Sunflower Power

Our house is always well stocked with da goodies! The first thing that came out of my mouth when I got home was….‘kaboooooochaaaaa!’

My daddy-o sure knows how to make me happy .

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Last night was the Duke vs. UNC Basketball Game. THE game that hundreds of students slept countless freezing cold nights in tents to watch live.

Since I’ve been a Dukie, we’ve won a couple times at UNC but never home at Duke, in Cameron Stadium. I actually had a terrible nightmare on Friday night that we lost by 1 point. I didn’t want to say anything out loud to jinx it!

Finally, on senior night, we crushed them! Wow. We crushed them so hard I actually felt bad for them (and that’s sayin’ something!!). I don’t even want to know the shenanigans (aka burning stuff) that went down last night back at school!

Get excited for the ACC Tournament this weekend!!

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Some random nibblings from yesterday:

Coconut Flavor sunflower seeds!! The outside had a hint of salty and sweet…like kettle corn with a slight coconutty flavah.

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My bestie, Katherine (bless her heart), accompanied me to Sunflower Vegetarian Restaurant again! The last time we saw each other I dragged her to this veggie paradise and had a jaw-dropping experience. You can read my first post here about Sunflower and see the crazy items they offer on their menu.

My dear Katherine isn’t a big veggie eater but she gladly came with me . What a trooper!

I thought about going to a regular restaurant, but they’re just not as exciting. I like going to restaurants where I wouldn’t be likely to make the same food in my own kitchen…ya know?

And that is precisely what Sunflower is in a nutshell. So many ingredients I wouldn’t even know where to find!

Here she is trying to figure out what all the mumbo jumbo is on the menu .

…while I couldn’t get enough of it! What a selection this place has.

I love the dessert ideas and check out the ingredients….how cool?

After hours of deliberation, I ordered Raw World: Japanese style akatosaka, aotosaka, jicama, tomato, organic sunflower seeds, avocado, pine nuts, dried blueberry, dried cranberry and daikon on a bed of mixed greens.

Check out that beautiful avocado. You can’t see the jicama underneath the seaweed but that was one of the main reasons I ordered this dish. I was craving me some jicama!!

And Organic Baked Marinated 5 Grain Tempeh. I wanted to try tempeh prepared by someone other than me to see if it still had the bitter taste. It did, but only slightly.

I liked it though (of course)!! I wonder what they use as the marinade.

Katherine ordered Curry Fried Rice–I had a few bites.

It looks like I’m heading back to Sunflower again on Friday night for my birthday blogger meet up! I sent out an email asking for people to vote and Sunflower is in the lead.

If you missed it, I am having a meet up for bloggers and readers in Northern VA on Friday 3/12 at 6:30 PM. Email me (allie at livelaugheat dot com) if you want to join!

Tagged as: Avocado, Coconut, Curry, Dried Blueberries, Dried Cranberries, Fried Rice, Heart Thrive, Jicama, Salad, Seaweed, Sunflower Seeds, Tempeh, Tomatoes