Just Juice ...

I usually a person who doesn't like fresh juiced beets or anything like that , but I have changed my opinion about beets. I recently got a chance to go to Central Market in Houston , Texas. Omg! I love this grocery store its what a store should be.

When you first walk into the store you are in the produce section, its big. Its my favorite produce section I have seen to this date. In this same area they juice the veggies and fruit that they sell. Their were quiet a few options I got two of the juices: ABC (apple ,beet , carrot) Juice and Carrot Orange Juice.

The flavor of the Carrot Orange was very very well balanced I would have to say. The other juice ABC which I didn't take a picture of was different but won me over on liking beets.

To cute tofu

I recently went to a H*E*B which is a grocery store here in the Houston , Texas area. While I was in the store my mom told me about a tofu fried rice that was completely vegan and it was in the store we're at. She told that she meet the people who own or make the products , and that the food was to died for.

I am not a person who likes tofu very much but I figured it wouldn't hurt to try the fried rice.  So I got the rice it was like around $5.00 or so , can't remember but what I do remember when picking up the rice is that they made egg rolls that were completely vegan. Now those were very pricey in my opinion it was like $6.97 for a box that had maybe 6-9 egg rolls in them , they looked yummy.

This is what it looks like right after microwaving it.

So I bought the tofu fried rice from Banyan Foods , which to be honest someone who doesn't like tofu. I actually liked it which surprised me and my mom.This is a very simple tofu fried rice that is very good the box has two servings inside of it and  nutrition was pretty good. It is very easy to make the fired rice they give you two ways to make it. I made it by microwaving it , I was hungry.

 However I did noticed that it had a slight lack of favor , I add in Bragg's Liquid Amino's to it with some pepper and Toasted Seamese Oil. Which add these things it made it taste better. Overall I would have to say that the Tofu Fried Rice is pretty good in my book.

I'm back

Well after a couple months of self pity and loathe , I found that after all the research I did. That I wasn't happy where I was nor the job that I was doing. So I made a huge change.... I moved back to Houston, Texas. I mean its a big change , I am in the land of meat and potatoes and this is hard to adjust to.

So from now on going forward this blog will be changing a little bit since I have moved into my family's house and will be making din dins with them instant of just for two people. But the main thing I am going to show here that it is possible to be vegan in Houston.

Later this week I am going to do a review of Russo's New York Pizzeria or Mission Burrito new places that I found were yummy.

Food for thought

I know that I haven't been posting recently, I was kinda of rethinking my life. I'm in my early twenties and I'm not thrilled with where I am nor what I do as my profession. I while I was rethinking, I figured I should go back to school. So I haven't had time for adventures and things. I am attempting to figure out what I want to do and get a degree in. On top of I have to remember if its going to be job that will pay money. Ugh!

That's how I feel in regards to all of my thinking recently but it has to be done.  No more of me complaining. On to the main part of this post.

I was talking to my mom on the phone the other day and we were talking about cooking. I was telling her that I finally cooked collard greens and it turned out wonderful. She started to ask what I had paired it with jasmine rice and chiplote salsa. Nicely set up on my new flat black plates, sent her a picture and describe what the flavor were in the dish.

 My mom told me to write down every homemade recipe since I cook from scratch. Then proceed to tell me that I could make a cookbook.

Its a wonderful idea, she said especially since I understand flavoring from both vegetarian and non vegetarian views. I have a tester my boyfriend whom does he eat meat. So he tests both types of recipes, I'm thinking that this is something naturally comes to without any issues.

CSA Recipe #1

Well the first post of my cooking, I made bok choy stir fry with what I have on hand. I used a whole bok choy, mushrooms, ginger, garlic,sesame seeds and olive oil.  I don't have the exact recipe but I pictures. Yay pictures!

CSA Share # 2

Well this week, I wasn't able to pick it up myself. So I sent my boyfriend to pick up the share, the only thing that I asked was for him to take a picture. But I got my CSA share and no picture of what I got.

So I'm going to list what I got this week: spinach , pac choi, kale, turnips, lettuce and strawberries. I know that I was going to post recipes for the last share however I got busy this last week.

Hopefully with this upcoming week that's going to be back to normal. I'll be able to post more things than last week. One more week until I have another mini vacation.

First CSA Share

We got the first share well I though it was a little small but it's the beginning of the season. We got two different types of lettuce, radishes, about two pounds of spinach and homemade organic strawberry spread.

This well be my first time eating radishes, I mean I have ate them before in salad. I'm going to try different way to east them besides in a salad.

I will post videos and recipes on the blog and the videos will be attached here from my YouTube channel.

This CSA is Eco friendly they do not use the traditional boxes to give the weekly shares. When you go to pick your share it's behind the stand at the farmers market. The share is in a plastic box with a top inside the box their is a little bit of water to keep the vegetables crisp.

Black me out

Black out curtains

Shoes for thought

Vacation Time

Sorry about no posts, I have been cleaning like crazy since my mom is in,town from Texas this week. So their will not be as many posts , I might just post a picture of whats happen that day. Here's a picture of the yellow brick road in Oregon.

The Day

Today was the day! 

The day that my wii died, just kidding but very closed to dying. I have a sensor bar that is officially not longer emitting a infrared. I was advised to return the product to target whom I got my warranty through and wait almost a month before I would receive anything at all about a gift card to buy a new wii. Well I was going to do that until I starting thinking why do I have to return the whole system and everything if its a little sensor bar that stopped working. With this though I went out on the Internet webs and found that Nintendo sells the sensor bar for 7.50 reburished. I bought the reburished sensor bar and until the label gets here for the return I will think really hard if I should return the wii or not.

Note : I paid 199.99 for the wii and it came standard equipment nothing extra, if I do the exchange and send it in. They will send me a gift card to Target to buy a new one. A new wii costs about 149.99 now so I would get 50 dollar back but I have to buy a new warranty which is about 30 dollars.

Just no I say!

Today was Monday , I wished it was Tuesday. Only reason why I wished it was  Tuesday is my first Friday of the week for me. I haven't posted that I work a call center and anyone who has work/worked for a call center. Very well know that their are always the weird shifts as people will say. Well I work one of those shifts but almost normal my weird shift is M-F. That makes you guess what I work, well one hint is I only work four days a week. Two days on , one day off, two days on, two days off. I love it but if I was to go back working 13hr shift vs four days a week I would say no.

Basically I have rethinking about my hours and how I personally feel hinted the name of title of this post. I feel like everyday should be Monday or Friday. That is my blah post for the week.

Mystery Plate

We went to Red Robin for Colin's birthday at first I wasn't happy but I found that they offer Boca Vegan Burger. I was excited;i order the burger natural style. Which is where everything is on the plate you basically build your burger. I asked for melon instant of fries but they got it mixed up. So I have picture of the half empty plate I wish I had took a picture of the burger. It was fricking huge, I mean it makes the ones in the grocery store so small.

On another note we got part of our CSA covered by Winter Green Farms , some wonderful people help paid for us to get fresh produce. So we only have to come up with 310 instant of 510, I'm just simple amazed. The first box will be coming June 14th, so for now we will still buy produce. But once the box comes I will be posting recipes and videos. Note the videos will be on my YouTube channel.

 

Skyline

This action packed horror sci-fi movie , wasn't original at the top of my rent list. But as my family started to tell me about the movie I became interested. Even after many reviews and watching multiple trailers I broke down and rent the movie.

Now with me having netflix streaming from my wii, I didn't want to rent the movie longer than I was going to watch it.So with my new found love blockbuster express, I rented Skyline you can't blame me I mean it was only a buck to rent the movie.

In regards to the movie it was good I felt that it could have been better. I like the movie overall , I felt that plot was different than most movies. The trailers to the movie didn't do any justice to the movie; this is one of those movies that you have to watch to really understand why its such a good movie. The directors take on how he filmed the movie was just wonderful, this movie really tricks you.

 Just when you think you know whats going to happen, something else happens instantly. As far on my scale of rating it would be 7 and the only reason why is because of the ending. I felt that the movie was shorted a little and could have a better ending.

Cinco de Mayo

One thing post about work and home is nachos. Here's a picture of what I had for dinner while watching skyline. Ill post a few of it on Sunday when I have my next day off.

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday Trade

Today was day number one off it was a nice relaxing day but I didn't do anything that I wanted. Thanks to the wonderful gas companies and the wonderful state of Oregon taxing the $@#? out of gas. Sorry I a little upset with how it keeps increasing I was stuck home all day due the price of gas.

 Ive included a picture of how I feel note I own a jeep. This made me want to trade my jeep but I'm in love with it before I even got it. With knowing that I love my jeep and the fact that no one is buying SUVs I'm not trading. I'm going to cope with gas prices and cut down on cost.

Monday ...

So today was Monday , it was one of THOSE Monday. I wanted to be out of work as soon as I got to work. Well that didn't happen, however I have tomorrow off and Wednesday. In my head I was doing the happy dance. I got home after a ten hour day and I got a confirmation from qwest about my service upgrade. What a great way to come home, I was worried that they didn't make the change.

Long time , no see.

Its been a few months since I went hiatus on the blog with recent change of thoughts. Ive decide that I am going to continue the blog like I wanted to. I will be showing my daily life of what it is like to live in a smaller area. When your too use to big cities and how to cope with the fact things are not the same. Plus I will be showing my new adventures to random places and I mean random parts of where I live. I have include a picture of my wonderful transportation that will get me to these random places.

World of questions

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