I absolutely can’t stand when they drop off a pile of phone books in front of my gate. No one ever wants them so not only have they wasted paper, but the plastic bag to protect/carry them in! I’ve always wished there was a way I could tell them to stop bringing them – apparently there is a way! So with my pre-wedding jitters, I was up at 5:29am with nothing really to do other than clean out my inbox, which is where I found an email from a friend who passed along the info on Yellow Pages Goes Green! According to the site they “will contact the local telephone company and provide them with your name and address and tell them to stop the nonsense.” for FREE! so cool! Go to the site and click on Opt Out. When I did it, it gave me a couple companies to call but a couple were easy online things to fill out. Yea! So easy!
Category : Household
Category : Recipes
Yummy breakfast! Left over jasmine rice from Indian take-away – added fresh diced peaches, coconut oil, maple syrup & cinnamon – try it!
Category : Food & Beverages, Recipes
Saturday I went to the Green City Market in Chicago with a girlfriend. I found a lovely mini loaf of ciabatta and a fresh tomato. When I got home, I grabbed some fresh basil from my patio, threw that in the food processor with garlic olive oil from Old Town Oil, nutritional yeast, sea salt and pepper for a pesto spread. I smeared that on the both sides of the ciabatta, sliced the tomato, and smashed some avocado. It was fabulous! So fresh – great on a hot summer day! YUM! (sorry I forgot to take a photo of the sandwich once I put both of the halves together…I guess I was just too excited! 
Category : Animals
This game – Fur-Ever Home is just the cleverist idea! It’s a great way to teach kids and even adults about pet adoption. $5 of every purchase ($34.99 + shipping) goes to an animal rescue group – I was super excited to see PAWS Chicago listed as a shelter to which they’ll donate the $5!
Category : Food & Beverages, Recipes
Thanks to Chic Vegan for her post about the Banana Soft Serve!!! I’ve found my new summer love! Choosing Raw had this absolutely amazing recipe and I know I’m going to be addicted to this all summer long. I love that she titled it – “This Post Will Change Your Life” – she was serious!
If you click on the photo you can see the original post and get the recipe. Essentially it’s just frozen bananas! I added peanut butter which was amazing. Also, be sure to give your bananas a little time to warm up – I tossed them directly from the freezer into the food processor and let me tell you, that was CRAZY! The poor machine went nuts and started bouncing all over! Winston (my dog) came running wondering what the heck I was doing! In the recipe she tops it with a chocolate sauce made with agave nectar. I was out of agave so I ran to Whole Foods and discovered coconut nectar and thus tried that instead – it was great!
I don’t think you can get any healthier of an ice cream than this! I was skeptical about eating mushed bananas but try it and you’ll be pleasantly surprised!!!
Category : Food & Beverages, Recipes
Happy 4th of July!!!
I was craving some all American style food today so I whipped up some vegan mac & cheese which was AWESOME!
I’m not much for measuring when and I like to just throw a bunch of stuff in. I used a package of rice pasta, elbow macaroni (it’s gluten free and I was curious to try it – didn’t like the texture – it cooks for 17 minutes but even then didn’t seem done, I cooked it a little longer and then it started to fall apart but the center was still slightly uncooked – I think it’s just the way that pasta is – won’t buy it again but if I was celiac then it surely would be better than nothing!) Anyway, after cooking the pasta I added:
1 heaping tablespoon of miso paste
3/4 package of Daiya shredded cheddar style cheese
1 heaping tablespoon of soy sour cream
1 tablespoon of arrow root starch
2 tablespoons of coconut milk
3 heaping tablespoon of nutritional yeast
1 clove of garlic (smashed through the garlic press)
lots of black pepper
this turned out SUPER CREAMY and delicious!
