Fatigue

I’m not sure what it’s been but the last few days both Colleen and I have been extremely tired. Colleen has been passing out on the couch at 8 or so every night and I’ve overslept on two occassions this week. As a result of our fatigue, we haven’t been as active as we would like, and that includes writing blog posts. Rest assured, we are trying to keep you updated and entertained the best we can

Last night I was able to draw some energy from my reserves in order to make some cookies. Pink Haired Cyn suggested I put my white choco chips to use in some white chip macadamia cookies and I thought that was an exceedingly good idea, so I went for it. Continue reading »

Mmmmm, Mongolian Hot Pot. . .

Yesterday we decided that it was definitely time for us to get out of the house and get around the town.  Since we have started playing Wii I have noticed Sat isn’t pushing me to leave the house as much, which I don’t mind, but I don’t think it is so good for him.  If he doesn’t play outside for at least an hour every day he gets a little. . . well, mean. Continue reading »

Lettuce Challenge

Colleen and I have been bad lately.

We’ve been getting lazy with our fruits and veggies and, as a result, we are accumulating a backlog of produce in our fridge. Particularly troublesome is the amount of lettuce we have floating around our fridge. We usually get about 2 heads of lettuce from our CSA but this week we ended up with 2 heads and a bag of spring mix. Plus, I don’t even think we have touched our lettuce from last week.

So, what’s a couple of crazy kids like us supposed to do? Sit around and cry about it? Maybe.

Wait, no!

We gotta fight. Fight hard! That’s why we are creating a challenge to ourselves (and maybe our readers): every meal this week needs to include lettuce. I’m not talking about 7 days of garden salads either; we’ve tried that and it just doesn’t work. We’ve gotten some good suggestions via Facebook (lettuce wraps sound good) but we still have a long way to go before we can meet this challenge. Please, oh fair blog readers, supply us with your favorite non-salady uses of lettuce. You will be rewarded with our eternal love.

Oh, and stay tuned for the results of our challenge. Can we make all 7 days?

- Sat

So much to tell!

Well, it has been a while since the last post and SO MUCH has been going on! As you saw a few weeks ago I got a new job (yay!). My last day in my current position is this Thursday. I have been bustin’ my balls for the last two weeks to get things wrapped up and ready for me to leave. I don’t only have to take care of my regular tasks but also wrap up all the “extras” that I have been working on.

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Random Food Updates

It’s the end of the term again, which means things are starting to pick up around here. Colleen has been busy at work, receiving kudos left and right, while I’ve been trying to keep things going with my research and teaching. I’m not going to talk about any of those things in this post though. I am gonna talk about food.

You remember food, don’t you? Food is that good old friend of yours who is always there to pick you up. Luckily for us, food has been really good to us lately. Well, for the most part…

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Look mom, a picture of us TOGETHER!

Sat and I never get pictures of us together - it is always one or the other. But lookie what Colleen got this weekend. This is for you mom, happy early birthday! I guess most of you (you know, the two that actually keep up with this blog) are wondering what the heck I am doing posting in the middle of the day on a Tuesday. Well, last night we had my world famous french onion soup and for some reason every so often the soup makes me pretty nauseated the following morning. Like this morning. Sat was actually driving me to work when I realized today might be a good day to stay home sick. All those bumps with the bricks at the gate and then a quick u-turn that left my stomach reeling. So after another quick u-turn I called my boss and let him know I wouldn’t be able to make it in today. Although I still don’t feel a hundred percent Sat is positive that it is just my guilt at not going to work that is making me think that I don’t feel good. Continue reading »

Homemade Vegan Truffles

Homemade Vegan Truffles, originally uploaded by elsaturnino.

RSS has changed my life.

Sure, I’ve been using it for a while now but after I managed to get Colleen into using Google Reader, things have changed for the better. Howso, you may be asking. Well, Colleen has found quite a few good Vegan food blogs on the the net so she has been seeing lots of new ideas on different vegan goodies to fix for ourselves. VeganYumYum is one of our favorite blogs and we’ve tried several of the recipes from there. Fairly recently, Colleen found The Conscious Kitchen, another excellent blog.

One of the more recent posts there was a howto on making your own truffles. I’m a bit of a truffle addict, although I manage to keep away from them for the most part. Usually I pick up a fairly cheap box of basic ones from Whole Foods but they don’t last long. That’s why I was so excited when I learned that making your own truffles is so friggin’ easy. The aforementioned blog post has a cornucopia of different truffles but the basic recipe is quick and simple so I decide to try my hand at it tonight. I picked up a couple chocolate bars at Whole Foods and I was good to go. The result is shown in the above photo.

It only took about 10-15 mins of actual labor to make them so I definitely can’t complain—the whole process took about an hour because I had to let the chocolate set in the refrigerator. I used the “Semisweet Chocolate with Almonds” by Rapunzel (I could have sworn I picked up the bar that had hazelnuts rather than almonds…) and mixed in a little Frangelico to add a hazelnut flavor to it. C’est magnifique.

Now get moving and make your own. It’s too easy to pass up!

Community Supported Agriculture

Being vegan, you would expect me to eat quite a few fruits and veggies. While I do indeed love these things, I don’t eat nearly as much fresh vegetables as I should. One of our joint New Years Resolutions was to have at least one vegetable with dinner every night. For the most part we have been doing well on this resolution but we may have found something that may make it even easier to achieve our goal. To what do I refer? Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), of course!

I’m not sure how Colleen found out about it but at the beginning of the year, she suggested that we join the Be Wise Ranch CSA. I had looked into this a while back but figured Colleen would think I was a bit crazy so I never brought it up to her. I quickly agreed that it would be a fun thing to try so we decided to start up a 4 week “trial” membership.

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Buckeyes, butternut squash, and bladders

Based on the title of this post, you may be thinking to yourself, “What are these people smoking?” The answer is an unfortunate nothing; I’ve just got a weird mix of things to talk about. Enough of this silly intro though: on to the actual post!

If you happened to have the pleasure of growing up in the midwest (warning: not recommended any longer), you probably associate buckeyes with the Ohio State sports mascot (Brutus the Buckeye is his name, actually). If you happened to have the extreme pleasure of growing up in Ohio (warning: moving to Ohio is not recommended for anyone who is any bit sane), you might know the buckeye as the state tree. If you ever (see above) of having a kick ass grandma such as my own Grandma Deppen, you might know the buckeye as the official chocolatey peanut butter snack of champions.

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Yes, we’re slacking

Ok, maybe I should say I am slacking. I have been meaning to write a blog post for the past three days but either time constraints or plain laziness have kept me away. There isn’t one subject I want to focus on for this post so get ready for a grab bag of memories.

Colleen and I were back on the geocaching trail this Saturday when we went down to the Clairemont/Kearny Mesa border. How did we come up with that particular area to hunt? Well, we’ve been talking about going to Sipz for what seems like ages now so we decided to finally take the leap and try it out. Too bad only 50% of our trip was a success.

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