Seagan Eating Resource and Cookbook Review + Maple Almond Butter Caramel Corn Recipe

Seagan = A Seafood + Vegan Diet

One thing that I've toyed with over the years is following a pescetarian diet (basically a vegetarian who eats fish and seafood). I could probably be loyal to it if it weren't for my love of bacon. I'd miss steak and carnitas, too. But I think I could swing it if I tried. But a seagan diet takes it one step further by eliminating all animal food sources except fish and seafood. Bacon is one thing, but take away my cheese and you'll be inviting fisticuffs.

Maple Almond Butter

Last year for Mother's Day, I shared some Lavender Shortbread Cookies that were inspired by my mom's dreams of running a lavender farm. This year, I decided to go in a slightly different direction and share something I love for Mother's Day. I mean, I'm a mom - so that's okay, right?

It's something that (in my house) I, and I alone, love: almond butter. That's a good thing and a bad thing all wrapped into one little glass jar. It's good because that means I don't have to go thorugh the experience of craving some, and then going to grab the jar only to realize that it's no longer there. Because somebody else ate it all and didn't tell me so I could replace it.  It's bad for the exact same reason. It's there waiting for me to eat it. All. Every single time I walk by and spy it on the shelf or in the fridge. Oh, let me grab a spoon...

Really. I do that. It's entirely addictive. But in all fairness, I do the same thing with cookie butter. And chocolate hazelnut spread. Apparently I enjoy eating expensive spreadable things from a jar.

Heather eats Almond Butter...and so does Heather.

store-bought on the left, homemade on the right...

I was recently "tagged" on one of those Facebook chain-type notes. The title of it was My Life according to Google. For those of you who don't have a Facebook account (there are still some people who don't, right), it basically works like a chain email letter. Once you've been tagged, you copy the note, open up a new note and paste it in, then erase the first person's answers and insert your own. Then of course, you "tag" your friends and hope they'll tag you back, etc etc...

In this particular note, you enter your first name in the Google search bar followed by another word (given) and your answer is the first response that scrolls up automatically, or if nothing pops up, then you click I feel lucky and use what shows up there. Most of these made me laugh or were pretty cute. Some of my answers were:

Heather needs a childhood.....Heather looks like Hollywood actresses.....Heather will say if you're a pain in the butt.....Heather says vote...