Blog to Taste: Criss Cross Potatoes

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Blog to Taste: Sauteed Spinach with Garlic & Bacon

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Food: Gluten Free Cake Mix Cookies

     i am not a baker!  I dont even like a lot of baked desserts.  Too sweet for me.  Yesterday was my moms birthday and I wanted to do something special for her but wanted to eat it too...  I had a cake mix in the pantry and my friend Lindsey made something like this for our friends birthday this summer and they were amazing!  Only she made a peanut butter frosting.  Yum!

What you need:

Vanilla cake mix (any kind you like I used Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Vanilla Cake Mix)

3 eggs

1/2 cup Vegetable oil

1. Mix ingredients together in a bowl
2. Scoop onto a lined baking sheet (I used a Silpat Mat) they will need some space because they do expand.  Two baking sheets worth.
3. Bake at 400°F for 10-15 minutes on a middle rack.  
4. Move to a cooling rack.

I frosted them with Dark Chocolate frosting from a can.  I heated the frosting for 10 seconds in the microwave stirred and zapped it for another 10 seconds.  I put it in a zippy bag and cut the corner off.  Too bad I cut the hole really big and it kinda went everywhere...  Still tasty!

Rating:

5 out of 5 shark fins!

What are you making today?

Photo an Hour: My 30th

i have wanted to do a "photo an hour" for a long time.  What a better way to start than my birthday?  Here we go!  :)

7:00am   Good Morning, but not getting up yet...

8:00am My hair looks amazing!

9:00am  The morning constitutional

10:00am  Breakfast at Alice's Country House.

11:00am Driving back to camp and had to check out this pretty!

12:00pm  On an adventure and you got to stand on a log.

They other side of the log I was standing on...  Yikes!

If you look closely you can see a house.  Can I haz?

1:00pm Rosie, my camping soul mate, spotted an Evening Grosbeak on the adventure.  Good spotting!

2:00pm back to camp.

3:00pm Ferngully

Margarita is so cute!

4:00pm  The trees in our campsite.

5:00pm Adventuring, again, to look for wood.  

6:00pm  Still Adventuring

Rosie found a moth.

7:00pm  Dinner.  Roasted veggies and meatloaf!

Sleepy Boone and a giant's feet.

8:00pm More trees in our site.

9:00pm Sun is disappearing but the twinkle lights are sparkling.

 10:00pm  My chair is the best and some smoke.

11:00pm  My theme song, Natalia Kills - Problem, its a dirty video...

12:00am  Fire in the velvet night.  

It was a great day and a great camping trip!  

What did you do last week?

Adventure: Birds, Grandmothers and Creepy Houses

     today was filled with ups and downs.  Yesterday was my Grandmothers 88th birthday.  Today we drove to The Dalles to have lunch with her and her friends.  

me, Grandma and Bruder 

 

Creepy Houses

Me going into a creepy house.  I was scared
!

uh oh one fell down...

Bruder

my Cobb salad - meat and cheese + lots of veggies=yummy!  There is lettuce under there...

Clouds

Tempeh Burger from Full Sail

On a sad note my car is broken!  Some kind of belt broke.  I had to get her towed home.

Sightings:  3 Red-tail Hawks, 1 Bald Eagle and 13 Walmart trucks

Wishlist:  Genie Bra I think I will order one this week...

Moving Pictures: Margarita and Me

     this summer my friends and I made a bunch of movies, mostly scary ones.  We never got around to editing them, for many many reasons.  Today I thought I would try my hand at it.  I picked a short one and mostly just cut stuff out and added music.  It was a lot of fun!  It took a while cuase I had no idea what I was doing, but I really like the end result.  Hope you do too!

For dinner I made Tofu Curry.  It was very yummy!

Bald Eagles seen:  One!  At first I thought it was the biggest Red Tail Hawk I had ever seen...

My car was where:  At the bar...

Favorite new item for smoothies:  Baby Kale.  I got it from Costco and I love it!  Cant wait for a salad!

Create:  Movie and Tofu Curry

Obsession: Smoothies

      i have been drinking smoothies like they are going out of style!  I am up to two a day.  I make one as soon as I wake up, the other when I get home from work [today I made a third for my brother, my poor over worked blender!].  Did you know the blender is super loud at 5:30am?  Not a soothing way to wake up.  I cut up my fruit and veg at night so I can just toss it all together in the AM.  I even put ice in a bag so I dont have to think at all!

AM

1 Orange

2 Celery Stalks

2 Handfuls of Spinach

1/2 Cup Blueberries

Ice

A little Pineapple Juice to help blend

PM

1 Orange
2 Celery Stalks
2 Handfuls of Spinach
1/2 Cup Raspberries
Wheat Grass Juice
Ice
A little Cranberry Juice to help blend

They are pretty close, but sooooo yummy!  I want to start growing my own wheat grass, but I havent been able to find any seeds at the store!  I got some sunflower and buckwheat I am going to sprout, but havent gotten around to it yet.  Tomorrow?

Create:  More silver paint on the box...  Didnt cover how I would like.  Makes me want to make a diorama a week.  But that seems a bit much.  Lets see how the first one goes.  I am already feeling blocked!

What did you make today?

Food Porn: Salad Wraps

     i have been wanting to eat more raw, but I am a wuss.  I figured I could try some lettuce wraps with cooked food and then make the filling more raw as the weeks go on.  Here is my first attempt.  Couldnt even taste the lima beans!  Four stars.

Filling

1 12oz bag Mediterranean Frozen Veg

1/2 can of diced Tomatoes

1/3 can of Black Beans

1 1/2 cups Brown Rice

3/4 cup chopped Cucumber

Handful of chopped Spinach

Green Onions 

Chopped Cilantro

Dressing

1/3 canned Black Beans

Dijon Mustard

Green Onion

Cilantro

A few canned diced Tomato chunks

Garlic Powder

Onion Powder

Mix dressing in a blender streaming in olive oil.  Salt and Pepper to taste.  Mix dressing with filling.  Spoon filling on to large red lettuce leaves.

Writing recipes is not easy...  If you make anything like it, let me know!  

Create:  Painted over the black with silver, cause I couldnt find my gold paint.  Needs another coat!  Tomorrow.