I've thought about writing this week, but everytime I go to my page I see that picture of Andrew and I just hated to replace it! There were professional photographers at the marathon and they finally put up their pictures on their website. You just enter the bib number and their pics will pop up. There was
this one of Andrew crossing the finish line and just had the happiest look on his face. I didn't see that view since I was in front of the finish line. I wanted to buy the pic, I probably will, but I hesitated because they wanted $16 for one picture!! Yikes!
Anyway, last night after a long busy week I just wanted to relax and bake something. I had rejoiced at the return of cranberries to the stores, so I made a batch of chocolate-chip cranberry muffins. Something tasted different than last time, I think I cut the cranberries too small, but still good.
(and yes that's my favorite sweatshirt again under my apron)
I also had seen a recipe for
crackers on a healthy girl's blog I like and I tried making them last night.
Hubbs was making me laugh as I had him take my picture, he kept telling me to 'work it'... 'that's right' as I was rolling the dough out. Haha
(p.s. Hubbs if you see your wife is growing a double chin maybe it's time to tell her to be laying off the baking!)
Anyway, the crackers just tasted dry (probably as a cracker should, but not in a good way). The blog girl was putting almond butter on hers, but they had garlic powder and herbs in them, I thought that would be weird, and we were out of cheese, so I did just have them plain.
I'm starting to doubt my blog girl. We love her mexican tortilla pie and crispy chickpea bites, but the other recipes have been pretty bad. One disaster was 'carrot cake' buckwheat groats. Ew. The other day I made a pumpkin gingerbread smoothie, also gross, and spices were SO strong. I guess Hubbs did really like her butternut squash mac and 'cheese'... but otherwise, I've been kind of disappointed. They are very healthy recipies though, so for the few gems I find, I think it's mostly worth a try!
And where there's studying.... there's cookie making
My classmate brought me this vanilla from Mexico as a thank you for helping her register for her classes while she was on her honeymoon, how nice!
Toasting the pecans
Dicing figs, ew, they look like cockroaches there
Tossing the figs and chocolate chips with a little flour so they didn't clump
And viola, Turtle Oatmeal Cookies from my favorite vegan recipe blog girl. I think they tasted a bit too pecan toasty, but everyone else who had one said they liked it.
Also recent goings-on included marking the anniversary of 1 month of dating. My lovely gifts:
fritos, my true love, and
pretty, but stinky, flowers. I told him I definitely appreciated the thought and gesture, but for future reference I did not like this type of flower. I felt kinda bad telling the truth, but I figured a bit of sad feelings now vs. me potentially getting stinky flowers the rest of my life. He didn't seem too crushed. So that's good.
I got a mystery cold over the weekend and it lingers on. So I'm not feeling fantastic, but this guy playing in the hospital lobby today really lifted my spirits.
have harp, will travel!
This dude wasn't just playing heavenly choruses either, he was playing songs from the Beatles and that Dreamed a Dream song from Les Mis, it was a beautiful treat to hear while eating lunch today. And I told him so too.
