''Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates A work event today took me out of my home office and near the beach... and a Sprout's farmers market. I obviously had to make a stop there to see what foods caught my eye. Besides picking up some spirulina tablets (I just recently discussed algae here) and getting excited to find my favorite kind of apples, Macintosh, for the first time since I've lived in California, I spotted brown rice syrup and immediately knew what I'd use it for: This recipe is from Alicia Silverstone's book, The Kind Diet. I've played around with some of her meal recipes and haven't been crazy about any yet, but I really like the desserts I've made from the book. All of her recipes are vegan, but I always seem to sub a ... [Read More]
The Kind Diet
The Perfect Sunday Dinner: Veggie Chili & Corn Muffins
Weekend Recap Yesterday I got to see my awesome friend Angi at her baby shower. I met her when I first moved out to San Diego, and she became my partner in crime when our Marines were deployed together. Last year her and her hubby moved to Arizona and I miss her horribly! It was great seeing her and getting to catch up a bit (and inappropriately touch her baby bump more than once!). Did you know that it's National Park Week? Harley and I went for a long hike this afternoon at our nearby regional park. Usually it's pretty busy there on a Sunday, but today, there was barely anyone around. Kind of nice, slightly creepy. My legs are still sore from my workout last Friday, and they were feeling seriously fatigued a bit into our hike. But we made it to the top! The puppy seemed ... [Read More]
Zucchini ”Pasta” & Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
[Blog Update: I've created a Foodie Meets Fitness Twitter account. There's now a "Follow me" button on the sidebar here! Also, I just updated my recipe page.] Earlier, I had a pretty good headache. It probably had something to do with my day's happenings: after a night of tossing and turning, my super early wake-up call from my bank notifying me of fraudulent activity on my account once again (thanks, asshole!), concentrating a little too hard at my laptop screen and confusing the heck out of myself working on a project, and getting my taxes done this afternoon (woohoo, check that off my to-do list!). The solution to get my head feeling better and to kick off my 3-day weekend right? Firstly, forgoing the gym to instead go for an hour hike with Harley at the park. The fresh air felt ... [Read More]