Cinnamon Rolls Where are you?

Since my tooth cracked I started to eat more soft things, just out of habit even though I have a permant replacement in. With saying that I have been searching for cinnamon rolls, I have looked everywhere that is in my area of Houston and no luck. 

Literally I went to five stores in one day looking for the cinnamon rolls and none to be found; but yet the ones I can't eat where to be find.  However just recently I found some friendly cinnamon rolls at Target.... they look good..... I cooked them.. 

....however they are not the best cinnamon rolls. So I have decide that I am going to have to make my own cinnamon rolls for the next time because these didn't past me very well neither did they for the boyfriend.

Hello I'm...Late

Wow I'm late to the party by 3 days oops!, I do apologize and this is what happens when I post on the fly. I wanted to start about with a huge Vegan MoFo boom but Larbor Day happen it's a pain in the neck for me at work. It's like one of the insanely busy days that everyone wants to return anything plus the big regional/district bosses like to come out to the store since it's one of the bigger/higher selling stores in the area. 

That's okay things happen but from here on I'll be more part of the community and the Vegan MoFo environment. I'm like a quick ninja I'll post when your not looking ha ha, I'm really a smart ass and this year I decided to show my true self in my working for everyone to understand who Southern Purple Veggie really is. For example it's about 11pm on September 3 and I have work at 5am; I really need to be asleep so I am going to make this post short. There will be better and longer posts to come in the next few days when I am not typing with one eye open.

So this year during Vegan MoFo part of my theme was to show vegan grocery hauls or things I usually buy around where I live. Mostly recently I purchased the Earth Balance vegan cheddar flavor squares,  dark chocolate bixby bar, and emmy's macaroons. All of these are products I have never tried and I loved them all, especially the Earth Balance vegan cheddar squares. I love them with a passion I even have a box at work now, that even my co workers who are not vegan eat also because they taste good. 

I think for now I'll leave you with this picture of vegan yummies until next time. Oh and one more thing I introduce my new lovely kitten lucky sugar bear; he's a rescue kitten from a truck that was parked in my work parking lot when the weather was over 100 degrees.

Random Thursday Things

So I'm kinda in the middle of figuring out when I actually start work or not. Right now I'm waiting to hear back if I go to orientation or not on Saturday; so I haven't though of what to blog for vegan mofo. So I'm going to show some of my random things from my week so far that I have either made myself or want to get or try. 

My homemade "Thai" Cabbage Stir Fry only 8 ingredients.

Boyfriend's choice for dinner & yes those are Gardein Chicken Tenders.

Random dinner all homemade by me.

My new favorite bread pistachio cranberry bread.

I saw this in Kroger & Randall's\
 near me.

I apologize for the low quality of photo's, they are from my phone. Side note I do have a high grade Nikon camera but the battery is completely dead and isn't charging. So once it starts charging then I will use it to take pictures of food for better quality.

Have you ever had the Almond, Cashew & Hazelnut Milk before. How was it?

You Deserve Some Chocolate

The past few days I have been really stressing that I had an interview coming up, which was very important to me. Simply because it was my second interview in the past year that I became unemployed, so I wanted a job badly before my next birthday. So there was alot of stress for me trying to get someone or a company to hire me within less than 66 days or so.  That hard work plus lot of time, really paid off yesterday; I got a part time job. I'm happy as can be even though it's not my dream job, it's a job I get to work with people face to face everyday which is nice.

So since I got myself a job, I decided that I deserved a treat. So I made myself a chocolate milkshake with banana and sweet cacao nibs in it. It was a perfect treat to fill that reward that I deserved. Now I did record the recipe below can be adjusted to fit your needs.

Chocolate Milkshake w/ Sweet Cocoa Nibs

• 1/2 cup Trader Joe's Chocolate Coconut Ice Cream
• 1 cup So Delicious Unsweetened Coconut Milk
• 1 Medium Size Banana
•  Handful of Nativa's Naturals Organic Raw Sweet Cacao Nibs
• 1 tsp of Fresh Ground Peanut Butter (optional)

For this recipe all you really need is a single serving size blender and a spoon. I basically add only a little coconut ice cream but next time will add more for more of a thick milkshake recipe. This recipe gives you a milkshake that's in between. 

1. So get your single serving size blender cup put in the ice cream at the bottom.

2. Then peel the banana and break into chunks, after that is done then put banana in the cup.

3. Put coconut milk into the blender cup

Before blend.

4. Put any peanut or nut butter in it (optional)

5. Sprinkle a handful of sweet cacao nibs and blend for 30 seconds.

After Blend

I feel this milkshake was well deserved after the hard work look for a job, I can't wait to actually start. However this isn't the really celebration that I have a job, my friends want to celebrate this weekend that I got a job.

Do you have any tips on making a milkshake?
What's your treat for when you accomplish something?