Weegan

Hi folks, 

John is a weegan. He is eating vegan for a week. Get it? lol I invited myself to his house to help me stay on track for my Get Paid to Lose Weight Challenge. If When I lose 10% of my body weight and  weigh in in 6 months, they will double my money! $150 doubled to $300! That's a lot of dough. John is doing it too. Join us! Misery loves company! What a great investment, financially and health wise! Any suckers out there . . . ? (http://www.healthywage.com/

Anyway, John informed me that he is eating vegan for a week, and I should bring a recipe for Saturday supper and Sunday lunch. Okey dokey. Will do. After a Junior Whopper with Cheese (tsk tsk) to fortify myself, off I went with my vegan recipes.

There is a blog I like called Serious Eats and a blogger blogged his 28 days of eating vegan. http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/02/vegan-experience-recipes-soups-salads-sandwiches-mains-snacks.html?ref=search. Lots of the vegan recipes sounds great. I picked the soup and toast recipes from that series. What a terrific meal! We loved it. Hearty and filling and healthy and delicious.

Breakfast Garlic Toast & Garbanzos con Espinacas y Jengibre (Spanish Chickpea and Spinach Stew with Ginger)

Don't skip the  sherry vinegar when you serve up this delicious soup! It is fantastic. And the garlic toast was a great dipper.

I saw this next one in a magazine a while back, and did an internet search to find a recipe for cauliflower steaks. This is the one we used http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/quick-recipes/2012/01/cauliflower-steaks-with-olive-relish-and-tomato-sauce-2

It was wonderful! My big cauliflower steaks broke up into little ones, but big whoop. Instead of making the tomato sauce in the recipe I used my beloved roasted red pepper-eggplant sauce from Trader Joe's I love that stuff and it went perfectly in this recipe. Definitely good eats.

On the Dad front, Mom told me that Uncle Jim (Dad's younger bro, 92 years young!) phoned today. Dad told Uncle Jim that he is living in Joliet now, with Jo Ann Black (mom's maiden name!) LOLOL. What a hoot. I told Mom she is moving up in the world, she is no longer cousin Ione, now she is shacking up with Bernie in Joliet! I had a good giggle over that.

Dad still thinks he is the hired man sometimes. I took him for a ride Saturday before I left for John's, and he was talking about Morris . . . "I still can't believe I ended up in Morris. I used to know people in a lot of these houses, and now I don't know anybody. Of course when you are a hired man, you don't get out much . . . " I took him for a doughnut, gosh he loves his junk food, AND I'm not the only one packing it on here. Finnegan is a real whopper! He must be worried and depressed about Dad too! We'll get a handle on it. Hopefully sooner rather than later.

What!? I'm not fat!

Dad took a fall in living room, Mom isn't sure what happened. He bloodied up his chin. He seems OK though. He made it to church today. He loves church. He keeps telling us he won't be here much longer.  He has been saying that for 25 years, I swear. I ask him if he knows how much longer he is going to be hanging around and he laughs! LOL  Then he tells us that nobody lives forever . . . though he would like to! LOL

John's cats are sweet as can be. You sure laugh out loud a lot more when there are kittens around, that is for sure. We watched a lot of movies this weekend, movies I would never have watched had John not cut the cable Cord. Slumdog Millionare (good); The Pack (bad dogs! I mean bad owners! 70's movies often have a lesson); The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea (bad boys!); The Night Digger (wow Patricia Neal); The Day the Earth Caught Fire (very good); and some other ones too. I have to agree with John that 70's movies have held up better over time than 80's movies.

New furniture at Johns.

Sisters. And gosh they throw off a lot of heat, handy with John's low thermostat! They were laying on my belly under a blanket while I was vegging on couch watching a movie.

One of Hera and Isis's fave spots, John's shoulder.

It was fun when the kittens saw snow for the first time. They were wide eyed, looking up at the falling snow, occasionally taking a leap into the sliders. And I'm sorry about locking you in closet Isis! You little sneak! (She loved it!)

Went to the hospital to see Mar, she went in for some tests, and I couldn't help but remember that it is coming up on the year anniversary of having my colostomy reversal. Hooooray!!!! LOL And Mar is out of hospital and fine! Hooooray!!!!

Have a good week peeps!

Kay :)