We got great news about Marty today

We took her to the Oncologist, who said we have four options. We have OPTIONS! That alone was awesome to hear.
I won’t bore you with the details, but basically we are opting for surgery, which has a 95% cure rate!
The surgery will be on Thursday at South Paws in Fairfax.
I feel very good about this. I really liked the Oncologist. We met the surgeon too, and I really liked his as well.
So we’re all feeling very optimistic today

I also got my root canal finished today – yay!

I went for an early run today at the gym because it was rainy and gloomy out.

• 6.21 miles
• averaged 7.2 mph which is about an 8:20 minute mile – I was cruisin’!
• average incline: 0.75

I’m so excited to run the 5k with the Runners in Training in November!

Next to learning more about Marty’s situation and getting my root canal topped off, the a highlight today was making vegan pizza with Daiya cheese.

Daiya is a relatively new brand of vegan cheese. In case you’ve never tried vegan cheese before I can tell you this: they ain’t great. The better “non-dairy” cheeses aren’t really non-dairy as they contain casein in them. The non-casein cheeses rarely melt very well and don’t have the best taste.

Daiya is different! It’s completely vegan, made with plant-based ingredients.
I used the “Italian Blend” flavor and found that it melted very well and had a creamy, full mouth-feel to it.
I also put other vegetables on my pizza and so the Daiya was a wonderful accent to those veggies (I used up the rest of my Tomato Salad! Thank you again Kat for the recipe!).
D. had a plain “cheeze” pizza because as I’ve mentioned before he will only eat plain pizza. He liked the Daiya too. He called it “pizza-y” and said it tasted good. He said it didn’t taste as good as dairy cheese but it’s definitely something to buy again.
Now I thought the Daiya tasted great but then again I don’t think dairy mozzarella really has much flavor and the Daiya was pretty mild too. But I also had it with other veggies so I’m sure that makes a difference.

Before going into the oven

Before...

After baking for about 10 minutes

Daiya also comes in Cheddar Style which I will definitely be trying. Overall I give Daiya a solid “A!”

(By the way I made the yeast-free pizza crust from La Dolce Vegan! It was so good – thin and crispy – but kind of more like a cracker than pizza crust.)

Have a great evening…stay tuned tomorrow for a GIVEAWAY!