Saturday, April 29, 2023

...4.29...Dinner and a Movie...

...for dinner after my sweet Sissie left for home...we sauteed some of the greens that my Baby Brother and SIL sent us...
...a big sink full of Swiss Chard...
...and another one of beet greens...
...which we cooked together...and that one huge pot of greens cooked down to two good sized servings...haha...and we had black eyed peas, cornbread and macaroni with the greens...

...and the movie was not a movie at all...Karen got us started on a new-to-us series "Ted Lasso"...so far it's a sweet story about an American coach...with a pronounced southern accent even though he's apparently from Kansas...who goes to England to coach a soccer (football) team...it's good and there's definitely some mean-ness to it too...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely weekend!

Friday, April 28, 2023

...4.28...Friday Favorites...Visits with my Sissie!!!

...my adorable Sissie is home from her annual 6 month jaunt on her boat...and I'm so happy to see her...we tried to take a selfie...but it just looked weird...I'm horrible at selfies...so we got the Man to snap a piccie of us...and I even look goofy in this one...not nearly as photogenic as my sweet Sissie...I think I was just about to smile when the photo was snapped...haha...
...I did very little prep for her visit...she had texted earlier in the week to say that she would be able to stop by on her way home...so of course we were thrilled to see her...
...but I did mash up a couple of 50¢ avocados...and added some lime juice...
...and a good dollop of salsa...
...to make a delicious guacamole...and then I had to make myself NOT eat it all before she got here...
...and she came bearing gifts...several bags of produce from my sweet brother's garden...
...vegan bean dip that Mom found and sent my way...
...it's yummy...I eat it with fritos like I did when I was at college...we even called the vending machines in the Student Union building "bean machines"...as one of the things they contained was the little microwaveable tubs of Fritos bean dip...
...and Mom also sent me an adorable green tee shirt with a bike on it...I told her I'm contemplating over-painting the bicycle black...haha...
...and my sweet SIL sent me another puzzle...I love these "Americana" ones...and I can't wait to get started on it...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your weekend!

Thursday, April 27, 2023

...4.27...What I Ate in a Day...as a Vegan...

...blueberry 'overnight' oats...mine aren't really overnight because I mix them up like overnight oats...but I eat them right away...
...second breakfast...was one of the leftover biscuits from the weekend with even more vegan cheese melted on top...very yummy with tea...
...for lunch I made a quick tofu egg salad...
...and had with with some BBQ chips...
...and dinner was more of the pinto beans from the weekend food prep...with greens and cornbread...of course...
...dessert was vegan chocolate pudding...

...what did you eat yesterday?...

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

...4.26...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...first of all...
...our heat pump expired...haha...it was actually a pretty perfect time of year for that to happen...as little heat was needed and absolutely no air conditioning was needed...as we've been experiencing some pretty chilly days lately...

...and it was quickly replaced with a brand new heat pump...YAY!

...and on the Carnaby Street front...
...sadly...still not finished...

...I say sadly...because it's actually cool enough to wear a sweater right now...
...just because it's taking me FOREVER to get it seamed together...
...I thought I should probably do the seaming in the same colour as the stripe...and I TOTALLY should have left a long tail at the end of each colour change as it would then be a lot easier to accomplish...as it is...I change colours after every stripe...and then I have EVEN MORE tails to weave in...

...but I'm pretty happy with how it's going...it's still going to take me a few more HOURs to complete though...
...the two arm scyes are complete so you can get a pretty good idea of what the sweater will look like...

...AND...not sure what I'll do where the front meets the back and the stripes are different colours...thinking I'll just use the marigold...

...what's in your workbasket?...

~Have a lovely day!

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

...4.25...Tuesdays with Julia...

...this week we made vegan sweetbreads...
...having absolutely no idea what sweetbreads are like...I googled that...and made a creamy/mild seitan for it...
...and all of the particulars for VEGAN RIS DE VEAU BRAISÉS...are over at The Vegan Version...

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, April 24, 2023

...4.24...Over the weekend...

...Whew!...it was a busy weekend...
...first of all...I spent all day Saturday with Amy...we went to this outdoor fair...
...lots of exhibit tents...sorry I snapped a photo of someone's behind...
...we had lunch at the local Mexican restaurant...
...the one with TOFU on the menu...these are the tofu/mushroom quesadillas ...just without the cheese...Amy had the exact same thing...and it was so delicious...
...then we did some antiquing...Amy actually bought this painting...she said it reminds her of us...we're the two ladies walking up the path to the Church...so sweet...
...then we went to Gold Hill...
...and wandered around the quaint little village...
...I think we went in all of the little shops...
...and I spied some cute socks...
...they are 'mismatched'...always on the lookout for sock pattern ideas...haha...
...then...after Amy and I parted ways...I did a quick grocery shop before heading home...
...nothing of note really...except the avocados were 50 cents again...
...after I stowed the groceries away...we cleared away last year's Cana lillies...
...it was a chilly but very sunny afternoon after the rain in the morning...
...all cleared away and ready for new growth...
...then Sunday...after Church...I did some food prep...
...I wanted to try a new ranch dressing recipe...
...this one uses white beans as the base...I had written it down but not tried it and now I can't find the recipe to link to...sorry...

...but this next recipe I can link to...it's from Kathryn at Tasty Thrifty Timely
...it's for these savoury fluffy vegan biscuits...the only thing I did different was to add some Violife cheddar...I was looking for a recipe for Vegan Cheddar Bay biscuits when I found her YouTube channel...
...I cut them like she did...into little rectangles...
...they baked up perfectly...is there really anything better than a fluffy biscuit hot from the oven?...
...while the oven was on for the biscuits...I baked some tofu to have on hand for the week...
...I had soaked a pound of pinto beans overnight...
...so I got those into the crockpot...very old crockpot...it was a wedding gift...
...most of the beans went into the freezer in muffin cups...
...frozen...
...popped out of the tin and into a bag and back in the freezer...really the handiest way to store prepared beans for future use...
...we had so much we wanted to get done this weekend...it was time to pot the Japanese sweet potato slips the Man has been babying along since we got back from Okinawa...so it was almost dark when we started mixing up the dirt in the little fabric sweet potato pots...Callie is very interested in what we're doing...in fact she's kindof getting in the way...not really...she's very sweet...
...well...I think we underestimated how much of a BIG JOB mixing all that dirt and potting mix would be...haha...
...at about 10 PM we finished the job and all of the sweet potatoes are in their pots...
...and we still have a bunch of slips to give away...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!