My summer is one-third over and I have very few pictures to show for it. I have hopped on the Green Monster bandwagon and now am slightly obsessed. While I am waiting for my paycheck to go in, I have been making little lists of all the fancy ingredients that would make for suped-up, dazzling versions of my current Green Monster. I don't have any pictures of the ones I have made, but that's okay because you all know what GM's look like anyway. Just imagine a bright green smoothie and we're good.

Ever since I tried the Maple-Pecan Sticky Blondies from Eat, Drink & Be Vegan, blondies have been my favorite dessert to make -- yes, even before our beloved VeggieGirl made vegan blondies famous.

For this batch of good old fashioned Chocolate Chip Blondies, I adapted Nicole's adaptation of the VG recipe. VeggieGirl's recipe calls for non-dairy yogurt, which is expensive and not commonly in my fridge, but Nicole, in quite genius fashion, just substitutes a mix of non-dairy milk and apple cider vinegar for the yogurt.

In standard Eat Live Run fashion, I hastily froze the hot-outta-the-oven blondie batch and had yummy frozen blondie squares to filch from the freezer all week long. Glorious!

I went on a last minute trip last weekend and was finally able to get my hands on a pint of hemp milk ice cream -- Mint Chip to be precise, of the Tempt line by Living Harvest. 'Twas fab, but Purely Decadent's (with coconut milk) Mint Chip wins the mint award, over Tempt and over Mint Galactica by the Coconut Bliss people; however, I am confident that I shall find true love when I try the chocolate and coffee flavors of Tempt.

My thoughts on Tempt? It starts off tasting like "normal" dairy mint ice cream, but the finish and aftertaste sweetens up and is very unique. I think this is when the hemp comes through. I wish this were sweetened with agave instead of sugar, and I also would have liked the chocolate bits to be bigger. Big fat chocolate cookie bits mixed in would have been nice too, but then again, the name of the ice cream is mint chip, not mint chocolate cookie bit, so it's not like cookie tidbits were promised or anything.

Hmmm, maybe I should start taking pictures of my real food? Or maybe I should start eating things that are actually interesting? Or maybe I have been notorious lately for being lazy and eating my meals from the Whole Foods salad bar and being too scared to whip out my camera in their seating area? I have been working 6 days a week, so that is one of my excuses... And soon I shall reveal what exactly I am doing at my place of employment, so stay tuned - I won't be straying too far from blogworld this time!

Have a fabulous Thursday!