englandsword

I have news - I'm going out of town tomorrow! I'm going to Kansas to visit my dad, baby brother, and step-mom, and my mom, brother, and step-dad are driving out from Indiana to see me, too. I'm so excited to see them! I hear that my baby brother is walking now. Here's a picture in case you forgot how unbelievably cute he is. And a picture of me with my other brother, because I feel they deserve equal time because they're equally cute. To prepare for my trip, I've been trying to use up every bit of produce that I have. It's become kind of an obsession to eat up every bit of food and not go shopping. Usually I would go grocery shopping around now but instead I decided to just maximize what I have. I ate my leftover borscht the other day. It turns out that you can eat it cold and it's good. It's also good with a little splash of almond milk. Borscht is traditionally served with sour cream, so the almond milk gives it that flavor and pinkish h...

I stopped in at Whole Foods today after my Cardio Barre class and bought some kale, a few potatoes, nooch, romaine lettuce, sun-dried tomatoes, a beet, and brussels sprouts. The woman at the check-out asked if I was making something and I said that I just eat a lot of vegetables! I also bought these unbelievably incredible local, organic cherry tomatoes: And now I'm bummed because I ate them all. They were delicious! Today's food diary: Breakfast: Vegan Broccoli Cheese Soup Lunch: 1 basket cherry tomatoes, salad with romaine lettuce, peach salsa, and homemade Rawmesan Snack: 1/4 banana mashed with 1/3 cup frozen mixed berries Dinner: 1 Instant Colcannon, 1 cup Borscht I looked at several recipes for borscht and mixed and matched to make my own version. I knew I wanted to include cabbage. I'd actually only eaten borscht on one other occasion, and that was in St. Petersburg, Russia and it was amazing. My version was pretty good, too. I bet it also would have tasted goo...