It was completely amazing to see you guys supporting Shop 4 A Cause 2 so much. I was basically glued to my desk all day long updating bids! It was intense, exhausting, thrilling, and inspiring.
It should also be mentioned that many of your bidding war emails cracked me up. Many a ‘muhuahuahua’s’ were said. Evil cackles and ‘Aw hell no’s’ were frequent.
I may have also added fuel to the fire… (‘Are you really going to stand for this!?’) :angel:
We raised a whopping $3,110 for cancer in just 13 hours!!!!!!!!!! We greatly surpassed my goal of $2,500!
Thank you all so much!!!! I am forever grateful for your generosity. :heart: Today and tomorrow, I will go through all of the payment emails and connect the winners to the item donors. Winners (on this page) please direct your payment to my online donation page. Please email me ([email protected]) when you have completed your donation. Also please let me know the item name and number you paid for. Thank you!!!
At 10pm, I sat in front of the computer and celebrated with strange picture poses. Inspired by the bidders, I muhauhauha- ha-ha-hawed.
Eric played along, sighing and eye rolling, with each photograph, like any husband would. (I know he secretly loves it though.)
Then we celebrated with copious amounts of the 3 Ingredient homemade chocolate covered raisins (batch #2).
Every time we eat these we claim obnoxiously, ‘I CAN’T BELIEVE HOW GOOD THESE ARE.’ over and over. It’s almost ridiculous how good they taste.
Bed.
I proceeded to stare at the ceiling for 2 hours. I felt like I was jacked up on Red Bull. I think I finally dozed off around 2am.
I woke up with an auction hangover and decided that a wheatgrass shot would help…
Then, I had my banana soft serve vegan overnight oats and all was well in the world again.
We continue to have a HEAT WAVE in Southern Ontario (yesterday hit 34C!), so these cold, mouth-watering parfaits have been consumed in mass quantities over here.
They will definitely be a summer staple along with Green Monsters!
The recipe I used is here, however I added something fun to the mix- Nature’s Path GF Rice Crisp Cereal (on top). It adds a splendid crunch!
My banana soft serve didn’t turn out exactly as it should have though. I froze a really brown, brown, brown (aka mushy) banana and it didn’t freeze well. When I tried to process it, it did not process smooth, but more so chunky and icy. To make matters worse, it also tasted bad! Moral of the story- sometimes brown bananas are too brown, at least for banana soft serve! I managed to choke it down though… :whistle:
As I mentioned, I shot a video last week of how to make the Banana Soft Serve Vegan Overnight Oats. Well, it turns out that I blab way too much so I’m working on cutting it down and will upload it today. I’m a Chatty Cathy when it comes to food I guess.. :biggrin:
Spotted:
I’ll be back with a lunchtime post this afternoon. Have a great day!
Wow!! What an amazing accomplishment.
That is so fabulous, Ange! Congrats on raising that much!
wow, way to go! I love how supportive everyone is for things like these!
Just a question for you, Angela. Is there a reason you sometimes eat gluten free (Mary’s crackers, Nature’s Path rice crisps…) or do you simply eat these products because they are mighty tasty? I LOVE Mary’s crackers!
P.S. I too was constantly refreshing my OSG page ALL day yesterday. My boyfriend is certain that I love OSG more that I love him. Not true…but it is an addiction. ;-)
Ahh so you are why my page views went way up…! ;-)
I just love Mary’s Crackers…I don’t eat them cuz they are GF, but I do love that they don’t contain flour and only contains seeds and rice. It is a nice change from all the flour based products we have in this world.
wah-hoo!! So exicing how much you raised!!
Congratulations on raising so much!
Have you ever tried tempering the chocolate for your raisins? It results in a shiny, professional-looking result. Worth playing around with!
No I have not, but DO TELL! =)
Here’s a simple tutorial for tempering chocolate. You can find lots of helpful guides all over the internet, but I think this one explains things very clearly:
http://allrecipes.com/howto/tempering-chocolate/detail.aspx
and here’s a more scientific explanation of the process:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate#Tempering
Wowowow! $3k FANTASTIC!! Congrats :)
Those chocolate covered raisins look so good.
Jenn
Congrats on raising a boatload of money!! The blog world is so amazing, isn’t it?
Yes it is…amazing!
Hi Angela,
I tried the chocolate covered raisins (using melted coconut butter) and they are fabulous. They really taste like those we had when we were children, with no weird ingredient in them. I also tried it with dried cranberries, it was OK but I preferred with raisins.
Thanks for another quick and easy revisited recipe with a healthy twist!
Glad you liked them and tks for the tip about the cranberries. We also tried it with almonds and did not like the result as much- at least for this quick and dirty method!
Amazing!!! Inspiring!!!!
Congrats!! What an amazing accomplishment! Such an inspiration, as always :-)
Great job with the fundraising! And what a great cause
Ahh! Amazing!! What a great donation!!
That is so awesome! I love how you can really reach out to people in the blog world. I can’t wait to get going on over night oats again. It’s cold, rainy and just gross here and so I have to have my typical oats to warm me up.
that’s a great accomplishment!=) Congrats!
34’c is hot, here in my part of the world, it’s 38’c=)
Congratulations Angela, you are amazing!! What a great event for a great cause :)
you’re so cute…i love the pictures of you by the computer! i didn’t realize that frozen bananas for a lot of people’s treats were brown…i typically use ripe ones, but it makes sense to let them brown more and let the sugars develop!
That confirms it, brown bananas can only lead to banana bread!
I’m so glad your auction went well. It was fun to watch online too!
Congrats on the successful auction!!!
I’m glad Shop 4 A Cause is going so well!!
I agree on the bananas…I’ve tried “salvaging” brown bananas by freezing them only to discover: yup, they’re still bad in their frozen state