tea tree oil is making me blind...and ani phyo is my new bestie...

jokes! although it is making my eyes water quite a bit...i find it pretty fumy...

anyways...sorry i've been MIA...my excuse or (ahem) explanation is that by the end of the day i can barely see...my eyesight is pretty bad...i'll be picking up my eyeglasses sometime this week...so it should be a little easier for me to focus and blog properly...in case you're all wondering, yes the screen is VERY, EXTREMELY blurry right now...and it has been for months...but i'm trying...i feel like such an old fart...

today i said "see ya later" to my almost father in law...he is going to ukraine for a few months...and i got pretty emotional...i always do...not sure why though. he is coming back. and i will see him in a couple of months, and he will be having a fabulous time...i'm such an emotional gal...i wear my heart on my sleeve and i cry just about every two minutes...again, jokes!!! to be honest with all of you, i am such a suck. that is the best way to describe it. or my heart is just extremely soft. one of the two. anyone else extremely emotional? or am i a rarity?

i picked up ani phyo's new book this weekend, who hasn't? and i am in love...it is such a fabulous, informative and easy to follow uncook book...it truly is a raw food essential...anyone interested in raw vegan food needs this book...i think it's one of the best i have come across (hands down)!

i've made a couple of her recipes thus far, and this may surprise all of you, considering the amount of desserts i have been producing as of late, i stuck to the more savory recipes...but, don't you fear, i will be posting some raw vegan dessert porn in the next few days...also, i do have a batch of moon pies setting in my freezer right now...so you see, i am still a dessert girl at heart...

first up...coconut bacon...i followed the recipe exactly, except i subbed dried chipotle peppers, which i reconstituted and made into a paste to replace liquid smoke...and i also added a touch of hungarian paprika...







it's still in the dehydrator...i can, however, tell you that the marinade was VERY tasty...also in the dehydrator are a few hemp sun burgers...(i only made one change, that was replacing flax with chia seeds)...





i'll leave you with a picture of my breakfast for tomorrow...a very simple strawberry mango crumble...



have a beautiful night my friendlies...

p.s. one of my favourite girls is having a fabulous giveaway...this is one contest YOU need to check out...

p.p.s. there will be a pretty fantastic giveaway in this area in a few days...so stay tuned...can you guess what the giveaway is???

sweet dreams...