Monthly Archive for June, 2007

New car smell!

Published on June 23, 2007 in life and pictures. 5 Comments

This is our new baby.  You can telll Brian is in love with her.

We got a 2007 Toyota Corolla.  It’s not new, but it’s (obviously) less than a year old.  12,000 miles on it, though.  Brian thinks that the person was using it for illegal street racing, which happens a lot here because of the large amount of single soldiers with too much money and a large need to compensate.  I expect that he’ll let let me drive it in a month or so.  I did like the other car a little better, but this is more bang for our buck.  It gets better gas mileage, which is important.

This morning, my hetero lifemate Julie called to tell me that her boyfriend doesn’t believe that we met on the internet (ha!), and in telling her about the new car, she told me that she has a black Toyota Corolla.  So it’s very appropriate that we get one.  She named hers Stella so I was thinking we should name ours something like Reno (911), Baxter, or anything else relating to old cast members of The State so we can be totally nerdy about it.

I will end this with a picture of me treating Bonny like she’s my baby.

I just called to say ‘whattup’.

Published on June 22, 2007 in food, life, pictures, vegan yum yum and yellow rose recipes. 0 Comments

It’s pretty late, i’m pretty tired.  Sorry if i’m not super wordy.  Tomorrow I have to go to the library and argue with Brian over which car we’re going to buy.  We have it narrowed down to two, and the one I like more is losing.  That makes me sad.  The other car is fine, but I like the inside of mine better.  And it’s a pretty color of blue!  I will post pictures when I have them.  By tomorrow, we should own a car that actually starts right away and doesn’t leak fluids.  That’ll be nice.

So here’s some food.  First, we have another tester recipe from Joanna.  Pasta E Fagioli.  It’s a hearty soup, a meal in itself.  Tasty and filling.  I’ve eaten 5-6 bowls and I still have some left.

I decided to try and make vegan egg foo yung last weekend.  If you’ve never had it, it’s just a tiny omlet, fried.  They usually have meat in them, but they make vegetable ones too.  When I went to the bufet with my in-laws, I would get a couple patties, some rice, and some sweet and sour sauce and be happy.  I decided to use silken tofu, and ground flax seeds mixed with water for the binder.  I added some salt and pepper, and a little tumeric for color.  I chopped and grated mushroom, pepper, carrot, and onion and folded it in to the tofu.

Okay, time to deep fry.  I poured an inch worth of peanut oil into a pan and heated it over medium high.  I filled a 1/4 cup with tofu, and gently dropped it in.  And then the ‘oh shit’s began.  It spattered like crazy.  I couldn’t flip them because even though the part touching the bottom was frying, the insides were still liquid, so it just kept running out.  This was the end result of that:

Ulch.  too greasy.  I wiped down the pan and went with just a smidge of oil and reduced the heat..  I put three cakes down, and covered it with a lid.  It took about ten minutes before I could flip them, but I finally got something I could eat:

Then I tried to cook the rest as one big pancake , but  that didn’t work out.  Mostly because I called my mother-in-law and forgot it was on the stove and it ended up burning.  But I was pretty tired of the experiment by then anyway.  It was awfully tedious.

Then I find out that there’s a recipe in the Chicago Diner book.  God dammit.

Tonight, Brian and I made our first test recipe for Vegan Yum Yum.  We did the Jalapeno Poppers.  I can’t tell you about the recipe, but the batter is pretty amazing.  I didn’t take any money shots, sorry.  We had some leftover batter so I made corndogs as well.  I’m going to make some more for future lunches as soon as I figure out how to make the batter more fluffy so you taste less dog and more battery goodness.

Working for the weekend.

Published on June 17, 2007 in animals, family, food, life, pictures, vegan lunch box and yellow rose recipes. 6 Comments

I had my hair cut today and feel so much better! The stylist cut it shorter than I asked, but i’m glad she did because a) I like it and b) bleach damaged hair feels like crap. Now I just need to touch up my roots. My bangs look crooked because I went tanning afterwards and pushed my hair off my forehead while I was lying there, and that part stayed that way.

Onto the food porn. Why else would you come here?

This is what I ate two nights in a row after mowing the grass. It takes me approximately six total hours to mow the yard. It would only take five, but I have to stop and sneeze every five minutes. It’s pretty sweaty work. So for a fast meal I took some Morningstar Farms chik’n strips, a purple pepper, and mushrooms and sauted them. Then I added a failed attempt at making roasted red pepper vinaigrette (tasted great, too thick and lumpy), and put it on top of couscous. So good.

Yesterday was a tester day for Joanna, whose book is coming out this November! I made spinach lasagna:

And Minty Summer Fruit Salad:

Both of them made a lot, but are practically gone because I am a hoover. I played around with the fruit a bit.

The other night I was working on the zine thing, and needed a quick snack. By the way, I meant to have the zine done and ready to print this weekend so I could take orders, but then I found out that my husband is coming home from Louisiana early. Almost a week earlier than we thought. So, I had to do things like cut my hair and wash the car and clean the house instead. Anyway, based loosely on a recipe from Vegan Lunch Box (because I was too lazy to actually open the book), I made roasted chickpeas. Drain chickpeas, dump in a bowl, add nutritional yeast and spices, and bake on a cookie sheet for awhile. Very tasty. Very easy to eat the whole thing in five minutes, but it’s okay cause it’s just beans.

Now I am off to fold mounds of laundry, while watching the Degrassi marathon on Noggin.