As I got out of my car last night and walked toward the house, I couldn’t figure out why my hamstrings felt like they were trying very hard to make me three inches shorter. It did not occur to me until this morning, when I remembered the two dozen or so of sun salutation B we did in the first part of the day.
We started assists yesterday, and I think I may have traumatized one of my classmates. When she pushed down on my back in child’s pose, my hip popped loudly, and she thought she broke me. I reassured her that I am an old lady and sometimes my hips do that and it doesn’t hurt at all, but I think I would have been just as alarmed had the situation been reversed.
But perhaps the best part of the day was that people liked my orbs:
Peanut Butter Orbs
(adapted from How It All Vegan*)
1 cup natural peanut butter
2/3 – 1/2 cup maple syrup
1 cup oat bran
1 cup sesame seeds
1/2 cup wheat germ
coconut
Mix the peanut butter and maple syrup until uniform. Throw in the other ingredients and mix until everything is a uniform sticky mass. Conglobate* the mixture and roll in coconut. Keep in fridge.
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*People rave about this cookbook and it’s always at the top of the list of cookbooks for new vegans. I don’t know why this is. It is stylish, yes, but the recipes are not well tested. The orbs, for example, call for using a food processor. I have an ok food processor, and there is NO WAY that I can use my food processor for this – the stuff way to thick and sticky. Outside of very basic recipes, like biscuits and pie crusts, there are very few recipes in the book that I haven’t had to modify considerably. It was the first vegan cookbook I bought and it was fine for me because I like modifying recipes, but were I not into that I probably would have been very frustrated. There are definitely some winners in the book, but why it’s at the top of everyone’s list is beyond me. I guess it was one of the first vegan cookbooks that wasn’t all sprouts and kale, but vegan cookbooks have come a LONG way since this was published, and there are far better ones out there.
**It’s the Merriam-Webster’s word of the day!
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