Snow Day!!

If you can even call it that. It was a really, really, lame excuse for a snow day! There was about half an inch of snow when I woke up this morning. But hey, it got me out of school so I'm not complaining! Plus, I was having a really bad hair day this morning. I looked like Astro Boy! Except you know, not a boy. And with a shirt on.

I like snow days because they give me a chance to do some baking! So for brekky, I made Spiced Banana Bread from Ginge and the Giant Peach. Except I only had one banana, so I made half the recipe. I used canola oil instead of butter, and half whole wheat and half white flour. Oh yeah and dried apricots instead of mixed dried fruit. I didn't have a small enough loaf pan, so I poured the batter into 5 muffin cups.
Fay, your grandmother is some baker! These were so amazingly good. Perfectly spiced, and very moist. I can't stop thinking about them now.
With a muffin, I had an egg and the most perfect pear I've ever had in my life. My mom got it from the Harry and David fruit of the month club at her office. Soooo good!


And yay more breakfast! S'mores oats! S'morsoats. S'moats. I put lotsa cinnamon in my oatmeal to make it taste like a graham cracker, then mixed in a chopped vegan marshmallow and dark chocolate chips. I cannot even put into words how good this was. Melty goodness.

Lunchtime came, and I wanted soup but we had none. So I made polenta. I mixed 1/4 c cornmeal with 1/4 c water to make a paste and brought it to a boil. Then I simmered it for 15 mins, adding a couple tablespoons of water every now and then to keep it from clumping. When it was done, I stirred in about 1/2 tbs butter and topped it with half a cooked potato and a slice of cheddar. Exactly what I needed on my snow day! With carrots, an oatmeal bar, and a Nature's Promise yogurt.

I thought that I was going to have to eat dinner between my cello lesson and therapy tonight, since that's what I normally do on Tuesdays. But when I got to my cello lesson, my teacher wasn't there and I found out it was canceled:[ . And my dad called my therapist and said that the weather was too bad to drive in. I packed a quesadilla on two corn tortillas with cheddar, lettuce, black olives and black beans; plus the rest of the can of black beans.
I just heated it up when I got home and ate it like that.

I hope I haven't been boring any of you by my marathon posts! It's just that on school days I never get to make such exciting yummy food so I'm taking advantage of that. I promise, once I go back to school tomorrow (or maybe not, it might snow again!), I'll be back to just posting a few things a day. Unless you all like my daily eat posts..?

I'm off to do the snow dance. Sweet dreams, everyone!

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Meditaliwish!

My food today has been a whole mish mash of culture today! For breakfast, I started out with a Mediterranean tofu scramble!

I used 1/4 block extra firm tofu, 1 cup of spinach, 1/3 cup sundried tomato (yay!), 1 clove garlic, 1 tbs nooch and 4 slices black olives. Plus an apple

And Coconut Blueberry Chai Oats!
I looked my oats this morning in a bag of chai tea, which gave it a really lovely color! Then I added 1/2 blueberries, 1 tbs shredded coconut and a handful of chopped almonds. Super delish!

The Italian part of the title came into play at lunch. I was craving a sammich, so I made one. I used 1.5 oz of mozarella, handful of spinach, and a tbs. of pesto my dad made. I love his homemade pesto, it way beats the jarred stuff. Along with it, I had a TLC bar, Rachel's yogurt, and carrots.
Then I went to Target. It's like my home away from home, I love it so much! There were some adorable plates that I'll be buying at my next trip there. This time, I went a bit bar wild. I found the new Kashi bars I found the new Kashi bars I found the new Kashi bars! I am so happy!
There were also lots of discount Larabars. Some were only $0.54, can you believe it? I snatched up three. I'll be disappointed if Target stops selling Laras though, because then I'll have to go all the way to Whole Foods to get them. Boo.

For dinner, I made this recipe for Kugel, which is Jewish. So that's the "wish" part of the title. My mom used to make Kugel a lot, even though we aren't Jewish, for some reason. I stopped requesting it when my ED started (hello. White pasta+butter+sugar?), but I decided to challenge myself tonight. I'm so glad I did, it was so amazingly tasty! It tasted like apple pie.. but with pasta instead of crust. It sounds bizarre, but trust me, it's amazing.
Along with it, I had a Quorn chicken cutlet brushed with OO and seasoned with cumin, oregano and garlic powder. My mom's boss is paying for fruit of the month in her office, but hardly anyone in her office is eating the fruit. She said that they all say they want cheesecake again, like last year haha. So January is pear month, and my mommy brought me a huge pear! I split it with her and my dad with dinner.
It was so perfect! I really don't know how else to describe it. It's Harry and David, come on!

Hope you all had lovely, ED-free days.