ice cream

First things first, I’m done housesitting so no more of these little guys:

Yesterday was Isaac’s first day back at home for good because he is done traveling to and from training. I’m excited to have him here from now on. As a treat I made homemade apple pie served with vanilla icecream. The apple pie turned out okay, but the crumble topping turned out to be less crumbly because as a good baker always does, I softened the butter… and not just soften for minute like I usually do, I let it sit out for about an hour so it was almost mushy. Too bad that with this particular crumb topping you should use your baking butter very hard (fresh from the fridge) to get the correct consistency. Oh well, it should still taste the same because it’s the same ingredients, just without the crumble. It’s my first time making this… as also demonstrated by the fact that I bought a graham cracker crust instead of a frozen pie crust because I didn’t read the directions carefully enough. So I had to return that to the grocery store mid way through the cooking process… don’t judge me on this one, I am going to make it again sometime and the crumble topping is going to work!

Here is a quote that goes along with the post because I love Little Miss Sunshine and ice cream

Frank: Actually Olive, ‘a la mode’ in French translates literally as ‘in the fashion.’ A la mode [French accent]. ‘Mode’ is derived from latin ‘modus’ do or proper–

Richard: Frank, shut up. Olive can I tell you a little something about ice-cream?

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Hope everyone had a great weekend. Here’s a recap from my Sunday afternoon/evening.

Left- over salmon salad for lunch. I love the details of the front tomato is this photo.

We basically lounged around the house all afternoon, besides going out to get ice-cream. I order a banana ice-cream with peanut butter. A great summer treat. And no worries it didn’t spoil my appetite, I was still hungry for dinner about 1 hour later. Dinner was kind of thrown together. Isaac had steak that needed to be eaten so he was planning on grilling that so I decided to have a veggie burger, this one is Amy’s California Veggie Burger – one of my favorites; although, it makes sense that it’s my fav considering it’s the only Amy’s veggie burger I have tried. I usually stick with Morning Star because they are cheaper and on sale more often. But what I like about this one is the texture – It’s more grainy than the Morning Star burgers, alas it does have more calories as well. I put the burger on an Ezekiel English muffin for a bun with ketchup, avocado, tomato, and baby spinach. We also had some grilled squash and tomatoes. I whipped up my version of:

Tabbouleh Salad

left over bulger
tomatoes
cucumber
chopped basil
a few chopped jalapenos (fresh from the garden.. no need to worry),
some squirts of lime juice
garlic powder
S&P

It tasted really fresh and delicious.

I thought for fun, if anyone is interested even slightly that I would post some of my favorite work out songs. I listen to my ipod at the gym and when I am running outside. I get the warnings from the avid runners here in the city that you shouldn’t run with head phones because of the traffic, but I like to have music to keep me pumped up while I run. So I try to turn it on a lower volume, but sometimes I can’t help it and I have to turn it up. I have a very eclectic taste in music as you will see: