portobello vegan trattoria– a review

On March 12, 2009 By

Yes, I know, Ital­ian. Not low carb. But actu­ally not too high carb. And besides, you have to let your­self indulge a lit­tle or else you go crazy being too strict.

Por­to­bello offi­cially opened in Port­land a cou­ple of months ago and for a mul­ti­tude of rea­sons Jim and I had not yet made it […]

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eat yer greens!

On March 10, 2009 By

It feels good to detox a lit­tle. It feels great, actually.

A lit­tle bit of back­ground, to explain why we are doing the lower carb diet right now. Partly, it’s to detox after months of hav­ing cook­ies, cakes, pies, etc in the house non-stop. Sure, it’s been fun, but it’s also made for many […]

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why doesn’t healthy taste quite as good sweet and carby?

On March 5, 2009 By

Mmmm… break­fast. Have I men­tioned how much I love break­fast yet?

Thanks to the waf­fle cart in North Port­land, Flavour Spot, I fell in love with maple but­ter and veg­gie sausage waf­fle sand­wiches a few years ago. But I’m too lazy to make waf­fles, so we sling pan­cakes on the grid­dle and call […]

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goodness in a bowl

On February 26, 2009 By

Some of the best things in life come in bowls. Ice cream, cereal, pud­ding, all good things indeed. But whole­some meals can come in bowls, too.

Like pesto pasta:

Sure, you don’t have to eat pasta in a bowl… but I think it’s tastes bet­ter this way. This pasta is whole wheat penne from, […]

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breakie and kitteh

On February 23, 2009 By

Break­fast is my favorite meal. Pan­cakes, yogurt, cereal hot or cold, fresh fruit, hot tea, toast with Earth Bal­ance and jam, hash browns, the list goes on and on. But there are a cou­ple of things that I par­tic­u­larly love, the kind of break­fast foods that I lit­er­ally dream about. The main one is a […]

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pasta and a squirrel stalker

On February 20, 2009 By

I am the queen of buy­ing vast quan­ti­ties of veg­eta­bles and then com­pletely for­get­ting about them until it’s too late. Jim always gets on me about it, but I go into it with the best of intentions.

I noticed tonight that I had some broc­coli on it’s way out, along side some snow pea pods […]

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book tour of portland

On February 18, 2009 By

Nope, not that kind of book tour. Not yet, at least. I took some time off of work last week and early this week to work on the book. I have a hard time focus­ing in the house, as I am eas­ily dis­tracted when there are other things to fid­dle with, so I fig­ured getting […]

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something’s gone ari-se

On February 10, 2009 By

Whew! Tak­ing a breath now. Midterms are over. I have 4 weeks until finals (I hate quar­ters, I’m a semes­ter kind of gal). Ah, that’s better.

Two of the but­ton pack­ages were sent back to me because they were “too thick” and required more postage, so I will be resend­ing those tomor­row. I can’t imagine […]

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