & Pomegranate

Head on over to Meg Kat and enter to win this Le Creuset bowl. I wish they had one in the new eggplant color. It would be so satisfying to make pancakes in this sucker.

Gina!
I used the random number generator here and came up with number 18 which was assigned to Gina!
Congratulations! Please e-mail me your address and we will get those fabulous knives to you!

Yesterday I decided to make my own sunflower seed butter. I love Sunbutter, but find it to be prohibitively expensive. If you can afford it, great! if you are like me and trying to save your pennies, then you might try to make your own. Especially since sunflower seeds are fairly inexpensive compared to nuts [...]

A little while back someone mentioned that they would like to see what I eat in a typical day. Since I don’t make habit of photographing EVERY meal I eat, or bite I take, I don’t have an actual day put together. I do have some sample foods that I snapped photos of from the [...]

I learned something this weekend. maple syrup is REALLY expensive. No wonder people are overjoyed with agave nectar, it is about 1/3rd the price or maple syrup (Kind of like corn syrup vs. sugar). But you know me, I don’t do the agave. So maple syrup it was, and the maple syrup alone for my [...]

April 24th through May 2nd there will be vegan bake sales around the globe. I urge you to go and purchase some goodies to support fantastic causes, and if you can, donate some vegan goodies you have baked yourself! Also, you can check the Vegan Bake Sale website to find out about future bake sales [...]

I am not certain how much longer I can label my dishes with “Mexican” or “Indian-inspired”, etc. because it is really really boring. i toyed with calling this “Frida’s Quinoa Salad” but then I figured people would think that Frida Kahlo was making quinoa salad. She was a wonderful cook, but I highly doubt she had [...]

These were pretty fab, and made enough to that I had leftovers for breakfast the next day. plan was for me to sleep in a little late, and then grab my pancakes and get to work. Unfortunately I came down with a bad case of the allergies, or a head cold. not sure which, but [...]

I don’t have much to talk about food wise here, but I did want to show you all photos from my vacation back home. Hope you enjoy!
Seriously, I thought there was a clown car circling the block at 5 A.M.
(and FYI “Sweet Tea” is NOT a Texas thing)
My favorite places in Texas:
Austin:
Mother’s cafe & Garden
Veggie [...]

Yesterday I was at Trader Joe’s and almost picked up a box of Gorilla Munch. I haven’t had a bowl of cereal in a year and a half, and that last bowl was some Trader Joe’s High Fiber cereal that was supposed to help get the anesthesia out of my body. So what’s so bad [...]