Good food, good times

Bibi's first time making a finger licking version of Eggs Benedict

Yes, Jeremy finished the whole tray for breakfast

Although unassuming looking, this spelt crepe rocks! Bibi had it with almond butter and jam.

Our princess requested her fave egg sandwich. She loved it!

Our Labor LABOR INTENSIVE weekend! It was so much FUN!

Hitting the tracks on Saturday night. What a blast!

It'd been a really long time since Bibi had "raced." It was lots of fun!

Homemade popsicles of almond chocolate milk. Yum!

Life is good!

Starting the birthday celebrations early

Brianna's birthday is coming up next week. Her birthday party will be this coming Sunday. However, she's been asking Mommy for "chipas," everyday for about two weeks. So tonight was the night! We made chipas together, a week before her actual birthday, to "kick off" the celebrations.

Brianna is a great little helper and she helped every step of the way, including rolling her own tiny "chipas." These are traditional Paraguayan and Argentinian cheese balls made with tapioca flour. We make them with vegan cheese and they are still super delicious!
Especially in the winter time, Bibi's Mom used to make "chipas" from scratch and serve them with hot chocolate. The fragrance of fresh cheese bread and chocolate proved irresistible to Bibi from a very young age. It's always evoked the warmth of good family times while it's cold out. Guess Brianna has captured this family tradition too! It's exciting!

We're back!

We've had some computer problems lately and couldn't post for a while ... but we were busy nonetheless! All three of us made our first cake of 2009, a Vegan Blueberry Coffee Cheesecake. Brianna loved helping out!

Top chefs

The finished product ... super delicious!

More domestic adventures ...

Here we're again in the kitchen trying new recipes. Brianna is sampling the tofu chocolate frosting that will cover the vanilla cake Mommy just made to celebrate baby sis' soon arrival (and obvious pregnancy craving!). She actually wanted to have ALL the frosting to herself! Daddy had to quickly put it away in the fridge!

The finished product next to the flowers Daddy got for Mommy, also to celebrate. Bibi made a wheat-free, sugar-free, flavorFUL cake that we shared with friends. Healthy can be really yummy!

Amee gave Brianna a toy iron and she Bri had a lot of fun ironing her blanket and pretending the iron was really hot! She's actually very helpful around the house and we hope to keep it that way!

Ammee's house is just so FUN!!

Last Friday Bri had a blast at Ammee's house doing a lot of things. Pictured below are cranberry cookies in the making!

Yeah, the batter is so yummy! (there were no eggs in the mix, though)

Bri and Ammee having tea and cranberry cookies. Ammee mentioned how our princess had "the proper manners to go with a high class tea party ..."

The fun things you get to do with a little girl! Guess the fun will double very soon!!!

The snack of the season

Is that time a year again! Time to make Daddy's fave seasonal snack: roasted and salted pumpkin seeds. Daddy & Bri worked really hard at cutting the pumpkin and getting all the seeds out and Mommy later roasted the "meat" with yummy spices.

The seeds ready to go into the oven ... Brianna is having a BLAST!!

And while the roasting happened, Brianna got all cleaned up and ready to hit the sack. She LOVED the roasted seeds!