Wow, where did the time go? Somehow it got away from me. Last week was a productive week, if you count baking as productive. The baker inside me just couldn't be contained any longer. I love to bake (and eat said baked goods) and I just couldn't take it any longer. So, I made delicious lemon cupcakes. They were so light and fluffy with just a little kick of lemon. I served them with no icing - they just don't need any. Then I had bananas that were turning a wee bit brown and I just couldn't throw them out, so I turned them into banana nut bread. I have a great vegan recipe for banana nut bread that I just love. Besides bananas and flour and the other requisite stuff you put in to make banana bread, it has applesauce and maple sugar. No eggs, no white sugar. It is moist and dense and oh so good. By this time it was Friday and I needed chocolate. I just happened to have a box of brownie mix stashed in the back of the pantry so we had ooey gooey brownies for dessert Friday night. A lot of baking, I know, but I just enjoy it so much. It is almost therapeutic for me. It lets me take my mind off of the everyday worries that life brings and just concentrate on making something delicious.
I did manage to eat relatively healthy during the day. I made this hearty Lemon Quinoa Garbanzo Salad (I used Daphne Oz's recipe from The Chew as my inspiration). It is really tasty. The crunch from the quinoa and the slivered almonds really go well with the beans and the feta. The chips are Trader Joe's Black Bean and Quinoa chips. They are crisp and satisfying.
Of course, eating healthy during the day isn't near the problem that eating healthy in the evening is. I figure if I can eat at least two to three healthy meals a day (and most days it is three) then if I splurge a little bit now and then it's okay. Some evenings dessert is healthy (fruit and such) other evenings it is nonexistent, and other evenings it is an all out sugar fest. But even when I splurge on dessert it is usually homemade. As I type this I am seriously contemplating making a chocolate cream pie for tonight - I mean, it is the last day of summer before school starts and one should celebrate these occasions, right?
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