Not Chili

November 30th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (9 Comments)

Where’s the place to be on a cold, dreary day?

Dreary Day

The beach of course!

Cold Splash

We met up with our “Get These Kids Outside Or Bust” homeschooling group and today was a true test of our pledge to get outside even in the crummiest of weather.

It was cold. It was rainy. There was whining.

Walk in the Park

Ava happily played with her friends but Maxine clung to me like a marsupial and said “I want to go home” about 100x in my ear, throwing in the occassional “I’m hungry” despite having just eaten breakfast 30 minutes earlier.

Warm But Not Dry

We made it about an hour in the misty rain and upper 30’s temps before finally succumbing to cold, wet feet and went back to the car for some heat and some food.

Curried Chick Pea Sandwich Spread for me – that I didn’t spread on a sandwich but ate with raw veggies instead.

Curried Chick Pea Spread with Veggies

Cheese sandwiches and smiles from the peanut gallery.

Better Playtime

We enjoyed our car seat picnic and let the hot air blast us for 30 minutes before the feeling returned to my fingers again and it felt safe to put the car into gear.

Playing

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies for dessert – one for each of us. Definitely feeling warmer now!

Cookie Time

Despite today’s weather challenges, I’m still totally into this “get outside and experience nature in all kinds of weather” group we’ve hooked up with. We were unfortunately not dressed appropriately for the weather this morning – or more accurately, we weren’t dressed for the rain.

*shaking fist at weather man who mumbled “a chance of showers”*

See? I did find something else to shake my fist at today after all!

Let’s just call today a lesson, shall we?

Blast of heat + lunch = no chance of holding still for a couple pictures.

No Holding Still

The remainder of the afternoon was spent at home – dry and inside.

For dinner tonight I made something that I’m unsure of what to call it. Sweet Potato Lentil Chili maybe? But there are no tomatoes in this. Does the lack of tomatoes disqualify this meal from taking on the title of chili? How about sweet potato lentil stew? OK. That works.

Sweet Potato Lentil Stew

1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, diced
1 large sweet potato, peeled and cubed
2 c brown lentils, rinsed and drained
2 c vegetable broth
3 c water
chili powder, cumin, salt and crushed red pepper, to taste

Saute onions until soft, add sweet potatoes, lentils, water, broth and spices and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 40 minutes, or until lentils are cooked. (Red lentils cook faster than green lentils if you’re in a hurry!)

Sauteed Sweet Potato

Just 140 calories per 1 cup serving! This recipe made 7 servings, I had 1 1/2 servings for dinner.

Monday Dinner

This dinner was very easy, totally yummy and very filling! Especially with a tossed salad along side it.

Close Lentils

Yeah, let’s just call this stew. The morning was chilly and I’m not in the mood for any thing else “chilly” today.


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Shakey Fists

November 30th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Breakfast - (11 Comments)

I was off dark and early to the gym this morning. I was |this close| to driving there, when at the last minute I put my keys back and just ran there in the dark instead. It takes me 5 minutes to get there by car considering the time it takes to give the car a minute to warm up, park and walk into the building. Might as well just spend the 8 minutes running there and get my body warmed up instead.

I spent 25 minutes on the stair climber this morning before the 1 mile run back home for 40 minutes total. It was still dark when I left the gym at 6:55. *Shaking my fist at the tilt of the earth on it’s axis and it’s current angle to the sun*

I got there early this morning and was home just after 7:00 to give Zak time to swim laps before work this morning. *Shaking my first at a husband who had be dragged out bed and sweetly reminded that I went early today so he would have time to go.*

Love you honey! Smootch smootch! Thanks for bringing home the facon bacon!

Upon returning home I enjoyed some fresh pineapple for a little rehydration after sweating like fiend for those 25 minutes on the stair climber. *Shaking my fist at that blasted machine!*

Fresh Pineapple

I’m now enjoying my bowl of overnight oats, prepped last night before bed.

1/2 c rolled oats
1/2 smashed banana
1 Tbsp Almond Butter
1/2 c unsweetened almond milk

Topped this morning with the other half of the banana and 1 Tbsp ground flax because I forgot to add it to the mix last night. *Shaking my fist at the sneaky bag of flax seed hiding in the drawer* *Also shaking my fist at the “out of sight, out of mind” cliche*

Monday Breakfast

And a cup of Candy Cane Lane tea with some agave nectar!

Monday Overnight Oats

Now I’m off to see what else I can shake my fist at today.


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Sunday Processing

November 29th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Late Night Craziness - (12 Comments)

Almost a month ago my sweet friend Cindy asked me if I might be interested in trying a recipe she created. I said “Sure!” and she sent the recipe to me, and that recipe has sat in my inbox all this time, patiently waiting for me to make good on my promise.

Well today is finally the day! Cranberry Orange Bites here we come!

I did a little tweaking of Cindy’s recipe, so check hers out for the original version.

Crust
1 C soaked, raw cashews
4-6 ripe large medjool dates (pitted)
1 Tbsp coconut oil

Cranberry Filling
1 C + 1/2 C whole, fresh cranberries, separated
2 Tbsp agave
1/2 C dried sweetened cranberries
1/2 C Orange Juice

Cindy’s original recipe calls for almonds but I was short on almonds so I used 1 cup of cashews instead. I let them soak in water all morning and drained them when I was ready to get started.

Soaked cashews went into the food processor with 5 medjool dates and a 1 Tbsp of coconut oil.

Start Cranberry Bites

I scrounged out some muffins tins from the cupboard.

If You Care

Yes, I care!

In the Tins

I pressed a heaping tablespoon of the crust mix into each tin.

Next into the food processor went 1 cup of cranberries and 2 Tbsp of agave nectar to make a cranberry puree. Mixed in with the cranberry puree went the other 1/2 c of whole cranberries, 1/2 c of dried cranberries and 1/2 cup of orange juice.

As instructed, I preheated the oven to 300 and then turned it off as I placed the cranberry bites in for about 2 hours.

Cranberry Bites Ready

This cranberry orange bite recipe made 12 servings, 130 calories each.

While I had the food processor out, I figured I might as well put it to work.

Curried Chick Pea Sandwich Spread for lunch tomorrow, for both me and the Z Man.

Curried Chick Pea Spread One For Each of Us

Next up? Some Sun Dried Tomato Hummus, sampled with a couple (four) Kashi crackers – just to make sure it wasn’t poisonous.

Sun Dried Tomato Hummus

And then I’m not sure exactly what came over me, but I was in the mood to do some experimenting and created my very own vegan chocolate chip cookie recipe. The crust from Cindy’s Cranberry Bites was so incredibly yummy I used it my source of inspiration for the cookies.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 C of raw cashews
6 medjool dates, pitted
1/3 C raw almonds
1 1/2 C rolled oats
1/2 C almond milk
1/2 C chocolate chips (I used Ghiradelli and as far as I can tell from the ingredient list, they appear to be dairy free)

First, I made oat flour with 1 1/2 cups of rolled oats.

First Oats

Look! Oat flour! Like magic! A big shout out to Mama Averie for this tip!

Now Oat Flour

Empty the oats into a separate bowl and make a big wet ball of dough with cashews, dates and almond.

Oat Flour and Wet Ball

Mix well, add 1/2 c of almond milk and then gently fold in chocolate chips.

Fold in Chocolate Chips

The cranberry bites had been in the oven for about an hour and a half at this point and I pulled them out and turned the oven back on to 375. 1 Tbsp Cookie dough balls scooped out and plopped onto coconut oil greased cookie sheets. Cooked for 9 – 11 minutes.

Cookies

I ended up putting my cranberry bites back into the oven at 375 for a little while because I wanted the whole cranberries to break down just a little bit more. After 10 minutes I took them out and put them on a rack to cool their jets.

Cooling Their Jets

The cookies came out of the oven just in time for the cookie inspectors to arrive.

Cookie Sampler

Ava Tested, Ava Approved.

Kid Approved

Maxine was too busy chowing to give me any sort of hand signals to whether or not she liked them. The cookie disappeared though and hasn’t been seen since this picture was taken. I’ve notified the authorities.

No Time for Thumbs Up

Then the time came do a little cranberry bite profiling.

Cranberry Bite Profile

They totally rocked! Good job Cindy, Zak and I both loved them. The kids wouldn’t eat them but this is no surprise. I’m sure they just look a little too healthy. We loved how perfectly sweet and tangy they were!

The cookies turned out great too, especially considering I had no recipe and was flying by the seat of my cookie pants. I love that they have no refined sugar, but they could have been just a *little* sweeter. If I had to tweak them I would have added a 1/4 – 1/2 cup of agave nectar. The chocolate chips saved the sweetness day.

These cookies clocked in at just 83 calories each. 26 cookies were made from this recipe.

It’s been a fun afternoon food processor! We make a good team!

Good Job Food Processor

You did real good my giant Cuisinart. Now hit the showers – you are a total mess.


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It’s Not Even December

November 28th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (16 Comments)

I’d like to give special thanks tonight to my neighbors, who put up their Christmas tree the day after Halloween. This has been cause for being repeatedly peppered with the “When are we going to put our tree up?” screech question every time we come home in the dark.

Uncle! Uncle! I’m crying uncle! OK! Let’s put the tree up already!

Tree Up

This is the earliest I’ve EVER put up a Christmas tree. I know a lot of people put them up the day after Thanksgiving, I’ve just never been one of those people. I’m afraid I’ll turn into the Incredible Hulk and start ripping down lights and tinsel around December 23rd if I put decorations up too early.

But as luck would have it, we’ll most likely be moving into our new house the day after Christmas – which means our Christmas decorations will be coming down Christmas evening instead of New Years Day. Yes, you read that right. The day after Christmas, as in – December 26th. Merry Moving Day to us!

Stuff Out

So, in short, we spent the afternoon getting the house decorated and pretending to be kitties knocking ornaments off the tree.

Decorating Day

I mistakenly told them a story about the cats and that when they were kittens, they would bat at ornaments on the tree and chase them all over the house like maniac cats. Now I’ve got maniac kids pretending to be maniac cats who play baseball with our ornaments. Me and my big mouth.

Once I got the cats kids in their cages out of my hair, I got dinner started. It all began with a big ol’ spaghetti squash and a post from Zesty Cook that got me thinking about different ways to use Sun Dried Tomatoes.

Spaghetti Squash

Cut in half length wise and de-seeded.

Halved and Deseeded

Baked face down at 375 for about 40 minutes.

Spaghetti Squash

While my squash was baking, I got started on a sun-dried tomato sauce.

Sun Dried Tomato Marinara Sauce

3/4 c sun dried tomatoes, packed in oil – separated
1 14 oz can of artichoke hearts – separated
1/3 cup pistachios

Place about a 1/2 cup of the sundried tomatoes into the food processor and puree until fairly smooth.

Add half the can of artichoke hearts and pulse until chunky.

Sundried Tomatoes and Artichokes Pulsed in Food Processor

Chop the remaining artichokes by hand.

Chopped Artichokes

Combine processed tomatoes and artichokes with chopped artichokes in a separate bowl and set aside.

Remove pistachios from their shells until you have about 1/3 of a cup.

Pistachios

Add to food processor and pulse until you have your desired consistency. I left mine fairly chunky. Add chopped pistachios to tomato and artichoke mix and stir until well combined. Add remaining 1/4 cup of whole sundried tomatoes and set aside.

When your squash is ready, scrape out with a large spoon to get your “spaghetti”.

Scraped Spaghetti Squash

The sauce will be at room temperature but will warm up quickly as you add and stir in hot spaghetti squash.

Ready to combine

Time to eat!

Sun Dried Tomato Artichoke Spaghetti Squash

Dinner for two – Sun Dried Tomato and Artichoke Spaghetti Squash with a side spinach salad with tomatoes and cucumbers.

Dinner for Two

I have to admit, I’m totally in the holiday groove after decorating today. Although I think I’ve been feeling at least slightly Christmas-y since my encounter with the wall of holiday teas back in October. Maybe my neighbor saw that tea wall back in October too and it hit them a little harder than it hit me? Must be.


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Seven Saturday Treats

November 28th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Morning Craziness - (10 Comments)

I have declared this Saturday
To be a day filled with treats!
Let’s get started with breakfast
and some yummy morning eats.

Enjoyed first thing
came Treat #1!
Fruit Cereal in peace
Well son of a gun!

Saturday Fruit Cereal

A diced sweet banana and a peeled D’Anjour pear
Tossed in ground flax seed with such ease and such care
Topped with a tablespoon of shriveled grapes and pumpkin seeds
Add a half cup of unsweetened almond milk, that’s what this needs!

Topped with Almond Milk

Post breakfast I was off
on a solo shopping trip
Treat #2 would be from Starbucks
for a hot beverage drip

Starbucks Treat

Treat Three stemmed from
Regular coffee and half and half
A great caffeine buzz
Oh like a fool I did laugh!

Tall Regular with Half and Half

It’s amazing at how quickly
I move through the store
At Wegmans by myself?
Call this Treat #4!

Treat #5 began
At the library, you see
To take time browsing books
For them and for me.

Leisurely Library Trip

Treat Number Six
Is a book on reserve
Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen
Raw goodness will be served!

Ani's Raw Food Kitchen

Treat 7
Is for you, my dear and sweet friends
You’re welcome, at last
My post has reached its end


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Thanksgiving is Officially Over

November 27th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (12 Comments)

After a roasted red pepper hummus sandwich and a side of carrot sticks with salsa for lunch this afternoon,

Friday Lunch

we were off with some friends to the local garden center for some holiday fun.

Christmas Fun

Lots of decorations to check out –

Red and Green

Hairy Santa

Hairy Reindeer

and painted plywood to stick our heads through.

Max Face

Decorations

We enjoyed a gigantic train display.

Train Display

Lots of Trains

Checking it Out

The adults appreciated the finer details of the model, like dirty old men and their posters.

Dirty Old Man

Bums being picked up by the cops.

Bums picked up by the cops

Guys drinking on the job.

Drinking on the Job

After train spotting, it was time to move on.

Pointsettas

There were rides to ride after all! And rides to just watch too, apparently.

She'll Just Watch. Thanks.

Maxine chose to watch, Ava chose to ride.

At Least Ava Likes It

One likes to bounce.

One Bounces

One likes to hold still.

Ride Voyeur

But we finally found a ride that was Maxine approved. Mama approved too thanks to the lack of sketchy characters standing around the train scene. Although a reindeer decorating a Christmas tree seems a little sketchy, but we’ll let it slide this time.

The One Thing She'll Ride

A fun day out, but I’m afraid the day after Thanksgiving is not complete without a meal full of leftovers.

Plate of Leftovers

Leftovers of vegetarian stuffing and sweet potato casserole were freshened up with some steamed broccoli and cauliflower and a little sage seasoned, sauteed tofu.

Thanksgiving Tofu

Plus a small piece of apple pie!

Last of the Pie

The leftovers are gone, the last piece of pie has been eaten. Thanksgiving is officially over. Who wants a sexy lady poster for Christmas? I’m making my list and checking it twice! I already know you’re naughty, but I’m nice – Mama Claus is shopping around!


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Black Friday Virgin

November 27th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Breakfast - (13 Comments)

First the first time in my entire life, I got up early on the day after Thanksgiving to hit up a Black Friday sale. An email from the running store I shop at had some offers that were just too good to pass up.

FF Email

Well what do you know, I just so happen to be in the market for new running sneakers. Sale sneaks? A group run? Free food? I’ll be there!

The store was packed at 7:30 when I got there and after a half hour trying on sale shoes and elbowing my way through the crowd to the sales line, I got through checkout just in time to leave with the running pack at 8:00.

First Black Friday Experience

I convinced my running friend Shawn to come out and run too, and it was right about this moment that he yelled from across the parking lot “Stop taking pictures and let’s GO!” OK, OK I’m coming!

Time to Run

We did 5 hilly miles through the neighborhood streets around the store and were back in 40 minutes to hit up the free food stash.

I let Shawn have my share of waffles and sausages and I snagged a banana.

Post Run Eats

To be enjoyed with the PB&J Larabar I’d brought along with me knowing I was going pass on the waffle breakfast offer. Damn straight I’m taking my $.20 banana though – thanks.

PB&J Larabar

Eaten while sportin’ my new 40% off New Balance sneaks after their maiden voyage.

New Sneaks

Sale shoes, free food and 5 miler? Black Friday isn’t so scary – piece of cake! fruit!


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The Thanksgiving Bowl

November 26th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (8 Comments)

My green smoothie stuck with me most of the morning, but with about two hours until dinner time – I was getting hungry. I didn’t really want to eat anything, I wanted to be good and hungry for a feast! But I didn’t want to get to dinner feeling famished either.

What’s a girl to do?

Juice is always the answer!

Carrots for Juice

Carrot apple ginger juice – the perfect thing to tide me over and leave me ready to eat by 2:30.

Pre-Dinner Carrot Juice

This year we brought along our favorite Thanksgiving book, The Thanksgiving Bowl by Virgina Kroll.

Reading Time

Having read this book before bed every night for nearly the past three weeks, not to mention the past two Novembers, Ava and I decided it would be fun to do a Thanksgiving Bowl with our family this year.

In the book, the family writes down something they are thankful for on a little piece of paper as they arrive and place their note in a yellow Thanksgiving bowl. After dinner the grandmother reads each note and she has to guess who wrote the note.

Our Thanksgiving Bowl

Everyone was happy to play along and wrote down a little something while we waited for everyone to arrive and for dinner to be served.

The Table

So many amazing vegetable dishes to choose from – who got room for turkey?

No Room for Turkey

After our feast, it was time for Great Granny to guess!

Time to Guess

Time to Guess Granny

Want to play? You get one guess for this one!

One Guess

OK, it’s a little tricky so I’ll give you a hint. The person thankful for kitties is featured in this picture.

Here's Your Hint

I missed my photo op for the dessert buffet before pies were sliced and diced!

Pie Buffet

With the clean up under control and some slivers of pumpkin, apple and elderberry pie enjoyed by me, it was time for some digestion and to head out with my favorite aunt for our annual post-Thanksgiving hour long walk and talk.

Our walk was blessed with a beautiful rainbow.

Thanksgiving Rainbow

And am amazing sunset.

Post Dinner Walk

Good food and good family.

Family Pic

So much to be thankful for!

Hugs

I am also thankful that I probably won’t be hungry for three days. And that Thanksgiving only comes once a year.


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Stay At Home Turkey Trot

November 26th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Breakfast - (8 Comments)

I’ve run Turkey Trot races on Thanksgiving morning before. They are a lot of fun and it’s such a great way to start the holiday off on a healthy kick! I considered doing one again, but in the interest of time I decided to do my own little Turkey Trot at home for free this year.

My girlfriend Sharon came out this morning to run this morning and doing it together made it seem more like an “event”!

Sharon Alison

We hit the streets in my neighborhood at about 8 this morning for a nice and chatty Thanksgiving morning run.

Off We Go

4 and a half miles and 40 minutes later, we’re back! The air was pleasant and the streets were empty, a fun and fantastic start to Thanksgiving Day.

Thanksgiving Day Run

What’s Thanksgiving morning without a blender full of spinach?

Need for Green

A post-run green smoothie for breakfast with a banana, spinach, ground flax and almond milk. I wanted to be sure I got a nice serving a greens in today because there is no tossed salad on today’s Thanksgiving menu at my grandmother’s house later today.

Get to Work

There is however, coleslaw and vegetarian stuffing on the menu.

Coleslaw Vegetarian Stuffing

As well as sweet potato casserole and cheesy corn casserole too.

Sweet Pototo Casserole Cheesy Corn Casserole

All together now!

All Together Now

With a grandmother who is nearly 80 but still enjoys having Thanksgiving dinner at her house, I’m happy to do my granddaughterly duty and prepare and bring a good share of the dishes for our family meal. And as a vegetarian, the vegetable “sides” are our main course after all!

Wishing all my fellow Americans a Happy Thanksgiving!


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Fast Fajitas

November 25th, 2009 | Posted by Alison Spath in Dinner Time - (7 Comments)

The girls were with Aunt Ellen today while I got some work done around the house. I managed to sneak in 45 minutes of Runner’s Yoga before I left to pick them up with plans to run some errands on the way home.

We were out longer than I expected. By the time we got back some of us were pretty cranky. Some of us were pretty hungry too. And some of us were all of the above.

I had nothing planned for dinner. What else is new. After a quick scan of the produce drawer I pulled out a green pepper, mushrooms, onions and tofu and got to work.

Ingredients

Veggies were chopped into large pieces and then sauteed in some olive oil and veggie broth until they softened up.

Fast Fajitas

I rummaged the spice cupboard for cumin, chili powder, oregano and red pepper flakes to add to the mix.

With Spices

Once the vegetables were nearly done I added 1/2 a block of extra firm tofu, sliced into thin strips. At the last minute I threw in some jarred jalapenos and stirred gently so the tofu pieces wouldn’t break up too much.

20 minutes after walking in the door, veggie fajitas were hot and ready. It’s about time! I’m cranky! And hungry!

In a Whole Wheat Tortilla

Into a warm whole wheat tortilla with a little salsa. x2.

Fajita with Salsa

This meal was fast and filling and totally worth the salsa stain on my shirt.

Worth the Stain

Not only do I cook fast, but I eat fast too. Now if I could just do laundry fast I’d be all set.


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