Wall Art

As you will hear about soon, I am in the midst of creating my dream office. I have 7 days left in my current position and I will be working out of my office - yes, on jobs I have already obtained! :) Today I spent the afternoon making an image of important words for my wall with a Cricut machine I borrowed from a friend. What a cool machine! The words Possibilities and Intention are a deep purple and the colors play off of the other things that will be in my office.  I love that Balance is a little off - since my version of Balance may not be everyone's idea of Balance! 

Cold Strawberry Pie

My husband loves cold Strawberry Pie and I've been dragging my feet this spring since Strawberries are on the dirty dozen list, foods highest in pesticides, but I guess one pie won't kill him. I used my go to recipe from Cooking Light April 2000.
I usually pile it higher with fresh strawberries, but I didn't save enough when I made the crushed strawberry sauce for the topping.

Falafel and Pitas

Lunch today was something that I myself will want to repeat often. I made pitas for the first time. They are easy! Of course I had to play wih the recipe so I could make it 100% whole wheat and because of our elevation, but they came out very well! The recipe is from King Arthur Flours Whole Grain Baking. I substituted Whole Wheat Pastry Flour for the bread flour and added 2 T. of gluten.



After making the Pitas, I put together the Open Faced Falafel Burgers from Cooking Light August 2006 and can be searched for at http://search.myrecipes.com/enhanced-search.html. Of course the chickpea patties are pan fried, not real fried! Yummy. This was a perfect lunch for me.