Sir Paul McCartney "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls.."

Batman playing guitar

Batman is awesome; Batman playing guitar is even more awesome! That is all!

Beautiful ES137

Check out this gorgeous guitar! The top on this thing is beautiful, and the color is amazing! Slap a bigsby on that sucker and it's over!

Vegan Chick'n Veggie Pasta

This is a dish we make often because it is so easy to make. It's great for lunch or for a light dinner.

Ingredients:
Pasta - Penne is great or a vegetable fettucini
Light life Smart Strips "chicken"
Broccoli
Grape tomatoes
1/2 tbsp Oregano
1/3 cup Olive Oil
1 tbsp of Chopped Garlic

Super Easy Directions:
Cook pasta as directed
Steam the broccoli for 5-6 min.
Cook the Smart Strips, olive oil, grape tomatoes, garlic and oregano in a large sauce pan over medium heat for 8-10 minutes. Add the broccoli when it has finished steaming and cook for a few more minutes.

Excited about this! Forks over Knives

Junk Food Vegan

On Peta's website there is a page called accidentally vegan. This is a list of a grip of foods you can find at most every grocery store that are vegan. The most interesting items listed are those that are junk food and people would assume since they are not healthy there is no way they can be vegan. Making your vegan diet centered around these foods would not be a good idea, however, vegans can have junk food too right? As of recently, I'm trying to take a step back and take a more natural approach to my vegan diet. I've been researching the raw vegan diet a bit, and it made me take a step back and reflect on how much of a junk food vegan I had become. With that said, I believe that vegans can have awesome junk food or couch potato cuisine, and "pig out" like the rest of the good ol' US of A. (No offense meant to pigs in the last sentence.) Here is a list of my favorite, shockingly vegan* items as listed from Peta's website:
(*some of the items listed on Peta's site actually have trace amounts of animal derived ingredients and you should investigate a bit deeper before diving on in.)




Cereals

• Cap'n Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch
• Frosted Flakes
• Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs
• Rice Krispies
• Trix
• Fruit Loops

Snacks

• Airheads
• Blow Pops
• Big League Chew
• Brach's Orange Slices
• Bubble Tape Gum
• Cracker Jacks
• Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili Flavored Tortilla Chips
• Dots
• Fireballs
• Fritos BBQ & Original
• Fruit By the Foot
• Chocolove chocolate bars (asst. flavors)
• Ghirardelli Twilight Delight Intense Dark
• Hubba Bubba Gum
• Jolly Ranchers
• Jujubees
• Keebler Vienna Fingers
• Keebler Club Crackers
• Krispy Kreme Fruit Pies
• Lays Potato Chips
• Mary Janes
• Oreos (asst. flavors)
• Golden Oreos
• Peanut Butter Oreos
• Teddy Grahams (Chocolate & Cinnamon)
• Now & Later
• Ritz Crackers
• Sour Patch Kids
• Swedish Fish

Baked Goods:

• Thomas New York Style Bagels (asst. flavors)
• Dutch Country Soft Potato Bread
• Cobblestone Mill Rolls (asst. flavors)

There is way more than that listed on the site, so check it out! Being vegan, you also become a major label reader in the grocery store. I recommend checking the label on items you are curious on and then researching the crazy ingredients they have listed. You might be surprised how many companies use soy instead of milk or have plant derived mono- & di- glycerides. 

Now go get your Junk Food on!

Testing iBlogger app

iBlogger App

This is an update using iBlogger. It's supposed to allow you to add captions to photos you post. We will see how easy this is to use. The first thing I already do not like about this app is it doesn't capitalize the first word in a new sentence automatically. The photo features seem pretty awesome, but you cannot upload more than 1 photo per blog post.

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]