Girl’s Day, New Moon, Fun Food and More!

Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a HUGE recap post of my past 36 hours!

Yesterday I went for a half hour jog and then cleaned up a little before I left. As I was shuffling through and reorganizing the freezer a little bit, I discovered something amusing in the back. Apparently someone’s been sneaking in some sweets and trying to hide them in the depths of the freezer.

I found it absolutely hilarious that Ross tried to hide these, so I figured I’d leave him a note reminding him he’s free to enjoy whatever he pleases.

Fast forward through a two hour drive down to Orlando and I met up with Ryan and Ashley for part one of girl’s day! We hit up Lululemon, Whole Foods and H&M. I actually didn’t buy any clothing, but I did pick up a couple things at Whole Foods, including my first ever vegetable juice! This one consisted of beet, kale, apple and celery. (Photo courtesy of Ryan, thank you girl!)

Then round two of girl’s night commenced – pizza at Ryan’s before heading out to see NEW MOON! While we were working on the pizzas we munched on some carrots and cucumber slices with hummus. Anything with hummus is awesome in my book! Our pizzas consisted of this awesome whole wheat multi grain pizza dough that I picked up from Publix, topped with a pesto Ryan had made with basil, nutritional yeast, almonds and olive oil. On top of that we layered marinara, baby spinach and garlic. So good!

Then we headed out to see New Moon! If you know me at all or if you follow me on twitter, you know that I was just a little excited to see New Moon. You won’t be getting any spoilers out of me, but just know that I loved the movie and I’m really looking forward to seeing it again! I’d also like to note that I loved sitting next to Ashley during the movie – she’s a recent Twilight fan and she was quite enthusiastic about the movie! It made it so much more enjoyable for me, too.

Post-movie I had a treat that I recently created and made to bring to share with the girl’s. I intended for them to be a vegan pomegranate cheesecake swirled brownie, but the brownie layer came out too thick and very rich/ not too sweet, kind of like a dark chocolate truffle. I mean, Imade them myself and even I could barely believe they were vegan! For now these pomegranate cheesecake truffled brownies will be a secret recipe, because I’m entering them into at least one contest.

This morning I headed back to Gainesville because my sister was coming to spend the weekend with me! I won’t see her at Thanksgiving, so she is stopping by before heading home to Sarasota for the holiday. On the way up I hit up Starbucks to get an Awake Tea Misto with soy, which I unfortunately did not end up drinking because they made it with dairy. Three sips into it (and already on the road) I realized it was definitely not vegan, as I was immediately experiencing some tummy trouble and congestion.

Which was quite unfortunate, because it made my first starbucks red cup experience a bust and it left me dealing with this mess without caffeinated.

My two hour trip home turned into a three hour and forty-five minute trip home, due to an unfortunate accident (I hope all were ok!) and the dang Gator game (ugh Gainesville….it’s a total love/hate thing). Once home, though, I didn’t have long to wait for my sister to arrive! Megan arrived shortly after I did and we immediately headed out to Roly Poly. I grabbed a small create your own of a hot pressed whole wheat wrap with red pepper hummus, little spicy honey mustard, spinach, sprouts, kalamata olives, mushrooms, avocado, dried cranberries, cashews, sunflower seeds, plum tomatoes, roasted red peppers…I think that was all! I may have embarrassed my sister a tad, and made a slight spectacle over how long it was taking me to order with my checklist of veggies.

Now for some other fun food! I finally tried my first star fruit that I had picked up recently. Interesting! It was good, but not my favorite fruit. Although definitely my favorite shape! It’d be perfect for a cocktail garnish! 

I also took the opportunity to make something I’ve been looking forward to for a while! I found organic local potatoes recently that are PURPLE! Naturally, just as I am attracted to star shaped fruit, I’m also attracted to colorful foods. We used the potatoes to make purple (err, blue) mashed potatoes to go with dinner.

For dinner we also had tofu (for me) and chicken (for Ross and Megan) in a sauce of white wine, lemon, Earth Balance, herbs, spinach and grape tomatoes. A little too much lemon, but tasty none the less!

Along with zucchini cooked in a pan with some misted EVOO and a warm ball of doughy goodness!! I adore fresh, doughy rolls!

All together, it was a wonderful meal that I got to put together with my one and only sister – great evening!

Now if you’re still reading, I wanted to thank you for putting up with such a long recap post! Just for that, you get a break. I probably won’t post again until Sunday evening, so I will see you all then!