All I care about is veganism, zombies, and fuzzy things.
My mother-in-law is on her way here. We’re going to go see Lucinda Williams at the Ryman (where the Grand Ole Opry used to be), have a picnic, and i’m going to teach her how to cook. I’m not sure what we’re making yet, but there’s a good chance that someone is going to lose a finger.
I have to finish cleaning up.
Go!
I was going to take Amanda and Andria to to Grins, a vegetarian kosher cafe in Nashville, but they were closed. So we just went to Wild Oats and ate buffet, which turned out great because they had my three favorite things: marinated tofu, the rice dish with cashews and raisins, and the best lentil soup ever. I also got four vegan cookies from the bakery, which are not pictured because I ate them.
Making your own popcorn is highly underrated. If you have a pan with a lid, that’s all you need. You don’t need no fucking popper. And if you pop it in margarine instead of oil, it comes out already buttery tasting so you don’t end up with soggy popcorn.
Sweet seitan and broccoli.
Veggie stew and dumplings. I’m working on making the dumplings not come out just dense balls of dough, I think the three problems are: too many overall in the pot, overmixing, and too big. They puff up like crazy. Either way, this stuff never lasts more than 24 hours.
From the weekend of vegan cookies, I gained 2.5 pounds. This week, I lost three thanks to the miracle diet: TLT and Biscuit Diet. I made Tempeh Bacon sandwiches for a few days….
Sometimes I make up amazing things in my head, then try to execute them. White Bean & Roasted Garlic Soup, seems simple enough, right? Well, maybe it was the beans I used, but the texture was chalky and despite the fact that I used an entire bulb, it didn’t taste like roasted garlic. Nor did it taste like the onion I decided to add in, caramelized (I knew I was going to puree it, so I figured it would be okay for Brian to still eat it). Buuuuuuuuuuuuust. Dammit.
The biscuits, however, came out wonderfully. I think i’m going to add in some more butter though, to make them a little richer. On the very short list of ‘Non-Vegan Things I Miss’, Bob Evans biscuits are high on the list. Oh, and if your grocery store carries Polaners all fruit spread – get the black cherry variety. It makes everything taste like cherry pie.
Apple Tofu Spring Rolls from Vegan Lunch Box and a broccoli/rice stir fry with fried ‘pork’ from Authentic Chinese Cuisine (basically, tvp tossed with seasoned flour to coat and them fried). I added spinachc and carrot to mine. This is the first time i’ve ever made spring rolls, but I think i’ll be making more soon. The fried tvp was delicious.
I’m attempting to work out some kind of daytime schedule for myself. Most of my problem is that i’m usually not awake for it, but i’ve still got it programmed into my brain that dark = no work, so I don’t get a whole lot done. I don’t like waking up early, so even if I do get tired before midnight, I try to stay up a little bit longer, and then i’m not tired anymore. So this is what i’ve got:
I think that’ll work pretty well, it gives me plenty of time to slack and i’ll still get things done. This is a weekday schedule, on the weekends i’m going to do stuff like vacuum and make sure we’re on top of laundry and spend time with Brian. I’m also going to try to spend less time mindlessly surfing the internet. I can get plenty of that done while i’m working, there’s really no excuse for me to sit here for two hours doing absolutely nothing. I don’t mean things like working on this site, or editing pictures, I mean just clicking the same links over and over, waiting for someone to update. That’s stupid and a waste of time, and it just makes me more bored.
I also need the schedule for work, I hardly worked at all last month. I was sick, it gets more restrictive by the day and is therefore less enjoyable, etc. I really want a new camera, and the fence guy gave us an estimate that sucks up most of the tax money so I really need to bust my ass this month if I want to get it. After that, i’ll lax up on myself about it and try to just make enough to have a small amount of spending money each month.
