Considering said turtle was just sitting in the middle of the road this morning I don’t think he quite knows the answer to that joke.
What’s a girl to do but pull over on the side of the road and get him out of harms way? Granted he wasn’t too pleased with me when I picked him up but I wasn’t too pleased with him either. College entrance roads are not safe spots for reptile naps!
This weekend was soooooo nice. I got to see so many of my favorite people but still have enough time to relax (read: nap).
To wrap up the weekend I made the Super Speedy Summer Hemp Power Salad for dinner on Sunday. It was delish. But I got to the finished product and realized I should have made some rice or quinoa to put it on. I threw it on some baby spinach but ended up being hungry around 8 pm. Womp womp. I think I’ll also add a can of chickpeas to the recipe next time too. I think that would make it filling enough for dinner. I took a picture but my iphone doesn’t quite capture it the way the original blog does so if you want to see how pretty this recipe turns out – don’t look at me. I just cook the stuff.
So what were we to do after a nice healthy dinner? Go for a walk with our furry kids of course.
Lucy is pretty excited for the Olympics. She decided she needed to practice her Pomeranian High Slide routine. I gave her a score of 10.0 but Desi didn’t like her landing – he gave her a 8.0. Next time Lucy, next time.
One time my friends decided it would be really rad to see Peaches in concert. And I’m pretty sure it was really rad because Peaches is totally badass. The funny thing was, they were under the impression that in order to attend a Peaches concert, you needed to dress up – like Peaches.
I’m pretty sure the resulting ensembles contained a lot of neon and fish nets and a whole lot of awesome. The only problem was no one else at the concert respected the Peaches concert uniform. My friends were the only ones there all gussied up.
The smoothie I had for breakfast this morning is an ode to that night. Because going to a concert and realizing you are the only ones dress like hot topic pre-teens but still dancing your butts off is pretty fearless. And who doesn’t need a little fearlessness for breakfast?
Peaches and Cream Green Smoothie
Throw all that stuff in a blender and blend it. Proceed to drink while dancing your pants off.
Sometimes you are born so hardcore your fur naturally wants to be in the shape of a mohawk.
Rock on little Roxie girl.
Apparently when you are a cute little caterpillar you can eat whatever delicacies you find on my front stoop.
Eating at least 4-5 chocolate chip cookies worth of batter/out of the oven taste testing, going to bed, then getting up and doing Insanity’s Pure Cardio.
Caitlin almost lost her cookies.
I feel you Shanita. I totally feel you.
I think I am ready to bring forth children into this world. Because I’m pretty sure before you can become a mom, you need to be able to confidently say you make a meeeeeeean chocolate chip cookie.
My chocolate chip cookie mom requirement is now satisfied.
I wanted to make some cookies as a thank you for my coworkers. They put up with quite a bit from me lately. So I did some research and found this recipe. Super easy and super yummy. I tweeked it a bit though:
2 cups unbleached flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
cinnamon (I did a couple healthy shakes)
half a bag vegan chocolate chips (handful of chocolate chips my butt original recipe)
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup water (I used closer to 1/2 cup – my batter looked too crumbly and dry to form cookies)
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in chips. Make a well in the center and set aside. In a medium size bowl, add together sugar and oil; mix well. Add the vanilla and then add the water; mix well.
3. Add the wet to the well in the dry. Mix it well but be careful not to overwork it. Add more chips if you need to (duh, yes I will, thanks).
4. Spoon onto ungreased cookie sheets. Put them in the oven. Bake for 5 minutes and then flip and rotate the sheets (top to bottom and 180 degree rotation). Bake another 4 minutes and check them (I actually think I should have kept mine in for 5 minutes instead of 4 – I did that with my second batch and they turned out perfect). The cookies are done when they seem a little bit softer then you want them to be. They will harden up some as they cool.
BAM! Vegan chocolate chip cookie perfection
Duda Darling 