Triple Vegan Success

Thursday was a triple vegan success day. (I am reading an Amy Tan novel at the moment - everything is triple lucky success in my mind.) Amos had to stop by the social security office before heading off to work so I had time to make a tofu scramble for breakfast eaten over my home-made bread. Plus orange juice plus latte. Perfect.

I then proceeded to be full until lunch time when I met my friend at Victory's Banner - a place I had heard was only so-so for vegans but worked well for lunch time. Oh how I miss living in a land where everything can be prepared "blackened." And here is a shout out to sweet friends - she picked out the restaurant just for me! I think the waiter summed it up when he said "what a beautiful friend" after she traded me her tea for my chai before he could come and pick it up. (If you don't have time to click on the link the whole staff studies meditation and the restaurant is described as standing as a spiritual expression. How fantastic is that?)

Then for dinner, this is going to sound anti-climatic now, I made this pot-pie in our cast iron skillet. It was sort of an odd combination of veggies for the filling - chard, turnip, peas, onion, garlic and white kidney beans. Plus tempeh and a sprig of fresh rosemary. But the crust (recipe from Veganomicon) had the slightest bit of cornmeal in it that gave the most wonderful texture.

I want to make this monkey bread (triple lucky success) to bring to my cousin's new house this weekend. Or maybe it won't make it in the car ride there and we should just eat it ourselves? Hmmmm..... Or I should just go with the cardamom bread I know she will love. What to do with my day?

Also of note:

This girl has some excellent looking tarts on her raw/vegan blog, the gluten-free hippie. I love raw desserts! Especially the carob mint snowballs over at Karen's Cooked.

I listened to a radio story yesterday that equated blogging with an overwhelming sense of self importance. Guilty as charged?

Vegan Ice Cream

If you live in Chicago sign up on meetup.com for free vegan ice cream!

Week in Review

We suspended our CSA for the week. We had to. Too many vegetables! So nearly all week I have been cooking up meals to use up those last two parsnips or few beets left over in the fridge. The two tablespoons of leftover pesto? As Amos put it when I used up the kale and parsnips in a minestrone and topped it off with the pesto "you had the hard ingredients."

Food Highlights of the week (play by play version):

Monday: Jugo de zanahoria fresca at el cid's.
Tuesday: Minestrone
Wednesday: KARYN'S COOKED (omg omg!)
Thursday: Roasted Beet Risotto
Friday: Frozen 'za from TJ's

And in anticipation of using up that swiss chard: Curried Lentil Soup with Swiss Chard. I also saw a recipe for horseradish hummus. And if anyone knows what to do with ONE turnip let me know. K Thanks.

Tomorrow we are going x-country skiing. This should be good ; )

Push It.

My new favorite mockumentory ever.

Virtual Bike Ride

I don't know what it is - but this virtual bike ride through nyc is sooo beautiful. If you can identify the song go ahead and tell me what it is!



And OMG!!!

Zombie Potluck

Unfortunately the title sounds more appealing than what is actually going to happen. It seems like in Chicago there is just a plethora of things to do that I never find out about until the ninth hour. Of course in New Orleans there was also alot to do but it was limited pretty much to the drinking and eating catagory.

Vicariously - now and when I was in New Orleans - I live through whatever is broadcast on NPR sitting at my desk at work. Tonight there is a book reading at Quimby's - one of my most favorite places to just be when I have the time - by an author interviewed today on Eight-Forty-Eight - my favorite daily radio program.

So what the problem is I am stuck not going to the book reading to try and host a potluck (keep your fingers crossed for me on this one). Is it that I am still very much in the grip of the event limitations of my previous existence or is it just bad luck?

But if you want to listen to the interview with Elizabeth Crane on her book You Must Be This Happy to Enter it is here. Not food related but zombies are mentioned so you know - it could be relevant.

Could it be...

Would this be me if I didn't have to go to work all day? Probably a bit less pink... and flowery. There are so many kindred souls out there whose existence I completely envy.... Damn Job!