{"id":9156,"date":"2009-10-31T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=9156"},"modified":"2009-10-31T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:17:08","slug":"october-30th-2009-if-you-know-anything-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/10\/october-30th-2009-if-you-know-anything-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"October 30th, 2009: If you know anything about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 I know I promised you two posts yesterday but well time got away from me.  Oy!  Let&#8217;s just recap it. <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/><\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about me, you know I thought briefly of running a light run yesterday morning, but my bod was all, &#8220;Hell no&#8221; and so I listened.\u00a0 I got up at 8am and started a glorious morning.\u00a0 After taking care of Rocks it was time to pray to the Pumpkin Gods for some Pumpkin Power!\u00a0 RAWR!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9164\" title=\"Coffee, yogurt, scone \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coffee, yogurt, scone \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_breakfast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_breakfast.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about me, you know that Fridays indeed call for Pumpkin Latte love at least.\u00a0 Also in attendance, pumpkin yogurt with apple, and 1\/2 a pumpkin scone.\u00a0 Oh yeah!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t forget to say your <a href=\"http:\/\/peasandthankyou.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">peasandthankyou<\/a> to Mama Pea for coming up with the Pumpkin Latte idea!<\/p>\n<p>I made a big batch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2C soymilk<\/li>\n<li>4 big spoonfuls of pumpkin<\/li>\n<li>Vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>Allspice, cinnamon, and ground clove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All blended till foamy goodness.\u00a0 I decided we could add in our own sugar amount so skipped that part for the big batch.\u00a0 I mixed some scoops of pumpkin with the yogurt and added the same spices minus the vanilla, and a honey crisp.\u00a0 Mix and eat out of container like a savage.\u00a0 And then 1\/2 a pumpkin scone from TehKu.<\/p>\n<p>Today was going to be a busy one and I wanted to make sure I was properly fueled for it.\u00a0 Plus, if you saw yesterday&#8217;s post, you know breakfast items are basically nonexistent at the moment.\u00a0 Scarah times up in here! <img src='\/images\/zombie.gif' alt=':zombie:' \/><\/p>\n<p>After breakfast I got dressed, cleaned a little bit around the house, did some more online stuffs and then it was time for lunchie.\u00a0 If you know anything about me, you know I blew through that breakfast in no time flat.<\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about me, you&#8217;ll know what&#8217;s up for lunch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_salad.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9168\" title=\"salad \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_salad-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"salad \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_salad-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_salad.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salad!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixed greens<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 a honey crisp (Yes again. It&#8217;s all I have in the way of fresh fruit, so shut it.)<\/li>\n<li>Cranberries<\/li>\n<li>Sunflower seeds<\/li>\n<li>Crushed walnuts<\/li>\n<li>Granola (crappy store bought, ew)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Topped with balsamic and oil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_smoothie.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9169\" title=\"smoothie \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_smoothie-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"smoothie \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_smoothie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_smoothie.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about me, you know there was leftover pumpkin latte mix for smoothies!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1C soymilk<\/li>\n<li>1C US cranberry juice<\/li>\n<li>1C water<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Frozen blueberries<\/li>\n<li>Frozen mango<\/li>\n<li>Leftover pumpkin latte mix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scott wasn&#8217;t digging on the smoothie too much today but I liked it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09-chick_patty.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9165\" title=\"chick'n patty and bbq sauce \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09-chick_patty-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"chick'n patty and bbq sauce \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09-chick_patty-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09-chick_patty.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morningstar grilled chick&#8217;n patty with BBQ sauce.\u00a0 If you know anything about me, you know I squealed with delight when I started eating this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9167\" title=\"Salad, smoothie, patty \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_lunch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Salad, smoothie, patty \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_lunch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_lunch.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I plowed my way through lunch taking out anything in my path, including extra smoothie!\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t finish it all, but since Scott was being such a wimp I drank some of his extra portion.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch I hit up the mall to see if I could find some more clothes and what not.\u00a0 If you know anything about me, you know it&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve &#8220;shopped&#8221; at a mall.\u00a0 It was horrible.\u00a0 Each store was crazy white sterile rooms with ridiculous music assaulting you as soon as you walked in.\u00a0 I found nothing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s winter so why is everything short sleeves and see-through?\u00a0 I made my way over to Forever 21 as a last stop and finally scored some finds.\u00a0 A few shirts, tanks for $2.50, and two jackets.\u00a0 Plus a really cute but gaudy gold color, owl necklace.\u00a0 If you know anything about me, you know I love owls.<\/p>\n<p>Once back home I modeled all my new finds for the fellas and then changed into jammies.\u00a0 I totally forgot we had plans to go to the grocery store after feeding Rocks dinner.\u00a0 If you know anything about me, you&#8217;ll know that a ton of swearing occurred as I remembered that fact.\u00a0 Then I promptly decided I did not want to go.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner had been on the menu plan for weeks and last night I finally decided to make it.\u00a0 The only downside being I didn&#8217;t have quite as much mango as I anticipated.\u00a0 Not too long ago I got a spicy black bean and mango soup from <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Whole Foods'>WF<\/abbr> and that was what inspired last night&#8217;s dinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_blackbeans.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9163\" title=\"Black bean and mango mess, polenta \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_blackbeans-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Black bean and mango mess, polenta \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_blackbeans-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_blackbeans.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically just a whole big mess of stuff. :p<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tandoori mango chicken sausage from <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Whole Foods'>WF<\/abbr> (very yummy)<\/li>\n<li>Red onion<\/li>\n<li>Chopped cubanelle pepper<\/li>\n<li>Swiss chard<\/li>\n<li>Black beans<\/li>\n<li>Quick roasted b-nut squash<\/li>\n<li>Mango<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All sauteed up in one pan and just stirred together for gloriousness.<\/p>\n<p>On the side of that was pumpkin chipotle polenta with pepperjack cheese just for added kick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9166\" title=\"black beans and polenta \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"black beans and polenta \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I only had a small amount of polenta because it was super spicy but also because I was more interested in the mess.\u00a0 In fact I had I think two bites of polenta before just forgetting about it and concentrating on the other dish.\u00a0 Which was really good!\u00a0 Could have used another spice, but otherwise tasty.<\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about me, then you&#8217;ll know we ate dinner while watching the Pens game last night.\u00a0 They were in town playing <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Cbus&#8217;s poor excuse for a hockey team<\/span>, the Blue Jackets.\u00a0 We actually wanted to go to the game but super nose-bleed tickets were like over 70 bucks.\u00a0 Yikes!\u00a0 While I was at the mall I stopped in a &#8220;sports&#8221; store to check out jerseys.\u00a0 They were selling some sort of cheap-o knit jersey that apparently their grandma&#8217;s made and trying to tell me they were $150.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think so.\u00a0 My<a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/06\/june-1st-2009-hockey-fan\/\" target=\"_blank\"> official real deal Pens jersey<\/a> I have didn&#8217;t even cost me that much.\u00a0 Perhaps they didn&#8217;t think I know anything about anything.\u00a0 Pfffttt.<\/p>\n<p>If you know anything about me, you&#8217;ll know that I saved room for a snack-poo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9170\" title=\"wine and ice cream \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_snack-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"wine and ice cream \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_snack-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/OHC-10-30-09_snack.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a glass of the wine we had Thursday night, and also some <a href=\"http:\/\/jenisicecreams.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeni&#8217;s<\/a> pumpkin ice cream.\u00a0 It actually has a longer name but let&#8217;s keep it real, it&#8217;s pumpkin ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>I had my snack while the Pens schooled the Jackets on how to play a full 60 minutes of hockey and then some.\u00a0 Then I watched Venture Bros. and if you know anything about me, you&#8217;ll know I laughed my ass off.<\/p>\n<p>But here might be some things you don&#8217;t know about me!\u00a0 I got an award from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saywhatyouneedtosayblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lauren<\/a>! <img src='\/images\/swingdance.gif' alt=':swingdance:' \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9162\" title=\"kreativeblogger_award\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/kreativeblogger_award.jpg\" alt=\"kreativeblogger_award\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/kreativeblogger_award.jpg 220w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/kreativeblogger_award-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>Check it! <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/>\u00a0 <strong>And now I have to list 7 things you might not know about me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. I do not have my ears pierced and have no desire to have more holes in my head thankyou.<\/p>\n<p>2. I had my belly button pierced for a long time. Technically a belly button isn&#8217;t a &#8220;hole&#8221; so there was no issue.<\/p>\n<p>3. I want a tattoo very badly but trusting someone with that is a big step.<\/p>\n<p>4. I was a late bloomer, and my wisdom teeth didn&#8217;t start to emerge until I was in my late twenties.<\/p>\n<p>5. I&#8217;m too much of a wussy to get them removed. Again, it&#8217;s a trust issue. I don&#8217;t want to come home all slack-jawed because some joker nicked a nerve.<\/p>\n<p>6. I didn&#8217;t attend my college graduation. i was done with school on Tuesday, graduation was on Saturday. I wasn&#8217;t sticking around that long! I had a hot man and a new apartment waiting for me.<\/p>\n<p>7. If I could have, I would have skipped out on high school graduation too.\u00a0 Joke! But I went for my parents and because we weren&#8217;t allowed to skip.<\/p>\n<p>There are way too many bloggies that I adore, so picking some for this award would be way too hard.\u00a0 However, I would love it if,you either shared with me some little factoid or if you did this on your blogs as well! <img src='\/images\/biggrin.gif' alt=':D' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi gang!\u00a0 I know I promised you two posts yesterday but well time got away from me. Oy! Let&#8217;s just recap it. If you know anything about me, you know I thought briefly of running a light run yesterday morning, but my bod was all, &#8220;Hell no&#8221; and so I listened.\u00a0 I got up at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2nG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}