It was so beautiful outside last night!
The sky was so clear, but it was –23C last night!
Eric and I sat by the fire all night and watched some shows.
Today is a Very Important Day!
I am taking a day off work today, which has not happened since Dec 28th 2009!!!!! The past week and a half was especially crazy as I made and shipped out over 1600 Glo Bars.
I was up at 6:45am this morning because I was so excited and couldn’t sleep! :mrgreen:
So far my day off has included a wonderful fresh juice and Japanese Sencha Green Tea.
This was followed by another killer Booty Camp Fitness workout!
Today I did the Phase 2 Intermediate session which was 43 minutes long. I am just loving these workout DVDs so much. The girls are so down to earth and do not intimidate me in the way many fitness instructors do. They are goofy and just plain old fun to watch!
Here I am with the No Meat Athlete Tee that Matt sent me! Thanks Matt!
I had some carrot juice pulp to use up so I decided to whip up a new muffin recipe.
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15 min
25 min
40 min
9 big or 12 small muffins
Ingredients
- Dry:
- 2 cups spelt flour (See note below)
- 3 T sugar (I used sucanat, but regular works)
- 1.5 t pumpkin spice (or mix of 1 t cinnamon and 1/4 t. each of nutmeg and ginger)
- 1/4 t sea salt
- 2 t baking powder
- 1/2 t baking soda
- 2 T cacao nibs for crunch and nutrition
- 3 T raisins
- Wet:
- 2 T chia seeds (or 2 T ground flax)
- 1/2 c + 2 T non-dairy milk
- 1 cup shredded carrot (I used 1/2 cup juice pulp + 1/2 cup shredded carrot)
- 1.5 t vanilla
- 1/4 c maple syrup
- 1 cup sweetened applesauce (or 1 cup mashed banana will work)
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
- Mix wet ingredients together in a medium sized bowl and add wet to dry, mixing until combined.
- Spoon into greased muffin tin.
- Cook for 25 – 27 min.
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chia seeds and Navitas Naturals Cacao Nibs:
Into the oven they go…
They rose so well!
One of our favourite things to do on the weekend is look through the flyers! Yes, we are an 80 year old married couple. :mrgreen:
What are your weekend rituals that you love to do?
The rest of the day looks like this:
- Epsom Salt bath (my bootay is killing me!)
- Yoga
- Plan Florida Trip with Eric
- Indigo book store
- Lululemon
- Raw Aura restaurant
- Movie- we planned on Avatar in Imax but it’s sold out again, so we might see another one- suggestions??
Have a great day!
We caught the Blue Moon on our ride home from Sedona. It was amazing. Enjoy your day off and those muffins look amazing. I wish I could have one for breakfast!
These look amazing! Never enough ways to use my superfoods!
Enjoy your well deserved DAY OFF Sweets!! :) xoxo
If you like post-apocalyptic stories go see Book of Eli with Denzel Washington. Good movie! Great muffin recipe by the way!
I LOVE looking at newspaper flyers!
The carrot muffins looks great!
Enjoy your day!!! You deserve it!
Hi Angela, you got a beautiful picture of the moon there. My Husband informs me that you have also captured Mars because it is currently aligned with the Earth!
Enjoy your day off!
That’s awesome! I think I can see it in the picture.
I need to get some more work-out DVDs for days just like this! (Snowed in)
Your muffins look really good. They remind me of carrot cake :)
Enjoy our day off!! It’s WELL DESERVED! You work so hard. Annnd jealous of your Lululemon excursion…I’m going to walk by the one in Boston today — but I know I can’t go in..for fear of impulsive purchases. haha
Carrot cake is my favorite food in the whole wide world so those muffins look right up my alley!!!
I LIVE for the ads in the paper. I used to read comics with my brother but now it’s all about the Target ad and coupons :)
ENJOY YOUR DAY OFFFFF!!
oh so jealous you might go see avatar! i can’t get my husband to enjoy sci-fi type movies…so i doubt i’ll see this til it’s on DVD :(
love the muffins, and hope you have a fabulous day off :)
You will have to post what you buy from Lululemon – I have been eyeing a pair of running shorts!
Looks like you have a nice day planned. Hope you enjoy it!
Those muffins look fantastic!
We saw Avatar in iMax 3D last night – it was awesome! Except I had 4 martinis before hand, and I definitely got motion sick. But I would highly suggest seeing it in 3D!! Other than that, Sherlock Holmes was really good.
These sound like just my kind of muffin–all ingredients that I love! I wonder if I could adapt this to something for the anti-candida diet. . . hmmm!!
Now that I’ve tried two of your recipes, I feel like I need to try them all this one looks particularly delicious!!
I liked It’s Complicated if you haven’t seen that yet. It’s good for both men and women :)
the movie “The Book of Eli” is GREAT! you should go see that!
Beatufiul muffins!!! Enjoy your day off– you deserve it!
Your pictures are so pretty! I live in a city and the one thing I really miss is seeing stars at night.
Wowza that’s a lot of bars to bake and ship!! Those muffins look fantastic!
Enjoy your day OFF! Flyers on Saturday are the BEST!
Diana
P.S. When is Eric going to update his blog? I’m dying to see home renos!
Those muffins look awesome. Hope you’re having a GREAT day off!
I love looking at the new flyers as well! The day they come in the paper I throw the paper aside and go straight for the goods! :)
I’m kinda dying to see “When in Rome” with Kristen Bell I think it is and Josh Duhamel (not sure if I spelled that right). Something about it just looks good and I love chick flicks:)
Raw Aura restaurant is awesome! You are coming to my neck of the woods today enjoy it is beautiful and sunny out.
-23? Brrr! Have a great day off!
Enjoy your day off, you deserve it! My fiance owns his own business as well, and NEVER takes a day off…everyone needs a break, so enjoy it!
Just curious if you could just order the DVD for the Booty Camp Fitness. I went to the website and it seemed as though the DVD was part of a total fitness package.
Enjoy your day off! You absolutely deserve it!
those muffins look sooooo scrumptious and nutritious. i also really like the photos, detailed and big, just the way i like ’em.
i love flyers too! my boyfriend and i spent like 2 hours going through them last night and getting all worked up when we saw ballin’ deals.
enjoy your day off and resist the urge to do productive things. :)
Looks like you have an awesome day planned!
Enjoy your day! Those muffins look fantastic. I have not cooked with the chia seeds yet. I keep seeing more recipes that call for them though.
Have a great day off!
Husband and I call each other grandma and grandpa during our Sunday morning ritual, which is to sit and read the paper while drinking coffee together :) Oh and you know I clip coupons and look at all the ad flyers!
Those muffins do look wonderful! Did you use white or whole spelt flour with these? I’ve also been wondering, is white spelt flour still a whole grain? Or is it refined and processed like regular white flour?
I always use whole grain, even when recipes call for white spelt..lol. Its the only kind I buy so I use it!
Enjoy your special day, Ange – You’ve earned it and then some! I can’t think of a better way to spend it…lulu, hubby, great food, juice, yoga, Mr. Epsom…BLISS! :)
I’ll be making those muffins this weekend! Thanks for another great recipe!
Sounds like an awesome day off Ang! My brother just gave a great review on The Edge Of Darkness, but i say see Avatar if at all possible.
Sounds like a perfect Saturday! You deserve a day off!
Those muffins sound yummy. There’s been lot of muffins around the blog world lately, I’ve noticed.
Lululemon! How lucky are you!
I enjoy a leisurely breakfast on Saturdays and a good workout. Homework has lately become part of my Saturdays… which is not so fun haha
The muffins look fantastic! I love Saturdays- enjoy your day off!
Honestly, your muffins give me hope for vegan baking. I failed once have never been brave enough to try again! I’m a great baker, but vegan baking is hard for me!
Let’s see, I usually have my long run of the week on Saturdays, then a little cleaning, then a lot of cuddling with the hubby. He is gone for the next 3 month though, I have been working on school. I love getting up and making pancakes too!
Avatar is really cool in 3-D! I hope you get to see it sometime soon! My husband and I recently saw Sherlock Holmes and Edge of Darkness– both were really great!
Hope you enjoy your day off. :)
Those muffins look outstanding! I live about an hour from my boyfriend so my favorite weekend ritual is going to happy hour (or having our own glass at home) on a Friday evening and catching up about our week!
I just saw Avatar yesterday and it was awesome–but I wish I’d seen it in Imax, so definitely worth waiting on that one!
I love (and need) my Saturday sleep-in time. I still end up getting up around 8 or 9, but I never set the alarm….
My Saturday rituals usually include: cooking with my parents, visiting the health food store, and catching up on my favorite DVR’d tv shows! All of which I did today, haha =)
It sounds like you have a wonderful day planned!! I loved Avatar!! “Up in the Air” is really good, and “Blindside” is supposed to be awesome.
The moon was so beautiful last night! I thought the same thing when I looked out my window. It was so bright out!
Enjoy your day of. Yeesh! 1600 Glo bars…you deserve it, girl!
I love how fluffy and high your muffins are. The sound delish!
I thought The Blindside was a really good movie. It’s not really your typical sports flick. I think you would really like it.
All your muffin recipes look so good!
Enjoy that day off Angela!!! So well deserved. :)
My favorite rituals include staying in my pj’s until noon, eating breakfast in bed or venturing out to our fav brunch place.
Dude, see Avatar in 2-d! Less of a headache.
Oh my gosh that night time picture is awesome. Love it.
Those muffins sound ridiculously good. I make carrot juice all the time, so the next time I make it (tomorrow?!) I’ll def save it for some muffins :)
Wow you work SO hard, Angela. You totally deserve the day off. Get in some rest, too ;)
I will be trying those muffins starting tomorrow! They look so irresistible in those pictures! One the weekends I LOVE to curl up and read, maybe go out to a restaurant or two, and I like to take different workout classes too!
That is a well earned day off! Enjoy!
I like to get in a long run on the weekend and do something fun with the hubby! Last weekend was cross country skiing :)
you should take two days off :)