The Healthy Russian Diet...

I toasted these walnuts in olive oil and sugar, which gave them a nice "candy."

Then I chopped them up and put them in this large chicken salad. This was our super healthy dinner night. Although after all the stuff I put in it, I wonder how healthy it really is. Like feta. Isn't that fattening? But on the brighter side, there are raw veggies like green bell pepper, tomato and cucumber. 50% of what we eat on a daily basis is SUPPOSE to be raw. So I find myself trying harder and harder to not cook veggies. It's kinda sad how humans have managed to evolve into such a sophisticated being, but we seem to get dumber about the way we eat.

Fresh baked bread to go along with dinner. This took me a whole 5 minutes! Still can't get over the whole artisan bread in just 5 minutes a day. Love it!

My top off to a good day, a long day, but also a "here goes" to what I anticiate will be a very stressful week. Nothing like good chilled vodka, Kahlua and some trustee half n' half to make me a strong white russian...talk about bad health habits!

The other day I took Mia and we went into the Skagit Valley Food Co-Op. For those unfamiliar, this is a place to get top dollar, organic locally grown foods. It is by no means cheap. But they have a nice deli that has some awesome eats and treats, so Mia and I went in and got ourselves a piece of carrot cake. Last time I had this, a long long time ago, I remember thinking it was good. NOT this time! I was disappointed and thought back to the labor I put into a carrot cake last summer...I think I may need to get on that to cancel out the dry, tasteless cake I paid way too much for. Anyways, Mia still enjoyed the frosting and so we paid for our $5 a bottle pear juice that I needed for Isabel and left. That was sadly the first time I have left there a bit disappointed.

I'm getting ready to try making scratch pizza again. I'm trying a new dough recipe thats really good that I got from a friend at our last dinner party. Can't wait!