Gothic Granola

If you have ever read any Buddhist sutras translated to English, you will recognize the title structure:  "Thus I have heard..."

Nightshades: source of aggravated post-workout soreness and nightmares, for some people.  Pseudo-science or fact ? [caption id="attachment_4486" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Jessica the Dawn chases Little Bill the Halfpenny doll.[/caption] Leftover mashed potatoes happen?!   Yes, yes they do.  Using my stand mixer to whip the boiled red potatoes made short work of the mashercizing process.   

TC wanted these blueberry muffins .  So I remade these cranberry ones instead.

I did it.  Finally, I have made vegan and gluten-free version of Cream Cheese Cutouts that tastes good, rolls properly, and bakes up soft and slightly puffy, just like I remembered.  Why the spelling differences?  Mine are Cream Cheeze Cutouts due to fake animal products; Ownie Mom's are Cream Cheese Cutouts, since hers are traditional wheat flour, egg, and dairy, etc.

Another guest post by the ever-knowledgeable Ela Mirowski, creator of the naturally-scented, biodegradable Ticklepaks shoe deodorizers. Check out her site: Ticklepaks.com .  See her previous guest post here .   Source Diagnosis: Eosinophilic esophagitis Treatment:?   The matriarchal side of my family has been plagued with hereditary gastrointestinal (GI) issues. My grandmother died of an unknown GI disease (this was back in Poland around 1986). My mother was plagued with years of heartburn and then eventually the inability to swallow food as a result of her esophagus shrinking. By the time she had these severe symptoms, my mother was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and died when she was 65…this was 10 years ago.

Fun news in my life: I got food poisoning and have been having some ongoing nausea for the last week and a half, hence no blog posts. Digestive turmoil aside, other things I have been doing include working (open enrollment season! Aaagh!), listening to "new to me" music, instagramming my Halloween socks , following P90X Plus, sorting Legos, and writing. New Lego Halloween Monsters in some kind of metal music video setup that TC made:   These are not Breast Cancer Awareness Month cookies.  They just...I'm just going to stop here.  TC asked for maraschino sugar cookies and this is what I found.

For those times when you don't want to spend $4.99 (and up) for vegan mac and cheeze from a box, DIY.