...2.23...Over the Weekend...

...this was my Saturday morning breakfast...do y'all eat random leftover-y type things like this for breakfast...I do...as much as I love traditional breakfast foods I don't mind just eating random leftovers either...this is California mixed veg, a bowl of grits and a bowl of lima beans...all were leftovers...and milky tea...

...of course we did the shopping...nothing unusual at all...Stuff-Mart has switched from the green box organic unsweet soymilk to the red box non organic and it's the only unsweetened soymilk I can find right now...

...not really 'groceries'...but I got a Popz - the berry flavored one...and these Japanese style peanuts...I'd never heard of them before...they have a little kick from some chili or other and a wheat coating that makes them super crunchy...sort of like wasabi peas...they were fun to try...

...this was the weekend for cleaning the wood floors...

...so we move everything we can off of the floors and then just move things around to get everything nice and clean...

...and then a little bit of food prep...I had bookmarked this spice cookie recipe from NutritionFacts.org...

...and I needed some oat flour...so I just pulverized some oats in my trusty Emmie...

...and baked the cookies...the whole house smelled amazing...

...and they turned out perfectly...

...and stored them once they were cool enough...

...of course I made a batch of Toby's Tofu Dip...

...and I made a batch of my tofu sour cream...

....because I want to make Mom's Hash Brown Casserole...which are apparently really called "Potatoes Deluxe"...

...and without washing out the blender...I also mixed up a batch of Jill McKeever's condensed soup recipe...because I want to make Nanny's broccoli casserole recipe that uses cream of chicken soup...

...I realize Mom's recipe also calls for cream of chicken soup...but I think she always used cream of mushroom...so that's what I'll make for that one...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...2.21...Dinner and a Movie...

...after a week of nice spring temperatures...this weekend promises a few more chilly days...so the Man made a pot of vegetable soup...

...and I made a cake of vegan cornbread...a delicious warm and comforting dinner...

...and the movie was Yentl...another older film that I'd never seen...starring Barbara Streisand in the titular roll...she plays a young woman who was secretly taught the Talmud by her father...which is forbidden for girls for some unknow reason...and after he dies she disguises herself as a boy to continue studying the Talmud...so...it's a another movie about some people...

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

~Have a lovely weekend!...

...2.20...Friday Garden Update...

...a little bit of weeding in the winter garden...

...and I picked a nice bowl of lettuce for salads...and the very last 4 french breakfast radishes...

...and I picked all of the Tender Greens...there's still a section of collards and mustard greens...

...washed them a few times...

...and put them in a pot...

...and out to the outdoor kitchen...you can see that I still need to get some sort of knobs for the table...but it works perfectly...just like I planned...

...and then I cleaned out the dead leaves from all the lillies lining the sidewalks as they'll be sprouting new ones soon...

~Have a lovely day!

...2.19...Nutrient Count What I Eat in a Day...in Cronometer...

...I have used Cronometer several times before...I don't do it all that often...but it's fun to plug in everything you eat in a day and see what nutrients you're getting/missing...

...it's important for everyone but maybe especially for a vegan like me...

...if you've never used Cronometer before it's super easy...just go to Cronometer.com and create an account...it's free...

...and then just type in everything you eat...

...and it will give you a little pie chart overview...yesterday I had a bit of a deficit...just because I exercised so much...

...but this is the amazing part...it breaks down everything that you ate into the nutrients...so you can see what you might need more of...or less...

...in my case...with NO supplements...I met all of the targets for my height and weight...except sodium...and rest assured that I ate enough salt to cover that one...I just didn't add it to the diary...I also didn't get enough Omega-6 yesterday (I just didn't use enough oil...haha)...but I usually do...Omega-3 is harder for vegans to get and I get plenty of that from flaxseeds...

...but I got a crazy amount on Folate...so another neat thing is that if you hover over that amount it will show you what foods you at that contributed to the percentage...so I got almost a full days supply of folate from a single bowl of fortified cereal...and then smaller amount from a bunch of other naturally occurring sources...so maybe I'll try to find a bran cereal that's not fortified...since I don't seem to need that to meet the goal...

...and if you hover over the nutrient it will give you some information about that as well...

...anywhoo...I just thought it was fun to look at everything I ate this way...have you ever used Cronometer?...

~Have a lovely day!

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

...how about another pillow...haha...a really easy one...

...how about a really long post about a relatively easy project...

...so it all started when I spied this rather nappy infinity scarf in the giveaway (read unsellable) bin at the local Thrift Store...

...it's really soft...and it's burgundy...so you see where this is going...

...all sorts of thoughts about what it could become...just unravel it and use the yarn...maybe just keep it and clean it up...but mostly what my mind's eye saw in it was one of those narrow sort of back/neck pillows...so another pillow...of course...

...so I went over to the pillow section of the thrift store...and found the perfect sized pillow ($1.50)...

...I draped the scarf over the pillow form...and it's a couple of feet too long...

...so I unpicked the seam...

...and started unraveling...

...the yarn itself is very nice...fluffy and soft...

...there was a lot of fuzz during the unraveling...but I ended up with a good-sized ball of yarn...I'll put it into the 'stash'...you know for whenever I happen to need just a couple of feet worth of nice soft burgundy yarn...haha...

...and then I picked up the live stitches...and put them onto some knitting needles...

...and bound it off...

...and then I had a still fuzzy/nappy rectangle the size of my pillow...

...so I got out my fabric shaver to give it a bit of a haircut...(btw...the colour of this photo is about right...the next two...not so much)...

...here's an off colour fuzzy before...

...and an even more off colour but neat after...

...I had to empty and clean the shaver thingy...

...more than once...

...but I'm quite happy with the result...

...now to cover the light grey pillow so that it doesn't show through the knit stitches...I happen to have one sleeve and a bit of the burgundy sweatshirt material leftover from my sweatshirt-to-sweatpants conversion project last week...so of course I'm using that instead of buying any more burgundy material...

...a final fitting and then stitching two of the side seams of the knitted cover...

...I made the pillow cover and had just that little bit of burgundy leftover...

...the covered pillow...

...and I just stitched the last side in place over the pillow form...

...that was easy...

...ta-daaa!...the finished pillow...

...now I have three burgundy pillows on the sofa (all different shades)...

...I love it...it'll be a perfect little back support...

...and it goes well with the other two burgundy pillows...

...on either side...

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

~Have a lovely day!