so last night taco bell still sounded so good, but instead i decided to try making chili. believe it or not i have never made it before. it was so easy and delicious! justin will be excited when he gets home to have a new meal for dinners!

1 15 oz can of black beans

1 15 ounce can crushed tomatoes pureed

1 small onion chopped and pureed

2 cloves of garlic finely minced

2 tbsp chili powder

and some left over shredded chicken

i just threw it all in a pot for 20 minutes to simmer! adding cilantro would have made it even better, but i did not have any. the reason i pureed the onion and tomatoes is simply because neither justin nor i like tomatoes or onions chunky in chili. but the flavor is still there from the onion making it so good.

dahlia and valen didnt want anything to do with it. that is one of the hard things with meals around here. sometimes i dont want what they are having or vise versa, so most of the time i end up making two or three different things. 

i really dont care for most crock pot meals or casseroles and that is a shame since they would be so easy to do, i guess i make it harder on myself than it needs to be!

the nausea soon followed after i discovered i was pregnant. i think i will call it "24 hour sickness". it seems to be a constant queeziness all of the time, even when i wake up in the middle of the night. because of this, eating is fairly difficult. nothing sounds good most of the time, especially meat! so dinners have been kind of sad around here and i bet justin is glad to be in california for a week and eat some real food! (=

tonight i really wanted to go to taco bell. a homemade burrito sounded just so gross to me, but taco bell sounded lovely. BUT i am too lazy now a days also, so i didnt go. i ended up making pancakes with ground almonds and blueberries, they were stupendous!

i wrote last year about a great pancake recipe but this one is a bit different. 

2/3 cup whole wheat flour

1/3 cup all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 egg

1 cup of milk

 topped with ground almonds, blueberries and real maple syrup.

 i found that using a lot of baking powder makes them seem more like white fluffy pancakes, if you arent used to whole wheat flour this makes them easier to handle. but honestly i prefer whole wheat flour, much more filling.

this didnt satisfy the taco bell craving... maybe tomorrow night.

when we first moved here i found out quickly that there was no trader joes or wild oats... and no buffalo exchange. there actually isnt really many great places to shop in olympia at all for anything really. the only thing so far that i like is World Market and there are a few local antique shops that are groovy.

today i headed up to tacoma with a friend to hit up their trader joes there. while i was checking out i mentioned to the cashier that we were from olympia, she followed that up with, oh we are bringing one there this year!! hooray hooray! so overjoyed about this! i think i stocked up enough to last me till the summer so we should be fine till they open it(= 

isnt trader joes the best!!?