School Shenanigans

The most exciting thing in the history of my school career probably happened today. Last night after procrastinating by blogging, I finally started my geometry problems. They were word problems, and I can tolerate a bit of those but there were at least 20 that I had to do! So I got to one that went something like this: Sharon and Matt are icing cookies. They have enough icing to cover a 9x13 inch sheet cake. How many cookies with a 2 inch diameter would they be able to ice with the given amount of frosting?

It's a pretty easy problem, but I was sick of world problems so I just wrote the practical thing, "TRY IT AND SEE!" I thought I was going to actually do it in the morning but I forgot. So we handed our HW in at the beginning of class today so my teacher could grade them and hand them back before class ended. I had completely forgotten about what I wrote until the teacher called me to her desk! She scares me to death! She said something along the lines of she does not approve of this sort of apathy towards her class, and why did I think I didn't have to attempt every problem? So I made a pouty face and said "Sorry, but math is just so hard for me!" I totally guilt tripped her because she apologized and asked if I'd like to come in during lunch so she could teach me how to do the problem! It was truly amazing.

But rewind back to breakfast. It was una manzana con queso (gotta practice my Spanish!).And un Zbar calor.
Then a bowl of banana chai oats! Muy bien!

Skip over snack and lunch. I had ballet today. Ballet went pretty well. I was sort of doing body checks now and then but I couldn't really see my "fat". Yay!

After class, I had a kiwi, string cheese, and a Perfect Pumpkin Boomi bar. My mom brought me this from an airport in Florida, woohoo! I love getting new bars.
I really liked the bar! It was sweet, but not overbearingly so. I like to be able to see every ingredient of my bar, and I could do that with this one. The ingredients are only pumpkin seeds, raisins, honey, dates, apricots, cranberries, crisp rice, amaranth flakes and salt. The rice, amaranth, and seeds provided a nice chewy-crunch, and the dried fruit was nice and squishy. I wish they sold Boomi bars around here :[

For din dins I made huevos rancheros tostadas. Instead of picante sauce, I pureed 1/2 c tomato sauce, 1/4 c green onions, 2 tbs green chilis, 1/2 tsp chili powder and 1/4 c chopped tomato. I never thought about it before, but I really don't like the idea of an egg yolk staring up at me. So I made mine sunny-side down. I wanted to top it with cheese, but my sister used it all up making nachos!
I also had a tangerine.

That's all for now! Enjoy your evenings/ beauty sleep lovelies!

Last Day of Break

Ugh, I am so not looking forward to going back to school tomorrow. I absolutely hate sitting through classes I have no interest in , even if I am good at them, I just want to fall asleep. I can get so much accomplished when I'm at home, but when I'm at school, there's about a three hour block of time that I consider wasted because I have no intention of doing anything related to geometry, gym, or technology. Blah.

And plus I have to have such boring lunches. Sandwich, granola bar, yogurt, carrots. I love being able to cook for myself at home, now I can't. Ideas for sandwiches, anyone?

Breakfast was a repeat performance today, so I won't bother posting it. For lunch, I gave cooking with nutritional yeast (nooch) a try. I made spinach, green onion, and mushroom tofu fritatta! I based it off of a recipe in Vegan with Vengeance called Asparagus and Sundried Tomato fritatta. I had hardly any vegetables in the house, so I was just using up stuff I found in the fridge.

It turned out very yummy and cheesey, but it fell apart when I took it out of the ramekin, what a shame. Next time I'll just eat it out of whatever I cook it in. So overall, a good first try with nooch.

For an afternoon snack today, I stole an idea I saw on Jemima's blog for banana ice cream. It was so easy, just a frozen banana and 2 tbs. of milk whirred up in the blender. It turned out so creamy and delicious though! I'm amazed at how plain bananas can be turned in such wonderful things! First caramelizing, now this. Once it gets warmer, I may have to eat this for breakfast with honey, cereal, berries, chocolate, nuts, etc.
Para cena, yo me cocine Huevos Rancheros Tostadas! Which means I made ranch eggs for dinner, for those of you who don't possess language skills. Yummy yummy yummy. First, I toasted some corn tortillas at 450 degrees F for 5 mins on each side. They looked like this when they were done.
Then, to make a picante sauce, I pulverized the following in my food proccessor:

• 1/4 cup chopped tomato
  
• 1/2 cup no salt added tomato sauce
• 2 tbs minced green chilies
• 1/4 cup chopped green onions
• 1/2 tsp chili powder

I dumped the picante sauce, 1 15 oz. can black beans (HR is traditionally made with pintos, so those can also be used), and 1 tbs. ketchup into a large skillet and brought it to a simmer. Then I made four wells in the bean mixture and cracked an egg into each. I cooked the eggs for 5 minutes until they were no longer runny, then put one on each tostada with 1/4 of the beans mixture.
I topped it with some cheddar cheese at the table, and had it with a banana and an Attune for a delayed dessert.

I'm off to prep for school now. I wish all of you who are also going back to school good luck getting through the first monday!