Posts Tagged ‘Snacks’

17.05.2010

Korean instant nut and grain drink

the name says it all

I know that foods with the word instant in the title are totally out of fashion these days, but I’ve chosen to write about this one anyway. What is ‘roasted nuts powder’ anyway? And what does it have to do with me? You might be thinking. Well, if you are a busy person who hardly has time for breakfast or lunch, this might be just the item for you. I’m not a busy person, and I have loads of time for breakfast and lunch (not to mention dinner!) so I haven’t been drinking this lately, but there was a time when I snacked on this drink (does that make sense?) several times a week. (more…)

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25.02.2010

Aloe Vera gel & juice: a favourite ingredient

Hello, dear, dear readers! If you’re seeing this sentence, that means you are still checking here for posts, and I thank you sincerely for that. I have been AWOL again, and I don’t even have a good excuse. I still think about and plan blog posts often, but have been having difficulty transforming those plans into actual, written entries.

In the past few weeks I’ve done a lot of reading, quite a bit of cooking, gone ice-skating twice, and drank a lot of tea. C & I spent Valentine’s Day in the Emergency room at the hospital (we are fine, just couldn’t get into a clinic!) which was interesting, but certainly not fun. We are not vegan (or even vegetarian) but we have been eating lots of vegan & vegetarian meals lately. Out of sheer laziness, we’ve also been eating out a few times a week. Since it has been raining and/or snowing all week here, I haven’t been buying as many groceries as I usually might. Consequently, we’ve just been using up the contents of our cupboards and fridge.

Various aloes: far left is a gel for topical use. The others are edible and delicious.

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10.02.2010

Super Snacking: date, nut and cocoa balls!

I finally got around to trying/tweaking these delicious treats that I’ve been seeing around the blogging world for the past few months. If I’d realized they were this dead-easy and delicious, I would have made them ages ago.

just a few simple ingredients...

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30.11.2009

Good treats from Chinatown

I’m not sure whether I’ve mentioned the following fact, but: I don’t work very much. As a consequence of this, I don’t have a lot of extra money. I buy books, food and tea. That’s it. I could work more than I do, I choose to work only part-time, and treasure this wealth of free time that I have. I’m well-aware that I won’t have the luxury of living this way forever, but for the time being, I’m enjoying it.

I suppose that a lot of the reason I began writing a blog was because of all this free time I have at my disposal. I spend a lot of my time cooking and reading, and I document some of that here in this space. With the rest of my time, I wander around the city, mostly. I’ve posted about trips to Montreal’s Botanical Gardens before, and it is one of the places in this city that I really love to visit. Another favorite wandering spot is Jean-Talon Market, and yet another is Chinatown. I go to Chinatown at least once a week, and I don’t really do much of anything there. When the weather is nice I sometimes read and drink some iced tea in a courtyard, or browse the imported food in one of many Chinese grocery stores.

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18.09.2009

Chocolate and zucchini muffins, with lavender

Farewell, summer. We hardly knew ye.
This week we’ve had the sort of weather that encourages baking, at least among those partial to baked goods. I don’t know what this kind of weather encourages among those poor souls who have no interest in baked goods. Probably shopping for fall fashions, or taking hot baths.

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ginkgo

This week the weather outside in the afternoon has been ideal for autumn. In the sun it’s nice and warm, but cold in the mornings and evenings–summer is decidedly over, despite the calendar insisting otherwise. So much so that I was cold in our apartment this week, especially in the mornings. I was looking for things to bake, just to warm up the kitchen! We finally put a second comforter on the bed, and I even had to close the kitchen window two days ago. (more…)

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Posted in Seasons, Snacks, Treats | 4 Comments »

17.08.2009

Vegan Banana-Nut Breakfast Cookies

What could be more fun than having cookies for breakfast?

How about having cookies for breakfast that are good for you, too? Sounds good to me!

banana breakfast delights

banana breakfast delights


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08.07.2009

Caution Bear: consider yourself warned

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This is a packaged snack/cookie thing I found recently in my local (Montreal) Vietnamese grocery store, Marche Oriental. The product itself is from Taiwan, from what I can gather, but I was told by a Japanese woman that it is a brand she recognizes from Japan. She said the bear is supposed to be the type that is found in Hokkaido.

Anyway, history aside, I bought this because I liked the package. It’s so… powerful? (more…)

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