...Food Prep Friday...

I sliced an eggplant and a butternut squash...and put them in the oven...

...saved the seeds of course...

...the roasted eggplant will go mixed with some chickpeas to make some delicious hummus for snacking...

...and the roasted butternut will feature in future bowls I'm sure...

...while the oven was on...I baked some tofu...

...and I grilled a sweet potato in the Foreman Grill at the same time...

...and oh my goodness these are the best roasted squash seeds I think I've ever made...they didn't last 5 minutes out of the oven...

...what have you been 'prepping'?...

~Have a lovely day!

...What I Ate Yesterday...

...for Breakfast...I had some homemade bread and baked tofu smothered in vegan bacon and chao cheese...with a hefty sprinkling of kala namak on top...so yummy...oh...and I had tea...of course...

...Lunch was a bowl...(carrots, Brussels sprouts, tofu, potato, sweet potato, and spinach)and that yellow thing there is a jar of lemon water...

...Dinner you've already seen...well...not on the plate...I had the Vegan Chick'un Pot Pie...some red slaw and a couple of Brownie Bites...and sweet tea...

...it was a busy day...and I had a couple of snacks that I did not photograph...a handful of nuts and dried fruit (that my sweet sissie sent me for Christmas)...

...and a smoothie...that I did photograph the making of...but not the finished product...it was yummy though...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...PI day...3.14...

...I wonder if the N.O.A.H. ladies knew that today would be PI day when they planned the Lenten meal...

...so funny...I'll definitely be having Pie on PI day...will you?...

~Have a lovely day!

...Vegan Chick'un Pot Pie...

...our Prayer Shawl group at Church will be serving the Lenten meal tomorrow evening...

...and they decided to serve this pot pie...so of course I have to make a vegan version of it...

...for the chick'un...I rehydrated some Soy Curls...and then grilled them on the Foreman Grill...

...instead of the soup and broth...I made a thick vegan gravy...with just three ingredients...the Vegan Chick'n Bouillon...Almond milk and some flour...

...added the grilled Soy Curls to that...

...and then the mixed veg...

...cooked it for a bit...the recipe says the mixed veg should be 'half-done' when it goes in the oven...

...put that into a small casserole...

...and mixed up the crust...Earth Balance...flour...salt and pepper (which I've never put in a crust before)...and I used my leftover soy-whey from draining my yogurt...instead of buttermilk...

...rolled it out...

...and laid it on top of the casserole...

...baked until golden...

...now I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Lenten meal...

~Have a lovely day!

...Over the Weekend...

...Scout's Spring Break only overlapped with his West Virginia friends over the weekend...

...so we had a house full of boys...

...really only at night...haha...as they were out during the day and evening...

...but we did have waffles for breakfast Saturday...and they were going to stay until this morning but because of the snow forecast they left yesterday evening...still it was super nice to have them and I'm happy that Scout got to reconnect with his WV friends...

...and I did a lot of the things I always do...shopping/cleaning/cooking...haha...

...I made another batch of probiotic yogurt...

...the consistency of this soy yogurt was perfect...I think it's the thickest I've made yet...but I still took about half of it to make some vegan/soy cream cheese...

...and then this morning it really did snow a little bit here...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...Dinner and a Movie...

...I had bought a head of Iceberg Lettuce...something I rarely do anymore...which is kinda funny because salad when I was growing up was almost always made with Iceberg Lettuce...unless it was lettuce from Mom's garden...

...my plan was to make fancy 'wedge' salads for dinner...and I was going to make some Vegan Blue Cheese dressing...

...but while I was making the flat breads...

...I had a change of heart...

...and decided to go with Greek salads instead...

...I still made the wedges though...sprinkled over some simple tofu ricotta and red onions and black olives...and poured over a greek vinaigrette...

...so delicious...

...and the movie choice was mine...and I chose Eat Drink Man Woman...

...it's kind of an older movie...(1994)...about a Man with 3 daughters...so it's a movie about some people...with subtitles...go figure...it was good...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...Friday Favorites...

...it's springtime...chilly one day...warm the next...and look how green the grass outside is getting...

...kitten is enjoying the warm sunshine...

~Have a lovely day!

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

...I managed to fix all of the issues with my freebies from last week...

...just a needle and thread and a couple of quick stitches fixed the little tear in the back of the white shell...so just a couple of minute invested there...

...and I cut off a couple of inches of each sleeve and hemmed them up on the sewing machine...so that was just another 5 minute fix...

...I used this simple star/asterisk stitch over each of the holes in the fuzzy scarf...this is the front....

...and the back...

...I didn't do any extra star stitches...there were actually this many holes...but I like the sort of random placement of the stars...

...what have you mended lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

...Tuesdays with Julia...

...proving once again...that it's all about the SAUCE...

...we made a delicious Vegan Sauce Venaison...

...and all of the particulars are over at The Vegan Version...

~Have a lovely day!

...over the weekend...

...really not too much happened...I had to have the oil changed in my car...and we just goofed around on the internet while we waited...the dealership has a really nicely equipped waiting area...they have all kinds of drinks available and freshly popped popcorn...so you don't feel like you've waited very long at all...and in reality it was only about an hour...

...and then we had planned a hike for Saturday afternoon...but with 40-50 mph winds...we decided we'd wait...

...so we went to a little Greek restaurant instead...and that was fun too...I had a hummus pita...with a side Greek salad and fries...it was yummy!

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...Dinner and a Movie...

...the kiddos were home for a change...it's Spring Break Week here...

...so we planned a BIG meal...

...I started with my regular roll recipe...

...rolled it out thin...

...spread a generous layer of vegan butter all over that...

...cut it into little squares...

...and arranged 4 or 5 of them in each muffin tins...

...ahem...that may have been too many squares...as they sort of overflowed during the second rising...

...but they cooked up into beautiful Fan-Tans...

...then I made Nanny's Sweet Potatoes...

...always delicious...

...the Fan-Tans...

...Ham Seitan...

...broccoli and carrots...for those (Scout) who don't like sweet potatoes...

...and creamed corn...

...and we had quite the spread...kind of unusual for movie night as we usually eat on trays in front of the TV...

...and for dessert...I made a proper go of Pineapple Upside Down Cake...

...perfect on top...

...and on the bottom...

...and since Scout and Our Girl were not staying for the movie...it was the Man's choice this week...and he chose Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...I had never seen it...apart from the one scene with Slim Pickens riding a bomb out of the bomber bay...I enjoyed it...Peter Sellers plays three different parts in the movie...

...and then the very next day we saw a reference to the movie on the news about a current Russian Doomsday device...so weird...

~Have a lovely weekend!