...4.20...Over the Weekend...

...we had a couple of hamburger buns left over from our Vegan Big Macs and I wanted to use them up...so we made hamburger bun toast to go with our tofu scramble...and we had a couple of really mild jalapeños so we used those and some onions to make the scramble...

...then of course we headed out to do the shopping...

...just the usual...

...for food prep this week...I chopped a block of tofu into tiny cubes...

...to make tofu feta...I may have overcooked it a bit...I was really just trying to dry it out...

...then I added some lime juice to a bunch of cilantro and gave it a blitz in the food processor...

...then divided it into little guacamole-sized packets for the freezer...

...made a batch of tofu sour cream which I promptly turned into Vegan French Onion dip...

...we pulled up the last six little green onions in the winter garden...

...one of them had made a little seed pod on top...so I may try and grow some in a pot on the porch through the hot summer months...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...4.18...Dinner and a Movie...

...we had exactly the same Vegan Big Mac dinner that we had last week...haha...

...the vegan big mac sauce recipe made way too much for one meal and we wanted to use it up...besides it was delicious...

...and the movie was Jules...it was just a sweet heartwarming film about some people...of course...but these people have an alien in their backyard...

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

~Have a lovely weekend!

...4.17...Friday Update...

...we've got a ton of little baby blueberries on the bushes...

...and we're getting a lot more blooms on the cherry tree too...

...they are so pretty...in Japan there's a huge festival for the cherry blossoms...sakura...

...the Man continues working on refurbishing the metal geckos for the garden wall...he's using these colour-changing paints...

...first a coat of the black...

...and then the purple-y-blue one...

....and the green-y-gold one...it looks like it's going to take a couple more coats...

...the first amarylis is blooming...

...and there's the tiniest little butterfly on the petals...

...and another smaller one is going to bloom too...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your weekend!

...4.16...Delicious Vegan Food we ate...

...Peanut Butter Banana Nice-Cream...seriously delicious...two ingredients...one frozen banana and 2 Tbls. peanut butter...

...what delicious food have you been eating lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

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

...just continuing the Winter Opulence pillow...

...and I finished the square...

...but it's not quite the 18 inches that I need for my pillow...so I added a couple more rows...

...just using stitches that I'd already used in the pattern to make a little bit more of a 'border'...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...4.13...Over the Weekend...

...we started the weeekend with vegan pancakes...

...I always stand around the stove eating the first pancake (which never turns out perfect for some reason)...and I put a little bead of vegan butter on each bite...

...and then served with maple syrup...I remember I used to eat an entire pool of syrup when I was little...but I've cut back considerably...haha...

...we did the weekly shopping...and I arranged it all for a nice photo...but then promptly put it all away without taking the photo...so weird and funny...

...and then we headed over to the botanical gardens...

...while it was still cool enough...it's going to get up into the 90s (≈35° C) this week and we're definitely in a drought...

...and we wanted to ride the new sky-tram...there was no queue this morning...

...we took our seats and had the gondola all to ourselves...

...and headed down the hill towards the river...

...it was just a beautiful spring morning...

...and the view of the river from up here was spendid...

...we spied a small flock of ducks floating on the river...

...you feel like you're right in the canopy of trees...

...so then we spent some time wandering around the gardens...

...the spring flowers were gorgeous...

...of course...

...I do love poppies...they are so cheerful...

...things are blooming at home too...the cherry tree will hopefully have more than 5 cherries this year...haha...

...and this amarylis looks like it's going to have 12 blooms...amazing...

...when we got back...I popped a loaf of whole wheat bread into the bread machine...

...this one rose up nicely...

...and turned out pretty perfectly...

...and I sliced it and packed it up in a re-used cereal bag clipped with a clothespin...

...outside we put out all the mulch...

...the beds always look so nice with a fresh layer of mulch...

...and then we started planting the garden...the lettuce will probably bolt now that the temperatures are going to be so hot...

...and finally the Man took down the little metal geckos to give them a fresh coat of paint as they were looking a little bedraggled...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!