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 Perfect Dinner for a Rapture Survivor

Well, if you're reading this, I assume you made it through today's rapture. Yaay. I spent today writing my paper, which I suppose if it had been rapture day would be particularly representative of my life as of late. My paper is on Queen Victoria, fitting for the Victoria Day long weekend! I'm really enjoying writing it- I love royalty! I think I would have loved to live in that era- minus the lack of hygienic practices, female oppression and, well, Google.

To celebrate my survival of this day, I made Tofu Wings on rice for dinner. [I followed this recipe exactly with the exception of the microwaving at the end.] It was quite delectable. I am pretty much a pro at frying tofu these days.


I am awful persnickety about drying out my tofu before frying it out.





I have a thousand and three blog ideas bouncing around my head right now. Come back soon and check them out! Until then, happy long weekend, Canadians! Do something fun- I will be essay-writing!

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.

Mind Dump

Hey, just stopping by for a couple things:


1) My dinner from last night.... Caesar Salad with boiled eggs. Nom Nom. Pictures are kinda dark because I got home lateish, because I went to see DOGTOOTH.
Only two words can describe this movie: Fucked Up. But really enjoyable and raises issues with societal dynamics. I'd recommend it, but not for the faint of heart. Some scenes are shockingly graphic.

2) Doesn't this sound cool? And exactly my cup of tea? I'm so tempted, but I swore I wouldn't go shopping until April! Gah! Not faaaiir.

3)Dinner tonight was mac'n'cheese with pureed chickpeas. Here is the puree-ing process.

And the final product!

That's all, I'm going to go get some work done and treat the internet and all its endless possibilities like this:

LALALAALA I CANT HEEAAARRRR YOOOU.

Hopefully it will work.
xox Julz

Making the Most Delicious Dinner Ever makes Proof Reading 88.5674% more Enjoyable this Tuesday Evening.

What does the combination of food create? (plus tofu, it somehow didn't make it out of the fridge for picture time...)


Um, delicious!

You impressed yet? Day three of posting my meals! Today, I made Noodle Salad in Peanut Sauce, which makes up for its rather dull name with MAYJAH FLAVA. Holy amazeballs, this was delicious. I can't even talk about how amazing this was on account of eating so much of it and now being uncomfortably full with my dinner. I've linked the recipe, because I pretty much followed it to a T.

Sogood.

Monday.

So, in a hilarious twist events, this is my dinner for tonight. Hilarious because yesterday's soup was supposed to last me a couple of days -- I really tried to follow through, but I could only choke down about half the bowl I scooped myself for lunch today. So, on to Wednesday's dinner. Which, from looking at these pictures looks not so yummy. But that's a lie. Pictures of food do not always accurately represent their taste. As proof of this fact, Exhibit A, pictures of yesterday's soup look delish-- so good in fact, i ALMOST want to give it another try. But I'm smarter than that. My own photography skills won't fool me! Anyway, the moral of this rambly story is: The soup looks good, but tasted gross and tonight's dinner looks gross but tasted great.

So, what IS Monday's dinner, you're pondering?

Build-A-Dinner:






Rye bread//can of tuna-1/2cup mayo-tablespoon dijon mustard-teaspoon balsamic vinegar-diced granny smith apples-sliced almonds-//grate cheese on top//broil for three minutes//nommmm. Makes six.

Source Recipe: http://www.20minutesupperclub.com/recipe/apple-walnut-tuna-melt/

Last One I Swear.

Binge posting!
Okay, so i know that my last hinting comment about posting my meals for this week has just completely consumed your curiosity. I know, right? Ever since I mentioned it, two hours ago, you've just been tying yourself up in KNOTS wondering what I have up my sleeve...

Sooooo, here it is, folks!

Tonight, I made Lemon Infused Lentil Soup.
It was, unfortunately, gross.
I blame the fennel. I have actually made this soup before, sometime in September, when I didn't actually know what fennel was so I skipped it in the recipe. The only thing I remember about the experience was that I found it was too lemony. So this time, I decided to nix one of the two lemons and add the fennel. Biiiiig mistake.
Fennel is an awful thing to put into soup, especially when there isn't that second lemon to diffuse the gross.

Here is my stock pot. Look at how leafy and colourful it is! Looks promising....

Upon straining it, I realized just how gross it was. I frantically added a thousand other things, stock, bouillon, cilantro, oregeno.

It masked the bitter fennel taste ever so slightly, but I still had to choke this bowl of soup down. Now I have a huge stock pot of disgusting soup. Siiiigh. So is my life.
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What will I make next!?!?!? Here is the pile of groceries I bought today, as a hint!


Eek, now I'm making promises for cooking posts. Whatever have I gotten myself into!?
Good night! (for real this time)

Sunday.

Ello ello.
Me again (!) I went for my grocery shop for the week, and am really excited about some of the stuff I have planned to eat this week, so there just might be an influx of food posts from me this week! Today I made some peanut butter-chocolate-oat bars made in the microwave!
Sounds weird, but they actually came out pretty nice, and give me just that bit of chocolate I need while sitting up all hours of the night writing papers!

Directions, in pictures...

Ingredients-pictured: 1/2 cup of chocolate chips, 1/2 cup of peanut butter and 1 cup of rolled oats plus some milk (I used rice milk, because that's what was on hand; 2 tablespoons) and one teaspoon vanilla extract.

If you're looking at this thinking, "That looks like more than 1/2 cup of chocolate chips", you'd be right. There is more than half a cup, I like to snack while I make stuff! That, and I get overzealous in the bulk section at the grocery store. Mainly that second one, actually.

Step One: Mix everything except the oats in a microwave-safe bowl.


Step Two: Put in the microwave for 30 second increments until melty and mixed.


Step Three: Add oats.


Step Four: Spread onto a pan. Refrigerate for 10-15 minutes. I left it in for 30 minutes because I forgot about it, but it was all good.


Step Five: Enjoy!

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?