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Natural Products Expo Giveaway Winner
April 16th, 2011Hi all! I hope you are having a great weekend. Mine has been filled with a little drama. I have always heard about people having issues with website, domain names, and such. Well, I learned a little after I found out that the hosting site migrated my site and my husband and I talked to numerous people until I finally talked to someone today that made sense of the mess. Thanks to him the issue is solved!Thanks for your patience!!
Enough talk about that. I want to announce the winner of the wonderful goodies that the Natural Products Expo included: one month supply of Popchips and $25 worth of SO Delicious coupons. Drum roll………
Janice said…
following @popchips as @cappytweet
Thank you all who entered! It was definitely exciting so stay tuned for the next giveaway folks.
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Baked Tofu and Veggie Egg Rolls with Sweet and Sour Sauce
April 13th, 2011
It seems like spring is finally here friends! The sunshine has been shining and the weather has been gorgeous. I think it is still trying to make its mind up though. “Dear God, can we not have snow this weekend? Thanks!”
Today is day 3 of no nausea. The books were not kidding when they said that nausea should subside by the 13th week. Woohoo. Granted….I must eat at my right time or else nausea DOES set in. At least it is not constant nausea, you hear? Or the other stuff….
I had a wonderful voice lesson yesterday and the question came up from my teacher, “How ya been feeling?” When I told him I had been throwing up, he told me that was not so great for the vocal chords. Oh, did I not know that! Yuck! Even so, it was not happening everyday, but I vocalized and he promptly told me that I sounded great! Always good news.
I am working on the “Alleluia” from Mozart’s Exultate jubilate for a service next week and for Easter Sunday for my church service. I am so excited to add this to my repertoire. I have not forgotten though, I will be adding TWO recordings soon from my last performances. It has been a great joy to sing while being pregnant, especially to see how my breath support will change.
How about food? Eating has been an obstacle lately. Here I just mentioned that even though my morning sickness seems to be subsiding then I start losing my appetite. Everyone knows I enjoy cooking and baking but lately, it has been the last thing I really want to do. I was good though in being inspired to make egg rolls.
I know there are egg-free wonton wrappers out there but I used Nasoya egg roll wrappers for my egg rolls. I cut up a lot of veggies and pressed some tofu to make the filling. It definitely required seasoning for the perfect flavoring. Even though I have been enjoying some fried foods, I wanted to make these egg rolls baked instead. Fewer calories, ya know! UPDATE: I have purchased egg-free wrappers at Asian or international markets usually labeled Gyoza wrappers or egg roll wrappers even though they are egg-free.
I made a killer sweet and sour sauce with some added fresh ginger and fresh pineapple. Forget buying the bottled stuff with who knows what in it. Make it at home! This indeed was a SIMPLE dinner. Of course you can make a fried rice or a soup on the side, but I was super happy to have this made within an hour! Enjoy!
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Portabella Burger with Russian Dressing and Onion Rings
April 9th, 2011
I finally prepared a meal that did not upset my tummy. I am 12 weeks pregnant and have been really nauseous and sick to my tummy. The past 2 days have been filled with emptying the tummy and going to sleep with just fluids. Not good, I know.
When I woke up this morning I felt queasy and immediately stuffed 1/2 a banana in my mouth before getting ready to drop Ryan off at school. The banana definitely helped for a bit but then I had a bagel and later had an egg. Blech….my stomach rejected these foods today even though I had been enjoying them the last few weeks.
After a choir rehearsal, I decided I would try a green monster smoothie. I knew I needed greens and protein so I packed in coconut milk, water, spinach, blueberries, protein powder, flaxseed oil and blended away. My tummy was soothed! Yay!
The key then was to know what to make for dinner. When I quickly went grocery shopping in the morning I saw items to make veggie egg rolls. As the morning went by I was not feeling that anymore but I was still debating it because then I ran across a post at Clean Green Simple’s website talking about portabella burgers! I have become so indecisive lately especially since I have been really nauseous, so menu planning has been so hard!
Thank you Facebook fans for helping me make up my mind for tonight’s dinner. It was perfect and it settled really nicely in my tummy. Sigh…
I made some crunchy baked onion rings for the FIRST time! I am so sad I just tried making them because I could have been making them all this time. Nevermind that. Now I can make them often. It was a quick and savory recipe thanks to Isa Chandra’s recipe.
I also made a Russian sauce to add to the sandwich that kind of reminded me of a Thousand Island dressing. Since I did not add too much spice on the portabella cap, I decided to make a sauce. Ryan thought it was flavorful and interesting. I am glad I have leftovers because I have 2 more mushroom caps left!
Enjoy this quick dinner!
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Natural Products Expo Prize Pack Giveaway
April 6th, 2011
Happy mid-week everyone! I think it has gone by so quickly already and before you know it the weekend will be here already! 🙂
As you can see it has been a little slow around here due to a change in life. Thanks for being patient and coming to read whatever I post. I miss posting more often but I am hoping once this morning sickness bit leaves me, I will be more inspired to cook more meals and to post them. Ironically enough, I have made more desserts lately because the smell does not bother me. Once they are baked and ready though, I am totally not in the mood to eat them. I gave more than half that pan of Crunchy and Fruity Shortbread Bars away! Don’t you just wish you lived next door to me? I need more food takers!
If you have a chance, I posted a questionnaire on my Facebook page with 5 options as answers. Please take a quick look and see what is most attractive. It would really help me out. Thanks a bunch.
Before I left for New York, I was contacted by the amazing people at So Delicious asking me if I could host a giveaway centered around the recent Natural Products Expo that happened in Anaheim, California. When I perused the website and watched a youtube video highlighting some of the products featured at the expo, I was a bit jealous that I was not able to be there. The Expo is where the newest healthy foods and environmental products are launched and if you couldn’t make it to Expo yourself – you can take a quick peak at some of the fun things that were happening in Anaheim California at the trade show.
Featured on the video is celebrity nutritionist Christine Avanti (she has overhauled diets for Chelsea Handler, Jeremy Piven, and Jason Statham to name a few) was touring around Expo and included So Delicious in a video of her favorite finds.
It is simply amazing the amount of new products being created for those with food allergies and sensitivities. We are no longer living in a society where gluten-free, vegetarian, or vegans is considered something strange and alien.
Here is an example of new products to come from So Delicious alone! They will be coming out with a new No Sugar Added Coconut Milk Frozen Desserts (only 1 gram of sugar)in May, a new dairy-free Greek yogurt (vanilla, chocolate and strawberry) arriving in stores this summer, and an outstanding vegan Nog (no eggs here) coming out for holiday in November.
How exciting is that? I am VERY excited.
So Delicious has a great giveaway for you. If you were not able to make it to the expo, ONE lucky reader can feel like they went to Expo because So Delicious will send them some products that were found at Expo.
They are going to give ONE reader a great Natural Products Expo gift package complete with $25 worth of So Delicious treats, a months worth of vegan Popchips (worth $30) and some other fun goodies that they picked up in California.
This is only open to US readers.
Mandatory entry:
Extra entries (Leave a comment for each) (make sure to leave you email, if not shown on your blog or elsewhere!)
The last day to enter will be Wednesday, April 13th at midnight, EST. I will announce the winner on Friday, April 15th.
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Crunchy and Fruity Shortbread Bars {Gluten-free & Vegan}
April 4th, 2011
Happy Monday everyone! I woke up fully energized after a nice long weekend. It has been almost a week since we returned from New York and I think I am FINALLY caught up on my sleep from that trip! I probably will not feel rested until I have this baby of mine, but I can say for sure that I feel wonderful today. That is all that counts. Living one day at a time and with purpose.
Saturday morning was spent cleaning house. After being away from home, there was plenty of unpacking, cleaning, and washing to be done. Saturdays were usually cleaning days but who wants to be doing that during the weekends? Ha ha ha, right, I know.
Well, I got up at 8:30am and had many plans. I left the house thinking I could do errands for a quick 30 minutes and then return home and have breakfast. WRONG. Waves of nausea attacked me and I had to pull on the side of the road, enter the supermarket parking lot and heave. How embarassing! What can one possibly have in their tummies just after waking up? Yeah, you DON’T wanna know.
I quickly bought an egg sandwich to get some protein in my body. Yes folks, I have been eating more like a vegetarian lately. Well, all in all, I have needed to eat meat since I have not been able to stand the sight of beans, tempeh, or tofu. I am seeing this as a stage where my hormones are raging against me but I know I still need to eat. I know I need to do what is best for my body and my little figgy at this moment.
Anyway, I learned after getting sick in the parking lot, that I should not leave home without forcing myself to eat something AND to take some snacks with me. I am so slow, but eventually I will get there. Good news though! I am 11 weeks into this pregnancy which means I have one more week until I am past the 1st trimester, which means that morning sickness should be gone. Please Lord it needs to be gone.
The rest of the day was focused on cleaning the wood floors, dusting, laundry, and making dinner for company. Wowzers, was I ever tired by the end of the day! Ryan suggested I take a nap before I put in some pies to bake and before company arrived. He is so sweet and thoughtful. I am blessed to be married to such a great guy!
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Onto my post. I think the next several posts are going to be focused on desserts, since those are all still vegan and mostly gluten-free. If it is one thing, I have hardly craved anything sweet and if I do it is all natural sweetners.
My mother got me a gluten-free cookbook at Christmas called Great Gluten-free Baking by Louise Blair that I had not made anything out of yet. It is not a vegan cookbook so when I came across a tantalizing recipe for shortbread bars, I jumped at it. The recipe is originally called fingers, but they did not look like fingers at all. I think they also should have been called Crunchy and Fruity Shortbread Bars because it has lots of cornflakes on top of these bars.
These shortbread bars taste buttery even though I used Earth Balance margarine and they are more like a trail mix bars but with a shortbread crust. They are super lovely, even Ryan said that they tasted buttery! 2 thumbs up! They are really easy to make and they are a great snack or dessert. I hope you enjoy these as much as we did.
