Moving...

Dear loyal readers i am not "leaving" per say... but i am switching to a new host. This one was too limited in the ways of customizing so you can find me at: (don't worry its still veg head and friends)

New Site :)

Hope to see you soon!

Life changes

So i have no new recipe to post sadly, i have been sick for about 3 weeks! I missed 2 weeks of school and failed one of my exams because i could not concentrate and my ADD medicine was not working! That aside i registered last week and sat through a 3 hour orientation/epi-pen training plus got fingerprinted and i am now a substitute teacher. I should be starting in about a week. They are going to email me once i can start working but it should be exciting, challenging and a new experience everyday! I hope i don't like it too much otherwise i may have to reconsider my graduate degree for a teaching degree :D

Let see... i had to buy a new automatic litter box because ours died, it was a Littermaid and only lasted 6 months and i sadly did not have the receipt anymore to prove that we bought it within the warrantee period so byebye box. Its okay though i desipised that machine it worked until it got stuck. The one we replaced it with is twice the litter maids cost but so much cooler and already has worked so much better than the previous. It looks like a strange space ship or a robot. So can you guess what it is called?? "The Litter Robot" comes in 3 colors and is pretty bad-ass. :) There are videos of how it works at the link, and no i don't work for the company :) I just like to tell people about things i think are cool.

Speaking of cool/awesome J and i saw Coraline the Neil Gaiman(he wrote it) movie (guy who did stardust& mirromask), and it was WONDERFUL. Quirky, fun, immersive and so many things for kids, adults and anything in between. If you have any reservations about this movie throw it out and go see it now you will love it. Dakota Fanning voices Coraline, and Teri Hatcher is the other mother. Oh and Henry Selick wrote the script for the movie and i believe directed it too.

Wedding things are moving slowly mostly because J and i don't know where to move from here we just secured our bartender a friend of mine from a few classes Lyle. Other than that we don't really know what we want to do with the hall, so.. any suggestions on the cheap would be appreciated the cake we are thinking is going to be chocolate cake with buttercream frosting and raspberry coolee. (J is texture senstive)

But i just realized that it is 1 and i have to be to class at 2 and i am still in my Pjs!

Bye! Go see Coraline! :)

strawberries are delicious!

So i apologize to my readers i am MAJORLY on a salad kick, i believe its mostly because a year ago i was told i had to limit/regulate my Vitamin K intake and i was terrified of salads, asparagus, broccoli and those sorts of things mostly green stuff. But now i am more of in a whatever mode and i feel healthier when i eat those sort of things, so i am. This salad no lie is the most delicious salad i have ever eaten in my life, it is sweet, salty, savory, nutty, and awesome:) As you may know i live in Lower east Michigan, and there is a foot of snow on the ground and more keeps falling, and rather then soup i turn to salad.

Strawberry, Kalamata & more!
*note i did not measure i just tossed on the amounts, i have a small-medium sized hand so maybe 1/2 a cup for handfuls.

1 plate full of lettuce(per person or use a bowl for a big group and triple the amounts)- for my lettuce i used a trio i can't remember the type but dole sells it in a box.
1 handful of dried cranberries
1 handful of pine nuts
4-6 pitted kalamata olives
2-5 pitted cherries ( i used bing)
2-3 sliced strawberries
1 pinch of sprouts
2-4 grape tomatoes
1-2 tbsp of strawberry balsamic dressing, or regular balsamic. (i included a photo of my favorite dressing.)
*note- the dressing has very little calories, no fat, low sodium, low carbs, it is amazing and the best balsamic dressing i have EVER had.

On another note, i went and saw 'bride wars' with Kate Hudson & Anne Hathaway, it was surprisingly good, not great mind you, but good quirky & funny. The wierd thing was the theater was full of chicks(no surprise), but behind me was a group of 5 guys just hanging out and they were not making fun of the movie, they seemed to be enjoying it. :D It was fun though and i recommend seeing it if you can.

That's all hopefully next post won't be a salad :D

Pineapple, Avocado, Black bean, Pine nut, Summer in the winter salad.

Wow life gets crazy and before you know it... Its January. Many exciting things are happening for me in the coming months... In April i graduate with my bachelors of psychology (yay!) i NEVER thought i would actually finish when i started, so go me! Now as i am nearing the end of my impossible task, i am thinking of all the things i can do. I am planning in about a year and a half to go to graduate school somewhere, so that alone is a huge accomplishment for me, let alone my family who not a single one went to graduate school, and most did not get their bachelors. Letsee in May is my bridal shower, June 19th is my 23rd birthday, June 22nd is my fiancee's 25th birthday, and June 27th i am getting married to my sweetie of 4 years ( anniversary a few days before the wedding:)) After that who knows what life holds, but i am definately excited to experience it:) Moving on..... I actually have a recipe finally! Its VERY simple, and can be made vegan or vegetarian. It is the salad above, oh and it is VERY customizeable.
My version is Vegetarian, but i am going to post in parenthesis next to it a suggestion for customizing. Now also note that this is being made in January, by a VERY broke college student who has not gone grocery shopping in a long time and picked up and avocado on a whim.

PineAvoBBPNSumWin- Great for the winter,and canned goods

1 stalk or whatever of romaine Lettuce/ any lettuce
1 handful of pinenuts= about 1/4 cup for my tiny hands
1 handful of dried cranberries= about 1/4 cup
1 morningstar farms black bean burger= substitute- (black beans/ vegan black bean burger)
2 slices of pineapple from a can= substitute- (fresh pineapple)
1/2 of an avocado
a drisle of your favorite dressing mine is a strawberry balsamic vinigarette that is fat free and low calorie. (i can look in my fridge if you really want, otherwise there are recipes all over the web for it)

Again you can add and subtract, i find that the fruity notes, compliment the savory pine nuts, and the creaminess of the avocado- delicious! :)