Showing posts with label sweet potatoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweet potatoes. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

What I Ate Wednesday, carb crazy edition


I am a carb lover. The thought of a low-carbohydrate diet is simply ridiculous to me. Carbs make me full, comfortable and happy.

 Sometimes, though, it would be nice if more of my carbs came in the form of vegetables. I used to visit a naturopathic doctor who told me she ate protein and a sweet potato for breakfast...every day. No bread, no cereal...no fun.

 On Monday, I ate a quick breakfast of spelt bread with peanut butter and jam. I decided to jazz it up a bit by washing it down with a homemade soy milk latte.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

What I Ate Wednesday, June 27



After we went strawberry picking last week, I then had the task of using up all those strawberries we so carefully picked.

I started off by making strawberry muffins. You can find the recipe here.

My son did what he did with last year’s strawberries—crushed them (by hand!) and mixed them in with some orange juice. So as to avoid any further mess, the next time I asked him to run them through the Magic Bullet with the orange juice, rather than crushing them by hand.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

What I Ate Wednesday


Happy What I Ate Wednesday!

This week I am looking at a few of the food items I consumed since last WIAW.

This was not the best week for food around the homestead, I guess, because I didn’t snap a lot of photos! Either that, or we were just too busy chauffeuring the kids around to take pictures.


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Friday, February 3, 2012

Insta-Friday in real life

I have lots of cell phone photos to share this week. I threw together some collages as quick as I could, because today is a PA Day and the kids are home from school.

My daughter is not happy that I’m at the computer again. She happens to be “bored.” Right now, she is trying to teach the dog to jump through a hula hoop.
My son is content with his portable video game, but I can’t let that go on all day…or can I?

No, I think we’ll make some goodies to occupy them…maybe some muffins or some peanut butter cookies…maybe both.


Last Sunday, we went to the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Family Sunday again.


This time, the kids made zoetropes—devices that produce the illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. The family area has a visible vault so that you can see the sculptures being stored. My son is standing in front of a giant hockey player. We also did a little tour of some other areas—see the “igloo” covered with a giant quilt…how cool is that?


We bought a poster of Gerhard Richter’s “Helga Matura.” My husband and I both love that painting—and the poster was 70% off. You can’t beat that! The picture on the right is a portrait that my husband made.


My daughter really wanted to celebrate Chinese New Year, so the kids decorated the house with some Happy New Year posters and we ordered some delicious Chinese food (above left). I am a bit tofu-obsessed, which might seem strange to some people, but have you tried the extra-firm? The two photos (middle and right) show a tofu recipe from Nava Atlas’s Vegan Express—“Spicy Tofu Triangles on a Cool Bed of Lettuce,” with a side of potatoes and sweet potatoes in an olive oil vinaigrette.


My husband’s students had exams this week, which gave him time to go for lunch—all you can eat veggie sushi. I want more every time I look at the photos. I never used to like sushi—now it’s an addiction.


I already had two blenders, and yet I went ahead and bought a Magic Bullet. I don’t regret it though, because the kids can make their own individual smoothies now. They make it right in the mug, put on a lid, and they are ready to go anywhere with a smoothie in hand.


I went to the library this week, and what did I get? Cookbooks. See that picture on the right? That’s the cookbook shelf in my kitchen. Clearly, another addiction of mine. I read ‘em while I watch TV.

 
My husband took his students for some evening skiing and my son went along for the ride. He is still learning to snowboard, and it looks like he spent a fair bit of time on his bum.
Have a great weekend!

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