Healthy Twists

Hey everyone! I’ve been working really hard on my freelance job this week and I have a bit of writer’s block right now. I’m taking tomorrow off work (well, off my “day job”) because I want to do some deep-cleaning in the condo and I know said cleaning won’t happen over the weekend. Anyway, hopefully I’ll have time to do some more work for the magazine tomorrow as well.

I don’t think I’ve talked about it too much, but I have started working with a publisher of a new magazine, putting together a local calendar events and other little stories for the premiere issue. I think when the first issue hits, it’ll be online as well so I’ll be sure and share it with you then!

That was long-winded. Sorry! It’s just one of those nights but I’m waiting until I can watch Grey’s (so into it again, yay!) so it was blog or raid the kitchen and since I’m not hungry, I decided that wasn’t smart.

I wanted to share a cool tip with you. Did you know that libraries have cookbooks? I didn’t know this until recently. I wanted to find some new crock pot recipes, as a way to have dinner waiting for me when I get home without asking Mitch to cook for me (which he’s done a fair bit lately, it’s been nice) or picking up food (which is expensive and usually less-than-healthy).

So I picked this up at the library, and I’m planning on photocopying the recipes that I want to make because I am cheap resourceful:

I know tons upon tons of recipes are online, but for me, there’s just something very trustworthy about a cookbook when trying out new recipes. I also picked up this:

I was on the waiting list for about 6 months to get it, and now that my name came up I decided to give it a read, even though I’m kind of over “dieting” and I seem to be doing ok designing my own workout plan.

Of course, if anything in that book gives me a hint on how to get those arms or that stomach, it might be worth a read. Although it probably will tell me to avoid most of the recipes in the slow-cooker book. As I said, I think the impeccably clean diet one needs to be “cut” like Jillian is just not something I’m interested in, right now. These days, I’m all eating about a variety of healthy, filling foods but not depriving myself either. Seems to be working for me, but I’m also limiting my weigh-ins to once a month (for my own sanity), so I don’t have that number validation (or punishment) which is liberating and scary at the same time.

(I wonder what the librarian thought when I checked these out. If I worked at a library, I would totally judge people’s book selections. Just as I would judge people if I was a cashier at a grocery store. I’m not alone in that…right?)

Have you ever checked out a cookbook from the library (or would you)? What’s your favorite cookbooks? Mine are Joy of Cooking and Veganomicon.

P.S. Ya’ll were right about my chocolate tofu pie. I brought it to work and got great reviews, and everyone said they never would have known it was made with tofu! I know my dad (and whoever else eats it) will love it and now I have a new dessert recipe! I’m already thinking about how some peanut butter could be incorporated in there somehow…

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