The midwest has missed the sun. Every morning should look like this:
Woke up this morning for a Highbanks rendezvous with Iceman and...shit. Need an avatar...quick, quick. Iceman and Nasa. Gorgeous skies. First time I think we've seen the sun this week. It's almost a little pathetic how excited it makes me. Just ran 10 or so easy miles after the long one yesterday. Saw Tuna a handful of times, and every time I thought about Liz sweating her ass off on the elliptical, out-working everyone around her tenfold. Or occasionally I'd think about her aquajogging in the pool and I got a little nauseous. The pool sucks. Even though she's going far more bonkers than I am, her presence helps eliminate some of my crazy, especially when there is a stiff workout involved. Ok, enough. If anyone has a spare foot, let me know and we'll do a little hack, saw, and sew.
Made a couple of little golden nuggets today. I was pretty pleased with myself, since if I had misbehaved last night, this would not have happened, nor would my 9am visit to Highbanks. Girl Tights had to run alone today because he had all the fun to himself last night. I'll have to wait for the juicy gossip until tomorrow night.
Before I tell you about the nugs, I need to ask a serious question: why are people so turned off by food of the color green? Unless it's iceberg lettuce, which is hardly green, people automatically deem foods that are green as healthy, and therefore un-tasty. I understand: people first eat with their eyes. I get it. But you like that green sweater, so why not the green juice? And for Krice sake, just TRY it. The worst that could happen? Oh shit! You don't like it! OH NO! SOUND THE ALARMS! For a mere 10 seconds, you had something in your mouth that didn't bring the same warm, fuzzy sensation as a chocolate chip cookie! For real, people. Culinary closed-mindedness just straight up pisses me off. Closed-mindedness in general, actually. Ok, rant over. I happen to like the color green, including on food. Chlorophyll is not boro-phyll. Enter stage left: raw garlic green onion corn kale chips.
Now, let me 'splain something. These are not to take the place of your Nacho Cheese Doritos. If you think you're gonna pop one of these in your mouth and think Holy shit, Tostitos!! then you're be sorely disappointed. I had a boyfriend once who had listened to me rave about Northstar Cafe's veggie burger enough times to agree to go and try it. I cannot describe the uproar that followed the first bite of the beet and brown rice-based patty of awesomeness because it tasted nothing like The Thurmanator. It's made of beets, for Krice sake. It is not supposed to replace your 6 lbs. of beef-and-cheese death sweats on a bun.
These puppies do have a not-too-over-the-top garlic and onion flavor, but the corn and kale combo is seriously something to write home about. The earthy, nutty flavor would pair perfectly with a hummus or fresh guacamole. I will be experimenting with flavors, and nutritional yeast would put a nice, cheesy spin on things. I had a not-as-pretty dinner of a spaghetti squash noodle bowl with tofu, peas, carrots, and sesame seeds drowned in peanut sauce, but the dessert was pretty enough for both courses:
Who doesn't like a donut? Do you spell it "doughnut" or "donut?" I like the latter. There's this place in my (tiny) hometown that makes an insane donut. I'm not sure I've had a better donut, though for the last few years I haven't exactly been on a manhunt since I don't do gluten. Donald's is this little old-school joint that still sells milk in cartons and doesn't stay open after lunch. After all, donuts are a breakfast food. However, I won't tell you how I know that after closing, they take all their unsold donuts and throw them in the 45lb empty dough bags and leave them outside...for anyone to take.
Donald's isn't gluten-free, and it certainly isn't vegan. I'm not sure my hometown has actually seen a vegan. But those pretty little coconut crumb donuts are both gluten-free and vegan, and also refined sugar-free. They're actually almost entirely sugar-free, made with powdered palm sugar. Palm sugar is also known as coconut sugar or coco sap sugar. Usual white sugar and brown sugar have glycemic indices of about 100; agave syrup and honey clock in at an index of around 70. Coconut sugar yields an index of 35. Insane. It's also chock full of potassium, magnesium, zinc and iron, as well as vitamin B1, B2, B3, and B6. This, my friends is a wonder food. More about coconut sugar and the recipe tomorrow. For now, I'll just leave you with some food porn:
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