October 24, 2011
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yo mama...well mine, anyway
My mum doesn't live close by. She lives up the coast in a small town called Sechelt that's only accessible by ferry. It's not terribly far away. I got their using nothing by public transit once and from my home to the town center of Sechelt (ferry included) it took me about 4 hours. So by car it's not that bad. Tomorrow is my birthday so she came over for a visit. Usually when she comes over she makes her car available to me and we go buy things that are normally hard to get home without one. Today I didn't want to do that. I've been spending a lot of money on groceries and building a gluten free kitchen. Plus I just wanted to spend time with her and not just use her car...except for driving practice. It only made me wish all the more I had car of own even though I still can't justify having one in the city. Anyway we went out for lunch and I bought a new blender with my birthday money. After trying to make a smoothie this morning in a blender that can't even blend ice anymore, I had had it. Don't ever buy a blender that has speed settings called "Siesta, Andale, Arriba and Yeehaw". It will be a piece of shit. Amusing, yes, but shitty. So I went to the London Drugs by the IHOP (no pancakes for me, just a bowl of fruit topped with yogurt) in the mall and bought a mid-priced Oster blender. It's rather pretty. It's selling points were the auto shut off timer and 700 watts of power. It's stainless steel with a glass jug, a digital display and 18 speeds along with all metal parts, pulsing action and an ice crushing button. It's pretty awesome and does way more than I need it for, but, you know, it has auto shut off. It purrs when it's on. I can't wait to actually try it out for tomorrow's smoothie. I'll be able to successfully blend kale into it. Huzzah! Hell, I'll be able to successfully blend!
I just pulled some banana blueberry "muffins" out of the oven. It's from the Wheat Belly book they're pretty much the same as the pumpkin ones I made the other day, just with different feature ingredients. Otherwise it's still made with ground almonds and flax and NO FLOUR whatsoever. I was mentioning before that the pumpkins ones turned out gross because I used Stevia to sweeten them. I bought Xylitol and use that this time instead. I did a finger dip test to see how it tasted on its own and I can't wait to try it in tea. It was mildly sweet with no chemically taste hitting the back of my throat like Stevia does. It measures cup for cup and while it's not totally calorie free it's only 12 calories versus 60 calories (sucrose) per serving and won't spike blood sugar levels. Oh, and it's also good for your teeth. I'm just waiting for the muffins to cool before I try one out. If they turned out well I'll have breakfast for tomorrow. Yay.
By the way, speaking of the ground flax that's in these things, Nate ate four of the pumpkin ones yesterday and lets just say it did a better job than the coffee usually does in terms of regularity, lol.
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Oh my god! The muffins are fucking delicious!!!!
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