...11.7...Over the Weekend...

...I did the weekly shopping...I got the Creme Brulee version of the Silk creamer...I wanted the Sweet Cream one that I'd had at my sweet sissie's house...but they didn't have that one...

...of note this week...WHITE cornmeal...YAY!...and I stopped at the asian market and got some Kala Namak...the Man says eeeeuuuuuwwww...haha...

...and he asked if they still sell pepper in the little square tin cans...and mostly they do not...haha...they're either little square plastic boxes or plastic or glass bottles...but I did find this one...

...and also this new to me Ramen flavor...

...accidently vegan...

...then I spent some time fixing and refilling a bunch of things in the kitchen...

...this Quaker oats tin was a gift from Our Airman to the Man...who insists on only Quaker Old Fashioned Oats...but the lid was always been a little bit loose...

...so I tore off a thin strip of duct tape to tighten it up a little bit...

...and just stuck that to the inside rim of the lid...it won't ever touch the oats...but I'm sure it's not food-safe...haha...

...and now the lid fits just right...

...then I got out my ages old (a wedding gift) spice grinder...

...and my peppercorns...we usually keep the Tellicherry in the shaker...

...and refill the grinder with the colourful ones...

...we bought this guy while we were on vacation at the AirBnB and so we're just using it up...it can't be refilled...

...so I refilled the regular table shakers...

...and then a different shaped shaker for the Himalayan Pink Salt...

...all refilled...the little glass egg hold Kosher salt...so many different salts...right?...

...I refilled the ACV...it's so much more economical to buy the big jug...

...and I refilled my little reused olive jar full of ground flax seed...it goes rancid pretty quickly after it's ground...so I keep the bag in the freezer...and just refill the little jar as needed...and keep it in the fridge...

...and then outside...when we replaced the Airman flag...I inadvertently threw away the little velcro tab that keeps it from flipping around and wrapping up on the post in the wind...

...and I thought I could fashion a replacement of sorts from a binder clip...I just took some pliers and bent the little metal tabs so that they would slip onto the post at the right angle...

...so far it seems to be working...and it doesn't look too bad...

...and finally...I don't know what happens to all of my clothespins...it's true that I use them for a lot of things...and they are basically all over the house...holding things...you know...and I just them for clips to keep open bags of things like chips fresh too...

...so I needed to refill my bag of clothespins that I actually use to hang clothes out on the line...haha...

~wishing you a lovely start to your week!

...11.5...Dinner and a Movie...

...we came across a neat vegan YouTube channel called Yeung Man Cooking...he has a nice calm demeanor and he just simply cooks and tells you how to do it...a refreshing change from a lot of YouTube channels...

...so...on the menu for the evening was this Masala recipe...which requires this chili oil recipe...so we made that one first...

...it was pretty easy...

...I made a cute little label for the grapeseed oil jar that we refilled with the chili oil...

...it's such a pretty colour...

...I pre-cooked the firm tofu on the Griddler...and since I wanted perfect little cubes for the recipe I had trimmed the block of tofu and I just 'scrambled' the trimmings for later...

...then I started the Masala recipe and I cooked the tofu cubes again with the shallots...we always called green onnions shallots when I was growing and Julia always uses them interchangeably as well...so I'm using them here as they are much more readily available at my grocery...

...then you chop a red onion...

...and all the other components...the tomato and pepper...and you grate the ginger and garlic...

...cook your spice in the oil for a bit...

...until fragrant...

...add the onion...

...peppers...ginger and garlic...

...then the tomatoes...

...and tomato sauce...

...and the tofu and shallots (green onions)...

...and finally the cream from the top of a can of coconut cream...not the watery liquid part...

...and you just swirl that in last...

...top with some fresh cilantro...

...and we had Julia's chilled Vegan Céleri à la Grecque...on the side...which was a nice cool down for this spicy meal...

...it was pretty delicious...and also pretty (Too!) hot and spicy for me...we'll probably make a slightly toned down version again...haha...

...and since I'm reading Lord Jim now...kind of on a Joseph Conrad kick right now...I highly recommend the book...and the movie is pretty good too...it stars Peter O'Toole...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...11.4...Friday Favorites and a Not-So-Favorite...

...I'll start with the faves...

...these little seasonal pumpkins are accidentally vegan...sweet...

...I love to re-use glass jars for storing things...the gold lidded ones are all pickle jars...I especially like them because they have nice wide mouths and the lids have excellent seal/re-seal qualities...the taller one was an organic applesauce jar...and all of these hold a 1 lb. bag od nuts...and the skinny tall one is a kalamata olive jar...and it's the perfect size for a bag of brown sugar...

...I love herons...and just shore/water birds in general...and this guy let us get so close to him...

...now...on to the not so faves...on the same walk...we wind up picking up other people's trash all the time...

...why on earth do people think it's ok to just throw things down in the woods like this...

...oh well...I hope you have some nice (trash-free) fall walks...

~Have a lovely day!

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

...started the day with a bowl of raw oats...not even overnight...just poured some almond milk over some raw oats and added a bunch of frozen blueberries...it was delish...and I got all of my little November birthday gifties ready to post...

...mid-morning I had a nice local apple for a snack...and I had a small handful of also local black walnuts with it...so I ate about half of the apple with the walnuts...

...and then I sprinkled cinnamon on the other half...have you tried that...it's such a good little treat...

...lunch was a salad...some store-bought squash and some baked tofu with the FL store brand of Heinz 57 sauce...I like it a lot...it's about 1/4 the cost of 57 and it's slightly sweeter and milder...

...afternoon snack was a bunch of grapes...and I do mean a bunch... I love grapes...

...the Man said he wanted Brinner...so I got started early and made these WWII vegan (oat based) sausages...

...I did the first cooking on the Griddler...

...and then put them in a skillet with the broth...and finished them off there as well...these sausages are amazing...I'll definitely be making them again...such simple ingredients...

...and we had tofu scramble and a nice crispy vegan waffle also...well...the Man had buckwheat pancakes instead of a waffle...

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

~Have a lovely day!

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

...so...just some more rows on the two toned footies...all of the increases are done...so I'm to the point where you join and start knitting in the round...

...they'll be finished just in time to be stored away until next spring...haha...

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

~Have a lovely day!

...11.1...Tuesdays with Julia...

...this is a chilled cooked celery recipe...and I've tasted the broth and a bite of the celery and it's good and flavorful...but we've not actually eaten this dish with a meal yet...I'll come back and let you know...😉

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

~Have a lovely day!