Interesting attempts

I wanted to make pumpkin muffins so bad today, so I was going to "healthy" them up by making them vegan. I went to the kitchen and low and behold no baking powder!! Ugh!! Life over.

Not really. Life hand you no baking powder, you make raw pumpkin bars! I am 99% sure I now know why there isn't many raw recipes with pumpkin in them... They don't set up very well! I took a "basic" larabar recipe and put my own bippity boppity boo on it and add pumpkin, nutmeg, all spice, cinnamon and raisins to them. All looked and tasted fantastic! Then I realized with how warm it is in Hawaii these bars won't hold up. I froze them, sliced a few up, let them thaw for a minute and ate. They tasted like pumpkin pie without the crust! Pretty good! Next time I may turn this into a pie.

Dinner was interesting. Made sweet potato wontons in spring roll wrappers. Served with a spicy garlic sauce. They looked awful, but tasted really good!!


Pictures: pumpkin bar and the creepy looking dinner.

Always check your nuts!

Stock of nuts that is!! I was all set to make these chocolate mint truffles and realized I didn't check my supply of nuts. It called for a cup of cashews, I didn't have that, but I had a little more than half, and had Mac nuts so I used those. Anyway, it all turned out, next time I will use mint extract rather than fresh mint.

Breakfast was a juice of beets/kale/carrots/apples. Beets. Yes beets. I keep seeing and reading of these awesome veggies. Um gross. They are pretty with the red juice, but that's about it. They taste like dirt. Really. Dirt. But I drank that sunset colored drink down!

Lunch I munched on Licious Dishes flax thins, and made a chipotle sun dried tomato dip that was great!

Dinner had a bean burrito at home with salsa. Eh.

Went to yoga!! Felt really good to go back! Missed the past two weeks, but I am back. Also weighed in today. Didn't gain what I thought I did while my parents were here. I am still the same, but clothes feel icky. So... I am getting strict and will update you weekly on the numbers.

Pictures:
Inside truffles, dipped truffles, dip I had for lunch and juice.