...I found a lone vegan croissant in the freezer...so I had that for breakfast...and the Man had a bagel...
...it's the first of the month...so we did all of those things...meaning...we also went to our local health food store...
...but it was actually Stuff Mart that had the deal of the week...we got these two vegan packets for $3.50 each...
...the haul from the Health Food store...shelf stable tofu Miyokos...more on that in just a bit...TVP...Lettuce...organic oatmeal...and a tiny little cabbage...
...and then we also stopped at a 'fancy' grocery store...to try and find some of Julia's ingredients...they didn't have endive...but they did have fennel...for $4.99...yikes...that's a lot for something that will taste like licorice and that we probably won't even enjoy...
...and I got an Orange Cream Poppi...it was really good...
...and that fueled me up to start the BIG project for the weekend...even though we only got about 1/4 of it done...haha...aren't all projects like that...?
...we had bought 4 forty foot sections of 6 inch metal garden edging...to keep the grass from growing into the square foot garden...and just to make everything look all nice and tidy...
...so thinking we'd get all four sections done in a day...we rolled out the first 40 feet ...and man...is it an unmanageable monster...like wrestling with an octopus or trying to hang onto a dragon's tail...just really really unweildy...and we're trying to stand it up and pound it 3 inches into the ground...in a straight line...
...we made it neatly around the hibiscus and the corner of the driveway...
...and then trying to keep it straight and pounding in the long straight section in front of the square foot garden...
...the end flew off the rubber mallet...that was kind of funny...
...I never even realized that it was held in place by a single nail...we just replaced it with a longer one...
...and carried on...we got the first section done and called it a day...my arms are really sore today too...
...the rattlesnake beans are definitely waning...
...but we still picked a good handful...
...in the food prep department...I blended up the last of the sugary mangoes...
...and just mixed them with some self rising flour...
...to make a batter...
...I baked it in the fluted cake pan...but it really turned out more like a muffin than a cake...it was good though...
...I air-fried a block of tofu...first I cut a piece of parchment to fit the air fryer...
...this is how I fit an entire block into our small air fryer...
...it shrinks as it cooks...
...and ends up nice and golden and not stuck together...
...I mentionned earlier that I'd gotten Miyokos at the health food store...that's the only place we can get it here...and we're becoming a one-vegan-butter family...because we really had too many different varieties of vegan butter...
...I like Miyokos...not really better than Earth Balance...but I'm willing to simplify things and only have the one...and Miyoko's doesn't have palm oil...
...and another first of the month thing got checked off the list...I cleaned the Berkie...
~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!
Well that was a busy day! Love the look of the edging. Hope it holds the grass at bay - grass is sneaky though! Love, K
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