Wednesday, August 3, 2011

WIAW + Sailing the deep blue sea and a delicious recipe :-)

Hi loves! Happy WIAW! This is going to be a scattered WIAW featuring meals from a few different days. And it's also going to be a WIDW (What I did Wednesday) and WIBW (What I Baked Wednesday) post. I hope you have fun! 

Be sure to head on over to Peas and Crayons to thank our lovely hostess, Jenn and to check out everyone else's WIAW! 




Breakfast:

Smoothie made with frozen banana, coconut milk, oats, chia seeds, cinnamon, vanilla extract and SunWarrior chocolate protein powder topped with Love Grown Simply Oats granola and a crumbled up peanut butter chocolate chip cookie. 

One of these cookies:
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
(This is my FAVORITE cookie recipe right now!)

Lunch:
(Or was this Dinner? Can't remember!)
Delicious sweet potato pinto bean burrito!

Let me take you on a step-by-step journey.

 It started with frying some onion and garlic in a pan. We added the pinto beans and some chopped baby tomatoes. We seasoned that with salt, pepper, cumin and chili powder. When that was done, we spread it on warmed whole grain ivory teff tortillas. 
Then we threw on some baked sweet potatoes.
 Followed by black olives and baby tomatoes. 
 Nutritional yeast.
And lots of mixed greens!
Delicious!

What I baked:

S'mores Muffins 
(Inspired by Mama Pea's S'mores Donuts and Ashley's Peanut Butter Fluff Donuts)

1 cup Pamela's Gluten-Free Baking Mix (or flour/baking mix of your choice)
1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs (I used gluten-free)
1/2 cup coconut milk (or milk of your choice)
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp maple syrup
1/4 cup chocolate chips
 +
Peanut Butter (I used PB&Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams)
Mini-Marshmallows

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl sift together the baking mix and graham cracker crumbs. In a separate bowl, mix together the coconut milk, vanilla extract and maple syrup. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips. Lightly oil your muffin tins or use muffin tin liners. Fill them 3/4 of the way full. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let muffins cool completely. Once they have cooled, spread peanut butter on top of each muffin. Then lightly press the mini-marshmallows on top. Place the muffins back in the oven and broil with the door open for about 3 minutes or until the marshmallows are beginning to get toasty and melty :-) Keep a close watch so they don't burn! 






Yum! Ooey gooey peanut buttery marshmallow goodness. Awesome :-) 

WIDW (What I Did Wednesday)
Although, this is actually what I did on Monday :-) 

My uncle Tim is visiting from Hawaii. So on Monday, Woody and I were invited to join him and some other family members on my uncle George's boat. It was so beautiful! It was like a mini family reunion. A lot of my family is super spread out and I'm not very close to many of them, so it was awesome to get to spend some time with my relatives. (Tim, Jeff and George are all brothers. They are my mom's cousins so in actuality, they are my second cousins or something, but I always call them my "uncles." :-) 

It was a beautiful sunny day in the bay! It's hardly ever sunny in San Francisco in the summer time. 

Woody and Uncle Tim.

Me and my beautiful cousin, Eileen.






Alcatraz 



 Uncle Jeff, Me, Woody.
 Woody, Uncle Tim, Cousin Eillen and Uncle George. 
Family photo! Uncle Jeff, me, Woody, Uncle Tim, Cousin Eileen and Uncle George :-) 





Such a beautiful day! So grateful. 

Thanks for being awesome and reading my blog! I love you all! <3 

Have a beautiful Wednesday, my friends! 

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Heyyy! You're from the bay too? I live in Mill Valley up in Marin :) All your eats look delicious, especially the burrito and those cookie balls! Yum!
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I'll definitely be throwing that burrito together at some point, and those S'mores look awesome! I'm so glad you have peanut butter in there, I ALWAYS put pb on my actual s'mores. Your day in the bay is making me miss my family! I just love hanging out with them and I don't get to often enough.
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Yum! Those smores muffins look delicious. I love throwing a wrap together with random stuff we have in the fridge. It always, always tastes delicious!
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I really think you should become the spokeswoman for Pamela's products. You could bring in some serious business for her with these recipes!

...and while you're at it, I think you should become the spokeswoman for living a happy, healthy, BEAUTIFUL life! I don't know how you do it but your posts always make me feel so comforted and at peace. You're positivity and passion for life is so contagious, beautiful. Thank you for shining! You brighten my day :)
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What a gorgeous boat ride! And those smores brownies look delicious. I definitely would love to make that!
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Kat@Cupcake Kat · 713 weeks ago

I need those muffins right now!! They are amazing. Looks like such a wonderful outing
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Ohhh... I just made s'more brownies but muffins may be even better since "muffin" implies you can eat them for breakfast. :)
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Mary Woodard · 713 weeks ago

All I can say is: "I should of been there!"
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you seriously have the best smile ever =) it makes ME smile.. which is just awesome =)

and now i'm off to stalk the cookie recipe to see if i have stuff on hand to make them tonight! I'm feeling dessert for dinner. it rarely happens. but when it does... oh man! <3 love youuu!
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I have never seen the ocean in person and your pictures make it looks so fun and beautiful! I'm wondering what exactly is nutritional yeast and what does it do for you?
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That burrito looks delicious :)
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All of those eats look great, especially the smore muffins! It looks like you had a fabulous time sailing, all the photos are beautiful :)
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smores anything instantly makes me drool.. YUM! and I have never been to alcatraz but heard there is a swim that goes out to it?? Looks like you had so much fun!
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You live such a lovely life, Alaina!

Isn't teff an awesome grain? I've never tried teff tortillas, but they sound delicious - I've only used it to make a tart crust with sweet potatoes, swiss chard, caramelized onions, and feta (it's an Anna Thomas recipe - she's an amazing vegetarian cookbook author). And those muffins! Your cooking is so delicious and varied and full of flavor.

It sounds like you had a beautiful afternoon on the water - I'd happily trade San Francisco for New England and the crazy winters + 2 feet of snow that we tend to have. I love that you have family from Hawaii and roots on the West Coast. Often, I feel like I'm a West Coast girl who was given an East Coast heritage by mistake ;)
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!!!mmm!!! i'm making that burrito tomorrow... you've got me drooling! and those muffins.. de-lic-ious!
what a fun trip... i'm, as always, living vicariously through your pictures :) you always look so happy.. i love it!
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happy WIAW!!! beautiful pics girlie and those muffins look FABULOUS! Such a summertime treat to have anything SMORE flavored. hehe ;)
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