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I have entered into my 33rd year of life. YAY! I feel like its gonna be a fantastic year!

I had a wonderful day.  The husband and I both were not working, and the temperature in Southern Cali reached to 80 degrees.

My day involved:

Sleeping in

Coffee

Thai brunch

5 hours outdoors at the Arboretum

Hand in hand with my husband and my camera

A great birthday card from my love

Puerto Rican dinner for 2

Amazing birthday cake 

This is how my birthday cake was presented to me:

Check out B's headband and Lisa's glasses, 

My cake matched the shirt I was wearing!

33?! 

OHHHHHH J

If you stop by often, you'll know how much I adore glass jars, containers and canisters.  I could not resist dumping the carton of OJ when my little friend below became available. 

I think EVERYTHING looks better in glass.  I don't even drink orange juice, but I love to open up the fridge and see this cheerful liquid staring back at me!

Bring on the beets

Beet juice, mixed in with some celery, cucumber and carrots. I love how prominent beets are in their coloring! 

Juice and Lord of the Rings. Morning is DONE!

Co-OHHHHHca Cola!

oh boy, a photo by Petunia21 on Flickr.

39 g of sugar in 1 can of cokes.

I love visuals.

This is a 1/2 pint mason jar.

Just saying

Tandoori Whole Wheat Orzo & Veg Bake

I truly feel most inspired when I just open up my pantry and fridge and see what I have to play with!

Tandoori Whole Wheat Orzo and Veg Bake 

Ingredients include:

Sauce
2 Cups Coconut milk (I'm new to it, trying to get more and more away from dairy)
2 Tbs Butter (TRYING to stay away from dairy)
2 Tbs Spelt flour (to make a roux)
1 Tbs Sarah B’s Tandoori Spice Blend (Scroll down the page after clicking on the link)
1/2 tsp. Turmeric
Salt

Everything Else

2 Cups of the pulp from juice-fest (celery, kale, carrots, apple, beets and cucumber)
3/4 Cups cooked red lentils
1 1/2 Cups of cooked whole wheat orzo pasta
Parmesan cheese

I first mashed the butter and flour together, and added it into the coconut milk that I had heating up on the stove.  

Then I added Sarah B’s Tandoori Spice Blend and some extra turmeric and salt.  When it thickened, I dumped the 2 cups of veggie pulp, the cooked lentils and the cooked orzo to the pot. Stirred to coat, then I put it all in my buttered oval pottery dish. 

I topped with whatever remaining Parmesan cheese I had in the fridge and baked for about 40 minutes in 350 degree oven.

OK, I had to eat it before taking its first photo... I was too hungry and it smelt too good... just saying

Saturday Breakfast

breakfast, a photo by Petunia21 on Flickr.

Everything looks and tastes better out of a wine glass with a bendy straw... just saying.

Just Juicing

What did YOU do on a Friday night in your young 20s? I played with my girlfriend's boyfriend's juicer!

He has an Omega J8004 Nutrition Center Commercial Masticating Juicer, White

She set it up for me and let me had some fun!

I can't really give you a recipe for what I juiced, I was having so much fun shoving things down the grinder shoot.

I made 3 juices with a few combinations of the following veggies and fruit:

Kale
Celery
Carrots
Beets
Cucumbers
1 teeny tiny Apple

The COLORS of the freshly masticated juice are truly spectacular. I've never quite seen a green or a red like that of the kale and beet. I wonder if painters have ever juiced because I seriously wanted to to dip a paint brush into the juice cup and paint Lisa's white walls... (Lisa, I refrained from doing this!)

And check out the pulp that I got from the remaining veggies!  I cannot throw this away! I'll make a soup stock out of it, but I'm also thinking maybe making some sort of veggie-latka-pancake-pie.

The juice has been in the fridge all night chilling.  I'm quite excited to drink some for breakfast!