Soupasana

I had an easy 5-second breakfast today – cereal!

This cereal is another winner in my books! A-mazing.

For lunch – I wanted to use up yesterday’s couscous paste leftovers and improvise just a little.

Buckwheat from yesterday, with some sunflower oil, spinach, and chickpeas, and some hot sauce!

New addition to the kitchen: sweet with heat mustard!

Last of couscous paste on a sandwich, with buckwheat on the side.

Last but not least…

Pear with peanut butter for dessert:

I did a hot yoga class in the evening…

Pre-hot yoga fuel:

For dinner, I wanted to try something really interesting that made a bit of a splash in the foodie blogosphere. Anyone know the name of the white carrot below?

Parsnips!!!

The dish that made a splash was parsnip fries! I had no idea what parsnips tasted like, but smeared in peanut butter, how bad could they be?

Seasonings (I improvised here): salt, pepper, garlic spice, brown sugar, cinnamon and olive oil.

Adding star player –> PEANUT BUTTER to the mix. I used a heaping tablespoon.

As I stuck the fries in the oven (400F, 45 minutes), I decided to sip on a carrot juice that was hanging out in my fridge for the past couple of days. I think it was on sale at Ambrosia (the local health food store), and I was lured in by a short list of ingredients (carrot juice, lactic acid).

Eeeeeek! YUCK! BLECH… I hope I made my point. This was disgusting. It tasted nothing like your regular run-of-the-mill carrot juice that I know and love. It was sour… (?). I had about half a glass. Kitchen fail #1.

After 45 minutes, the fries looked amazing, but were less crispy than I would have liked them to be. For some reason, I decided that to put them on broil would be a good idea. Oh, if only I had a dollar for each time I put something on broil, and burned it to coals as a result… I present to you kitchen fail #2.

I finished the plate anyway, throwing out the blackest ones… Sigh. Well, no worries – I am going to be back at it tomorrow. I WILL make these taste good if that’s the last thing I cook.

Slice of bread with hummus makes any dinner complete!

Chai tea with a splash of rice milk:

And few hours later – a beautiful dessert!

Off to bed!