Tuesday, February 28, 2023

...2.28...Tuesdays with Julia...

...we made a vegan version of Tournedos Rossini...
...a beautiful and delicious vegan steak recipe...

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

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, February 27, 2023

...2.27...Over the Weekend...a visit to the Mountains...

...Saturday morning started with some vegan pancakes...
...I LOVE pancakes...
...followed by the weekly shopping trip...I went to Stuff-Mart this time...mainly because my Garmin Fit needed a new battery...and then I stopped at Aldi...and Food Lion as no one else carries my favorite Silk Protein...
...then I started getting everything ready for the trip to the mountains...the Man's Mom's birthday is this week...so I thought I'd make her a birthday cake...
...I just made a yellow cake (recipe here)...and then this cooked icing that she used to make all the time when the Man and I were dating...
...I think it turned out OK...just poured it over the cake...
...so Sunday after Church we headed up the interstate...aren't the mountains pretty...
...one of the first things we did after arriving at Mom's...was to go down to the 'bottoms' where my sweet Baby Brother and SIL keep this amazing garden and greenhouse...
...he had invited us down to cut all the fresh spring greens we wanted...how awesome is that...
...when we got back to the kitchen...it was time to start some prep for dinner...so naturally we started with dessert...and baked some spice cupcakes...
...and then iced them...
...using Mom's half-century old icing-squirter-decorater thingy...so fun and so nostalgic too...
...Mom sprinkled them with chopped pecans too...and I thought I had a photo of that...but apparently not...
...washed the beautiful salad greens from the garden...
...and then Mom added some radish (also from the garden) and carrots and cucumbers...
...not sure why these photos are sideways...sorry...this is my huge platter of the Man's famous spaghetti sauce...it was so delicious...and my brother and SIL came for dinner too...and we had so much fun sitting around for hours talking and visiting...
...and then we went over to the Man's homeplace to celebrate his Mom's birthday...and I got the cake out of the cooler...it fared fine...
...lit some candles and sang Happy Birthday...it was a lot of fun and I think she enjoyed it...we had our cake with coffee...
...and then we took her out to dinner...and I got a delicious strawberry and pecan salad with raspberry vinaigrette...photos still sideways for some reason...
...and a baked potato and broccoli...it was a delicious and we had a fun a visit...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

Saturday, February 25, 2023

...3.25...Dinner and a Movie...

...the Man made vegan stuffed peppers for dinner...and they were really really good...we hadn't had stuffed peppers in a long time...

...and his turn to choose the movie...and he chose To Catch a Thief...I'd seen it before many years ago...I think it was on regular broadcast television when I was a young teenager...but he said he didn't think he'd ever seen it...it was good...kind of predictable...but maybe it's not fair for me to say that as I've seen it before...haha...

...what have you been watching lately?

~Have a lovely day!

Friday, February 24, 2023

...2.24...Friday Update...

...so...since I'm still unable to post comments on any Blogger blogs...arghhh...I thought I'd just do that here...

...to my sweet sissie Karen who blogs from her boat at McCraw Sails...Looks like y'all are having a great time...all the hikes look awesome...Love, T...

...to Beth from BLD in MT : Living a Simple Life in This Interconnected World ...Oh Beth!...I am so very sorry about your loss...it's so hard to say good-bye to a beloved pet...Peace be with you...

...to karen from Pumpkin Sunrise...I love your husband's socks...

...to Éphée from L'éphémère quotidienneté des repas et autres trucs de magie...YUM...potato casseroles are just the best!...Yours look delicious...

...to Penny from Snap That Penny...WOW! snow...I know you're having issues commenting as well...

...and I've just been doing a little bit more organizing...the shelf in my closet is much neater now and things are falling over and getting smushed...or lost...

~Have a lovely day!

Thursday, February 23, 2023

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

...I had an everything bagel and vegan cream cheese...from the Uncheese Cookbook...
...it was yummy...
...midmorning I had a piece of cheese toast...a yummy snack...
...so then I wasn't very hungry for lunch...so I just had a Boca Chik'n pattie on a bun...
...afternoon snack was a big mug of cocoa...the Abuelita kind...I first had this cocoa as a teenager when Daddy brought some home from one of his trips to Mexico...
...so sweet and good...and actually a pretty substantial snack...
...I Griddler-ed some sweet potato...to the perfect level of carmelized sweetness...
....and had that with some 'fried' cabbage...tunisien bread and tofu...and a big salad...

...what did you eat yesterday?

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

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

...just a few more stripes on the Carnaby Street Pullover...I'm still loving the colours...so bright and cheerful...and I think it will look really cute over blue jeans...

...I'll be happy when this front panel is done...once you get to the arm scye you no longer have to do the decreasing colour change...so from then on it will be nice and easy...simple stripes in simple stockinette...

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

~Have a lovely day!

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

...2.21...Tuesdays with Julia...

...this is a preliminary recipe for the upcoming fancy schmancy Tournedos Rossini... so this is the simple Vegan Marinade, for Vegan Filet of Beef...

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

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, February 20, 2023

...2.20...Over the weekend...

...it was the Saturday for the Community Breakfast at the Church...so I got a late start for the grocery shopping...and I made myself a bottle of tea to take along...
...mostly I just got veg...a lot of the root vegetables were on sale...
...I got some gorgeous sweet potatoes...regular orange ones...
...turnips...
...and beets...for some reason the organic ones were cheaper than the non-organic ones...
...and a bag of Brussels sprouts...I love these little baby cabbages...that's what Our Airman used to call them...he loves them too...

...and then I did a little bit of food prep..
...I made a batch of the lowfat cream cheese from The Uncheese Cookbook
...just blended it up...the only thing I changed about the recipe was to add 1/4 teaspoon of vegan lactic acid...
...and since the recipe only uses 1/3 cup of the silken tofu...I turned the rest of the package into my favorite chocolate pudding...just tofu...sugar and cocoa...
...and then I Griddler-ed some sweet potato and broccoli...I just love having it on hand...
...then I got busy on some spring cleaning...really it's more just spring organizing...not really cleaning...but I do need to do that too...
...I just took some paper grocery bags...and doubled them and then turned the tops down to make these sturdy little containers to keep things in my drawers a little more organized...
...neat rows of T-shirts...I know I have way too many T-shirts...but I pretty much wear one every day...
...all my shorts...the weather is very spring like right now...
...and I wound up with some extra room in that drawer...so I added all of my swimsuits too...
...everything is so neat and compact now...I have a whole extra empty drawer...
...I also re-organized my crocheted tub of winter clothes...it's still sitting in the floor of my closet...but I'm not sure how many more of these heavy sweaters I'll wear this year...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!