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I'm in Indiana! I took the red-eye on Monday night, got about two hours of sleep, and then stayed up all day to get myself on the new schedule. I went from my 85 degree weather to 8 degrees. Wow, I forgot what it felt like to be this cold. I hung out with my family all day yesterday. It's so nice to see them again but it's also really weird being back in Indiana. I haven't been back in the year since I moved, but I lived in Bloomington from 2nd grade through college and all but the first four of those years were in the same house. My parents sold their house (they're closing next week) so it's all totally different. It's just weird how everything is familiar and strange at the same time. Mom and I made a bunch of quinoa salad and roasted vegetables. Quinoa salad is so easy and variable. I think you'll enjoy this recipe. Wasabi Dijon Quinoa Salad 2 cups cooked or sprouted quinoa 1 yellow pepper, diced 1 red pepper, diced 2 stalks celery, diced 2 ...

Food diary: Breakfast: Cocoa Berries Lunch: 2 nori rolls, steamed broccoli w/ BBQ and ketchup Dinner: Arugula salad w/ peach salsa and Homemade Rawmesan, Cocoa Berries First up today was general blog-reading time, then I walked to Cardio Barre (where Ashlee Simpson was in my class today). I stopped at Whole Foods for some groceries afterward and then walked back. I bought this lovely heirloom tomato. I had two of these nori rolls for lunch. They included cabbage, broccoli, carrots, red bell pepper, onion, and snow peas, and the paste is miso, garlic, wasabi, and umeboshi plum paste. And check out this comparison of the storebought Rawmesan with my homemade version. Storebought: Homemade: Don't they look almost exactly the same? And they taste almost exactly the same, too, except that I use more nooch. One of the blog posts I read this morning was this one: http://tierfrei-mampfen.blogspot.com/2010/07/was-it-man-als-veganer-teil-1456.html It's in German, so read it if you c...

I invented a delicious dessert! And it's reaaaally easy. But we'll get to that in a second after two days of food diaries. Yesterday I went to a panel at the DGA as part of Outfest called Coming Out in Hollywood. The panel featured three actors, including Meredith Baxter and Jonathan Slavin, who played Phil on Better off Ted (if you have not seen B.O.T. - DO IT NOW. Lem and Phil are my favies), a publicist who helps celebrities come out of the closet publicly, and a TV writer. It was very interesting to hear about the ramifications of coming out and how many actors are still closeted for fear of what it will do to their career. But Phil (sorry, can I just call him Phil? I feel awkward calling him Jonathan like we're friends, and calling him Slavin would be like I was writing for a newspaper) said that people really need to think about what's important in life - losing some acting jobs versus being able to be open and honest about who you are. I totally agree wit...

I made myself an awesome salad for lunch yesterday and ended up having a similar version for both dinner last night and breakfast this morning. There's arugula, spinach, carrot shreds, broccoli, red pepper, sugar snap peas, marinated mushrooms, onions, pineapple salsa, and Rawmesan. I was getting pretty low on Rawmesan, so I decided to make some of my own. Here's what the stuff from the store looks like (Parm! looks similar). The only ingredients are brazil nuts, nutritional yeast, Celtic sea salt, and herbs and spices. Parm! uses walnuts instead of brazil nuts. I had some leftover raw soaked and dehydrated brazil nuts, so I decided to make my own. Homemade Rawmesan Brazil nuts or walnuts Nutritional yeast Braggs or Celtic sea salt Garlic (optional) Italian seasoning I chopped up the nuts roughly with my slap chopper so they wouldn't hurt my coffee grinder, then I put them in the grinder and processed into course grounds. I added a bunch of nooch, a bunch of Italian ...