February 2

breakfast: apple, manchego

lunch: really bad Indian

dinner: tempeh and vegetables in a lemon-coconut sauce, chocolate bread and rice cake

workout: Callanetics 10/10

January 28

breakfast: split pea soup, bread

lunch: vegetable pad thai

dinner: remainder vegetable pad thai, raw milk

workout: Callanetics 10/10

January 27

breakfast: oatmeal

lunch: yogurt with apricots, baby bok choy with garlic, rice

dinner: split pea soup, bread with raw butter

Winter Lament

breakfast: gluten-free french toast

lunch: pasta primavera

dinner: sweet potato, cabbage, raw milk

Today feels like the first day of winter since winter actually started. It's cold and windy. There have been a few raindrops. Winter is always my favorite season, so it's kind of sad to not have it this year.

Whenever I drive by the reservoir near my house, I can see the bottom. I don't know what this bodes for this spring/summer. It would be nice if it would start to rain more, if winter would truly appear.

January 24

breakfast: gluten-free english muffin, raw cheese, raw milk

lunch: salad, rice with cabbage and yogurt

snack: peanuts

dinner: baked chickpeas, fried potato, cauliflower with tomato sauce

January 20

breakfast: granola

lunch: aloo gobi

snack: popcorn

dinner: eggplant with ginger-garlic sauce, tempeh with stir-fried vegetables

Today's supposed to be the last day of the heat wave. It's so strange to look outside and see Spring. All the plants are sprouting new growth. Blooms are open. It's absolutely gorgeous. But thankfully, the warmth is going to end and be replaced by some much needed rain.

I've always loved the rain. I love the sound of it. I love how it cleans everything off. It just relaxes me. :)

Heavenly Caramels

Devil in an Apron's caramels are so good. They're traditional caramels made with sugar and cream - NO corn syrup! Yeah! That alone makes them taste better than virtually every other caramel on the market. But when you add in the flavors - real vanilla bean, cocoa nibs, dried lavender, and many more - they're simply amazing. They're definitely the best I've had.

My only complaint with the caramels is that one of the flavors isn't vegetarian - bacon. It's very easy to tell from the other flavors (the bacon is almost black while the others are a light brown), but it would be nice if the company would sell bacon-free packages of their caramels for vegetarians.

I secretly hope that one day Devil in an Apron decides to do to their caramels what they do with practically everything else they make - cover them in dark chocolate. Dark chocolate covered caramels have always been my favorite candy and so few people do it well. These caramels with the quality of chocolate that Devil in an Apron uses would be a guaranteed success.