you are all on notice.

This pretty much sums up my week.

miles is getting bigger and my hair is getting shorter

muffins.

Mmm. I just made strawberry-chocolate chip muffins, and they turned out great. I adapted the recipe from a Garden of Vegan recipe for almond coconut muffins. The part I like best about this recipe is the use of coconut milk as the liquid. I use coconut milk in every muffin recipe I do now because it tastes so moist and creamy, but not coconutty at all. Here's the recipe, if ya'll are in the mood for muffins. Try it before fresh orgainc strawberries disappear for the season!


Strawberry-Chocolate Chip Muffins

1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup coconut milk
2 "eggs" (I use this as an egg replacer)
1/4 cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups fresh strawberries, diced into small pieces
1/2 cup non-dairy chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 400F. Mix together dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt) in a large bowl. in a seperate bowl, mix together coconut milk, "eggs", oil, and vanilla. Add wet ingredients to dry. Mix gently, then fold in the strawberries and chocolate chips.
Spoon into oiled muffin tins and bake for 15 mins, until lightly browned. Makes 8-10 muffins, depending on your tin size.

Maher kickin' some ass.

See Bill Maher rip into agribusiness and the standard American diet. Here here, Bill! And a kudos for the Iditarod comment, too.

a sentence involving the phrase "most puffiest"

A cool new site, One Sentence.
My favorite so far:
"I went to a Bell Biv DeVoe concert on the night of my senior prom and ended up at a burger joint eating chilli cheese fries alone in the most puffiest of dresses."

more new baby pics

Staplers make good pillows.



Peek a boo you little tater tot.



Even Miles is obsessed with MySpace.



The prince requires fancy bedspreads.



Mouse. Of course.



A rare moment when Moe isn't slapping Miles around.



Just before a slap-around, I'm sure.



Teeny.

the stress eating vegan

Wow, has it been a week since I posted? Hmm.
Well, my cousin isn't exactly doing better, but he is alive and not doing worse. So that's good I guess. I had to swallow hard a few times when we went to see him, though. His appearance is disturbing, to say the least. And seeing his father break down in tears wasn't too easy either. Everybody seems to be fairly positive, so that's good. The docs took a piece of his skin and sent it to Boston to grow more for grafting. How cool is that? His mom is worried that if the piece of skin they took has one of his tattoos on it, then he will end up looking like a jigsaw puzzle. Heh.
Miles is still cute. He's calmed down a bit, but he's still biting and scratching us constantly. He does it while playing, and I know he's just a wee baby, but I'm tired of him attacking my butt and toes. I look like a pin cushion. The little tater tot! I'll share some more pictures soon.
In other news, I have applied to a university near our home. It's about time I got my ass to college. My career hit it's peak years ago, and it's all been downhill from there. Plus, I've been regretting not going to school ever since I enrolled into art school fourteen years ago but never went because I was too scared and misguided. So, my application is in, I just need to figure out the federal loan crap, get some evil immunizations, learn algebra, take the COMPASS test and somehow pull an art portfolio out of my ass, then I will be all set for spring 2007 to begin my bachlor of fine arts degree with a concentration in graphic design. (and try not to make run-on sentences)
...nervous? I can't shove the cookies in my mouth fast enough.

Oh, and Tom Waits was in Atlanta for a show on Monday. He hasn't been here for a concert in 30 years. I didn't have the money for tickets. The bastard.