Jan 5, 2012 - Interesting day

So, I've spent the last 3 days checking and re-running reports for work that did not process through on December 30th.  Kind of put me behind for the month all ready.  But hey, in a month, IS IT REALLY Gonna matter.  I don't think so.

So today I made a quinoa, carrot, celery, cabbage, red pepper salad with a curry, olive oil and lemon juice dressing.  We had it hot for breakfast - added some raisins to the salad.

Later I had it cold as a nice salad and added a slice of oatmeal bread with hummus to eat with it.  Very tasty salad warm or cold.   The original recipe called for couscous instead of quinoa.  I love quinoa.

Tonight I made curried garbanzo beans and Kale.  Wow what flavor, used coriander, garam marsala, curry,   cumin and some red pepper flakes.  Fresh ginger, onion, garlic, and mustard seeds.

I'm liking the energy I'm feeling in the evenings.  Even with heavy stress this week, I don't feel quite as fatigued.

Been reading Forks over Knives and now Kirsten is reading it as well.  It makes pretty good sense to us.

2 Jan 2012 - ready to go!

Yesterday I made a potato, onion, red pepper mixture for breakfast, sprinkled with Tuscan Sunset seasoning and Arizona Dreaming, for breakfast.   It was tasty, but within an hour we were both hungry again.

So I tossed some onions, garlic, potatoes and winter squash into a sauce pan with broth, added some leftover veggie chili and brown rice, then pureed it all together.  We grated some extra sharp cheddar cheese over the top of it.

Then our part-time neighbor up the road stopped by with his wife (whom we hadn't met yet) we hadn't seen Phil since Hurricane Irene when the roads washed away and he was stuck here in Vermont for a week.  They visited for about two hours and during that time I had put on lentils to cook, but they burned by mistake.

Made lots of dishes and pans yesterday and luckily I have a wonderful dishwasher, who complains about all the dishes but does enjoy eating what went into them.  LOL!

So........

Today I'm working on doing laundry, putting away some genealogy books and notebooks and getting a grocery list together so I can enjoy the Kickstart program which starts officially today.

Nameste ya'll

December 31st - Put away stuff

We decided to put away the Christmas wrap, ribbons and lights.  We have to toss the lights I wrapped around the deck rail because our nutsy squirrels have chewed through the wire just two days ago.

I'm going to be starting the 21-Day Vegan Kickstart pretty quick and decided to to add some recipes and things in here on my journey.

It's a new day and I would like to feel better, get my knees to work better and not hurt and make sure we are eating correctly so that we don't get sick.