Wanted to get rid of some pictures on my camera

The thickest pizza i've ever made . . . it was no yeast dough I should've know it was going to be huge from the 5 cups of flour and 4 tablespoons of baking powder the recipe called for . . .

I made spinach waffles for dinner one time.

Katie came over for tea one day . . . this is not even half the selection of teas that I have. . . I made blueberry scones and oatmeal cinnamon scones . . . blueberry were the best.

The 2nd time I made perogies. Turned out pretty good and better than the last

I went to Katie's for tea and I made blueberry struesel muffins and . . .

Oatmeal chocolate chip muffins

Tis the season

Yesterday I made little goodie bags for people at work (well the people whose company i enjoy :P)

Chocolate covered pretzels with chopped up pieces of candy canes, red sugar, and red white and green sprinkles

Red star sugar cookies. These were kind of a pain to make.

Candy Cane Brownies.

The end result.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

I thought we had no internet . . .

It wasn't working for the past few days so we decided to call shaw and BUY internet instead of stealing it. They were suppose was to come today between 5-8pm buut i had yoga at 530 and my sister had work til 530 and OF COURSE they come at 5:04! we have to wait til monday . . . so thinking there was no internet I baked then I find out WE HAVE "OUR" internet back . . .

I had nothing better to do then make tiny cookies. The top is lil thumbprint cookies, the middle is peanut butter drops and the bottom one are lil chocolate chip ones which I made first and thats why they look so weird but they taste AWESOME

The BEST cookies I've ever made to date!

I kid you not even my NON-vegan meat eating boss was like "these are really good" or maybe he was just making me feel good as he was just about to drive me to the hospital :P


the recipe calls for raisins but HONESTLY who likes raisins?? NOBODY! so I put carob chips in it and it was lovely!


I made them again tonight but I put some coconut on top of a few cuz my roommate loves coconut. They just weren't the same this time though . . . first time was beginner's luck? dumb luck? I dunno they just turned out better.

Almond Butter Brownies mmmmmm. . . .

The other night I was really bored and it was . . .hmmm 10:30pm so I decided to make almond butter brownies.





And sometime last week I made almond butter stir fry with rice noodles. IT WAS SOOOO GOOD.

Alright I'm Back . . .

My night in a nutshell. . . my friend Daria's little boy, Diego loved the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I made for halloween last year and kept asking when I'd make them again. . .

There was a big can of pumpkin . . .uh stuff so I made pumpkin bread too.


For dinner. . . Broccoli and Tofu stir fry with rice. yum


then I watched Wild Target with the very funny Bill Nighy, the adorable Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley from Harry Potter) and the gorgeous Emily Blunt.

NIGHT

It's no secret . . .

that i love to bake now is it? no.
today on the menu I made a modified version of a mango bread recipe I found online. . . I call it my Mango-Apple Chocolate Chip Walnut Loaf (mouth full ain't it)
the reason it's "modified" is because I didn't have enough mango I was suppose to have 2 1/2 cup of mango pulp. I blended the one mango I had with an apple and some water still didn't come to even 2 cups but it turned out alright.


Mmmmmm...


Warm and with a little butter (not real butter of course)


alright 3 posted back to back? I'd say that's a record for me. Looking forward to What I Wore Wednesday? So am I. Can't keep hogging all the blog space now can I?

In a BERRY good mood

Yes I know that was a lame and bad pun.
Well I am in a good mood today. Had my first ballet class and despite being slightly afraid/intimidated by the teacher it went pretty well. My legs hurt. Julz would be glad to hear she's not the only one who gets her footing wrong sometimes.

I also was able to sit and relax - not before falling on my ass in my living room cause I couldn't decide which way to go and jamming my wrist into my hand and somehow hurt my elbow too but that's just another day in the life of clutzy Jen (I got slippery floors though) - and just read my book (well Julz's book) I Am Number Four for a bit. Then I got a little restless/distracted (my undiagnosed a.d.d kicking in) and decided I wanted to make bread.
I couldn't find a recipe that jumped out at me so I went with muffins I also had some blueberries that needed to be used.
I altered the recipe just a smidgen and the result was Strawberry Blueberry and Cranberry (hence the BERRY good) filled muffins. I added some oats in it too.


Here's me trying to be artistically creative and different. I said trying didn't I?

They taste pretty good though the cranberries are a little sour I dunno if that was because they were frozen or not.


until tomorrow . . . .cya!

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies

I made these the other day. They were quite tasty if I do say so myself.






Well you know what tomorrow is don't you . . . .?
I also am starting a raw food detox cleanse. I feel like I need and good cleaning inside and out (does that sound weird)
So I won't be baking any yummy foods for the next 7 days :( thats ok not like my body neeedddss more sugar!

Pizza from scratch . . .?

So I decided to do a recipe from the thrive diet book. It's by Brendan Brazier a VEGAN triathlete from vancouver actually. He's pretty amazing and inspiring actually.

Anywho I made a curry lentil rice pizza where the crust is made out of just that no flour or nothing then you got some veggies and tomato sauce to go on top.

I was apparently supposed to blend the crust longer in the food processor says my roommate but I didn't have patience.

So it wasn't a pizza you could pick up in your hands and eat . . . had to eat it with a spoon BUT it was still really good. There's some left and I'm taking it for lunch tomorrow ooohh yeah.

Birdnest Cookies Or Thumbprint

My first stab at making these types of cookies. And I've had a jar of my mom's blackberry jam for a really long time. . .

before the oven . . .

After!

mmmm Cupcakes

I made these for my roommate who is currently out for a birthday dinner with her boyfriend.

I was bored and feel sorta guilty that I didn't get her anything but she LOVES the card.

And so starts . . .

So as Julz explained the idea we gotta be cute at least once a week and record it (in a way) I get My Manic Monday (mondays are always manic don't you think?) and she gets What I Wore Wednesday. . . MANIC MONDAY TAKE 1!

Gotta say not a fan of my face. But keep in mind its 5am and I'm just about to go to work . . .yay (sarcasm). . . So what I am sporting here is a flowery blue and white tank with a high waisted skirt (that I decided needed to be higher so I made it an empire waist I also had to PIN it cause it was too big), a black cardigan and black tights. . . It ain't rocket science . . .

oooh classic 5am I-want-to-still-be-in-bed face.

And NOT related to my manic mondays. . . saturday I made a VEGAN birthday cake for my friend's b-day and he loves superman. . . I had planned it all better in my head BUT i had had a few just before putting on the logo so i could've done better. It's pretty tasty though chocolate cake with cream cheese icing mmmmmmm. I believe I still have some left. Want some? well come on over then!

ON a brighter more random note I START KICKBOXING TOMORROW!

MY FIRST VEGAN BURGER

Earlier this week I made my first vegan bean burger. Consisting of lentils, black beans, bread crumbs and some spices. . . . very yummy.

I got the recipe online hmm can't remember where but it's pretty easy to make.
two posts in one day? wow as appose to the ONE last month eh?

Ok so it has been a while since there has been some kinda postage. I'd like to say I've been SUPER busy but that would be lying . Julz off living and loving the european backpackers life. Extremely jealous but here in sometimes rainy sometimes sunny Vancouver.

anywho my mom visited and I made a BIG pizza and of course it was goood.

also took a crack at making my own granola instead of buying store bought. cause saving money is cool!

Oh look crafts! This is a mothers day card I made for my . . . well mother.

It was also my sister's birthday at the beginning of the month (may 5th) and she's going into audio engineering which is sooo awesome and I am SOO proud of her for getting into a school in montreal and that is the cassette tape reference in a sense.

ON a side note. Remember that 2010 book I made? well I've come to terms with the fact that it will be IMPOSSIBLE to fulfill those goals this year sooo I am not giving myself a time limit for that. We'll see