Thursday, January 26, 2012

Staying at grandma's house for the past 1.5 weeks has been quite comforting. I often forget how much I like being around her. Staying at her house has also rekindled my love affair with Eggo waffles. As you can see, there is no shortage of Eggos at grandma's house. If she had an end-of-times bunker, the freezer would be filled with Eggo's. How can you blame her? I am all about making things from scratch, but there are just some things that you cannot recreate at home, like Thin Mints. Years ago when I was in Texas Girl's Choir, I would look forward to our early morning Saturday rehearsals in Fort Worth. It meant that I would stay Friday night at grandma's house and get to eat Eggo's for breakfast. My dad would spring for the cheapo off-brand, that tasted nothing like the real thing. Back then, I think my standard was four-waffles. Now that I am older and exercise portion control (sometimes), I limit myself to one waffle. When you add healthy items like peanut butter and bananas, you can actually make this a relatively healthy breakfast, or dunch. So, here is one of my favorite ways to eat an Eggo waffle: Eggo with peanut butter, banana slices and agave nectar. Yummie.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Today, grandma said this to me. "Mary, if you ever get married and have children... And notice I said MARRIED, make sure you have at least one girl. Boys are good too, but girls are more caring and they know how to take care of you. Well, unless you have a gay boy. Gays are good at taking care of people too." hehe. Words of advice from grandma.

In other news, after years of contemplating it, I finally made applesauce from scratch. My stepmom brought a dozen organic Fuji apples to the hospital, along with a case of low salt V8 juice. I know for a fact grandma does not really drink much V8, so it left me longing for a bottle of monopolowa and some pickled okras. In a house where my brother makes fiber drinks using some sort of powder because "eating vegetables is not convenient", I knew the apples would go to waste. So, I made the house smell like apple pie (with much less fat) and now I am hooked.

I am going to try to have recipes for every food thing I post. I also want to start posting the nutrition content, since that is something I loot at when I make foods.

Monday, January 23, 2012

I left off last on December 8, 2011. I had finished my eleventh reflection question, and I had a particularly bad day. The details of the day's events are not really important but all I wanted to do was sulk. I think I was coming down with and adult case of the terrible-twos. Something as little as running out of soy milk caused warm tears to roll down my cheeks. I was afraid it would come out in my writing, so I decided to suspend my updates until I had something else to say beside woe is me. Well, that day has come. Today, I am really excited about a snack I made (leave it to food to cheer me up) and I want to share it with you. Oh but first, I want to share with you my current sitting situation:

I think he wants to make doing anything but petting him impossible. Usually he would abandon me for Grandma's lap, but she had surgery last week and will not tolerate his lap sitting this week.

OK. So back to my new favorite snack. It is a pbabl (peanut butter apple banana lettuce). I could not be bothered to come up with a cute name for it. But I love it. It was really my effort to find a way to eat vegetables for breakfast. I could not think of any vegetable that sounded appetizing at 7am. Sure, brunch that includes grilled asparagus is divine... at 11am though. So here you have it, pbabl.