Happy New Year!!!

Wow, can't believe its actually 2012 already. Seems like the year just flew by. I ended the year with my bestie partying it up. Super fun time. Went to 2 parties, got to hang out with cool peeps and take lots of pics on a media wall. I love taking photos. lol I'm so vain. ;)

Hold up! Rewind a couple days. I made Kevin a Christmas dinner because he didn't get one. I invited a couple friends as well. We had so much fun! Chatting, gossiping, eating and drinking. Loves.

I made a tofurkey, mashed potatoes/turnips, roasted broccoli and carrots in maple syrup and corn. I also scored some turkey for Kevin. That little X in the centre of the table is the tofurkey jerky wish bone. LOL

This is us at one of the white parties I went to on NYE. Love these guys. We look fabulous.

On the first of January, my family does a NY party. We eat Japanese food and fall into our first food coma's of the year. If you ask me, its the best way to start off the year. We eat traditional NY food. Especially Omochi. It is a dumpling made from rice and is served in a soup of deliciousness. Its kind of an acquired consistency. Its like a big glutinous ball of pulverized rice. It basically has no flavour at all, but the soup and the fixin's you put with it does. Its good luck for the year, so it has to be done. As a kid I never ate it, but started to when I was about 18 I think.

Omochi

New Years Day Shigetomi styles

 That's my Baba in my cousin Josh's Air Jordan 11 Concords, size 12. My Baba is like 4'10. Lol

Happy 2012 everyone! Hope this year is an AWESOME one for all. Do what works for you. Make your resolutions, set goals, write them down, think of them, make a vision board, do nothing....whatever your style is, just make this year amazing!

Peace

xoxo

K

 

Green Goodness

Even though we still have one more holiday to go doesn't mean we can't get our diets back to normal. I am back drinking green smoothies again. Thankfully. They make me feel so great and energetic. I think I put a good balance of greens and fruit. It looks funny to some people because of the colour but once they taste it, its over. They have fruit in them to make them all sweet and delish. But are chalked full of green veggie goodness. You'll get lots of iron, protein, calcium, folic acid and other vits like vit C and such. Its how I start my day, instead of with tea or coffee or a doughnut. Ick. (ps I do drink coffee and tea a couple times a week, or when I need/want it).

Last night was just me and I wanted to eat something light, healthy but delicious of course. I had some leftover pasta sauce, but there was no way I was making pasta. I opted to make the biggest wok of steamed greens I've ever made. Well maybe. I used pea shoot leaves, spinach, kale, broccoli, snap peas and sui choy. I think that's all of em.....

Yummerly

I tossed all these freshly chopped and washed greens into a HUGE wok with no water, just whatever they have in them and from washing. Covered and steamed for about 5-10 minutes, tossing when I remembered. When done, I tossed in some freshly squeezed lemon juice, gomashio, and a dash of soy sauce. 

Ready for me to devour

Plain quinoa, pan fried tofu and homemade veggie pasta sauce

Just plain quinoa, no flavourings, homemade pasta sauce which you can find here and pan fried tofu. Nuttin fancy. BUT I made it fancy by drizzling BLACK TRUFFLE OIL on top! Yah I did!

Christmas morning tofu scramble

Tofu scramble I made for the fam on xmas morning. Zucchini, mushroom, onion, garlic, turmeric, Italian seasoning, splash of soy sauce and salt and pepper. Sided with real potato hashbrowns and a Mack's Flax piece of toast. 

The feast that my uncle and I prepared vegan and non

Look at all that food. We seriously could not eat it all. Lol

Tonight I'm making Kevin a Christmas dinner because he didn't get one. Poor guy. :( and I invited a couple other lovely friends over too! And Christmas continues! Lol Tofurkey for everyone!

Peace

xoxo

K

Christmas Hang Over

Well, Christmas has come and gone. We're all a little heavier and have a few more trinkets than we did a couple days ago. Hopefully every one's Christmas was relaxing and full of food. Mine was, but also not without some drama. There always is in my family. But I didn't let that stop me from enjoying my time.

Christmas Eve I spent at my Aunt and Uncle's place in Coquitlam. I went over early to help my uncle cook as my aunt was working. We had a fun time cooking away together. I made my vegan food, he made the rest. I made a Tofurkey, mashed potato and turnips, stuffing, roasted brussel sprouts and carrots in maple syrup, and the usual suspects like gravy and corn. 

My Stuffing recipe:

1 pkg squirrely or mack's flax bread, cubed

Veggie stock, about 2 cups

1 cup dried cranberries

4 celery stalks, diced small

3 tsp sage

4 tbsp thyme

1 onion, diced

3 garlic cloves, minced

salt and pepper

1 tsp Earth Balance

Directions:

Saute the onions, celery and garlic with a tsp of Earth Balance until fragrant and translucent.  Add the bread and enough veggie stock to coat and we the bread. Add the spices and continue to fold for 5 minutes. Add more veggie stock if needed. Cook for another 5 minutes. Put stuffing into a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes or serve immediately if you can't wait. 

December 25th - Grannie's

December 25th - Grannies

December 25th - Grannie's

I forgot the pics of my December 24th dinner, that table was crazy! SO much food. Wow. I basically made the same food for both, except that on the 24th, there was double of everything. They don't really understand my whole veganism thing as well as my dad's side does. Which is weird for me since I'm so close to them.  They don't realize that if I made mashed potatoes with my vegan margarine and almond milk that they wouldn't be able to tell. Its not really a big deal for me, as I cook anyways but maybe next year I can show them that if I made all the sides vegan, they wouldn't even notice. 

At my Grannie's I cook everything except for the turkey, and the turkey gravy of course. I added a couple twists this year by doing the carrots and brussel sprouts together and tossing in some almonds. I also roasted an acorn squash and sprinkled some cinnamon on it. We were supposed to have some extra guests but they bailed on us. Not happy about it at all. We bought all the food, I cooked all day and they didn't show up. Oh well, life goes on. I didn't let that ruin my day. 

We have these every year. And we wear the crowns.

My vegan plate!

My aunt bought my cousin Josh and his gf a onsie. Remember those things? The jumpers with the boots attached? lol We were all so jealous I think everyone wants to get one now. 

Ho Ho Homies

I'm wearing sunglasses because I had laser eye surgery on Friday! BAM! Best thing I've done. SO awesome. Its kinda surreal though. The day of the surgery was brutally uncomfortable. Not painful. But your eyes are watery something mad. So I slept. When I woke up it was much better and not too light sensitive. My friend Jimmy came by to keep me company for a bit and bring me a present!!! A portable hard drive with 120 gbs of music!! Woah! I'm gonna be busy for a while. Lol plus some nice soaps. The cucumber one is delish. lol

When I woke up the next morning I reached for my glasses as I've done for like 17 years of my life before I realized that I could SEE!!!! Its just amazing. Its like magic. They are a little dry and at times slightly blurry, but it goes away and in comparison to my eye sight before, this is nothing. There are some red marks on my eye balls, that my mom says makes me look like I'm into.......well asphyxiation. lol Which I'm not. Haha. But now I know for sure where my twisted mind came from. HAHA ;)

Hope ya'll had a great holiday. Its back to work for me but its good to get back into a routine. Gotta stop the eating. NO more eating. Ever. LOL

On to New Years!

Peace

xoxo

K