My mission to tackle the Post Punk Kitchen 100

A new goal of mine is to complete as much of the Post Punk Kitchen's 100 list in 2012 as possible. So far, I've complete 7 out of the 100 things listed. I'm also gonna have to adapt some considering that nuts are involved and Den's deathly allergic to nuts. Wish me luck!

Candle Cafe Frozen Dinners Review

When I was at Whole Foods recently I saw that the Candle Cafe Frozen Meals were on sale so I decided to try to of the meals out.First, I tried the Tofu Spinach Ravioli. This consisted of organic pasta, spinach and tofu in tomato sauce. The spinach ravioli was okay but the tomato sauce could've been a little bit thicker and I'd have preferred more chesse.  

 Next, I tried the seitan piccata with lemon caper sauce. This meal was made of organic brown rice, spinach, and seitan piccata in a lemony sauce. This meal was really good; even Den couldn't keep his hands off of it. The combination of spinach with lemon was unexpectantly pleasant and out of these two meals, I'd definitely buy this one again.

Happy Veggie Restaurant Review

I've been wanting to eat at Happy Veggie in Redondo Beach for a while and was really happy when Den surprised me with going to dinner there last week. Although the parking was a little tricky, we still had an awesome time there.

We began our dinner by have vegan drunsticks as an appetizer. These drumsticks were served with a teriyaki sauce and a pickled salad. The drumsticks were perfectly cooked, really chewy and the stick used as a bone was a nice touch.

For dinner, I chose the Szechwan Chicken Strips which consisted of onions, broccoli and ginger layered with soy chicken strips.

After much thought, Den decided to have the vegan pan fried noodles which had soy chicken with stir fried vegetables, tofu and onion served on a crust of pan-fried rice noodles.

The food was delicious and the staff was nice and informative. We're definitely going to go back again!

Belated Happy New Year and other news

Let me start by saying Happy New Year! I've been so bad at blogging on a regular basis and one of my resolutions for 2012 is to blog more (at least one post a month). Other goals for 2012 is to become a better runner and as such, I've signed myself up for two 1/2 marathons, the Tinkerbell 1/2 Marathon on January 29th and the Hollywood 1/2 Marathon on April 7th. I've been following a run/walk 1/2 marathon training program so I'm excited to be participating in these running events.

This year I also plan on continuing my goal of losing weight and getting down to a healthy weight.Currently I weight 220 but I'd be happy to get my weight under 200lbs. I just finished reading Eat To Live by Dr. Joel Fuhrman and plan on following his weight loss plan within the next couple of weeks. 

Farewell Quarrygirl

Dear Quarrygirl:
Thanks for creating a blog which introduced me to yummy vegan food and helped make my move from Alabama  to California and from vegetarianism to veganism less painful. Thanks for introducing me to Ronald's Donuts, Veggie Grill, Vegan Pizza Day, Frankenstand and all the other wonderful things that made your blog so awesome to read.I am really gonna miss reading your blog and still hope to meet you someday.

Thanks,
Tamara

Restocking my emergency chocolate via vegancuts.com

I love chocolate and was super stoked when I saw that vegan cuts.com was having a deal on 40 mini bars of chocolate for the price of 20.I was extremely happy when the mini chocolate bars arrived and after eating one of each bar, I was definitely impressed.

These chocolate bars were made from Newtree natural born chocolate company in Belgium.

The flavors are as follows: Blush contains cherries, Refresh contains mint, Renew contains blackcurrant and sexy contains ginger.

Here is a photo of all of the Newtree mini chocolate bars

Starting a juice fast

Yesterday I watched the documentary "fat, sick, and nearly dead" on Netflix's streaming channel. It was an inspiring story of Jim Cross, an Australian man who was tired of being sick (on medication) and overweight,who decided to go on a 60 day fast of nothing but juice made from fruits and vegetables. Seeing this documentary has inspired me to do a 10 day juice fast starting tomorrow. I hope that doing this fast will help break my addiction to junk food and processed food. Wish me luck!