Friday, June 30, 2023

...6.30...Friday Favorites...

...I happened to be at my local thrift store on a "bag day"...that's a day where they give you bag...$3 for a plastic shopping bag like this...or $5 for a larger paper bag...and that's it...anything you can put into the bag is yours for the $3...so I got these items for about 43¢ each...

...so in my bag...I had...
...this adorable breezy peach top...
...and this blue and white striped top with the sweet little cutouts...I thought it would look super cute over white jeans...
...a nice summery sundress...it apparently had a jacket of some sort which was not with it...but the tag says two pieces...and it has a couple of stains too...so hopefully I'll get those taken out...
...and I also got a few more winter-y items that I happened to like...this red top...it has belt loops that I'll take off...and it may need a shave with my de-fuzzer thingamy...
...and you all know what a sucker I am for stripes...so I got yet another stiped shirt...a nice cozy turtle neck this time...
...and this long-sleeved Zulilly dress...it hits me mid knee...so I may wear it with black leggings this winter...
...and then I also tossed in this hat...not because I like it...but because I plan on unraveling it to make a hat that I do like...haha...
...so I just tossed it into the washing machine...and it survived that...so i'll keep you posted on that project...

...what have you 'thrifted' lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

Thursday, June 29, 2023

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

...definitely still not tired of these overnight oats for breakfast...
...for lunch I made Vegan Reubens...first...I made the vegan sauce...sweet pickles, vegan mayo, ketchup and mustard...
...homemade rye bread topped with sauce and saurkraut...
...vegan cheese and tofu...
...it makes a delicious Reuben...and I had a few leftover Griddlered sweet potatoes too...
...for dinner we were having the Trini sauce on grilled tofu...and I made rice to go with that...and so while the Man was cooking on the grill I ate a bowl of rice and tomatoes...because I was starving...not really...haha...
...the Man put all of that green stuff into a blender...
...and whizzed it all up...
...and then he let me get a (mildly spicy) jar out of the blender before he added all the hot hot peppers...so nice...
...then we slathered some on the tofu and grilled it...
...it was so delicious...rice is the perfect accompaniment...but we also had some lettuce and homemade wheat bread and veg baked beans...

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

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

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

...well...I don't have a lot to show in the Work In Progress department...I had a little bit of two different blue cotton yarns that I wanted to just 'use up'...but wasn't sure that I had enough to make an entire dishcloth...so the plan was to do a sort of shadow effect...going from the solid aqua to the aqua/white and the fading to the solid white...
...but there was actually more yarn there than I'd thought...so it wound up being a funny-looking (but still entirely functional) dishcloth...and there's just a tiny bit of the two toned yarn left...and I'll probably just use that up by tying up a present or something...

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

~Have a lovely day!

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

...6.27...Tuesdays with Julia...

...well...it was finally time for the last vegan sweetbreads recipe...
...and vegan sweetbreads covered with brown butter sauce was really good...

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

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, June 26, 2023

...6.26...Over the Weekend...

...so we started the weekend off right...you know what that means...waffles for me...
...and pancakes for the Man...for some unknown reason...he prefers pancakes over waffles...
...after that sugar rush...I headed out to do the weekly grocery shopping...only one stop this time...Food Lion...
...no real deals this time...but I did find a big bottle of A1 - marked down to $2.65...which is a huge savings over the $5.85 regular price...and all because it had somehow lost its label...the seal looks intact so I snagged that one bottle sale...
...and the Man put all of this green stuff on the list because he wants to make Nardia's Trini Sauce...I'm sure it will be too spicy for me...
...and on the food prep front...I baked some tofu...natch...cubes this time...and one slab...I do love tofu...and I love to have some baked and ready for the week ahead...
...and I made another small loaf of the Whole Wheat Buttermilk bread...
...this little half loaf is just about the perfect size for just us two...
...I think it's my new favorite...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!

Saturday, June 24, 2023

...6.24...Dinner and a Movie...

...I made a pot of rice...and Griddler-ed some veg...
...and the Man cooked some BBQ tofu (chickun) on the grill...
...so it was a super simple dinner...
...cleanup was simple too...it always is when the grill is involved...

...and the 'movie' was really just more Ted Lasso...we're nearing the end though...and it apparently really is the end...hoping it all winds up nice and romantically happy...haha...

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

~Have a lovely weekend!

Friday, June 23, 2023

...6.23...Friday Favorites...a garden update....

...this is our 'garden'...we don't have a place here for a proper garden...so we've got the pots set out along the sunny part of the backyard fence...just the important stuff...sweet potatoes and tomatoes...haha...
...they're all doing really well...the tomatoes have their first blooms...
...and the sweet potatoes are really thriving...
...these in the bigger pots are the regular Japanese purple ones...purple inside and out...
...and in the smaller pots we have the delicious Okinawan ones...they're white on the outside and purple on the inside...

...how does your garden grow?...

~Have a lovely day!

Thursday, June 22, 2023

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

...first breakfast...was a nice hot mug of tea...and a slab of WW toast slathered with apple butter...
...and then a little bit later...I had made some overnight oats with steel cut oats...and almond milk...
...a half cup of oats makes two generous servings...
...and I added about a cup of black and blue berries...so yummy...
...for lunch I added some tomatoes to some leftover succotash...and I had a plate of lettuce and orange sliced with that...
...afternoon snack was some crispy/chewy gingerbread cookies...
...for dinner I got a veggie burger out of the freezer...
...and if you're wondering why there are so few fries on my plate...of course it's because I ate them before I took the photo...

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

~Have a lovely day!