Family recipe book!

So, today I decided that it would be really awesome to go through and re-make a lot of my families recipes and turn it into a huge recipe book.. I am really excited about it because it gives me a chance to write and also to do something neat for my family, Oh! and I get to make a ton of yummy food! I'm even going to re-make some of the recipes to make them vegan friendly =) I think it will turn out really good and hopefully I will even get to learn some family history as I go through the old recipes.

I got the idea today when my mom gave me a ton of her recipes to go through. It also reminded me of when I was younger and even know how my Grandmothers have taught me so much about cooking through the years. I'm so thankful for both of them and even more excited to go down this journey =)

8/18

Everyday I start my day out with at least 2 cups of coffee, I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing. Caffeine in small amounts is not bad for you, I may take it to the extreme though. Who cares? I just love coffee!

Okay I'm not just going to talk about my love for coffee today, I'm going to tell you about my job, I'm really enjoying it. I feel so lucky to have gotten it when I did. I seriously go to work happy and get out happy everyday. It is such a wonderful feeling!  The only downfall is last night when I got out of work I didn't want to cook anymore so Jeff and I ended up getting Chinese take out. I guess that wasn't to bad though, It made the night we ate Chinese and watched Lost. (Of course I'm so lost in Lost!) I honestly can't stand that show haha, well lets just say its a love hate addiction. =)  But! No I am absolutely in love with my job and the people I work with, they are all amazing sweet people!

Okay! Now somehow I have to go get ready and figure out what I am going to do today!

Yummmy Banana Choc Chip cookies! (Vegan)

Vegan Banana Coco Chip Cookies

Makes: 12-15 cookies

Prep Time: 15-20 minutes

Oven Temp: 350° F

Cooking Time: 10-14 minutes



Ingredients:

1.25 cups of flour

.5 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

.5 tsp salt

.75 cup brown sugar

.25 cup cocoa powder

pinch cinnamon

pinch nutmeg

1.5 cups vegan chocolate chips

2 overripe bananas, mashed

2 tbs applesauce or peanut butter

1 tsp olive oil

1.25 tsp vanilla extract

* .25 cup soymilk

Directions:

1. Mix all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl.

2. Add wet, or sticky, ingredients and mix or cut in with a spoon or pastry cutter.

3. Use your hands to work everything together really well.

4. Check the consistency of the dough and add a bit of extra flour or some soymilk to adjust.

5. Place on a greased cookie sheet in lumps or little balls.

6. Cook at 350° F for 10 to 14 minutes. Remove when slightly browned at the edges.

7. Cool for 10 minutes.

Yummy Raw fruit smoothie!

1 1/2 handfuls of frozen mangos
1 handful of frozen strawberries
1/2 handful of frozen blue berries
2 tbls of vanilla protein powder--(Vegan)
2 handfuls of whole flax seed!!!




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First day cont!

So work went really good, I think I'm going to enjoy it so much there! I get to cook and just do everything I love doing! yumm!

First day.

Today I start working at Earth's Own, I'm pretty excited about it. I honestly lucked out with getting this job but I am so thankful. I was getting pretty sick of living in Syracuse and not being able to do something that I enjoyed. Now I have that! I'm a little nervous but more excited!
All I know is this coffee I'm drinking this morning tastes so good! 




I'm really getting sick of rain =( 
I hope it stops soon.

Escape

I've been dreaming about running away
Plotting, Planning
Searching for a way out of here
Everyday the rain gets heavier
And everyday my heart gets more lost
See, I've been down this road before
Dead end after dead end
Empty smile after empty smile
I need some relief
Some sunshine
I need a new road to a better life.

The new year

Well, Happy new year, I am still not so sure how I feel about it, I was really excited at first and was ready for a fresh start. However, now I am not so sure, it seems that a lot of things are hitting me that I wasn't ready for and I'm not sure if I am going to know how to handle them.  My eating issues seem to be doing a little better, but they were going downhill again for a week or so.  I can't tell if it is because of stress or if depression is just eating away at me.  I won't lie this time of year really gets the best of me and I am running out of ideas on how to stay positive!  Its really getting hard, every time I look around the corner there is a new challenge or road block in my way.  I wish life was easy or at least fair, but I know it is neither. I don't know what the rest of this month is going to bring but I do hope that it brings some control and a little bit of a change because for once in my life I am begging for something, I'm just not sure what yet.

It never ends
Running, running,
But never looking back
Searching, searching for something more
Where is it?
Where is the face I see in my dreams?
I need you, the dreams don't stop
I keep running
Your face is all I see
But where are you?
I'm so lost
I'm so tired
My faith is dying, my heart is aching
I need you
I won't stop running
I won't stop searching
I will follow my dreams.

happy new year.

Well,  I guess its a new year, a lot of people set resolutions and all sorts of ideas in their head about them having a better year than the past.  I however am not doing that,  I would like this year to be so much better than the last, at the same time I don't regret anything that happened in the last year because I have learned a great many lessons!  I just hope that I can remember them so I don't make the same mistakes again. I really am honestly nervous about his new year,  it seems like its going to be a hard one, I don't know why I feel like this maybe because of some of the ideas I have in my head about changing my life in some little ways.  I will share maybe tomorrow some of the things I want to work on, though I'm sure they are really obvious.  I just hope that somehow I can have the strength.