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I’m not someone who pushes their beliefs or habits onto other people, for the record I think that kind of stuff is just hopelessly boring. I also have no interest in becoming a food blogger, but when I posted and tweeted about our split kitchen the one big question I got back was definitely: “….thanks for the vague bullet points but seriously, HOW do you manage?!” and in posting about my vegan challenge there have been a lot more questions.
Being vegetarian has always been pretty easy for me, especially since it’s what I grew up with, but over the past year I’ve gone from being a healthy vegetarian who watches her protein and vitamins to a carb-etarian who lives on potatoes and pasta. I’ve tried to be healthier, I participated in a six week health blogging challenge and focused on making progress with my habits. But all winter I knew that how I was eating wasn’t healthy, and I had to get back to viewing my healthy vegetarian eating as something fun and manageable instead of as a hassle.
I guess it must say something about me that instead of making cookies I’ve started to opt for 3 hour long multi-phase weekend projects…but being that soon The Prairies will start to bake and crack like clay in the sun, my days where I can play over the stove and live to tell about it are limited. I’m trying to take advantage before cooking on the stove will give me heat stroke.
I love making simple, old fashioned food – almost as much as I love simple, old fashioned stories, houses, people, and cities. I live in a 100 year old home, what can you expect? So the pleasure of straight forward comfort food is never lost on me, and neither is the indulgence of eating anything that involves home made dough when it’s still warm from the pot.
Recipe after the jump…
{images: by me}
This weekend was entirely a whirlwind – between cupcake baking, cleaning the house within an inch of its life, making crepe flower pins to help with re-stocking my etsy store, puppy management, and browsing the job sites for my dream job (as yet to be determined)….
Well, the weekend kind of evaporated out from under me, in as dreamy a way as that’s possible.
{chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing}
{my new flower pins}
This weekend was…
The week after we moved into our home in July our washer and dryer were delivered to replace what you see at stage right there (far left). And they didn’t fit in our basement. We put re-purchasing off, calling it a savings, until last week Mister informed me that the old dryer in the basement had moved into the Denial stage of grieving and, while it wouldn’t admit it was dying, was now taking FOUR HOURS to bring our clothes to 75% dry.
I believe on the information superhighway, we call that a “fail”.
I'm Kyla- a twenty something web designer & full time creative business owner, friendly introvert, thrifting addict & vegetarian foodie. I live in a tiny house with my husband Jesse and very small (very bad!) dogs, and am passionate about handmade, living simply, organization and making my time stretch so I can fill it with all the projects I have whirling around my mind.
This is my personal blog where I share stories from my life, lessons I'm learning through living with GAD, being self employed, results from my kitchen, and inspiration that makes me swoon.
