Recipes!

September seems to have flown by!

September is always a challenge for me when it comes to eating because my brother, my mom, my dad and I all have our birthdays withing 16 days. Then my grandmother's birthday is 8 days after that! So it's a loooot of dinners and a looot of cake. With that in mind, I've been doing ok..although not great. I've had a few victories and new discoveries though:

Tripe Chocolate Bunt Cake: I made this for my mom's birthday as an alternative to a rich cake covered in icing. I added a bit of vanilla frozen yogurt on the side and it was soo great!
*I got this from Jamie's Kitchen - I love her recipe site because it has pictures, point values, and honest reviews of all the recipes and most of them are vegetarian!!

Booty Camp Falafel: A few people have posted this on thier blog so I wanted to try it. Soo when the recipe showed up in the "Lunchbox Revival" colum in the post, I knew it was a sign I had to make it. For some reason I envisioned this to be a quick, throw together meal and this it was not! It took more than an hour for me to get it all together and cleaned up. But I have to say it was worth it. It was really good and flavourful. I had mine with half a pita, tomatoes, cucumbers and some plain yogurt. I made the tahini sauce but I didn't love it so I left it out.

Roasted Portabello Mushrooms: Yes, I made a recipe I found on ehow.com haha but it actually worked out well. I had some leftover portabello's that I roasted (although I used way less oil in the marinade) and put over some salad with a little goat cheese.
Those are the ones I really wanted to share right now. Being home job hunting all day is rough. I have good days and bad days and it's hard not to eat on the bad days! But I'm trying to get exercise and fresh air and take advantage of the free time I have to try new recipes :)

One last thing, Allie's blog, is one of the blogs I read the most and she's having a contest! So check out her contest and check out her blog, it's worth a read :)

September begins...

I'm so bad at updating! I always think of things to say and then I always get distracted through the week!

But last post I said I was experimenting with mashed cauliflower and it worked out beautifully! I steamed some cauliflower in some veggie broth and tossed it in the blender with a bit of olive oil and couple big handfuls of spinach (inspired by the green monster). It looked like bright green baby food but it was yummy!!

In other news, I went to WI with my mom tonight and she got LIFETIME :) She hit goal 9 weeks ago but missed 3 weigh in's because she was taking a course but regardless she made it tonight! I'm so happy for her! We celebrated with a take out dinner - fresh falafel and hummus from a local Mediterranean place. It was awesome. We also picked up a tub of Bacio (hazelnut and chocolate) gelato from our corner bakery/deli. It was 100 cal/ half a cup and sooo tasty!

So now that I'm job hunting and home days I reallly need to get my eating under control and get into an exercise routine. I picked up a brochure for the rec centre fitness facilities and am hoping to take some classes there. Hopefully I'll have a job soon and I'll still have to worry about fitting in exercise but eating won't be so tough when the kitchen isn't calling my name all day!

Hope you enjoyed labour day weekend!