Exciting News

Hello everyone, it’s been over a week since blogging. I do apologize, I actually have some posts that I was/am going to write up but life got in the way. I’m not going to give a long excuse why I didn’t blog; I just got busy and forgot. It happens everyone is human, with that being said. I am actually going to start going something creatively fun on Etsy which was a recommendation from a friend of mine who I used to work with; plus my boyfriend thinks it’s a good idea too.

I’m not sure what I am going to do on Etsy yet, all I know is that I’m thinking of doing something with my photography that I have stored on my computer. I’m thinking some modern yet arty like jewelry with my pictures, or even making my pictures into homemade cards or postcards. I have lots of ideas but none are solid ideas yet. As you can see I have a lot of thinking to do; besides the Etsy excitement I have a lot of stuff to write up.

Some of the things that I have to write up is the September Vegan Conscious Box, a review of California Pizza Kitchen and some personal recipes plus a few movie reviews. So as you can tell I have some fun stuff planned to be posted soon than later, hopefully before the month ends. Oh the last thing is I have joined this year’s vegan MoFo, which I am so excited for; my first year on MoFo. Of course I kind of have a theme it’s evolved around recipes I have pinned on pinterest plus cooking from a cookbook.

If you want to take part of Vegan MoFo you need to sign up before the 26th of this month to be included, I have linked the sign up sheet below if you want to join.

Sign Up Sheet For Vegan MoFo

Question of the day:

Have you done Vegan MoFo before and what was your theme?

I'm So Excited

I apologize for my absence from my little blog, I didn't like blogging on a iPhone. It was slightly a pain in the butt with a small screen and no keyboard. I am able to blog now , because I got a mini netbook for my anniversary present from my boyfriend.

I was completely surprised that my boyfriend got this netbook as anniversary, it was the best thing that happen this week. This is all I have to write up today, I am off to spend the rest of my day with my lovely mom since it's mothers day.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!!

Wordless Wednesday

Upcoming post sneak peak. Kombucha!

Busy Holiday

Sorry about the lack of post due it's the holidays and here at my house it's chaos; just like at the grocery store. I have alot that I need to post after Christmas, heads up I will be a guest post over on Veggie Next Door's blog on Dec. 26 so check it out. 

I haven't been posting what I have been eating nor reviewing it sorry. I promise that I will have more regular posts after the holidays. I made some homemade pesto recently, it was excellent. I will post the recipe on here soon. For now I will leave you with some pictures of what I have been eating.

Steel Cut Oats with melted chocolate chips and blueberries.

White rice with steamed zucchini & squash with  homemade pesto

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Spiral pasta with homemade pesto and cooked tomato with garlic.

Quick Artichoke & Olive Ravioli Dinner

So I got Rising Moon Organics Artichoke & Olive Ravioli for the first time from Whole Foods. The only reason I have never bought this before is because I do not like any faux cheese things , that even includes soy based cheese made out of tofu.

I didn't want to put pasta sauce over this ravioli because I wanted to actually taste it and see if I like it or not. So I whipped up a few things to make the ravioli taste great, I pulled things out of my kitchen that need to be used. 

I decided to cut up some walnuts , onion, and chopped garlic with a few spices ; heated it up in a sauce pan with olive oil for about 5 minutes. Then I add in some fresh basil from my little garden ; cooked & sauteed then I mixed it with the ravioli. At the end I add in some fresh tomato, and tossed the dish to mix the flavors.

I actually liked the ravioli this way , and even didn't mind that it had soy ricotta cheese in it. 

Have you ever had anything from this company?

What I am working on

Sorry lack of post's but I warned you'll its my birthday week so I get busy because of so many things to do. I am working on my review for Larabar, this came a day or two ago.

Veggie Fun Noodles

Taken at Whole Foods, shows whats in the bowl.

Last week I got a rice noodle bowl from Whole Foods at first ,I wasn't too sure that I would like rice noodle bowl. Oh was I wrong , it was so good that I had it for dinner & supper. The bowl it's self look good in whole foods and I didn't know that it was so good. In fact I didn't mind the tofu in the rice noodle bowl, note I am a vegan who hates tofu; which means this bowl was good.

Whole Food's prepared rice noodle bowl for show

I was worry that since the bowl had broth that it would be messy getting home, but no the person who made it put the broth in a separate container. This made things easy for traveling back home which was about 15 minutes away on a good day with no traffic.

Left container  has everything for the rice noodle bowl  & the right container has  the broth.

I was happy once I got home because I was so hungry by then I was thinking , I could eat the whole bowl. However after I add in the broth , it seemed like the bowl got bigger than before. It was the best I have every had before I love the complete flavor of the whole thing, I add nothing to it at all. Which is a good sign and in fact I ate the tofu; I wasn't turn off by it either is a very good sign.



Veggie fun rice noodle bowl with broth add in.

I really liked this bowl and will probably get it again , when I am in a hurry and have no time. Everything in the bowl is just the right flavor , but i am not sure of the nutritional information on the bowl. So if your really trying to keep track of what you eat then you might want to make it at home.

Thank you Diana @ VeggieNextDoor, for helping me with my iPhone picture situation. I went a little crazy and used photoshop on all these pictures.

Have you ever had a noodle bowl from whole foods?

Long Holiday

Thanksgiving is such a nice holiday to see family and spend time with them but it is also a very long holiday. If you include black Friday as part of that. I spend most of my Friday recovering from the long trip to my family's house near Huntsville , Texas. It was a great day , however I didn't capture my plate of food that I bought with me.

I bought butternut squash dusted with cinnamon , green beans, brussels sprouts and rosemary rolls which was all from whole foods; and of course vegan pumpkin pie.I think I have found my new lover for pumpkin pie, because sadly the pumpkin pie gelato now has milk in it. I was sad to hear that but oh well , whole foods makes a killer pumpkin pie.

Needless to say my family was slightly interested in how I eat , except for one family member whom was general interested at the same time. I kept my cool with all the questions about why I was vegan and what I eat. I mean I haven't seen my family in 4 years so I could understand, because the last time they saw me I was vegetarian.

Enough about me rambling about Thanksgiving and stuff. Some exciting news, I am going to be reviewing Larabar and Amy's courteous of both of theses companies. I should be posting a review of Amy's frozen items sometime this upcoming week. Along with those reviews I will be posting a review of the pumpkin pie above that I had for Thanksgiving, plus two restaurant reviews from the Houston area.

Does anyone know how to transfer pictures from iPhone to computer to use on a blog?

Please leave me a comment below if you know anything on how to do that.

Who's a which witch?

I love sandwich's of all types and I love most sandwich shops too. However my favorite shop since I got to Texas is Which Witch, personal  this is the best sandwich shop hands down. The location I go to ; the employees are so friendly and nice.

It's nice to go Which Witch because of the employee's and of course the sandwiches; enough of me rambling. I got a Tomato & Avocado sandwich from them tonight, it was my first real meal since I got sick. 

Which Witch is not vegan shop they make all types of sandwiches but however they have a special set of sandwiches that are vegetarian. 

Note all the vegetarian sandwiches can be made vegan if you don't select anything animal related. Above picture shows how you order your sandwich . 

You select which type you want , then you select what type of bread. It goes on how much you can customize your sandwich to the way you want.

As you can see I ordered a Tomato & Avocado on wheat toasted with salsa, red onions, lettuce, cucumbers,black olives, mushrooms,oregano, pepper and of course garlic.

I took a picture of the sandwich for you guys before I bit into it, Which Witch is my favorite go to sandwich place but they are higher than Subway.

What's your favorite go to sandwich shop? Have you ever been to Which Witch? 

If so whats your favorite sandwich?

Whatever Wednesday

I really don't feel like writing today, so I am calling this post Whatever Wednesday.

So I am just going to post a picture of my dinner from last night.

Black bean ,bell pepper , kale , tomato and gaucomole burrito.

Wonderful Purple

I am a sucker for purple things because it's my favorite color in the whole world. I have most things purple, but I didn't think that would be part of my lotion collection that I have. I recently got Victoria Sercet Lotion  and a few other things from them. My favorite smell is love spell , which happens to be purple( I think that's funny).

I would have to say that this stuff smells great and I love it. I love Victoria Sercet customer service , they helped me alot. When I got the box from UPS the body spray was missing from the box, I know its in the picture. I called them told them what happen , and the rep ordered me a new one with three day shipping because of what happen at no charge.

What I got was the shimmer lotion , hand lotion , two body butter's and a body spray for $ 30.00 dollars. Which they have that deal going on with the whole collection right now , however the simmer spray and brush are not included. Victoria Secret lotions and body spray are cruelty free which I love that and they are sulfa free expect the shower stuff that has sulfa in it.

*Dis closer: Complete review was of my own opinions and I was not paid to review this product.

Prefect Pumpkin

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My new favorite thing to get besides Luna & Larry's Coconut Ice Cream, is Pumpkin Pie gelato. I was like omg! they have something that tastes just like pumpkin pie, I haven't had a pumpkin pie since I went vegan. The area I was living in was a really small town, so when I saw this I was like wow.

I had the Phoenicia cafe make sure for me that it had nothing from animals in it , and they stated that it's dairy free, egg free and honey free. So I picked out Pumpkin Pie and my mom picked out pistachio with orange blossom. So inside the container half was pistachio and half was pumpkin pie which made it hard to spoon out the pumpkin pie to avoid pistachio part. 

I was finally able to just get the pumpkin pie part out , and it was just like eating pumpkin pie.Here's a picture of it

This was from Phoenicia Deli & Coffeehouse which is on  12151 Westheimer Rd Ste P in Houston , the Neighborhood it's in is Westchase.

Moo Moo's Poblano Patties Review

Moo Moo's Poblano Chickpea Patties

I was so excited when I found vegan & gluten free frozen dinner in the frozen section at H*E*B. Moo Moo's had a few frozen dinner options at the store , but I went with this one.

Simply because I love spicy things and I figured it would be spicy because of the Poblano. I would have to say this frozen dinner was not cheap it was about almost $7.00 after tax.

Nutritional Information for the Poblano Patties


Based on the nutritional information and it being poblano patties, I got the frozen dinner. I waited to try it for a couple  days, so I finally did try it. I wasn't that happy with the frozen dinner, first of all the plastic broke while microwaving the food. Which mad me really upset ,because half the sauce that was in the dish was on my microwave.

What came out of the dish on the side was the roasted corn salsa that was supposed to be part of the poblano chickpea patties. The patties were very mushy, and lacked a little flavor their was no real spice. It seemed like the poblano was lack of from the patties, if their was a little more poblano that would have balanced out the mushy part of the patties. If they were more firm that would have been excellent, but they weren't.

I had to add in a little more salsa my self to make the patties better, because they are mushy. The mushy thing was the part that I didn't like at all. Overall the flavor was okay , the product was  good and the plastic of the product is okay. I would not buy this again simply because the flavor was off and wasn't what I was expecting. 


* Dis closer: All reviews are of my own and I was not paid to review this product. 

Cute Cat Necklace

Cat Necklace From 1sayasale.

I was very worried about buying from one of the sale websites , the one's that have great deals. I decide to give one a try which is 1dayasale.com, and they had this wonderful cat necklace. I was for $7.99 which normally it's $112.00. First thing that came to mind was that it might be of poor quality, oh boy was I wrong. This necklace is of really good quality plus it only cost 13.98 with shipping.

I just love this necklace which is my new favorite, I just had to share. I was not paid to review the website all opinions are my own.

Hail Merry Macaroons Reivews

Outside of Hail Merry Macaroons.

I love love these they are the best , just so wonderful and good. The package may look a little empty its because by the time I got to take a picture of it. My family and I  had eaten most of the Macaroons, they were just that good. What really drew me into trying some of the Hail Merry Products was that it is raw,vegan and gluten free. I always try to get raw desserts instant of the one's that have refined sugars and Hail Merry Macaroons don't have refined sugars.

Nutritional Information on the Macaroons.

Hail Merry Macaroons are something I will being getting in the future again, the macaroons are so so amazing. They have just the right amount of chocolate in them, the chocolate macaroons almost don't seem like they have coconut in them.

One of the Chocolate macaroons. 

I will be trying more of Hail Merry products in the future, the macaroons won me over. I got these in Houston on Kirby at the Whole Foods, and they have alot of Hail Merry products. Note you can find the Hail Merry products past the produce section over the yogurt and refrigeration section of the store.

Inside of Hail Merry Macaroon.


This review was all my own opinion and I was not paid to do this review.  If you have had Hail Merry products tell me your favorite is. 

Who said vegan pizza wasn't good.

When I moved to Texas, I was in a rude awaking because this is the land of meat and potatoes. I got kinda of worried that I wouldn't be able to find a decent pizza place that I could eat at besides Domino's. I'll save my thoughts on Domino's for another day, however I did find a pizza place thanks to my wonderful mom.

Russo's New York Pizzeria was the place that my mom recommend to me , I was worried that they used eggs. Will I emailed the company directly and asked if they used eggs in the pizza dough. I got a very quick reply within 2 hours stating no they do not use eggs in the dough and they are happy to work with people whom do not eat dairy nor meat.

Front of the pizza box

With knowing that I ordered a pizza from the website , I got Hearty Healthy Veggie. It includes:

Fresh spinach, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, onions, basil, mozzarella, extra virgin olive oil, garlic sauce. The pricing of the pizza ranges from 14.95-20.95 before tax, but it is worth it.

Sorry I digged in as soon as the pizza was delivered, and my mom too. Its so good , the flavors of the pizza are so light. Its most or less like a very good pizza sandwich since you have to fold the pizza to eat to prevent the toppings from following off. I would get this pizza again , simply due to its just so good.

A close up

This pizza was better than a pizza with cheese , that's what my mom said and she is omi. So that surprised me alot and showed that pizza without cheese is pretty damn good. Tell me what your favorite pizza place is? Mines Russo's New York Pizzeria