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Ooh do I have a recipe for you today! It may not look like much but believe me, it is. So I told you about my audition and booking yesterday (yayy). After the audition and my miraculous escape from a parking ticket, I went to the Meet Market for its last day of business. I had heard really good things, especially about the weekend brunch, but I'd never gone. Then I read on Quarrygirl that it was closing yesterday. I was only five minutes away and I heard that their grocery items were 50% off, so I checked them out. I ended up buying one desserty-thing that I plan on giving as a gift to someone and two of these to live in my car and serve as emergency snacks. I was only a couple minutes away from Nature Mart Bulk Bin, and I had planned ahead by bringing my empty Dr. Bronner's hand soap dispenser. I've only been to the Bulk Bin one other time and I noticed that they sell bulk Dr. Bronner's soap so I planned to come back when my dispenser was empty. Nature Mart is ...

I booked a job! Yay! I had a great weekend, capped off by the booking today. But let me start at the beginning. Friday night I got home, unpacked, and watched Children of a Lesser God. Stupid title aside, I really liked it. The acting was great and because I studied ASL in college, I had a really great time trying to keep up with the ASL dialogue. Ahh I love sign language, it's so expressive. On Saturday morning, I had to go grocery shopping because I had left myself absolutely nothing to eat in the apartment. So I walked down to Whole Foods and bought a delicious array of produce. There you see almond milk, two plums, a bunch of basil, two yellow onions, yellow split peas, french green lentils, one bunch of kale, one bunch of romaine, two yellow potatoes, one heirloom tomato, brussels sprouts, two golden beets, one red beet, sundried tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, a turnip, carrots, and celery. The damage? Less than $30. This is my proof that Whole Foods does not have to be ex...

Well I'm home from my trip to the Midwest. I realized I hit up Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska in one trip (plus Arizona and Nevada if you count plane stops!). Maybe not everyone's idea of a thrilling getaway, but I had a great time. Now I've got a busy week coming up - I have an audition tomorrow in which I have to speak Italian, going to a sports bar with some other people to watch the Broncos game tomorrow, an audition on Monday that will be 100% improv, an event at The Actors Network on Tuesday to learn how to decipher TV production charts, and then another Broncos game on Thursday! It's shaping up to be an exciting week. The last couple days in Kansas were a little bittersweet, as I've been trying to absorb as much of baby brother as I can. I've been lucky enough to witness most of his big milestones before - I was there when he got his bottom teeth, his top teeth, when he learned to crawl, and when he started walking just last week. We just took...

I just got back from a three-day trip to Omaha and I have a lot to tell you! First of all - I was featured on FindingVegan.com twice this week! Thank you Finding Vegan and to all the people who found this blog! We left on Monday morning and I packed a cooler full of food to bring. I ate the last of the Split Pea Soup for breakfast and packed the pasta salad, more mac 'n cheese (I had extra sauce so I just boiled up more pasta), and a salad for me and one for my dad and step-mom. I was really trying to use up all our produce so we wouldn't come home to a wilty, sad refrigerator mess. I think I did a pretty good job! My salad had mixed greens, radishes, green onions, tomatoes, carrots, celery, beans, red pepper, and sprouts. I nixed the pepper and beans for my parents' salad and they got chopped up leftover Field Roast Meatloaf, instead. After settling in, we went for a walk around our hotel and around the Old Town. We stayed at the Embassy Suites, which is known for i...

Dinner last night was my vegan take on classic American food - meatloaf, mac and cheese, and green beans. And it was all easy! The green beans were already cooked, as I had cooked a bunch of them the day before and used some in the pasta salad. I made a quick easy dressing and just mixed them up and served it cold. Maple Dijon Green Beans 5 cups green beans 1 tbsp dijon mustard 1 tbsp maple syrup 1 tsp tamari 1/2 tsp dried basil 1/2 tsp rosemary cracked black pepper to taste (I used a lot!) Boil green beans for about five minutes until cooked but not mushy. Drain and rinse with cold water to stop cooking. Mix dressing with a fork and add water until consistency is as desired. Mix with green beans and serve! Notes: I ran out of lemon juice but I think hat would be a good addition. Agave would also taste great instead of maple syrup. And, as always, my measurements are total guesses. Just add as much of every ingredient until it tastes good. For the meatloaf, I bought a pre-made...

I have another lovely dinner for you guys today. And I can even post the recipe this time! For lunch yesterday I ate the leftover veggies from the previous night's sandwiches along with some leftover salad and Indian curry hummus. For dinner I made pasta salad, fruit salad, and BBQ seitan and tempeh. We ate it in our dining room, but I think it would make for great picnic food. That's another thing I love about vegan food - it doesn't go bad and give you diseases when it sits out in the sun for a few hours. Yay! The fruit salad had grapes, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, kiwi, a few blueberries, Braeburn apples, and an entire fresh pineapple that I cut up. All organic. Yippee. The BBQ seitan and tempeh was the easiest part of the meal - I just put it in a pan, let it brown a little, then put on some barbecue sauce and cooked it until it was warm. I didn't know whether my dad and step-mom would like seitan or tempeh, and that's why I made both. Tempe...