Archives for April 17, 2010

Which is awesome for my plants, but not so awesome for the outdoor plans I have tomorrow.  Hopefully it will clear up soon!

Speaking of my plants, I don’t remember if I talked about this already but I’m doing a container garden this year!!  I don’t really have a place to plant a proper garden (nor do I have the know how or a green thumb, lol).  But I do have a patio!  So I’m doing some veggies in containers!!  Just my veggie plants and some organic miracle grow- no bug sprays or anything like that.  I can’t WAIT to taste those fresh yummy veggies!!

I’ve got two types of tomatoes going- yellow pear tomatoes and beefsteak tomatoes- both heirloom varieties. I’ve also got yellow straightneck squash, zucchini, eggplant, okra, basil, rosemary, and sugar baby watermelons!  Oh I’m so stinking excited!  They are growing like crazy and I’m thinking maybe the end of June or beginning of July I’ll start getting some stuff I can pick.

Here’s what my veggies looked like last week…

And here’s what they look like today…

Look how big my eggplant is!!!!

I can’t wait to eat you little vegetables!!!!

Got up this morning and got on the treadmill.  I had planned to go to kickboxing, but it was raining and I just wanted to sleep in a little.  So I did.  But I made myself get on the treadmill and run.  I always feel great afterword, so it’s worth making myself do it!

Then I chopped some veggies to prep for next week.  And I peeled up a huge chunk of ginger- oh my goodness I LOVE the smell of ginger!  It’s so warm and spicy- I need to use it more often.  It’s fantastic and so cheap!

Then I put on a big ole pot of coffee (Spring Blend!!!).  I got a new coffee maker yesterday and I am enjoying my spring blend better in it than I was in the french press.  I like my  coffee with a little organic half and half.  YUM!

And I munched on some pretty delicious trail mix that I found at Whole Foods yesterday.

HOLY MOLY this stuff is good!!!!

So anyway!  It’s time to start figuring out what’s going to be for lunch, then it’s time to start getting ready for girls night!!!!  Woot woot!!  I can’t wait!

Catch ya later!!

What a day today was!!  I’m glad it’s Friday cause that means tomorrow is Saturday and I have a fun girls night planned for tomorrow night!  YAY!

Got up and did some Organic Chem homework- glycolysis.  Not so interesting at 8 in the morning!  Then did my discussion and response for my Food and Culture class, which is online.  Then it was lunch and grocery shopping.

Lunch was the same as it has been for the last few days- veggie burger with pepperjack cheese.  I’m LOVING the gardenburger veggieburgers!

Then onward to a marathon grocery shopping trip!  I hit up the local produce place here in town, then it was on to Whole Foods, then Central Market for my favorite Whole Wheat tortillas(they make the best tortillas EVER!!!)

For dinner I put a few things together and we kind of had a mismash of things.  I had some Annie’s mac and cheese in the pantry, so I made that and stirred a can of drained Rotel into it (thanks for the idea Amanda- it was delicious!  I can’t believe I’ve never tried that before!). 

Then roasted up some broccoli (if you’ve never had roasted broccoli you have to try it- it’s amazing!).  And sprinkled a little parmesan cheese on top.  YUM!

Then I tried a new product that I grabbed at Whole Foods this afternoon.  I’m always a bit wary of the veggie versions of meat- I’ve tried so many that were disgusting.  This is a brand that I heard about on a podcast that I like to listen to- it’s called Field Roast, and they make all kinds of veggie meats out of wheat gluten. 

I got the Mexican Chipotle style “sausage” to try.

Look- you can pronounce all of the ingredients!

Now I’m not going to say that it tasted exactly like sausage, but it definitely had a sausage flavor to it.  I just used one link for the both of us, so I’ll have plenty of other opportunities to try it in other things- there are three more of them left.  It was REALLY spicy though- so if you don’t like spicy stuff, you wouldn’t like it.  Overall, though, I thought it was pretty good!  I would probably buy it again.

I served that up with my broccoli and mac and cheese.

I’m exhausted- I think it’s my bed time now!  Nighty night!