An Interesting Radio Format

As I was driving through North Carolina entering the home stretch of my drive to my mom’s, I found an interesting radio station out of Greensboro. It’s called 98.7 Simon and their shtick is “we play anything.” And while I didn’t hear any gothic or industrial, I did hear anything from Salt & Pepa to Johnny Cash to Prince to Carol King to Queen and so on. It seems to be heavy on the 80s with a sprinkling of just about everything else. It’s almost like my ipod. You can listen online at their site apparently, but they make you register before they let you do that. It’s not THAT important to me. Besides, I have an ipod. But it was interesting to hear different format and it let me conserve ipod battery for a while so I could make it the rest of the way.

Thanksgiving Week Food

I landed at my mom’s Sunday with a list of dishes to cook for the week and for Thanksgiving. It’s a lot easier when I have a few days before Thanksgiving to prepare rather than flying in Wednesday as I do sometimes. So here’s what I cooked this week:

Spaghetti with Tomatoes, Olives & Capers from Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone

Hummus from Food For The Vegetarian – Traditional Lebanese Recipes

Italian Marinated Tofu from Vegan With A Vengeance (VWAV)

Chickpea Hijiki Salad from VWAV

For T-Day

Vegetable Pot Pie from The Candle Cafe Cookbook

Orange Glazed Beets from VWAV

Raspberry Chocolate Chip Blondies from VWAV

Cabbage Apple Strudel from Olive Trees and Honey

Sorry, I’m an idiot and took no pictures. Between these dishes, leftovers and added in veggies like brussels sprouts or broccoli, that was about the perfect amount of food to make. My mom and I shared some of the dishes during the week and other people dug into the strudel, beets, pot pie and blondies on T-Day. I failed to tell people that there was seitan in the pot pie, but no one noticed. Can’t wait to tell them I made them eat wheat gluten. Ha Ha! /Nelson

awkward thanksgiving moment

So. Family friend to mom’s relatively new boyfriend “does Laura remind you of her mother when she was in high school?” “Well, Sue always had short hair.” Er, not to mention Laura is twice the age of a high school senior. But you know, whatever. At least he pretended to be shocked that I was my brother’s older, not younger sister. Oh, and this was the drunkest t-day ever so please forgive spelling errors, etc.