Oatmeal Break! December 30, 2008
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Been craving warm, buttery, crispy toast!
Buttered toast, dark chocolate syrup [made in the trusty microwave!] on a huge sliced banana, rice milk + milk
I ended up being able to only eat one piece of toast 😛 Possibly because I added some almonds:
Chocolate almonds = new favorite snack!
All that was missing was ice cream! How amazing would having banana splits for breakfast be?! Too bad I didn’t think of that til now…
Zoom! December 29, 2008
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After two years of camera ownage, I have finally discovered how to take closeups!
Yesterday:
Yay!
Here’s another one:
Whoooo!
- black glutinous rice, chopped almonds, banana, milk, quick oats
+ rice milk + milk mixed together
So good! The black rice is chewy and a little sweet–like a blend of wheatberries + normal rice!
And I think I’m going to chop up my almonds from now on–they last longer this way! 😛
Dinner:
Hot pot!
+ TV
In the pot: Fish balls + tofu + shitake mushrooms + some abalone-looking mushroom
We dip this stuff in a mix of raw eggs, soy sauce, and satay sauce! ❤
I’m going to miss this at school 😦
This morning:
The same thing as yesterday morning–presented in a different way!
I added wheatberries today though~
More closeups!
Rice milk + milk again
Lunch just now:
x 1.5
It was good–but not very filling! Luckily for this:
❤
Baked yams!
Mom made them 😀
I think she sprinkled some brown sugar on top–so they were extra sweet! The yellow ones are soooo awesome. Yams & sweet potatoes > potatoes any day!
Am currently going back and forth between lolcats and my homework and blogging. Iz mooti-taskin!
Circles December 28, 2008
Posted by oatmeal in Breakfast, Snack.Tags: pancake, pear, wheatberries, yogurt
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Yesterday:
I didn’t realize, until I took the picture, how many circles there were in the picture!
- Pancake: Bartlett pears, wheatberries, oatmeal, cinnamon, vanilla extract, rice milk + strawberry yogurt on top
- In the bowl: glutinous rice balls, red beans + millet + pearl barley, more strawberry yogurt
- In the cup: rice milk + 2% milk
Best breakfast I’ve had so far! It was just enough to keep me full. For some reason, I’m extra hungry when I come home for the holidays!
Putting wheatberries in the pancake made the whole thing much more chewy–which, by the way, is awesome.
And rice balls + yogurt = BEST THING EVER. Maybe I should bring a bag of glutinous rice flour back to school!
In the afternoon:
hazelnut mocha.
I’m still a little jet lag so I need this to stay awake! This is going to be so disastrous for me when I go back to school…
Have been doing a lot of snow shovelling–I’m pretty sure altogether there’s been about 2-3 feet of snow, which is more snow than I have ever seen in my life! Driving is absolutely horrible since I keep getting stuck in the driveway!
Check out the backyard!
Now imagine the pool completely covered with snow, it was pretty much level with the ground at one point! Wish I had gotten a picture of that…
Anywhoo–out to lunch soon!
Alcohol for breakfast December 27, 2008
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Dec 23:
Oatmeal #141: Irish Cream Oatmeal
- 2 tsp Bailey’s Irish Cream Liqueur, 1 tsp instant coffee, 0.25 cup milk, 0.75 cup water, handful almonds & pine nuts, dash cinnamon, 1 tbsp wheat berries, 1 small banana
This is my first cup of Irish cream "coffee"! I saw the bottle of Bailey’s on the kitchen counter and my mom told me it was for putting in coffee…so naturally, the first thing I thought of was oatmeal. 
Only 2 tsp of the liqueur–but I could smell/taste it in every bite! Definitely will be having a variation of this later on.
Christmas eve:
- grapes, almonds, almond extra, almond powder, wheatberries, milk, cinnamon
No banana in the house day #1! Good thing there were grapes, and good thing I had the foresight to wash an entire bag the night before so I wouldn’t have to wash any more the next morning!
I definitely like red grapes better than the green or the black kind. So much crunchier and sweeter! Which kind do you guys like better?
Christmas! December 26, 2008
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One day late!
Meant to post yesterday–but didn’t feel like it
Cards for my parents! I realized yesterday morning, as I was drawing the card on the left, that I can only draw profiles…good thing I don’t plan on making a living off being an artist!
Anywhoo–oatmeal!
Oatmeal #140: Christmas Oatmeal
Playing with food at its finest XD
- glutinous rice balls, wheatberries, 0.25 of a small candy cane, sweet walnut soup, milk
Mom made the dough, but I rolled the rice balls myself! Took me an hour to finish rolling out the entire dough–but I’d rather be doing that than my homework!
Christmas eve ice wine:
In a chinese tea cup! My family is classy 😀
Christmas dinner!
x 2
Buttered corn, stuffing, turkey + gravy, scallopped potatoes & yams, rice + gravy
Wish I could eat like this everyday!
Is anyone actually brave enough to go Boxing Day shopping? XD
Giant Oatmeal Entry December 24, 2008
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It is giant because it’s a catch-up post! 😀
Dec 22
- wheatberries!!, white chocolate chips, almonds, cashews, cinnamon
+ hazelnut mocha
I have finally hopped on the wheatberry train! A very chewy train, I might add [does that even make sense?]
And having chocolate chips in my oatmeal makes my mornings exciting!
Lunch:
DUMPLINGS! [I had 3 bowls of that stuff in total–would have had more, but we had to go out 😦 ]
Every time I have these, capital letters and exclamation marks are used, because they are awesome!
I added a shitake mushroom and some tofu thing, plus some fish thing 😛 I should find out what those are called!
Exam oatmeal:
The day before my orgo final:
I made exam art! The molecule depicted above is ethylene 😀
The rest of the other stuff:
Too lazy to describe every single one of them XD
Oh and there was this:
I documented the oatmeal making process! XD Too bad it was a failed experiment!
Yeah…didn’t taste that good…the only thing that saved it were the PB and the peaches…
To finish off:
Frozen yogurt!
It was so cold that everything in my fridge was frozen XD
The snow over here is ridiculous! I have never seen so much snow in Vancouver! There’s probably two feet of snow by now. Crazy!
What’re people doing for Christmas eve?!
Hooooome! December 21, 2008
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Elongated vowels to emphasize my excitement!
Now that exams are over, regular posting of entries and blog reading can resume! 😀
First bowl of stove-cooked oatmeal in months:
My breakfast just a few minutes ago!
- oats, cinnamon, milk, small banana, white & dark chocolate chips, almonds
+ hazelnut mocha
Against a snowy backdrop! We’re having some kind of snow storm right now, which kinda kills my soul but at the same time I’d rather be stuck in the snow at home than at school…
Yesterday:
The same thing in pancake form and without the white chocolate chips:
Quaker’s quick oats just aren’t powdery enough for the texture that I usually get! But I kinda like this chewy version
On the morning of my last exam:
- strawberries!, a very small banana, flax, coffee, cottage cheese, mocha, PB
There were more strawberries involved than depicted above, but they were hidden
And yeah…there’s a whole bunch of exam-time oatmeal pictures that I skipped, but that’s ’cause those ones aren’t really pretty! I’ll probably post them all in a blob later on though–just because some of them are kinda fun! But I’m not going to upload them now because I have HOMEWORK to do.
[I think my TA may have taken the "spirit of giving" concept a little too far…]
Cookie! December 11, 2008
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Um wow I have been missing for a while! But since I’ve got a lab report due tomorrow, I figured it was the perfect time to be lazy!
Nov 28
Before:
[note that only half remained ]
After:
My favorite pancake combo to date!
It was the last day of classes–so I figured a celebration was in order!
- 0.5 white chocolate & macadamia nut cookie, 0.5 banana, flax, oats, cottage cheese, PB
Loaded with awesomeness!
Best part? The cookie melted into the batter! Excitement!
Lunch:
Cinnamon raisin english muffin, turkey breast, beans, carrots
Snack:
English muffin, PB, apple, and tea!
I can’t remember if this was for an all-nighter or not. It probably was though. Probably for commerce.
Nov 29
Breakfast:
Kashi golean cereal, milk, cinnamon, and apples.
Dinner:
Cod, broccoli, jam, english muffin.
Exactly one week to go until I am not at school!
My brain is trying to tell me something… December 5, 2008
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This should tell you a little about my mental processes when I am working:
True story. Nov 25. There were no witnesses, but I do have the screencap!
I thought it was hilarious that the program went “What?” like it was in disbelief
Nov 26
Oatmeal #138: Nutty Oats – Part IV + applesauce
- applesauce, sliced &blanched almonds, cinnamon, ground ginger, shredded coconut, PB, flax, milk, quick oats, organic oats
Applesauce in pancakes! I have never tried it–have you? I added the entire mini container–so I managed to get the apple flavor!
Also–I decided to blend two different types of oats together because I’m running out of quick oats [my weapon of choice for microwave pancakes] so I decided to mix it with organic oats–it turned out quite well, actually! I was afraid it might take longer to cook, but it didn’t! And it was much chewier too.
+ spiced chai tea with milk. I haven’t had tea + milk in ages! If I had sugar around as well, it would have been complete!
My very amazing lunch:
Something I haven’t had in a long time [since last year!]–couscous! Ever since the caf introduced it into my life, I have been hooked. Grains = awesome in all forms!
The above contains: couscous, dried apricots, peppers, carrots, beans, tomatoes, raisins, peas, lemon-garlic vinaigrette
Extra large lunch, extra awesome.
Night-time snack:
I believe it was for an all-nighter. Can’t remember if I succeeded in staying up all night or not…I probably didn’t…
Nov 27
- banana, cottage cheese, flax, peanuts, pistachios, green raisins, PB
+ coffee
Actually…maybe I did stay up all night…
2 more exams + 1 paper left!
So I only need another week of all-nighters and maybe 3 days of sleeping over at the lab, and then I will be writing my last exam and then going HOME!!!
I have been waiting for this since school started!
Reacting to reactions… December 1, 2008
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I’m in major confusion over everything in my orgo textbook. My exam is in two days. Verdict: SCREWED.
And when trouble comes my way, I procrastinate.
Nov 24
Oatmeal #137: Tropical Smoothie – Part II
- mango yogurt smoothie, PB, coconut, raisin granola, flax
The caf served these smoothies on Sunday–which was majorly exciting! Once in a while they’d spoil us like this…
Long story short: I took some of that stuff home for oatmeal! 😀 Dessert for breakfast for the win!
Nov 25
- Golden Delicious apples, sliced blanched almonds, flax, cottage cheese, PB, brown sugar
This week’s oatmeal has been so full of excitement! I haven’t had brown sugar in my oatmeal since…high school? That was how my mom made them! 😀
Question: What did your first bowl of oatmeal consist of?
Dinner:
Turkey breast + eng muffin + jam, peas
The lack of sleep is driving me nuts. Not to mention the fact that the chairs at the lab are extremely uncomfortable for sleeping on 😦 It’s at times like these that I wish I was a midget…
The Oatmeal Experiment 