Author: laura

A backlog of food

I’ve been lazy about posting food pics. Before any more pile up, let me toss ’em on up here. These peanut butter oatmeal cookies from Vegan With A Vengeance rock. I made some as a congratulations present for a friend and then was left with more than I was comfortable having in the house. So I took them to a work meeting and they were gobbled down. Then I told everyone they’re vegan. Heh. See? Not all grass and twigs.
peanutbutter oatmeal cookies

Here’s the Tofu Scramble from Vegan With A Vengeance, Mexican style, about a half cup of salsa stirred in at the end. With it is leftover Green Mexican Rice (yeah, not very green) from Great Vegetarian Cooking Under Pressure that I took to a potluck. It ended up being a little dry. I have other similar recipes that aren’t done in the pressure cooker and I think they’d probably work better.

tofu scramble with mexican green rice

I’m still powering my way through Vegan Italiano. This is the Cannellini Beans with Grilled Radicchio, except those are navy beans instead of cannellini. I don’t think it makes much of a difference. Another winner from this cookbook. I’ve been all about stews and beans lately. They go nicely with cold weather. I seem to be in some sort of cooking grove lately. Eating out has been pretty rare lately. Soul Veg is probably worried about me.

cannellini beans with grilled radicchio

Who knew coffee did this?

Okay, I knew coffee did this. I just didn’t really think about it but if you drink two gigantor cups of organic Ethiopian Yergachef dark roast just before going to the gym, your heart rate is going to run a bit higher than you expect. And take forever to get back down. So fewer calories burned as the poor treadmill struggles to keep you down in your target range. Meh.

My back porch is a zoo

You know how I had one grey cat eating on my back porch and then discovered it was two? Well, how many grey cats do you see in this picture? That’s two on the porch and one sitting on my old doormat that they have dragged out into my yard.

three feral cats hanging out in my yard

But wait, that’s not all. Last weekend while I was in my kitchen, I heard a very loud “crunch crunch crunch” coming from outside. The cats don’t eat that loudly. I peek out the window and see this, a ‘possum. I know they love cat food. I opened the door and chased it off. It wasn’t in much of a hurry to go. I’m sure it’ll be back.

a possum eating cat food

And then later this week I discovered yet another critter eating cat food on my porch. There’s a little brown bird that perches on the edge of their cat bowl and eats the broken crunchies. Today it was so warm that I had my back door open. And somehow the cat food eating bird slipped under the screen door and ended up in my kitchen. He wasn’t too happy about that. Luckily I was able to get him back out fairly quickly. At least he was smart enough to know which way he wanted to go.