Veganize!

Today I attempted to veganize traditional recipes for the first time. I can follow a recipe and things turn out, but I have problems creating my own food and having it taste good. My dear husband has that talent. But I needed to create something to take to a book club meeting this weekend, and the theme is Hawaiian Brunch. So out comes a cookbook we bought in Maui four years ago and haven't touched. In it, I found a mango breakfast cake (like coffee cake) and some pineapple bran muffins. Traditional, of course. Out comes egg replacers and soy-based sour cream (for the mango cake). Both are currently cooling on the stove, ready to be tried tonight to make sure they're good before I serve them to people outside the immediate family. They smell good and look good, so hope is there.

Today was a 3 mile run, though I only went 2.8 because I also took a kickboxing class over my lunch. The kickboxing class left me cranky, but the run was wonderful! It was around 65 degrees so I could run in a tank top (this small thing has a big impact on my mental state), and it was sunny. That also means Green Lake was completely nutty and I probably ran more than 2.8 miles due to dodging people and dogs, but its nice to see all the people out and about. Plus, there was a young corgi out for a walk with it's people. Those dogs are so cute.

Tomorrow is the spinning, strength training, yoga combo class. I have a feeling after all this exercise I'm going to be ravenous this weekend. For tonight, at least, I have breakfast food to sample.