Mini Cupcakes and CinnaMini Chili

Happy Meatless Monday! And Happy Thanksgiving to all my fellow Canadians!

I got up early today! At 8:30am!  I know some of you crazy people get up at 7am or even *gasp* 6am, but this is an accomplishment for me!

I have tons to do today! Most of it involves studying but I have a bunch of other stuff on top of that!

So moving right along. Eats from yesterday included:

Irish banana oats, topped with a medjool date and some crunchy almond butter. With a side of Times Digest (a nine-page synopsis of The New York Times).
I mean, who has time to read a whole newspaper

Midday I did a 1.5 hour power yoga class. Intense. And amazing. I <3 yoga.

Lunch was some un-pictured Lean Green Mac and Cheese with whole wheat noodles, spinach and zucchini.

I had a hardcore sweet tooth afterward so I decided to venture out and try some of the renowned Baked by Melissa mini cupcakes.

[source]

Baked By Melissa, is a tiny little hole in the wall (literally) on Spring St. off Broadway that sells incredible miniature cupcakes.

There are 9 flavours of tiny stuffed cupcakes. And the line to get them is always super long.

I got 6 to share with the bf: 2 red velvet, cookies and cream, cookie dough, peanut butter cup and s’mores.

They are actually the size of a quarter:

So teeny.

BUT SO DELICIOUS! Little bites of heaven. I don’t even want to know what goes into those. They are decadent.

For dinner I made Vegetarian Chili based off of a recipe in one of my new favourite cookbooks.

But of course, I had to screw it up. The recipe called for 1.5 tablespoons of chili powder. Well, my chili powder happens to look QUITE similar to my cinnamon.

So you can guess what happened. Cinnamon Chili! I thought it was totally ruined. But I kept at it…. I added a bit more chili powder than was called for and upped some of the herbs to balance it out.

And… it turned out Delicious!

My bowl with a dollop of Fage. I also put a mini sprinkling of goat gouda but you can’t really see it.

Looks good huh? Want the recipe?

Okay HERE it is. I suggest sticking with the original amounts, and not mistakenly adding an extra tablespoon of cinnamon… but whatever floats your boat.

Off to tackle the day. Be back later with some interesting healthy food news straight from my hometown!