For probably only the second time ever (the first time was the chickpea broccoli casserole, coincidentally), I’m not really happy with a recipe from Vegan with a Vengeance. The Chickpea-Hijiki Salad Sandwiches (and also, I must say, I am not amused by calling them sammiches — it’s not cute, it’s annoying) are … odd. The […]
Category Archives: Food
101 in 1001: #2 (pizza) and #60 (tennis)
I knocked off a few more of my goals today, as well as doing my taxes (which were actually pretty easy). #2: Make my own pizza with no help. This wasn’t a huge deal because I’ve made pizza a number of times as half a team, but I wanted to do it by myself. I […]
101 in 1001 #9 & #10: Eating well
As part of becoming aware of what I’m eating, I started keeping a food diary again. Keeping a food diary for me is sort of like keeping a budget. It’s something very picky and obsessive that I do okay with for about a month or two at a time, which is all I really need […]
Eating consciously
I’m the last person you’d think would claim to need to work on my food intake. I cook for myself and eat mostly whole foods (in spite of my obsession with chocolate mint cookies). But I feel like I haven’t really been pushing myself to eat sensibly, on the excuse that given that I buy […]
On the lighter, but still heavily caloric side
I’ve recently gotten very interested in chocolate-mint sandwich cookies. I first discovered that there are Mint Oreos by accident several months ago in the grocery store. While I don’t like chocolate much, I generally like chocolate-mint combos if there’s enough mint and the chocolate isn’t too intense. The Mint Oreos really taste a lot like […]
Weights and measures
I buy a lot of stuff in bulk, usually from Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco. I tend to get carried away when I go there and stock up on things, which is great for having things, but not so great for storing them. My storage containers are an assortment of jars saved mainly from Trader […]