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http://cookieandkate.com/2013/sweet-potato-black-bean-veggie-burgers/ with oven home fries

http://cookieandkate.com/2015/vegan-sweet-potato-green-rice-burrito-bowls   

http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/smashed-chickpea-avocado-salad-sandwich/  

Sweet Potato, Black Bean and Corn Burritos

We had mushrooms, sauced, on polenta.

http://cookieandkate.com/2013/sweet-potato-black-bean-veggie-burgers/ the burgers unadorned. 

Sweet Hera waiting for me to get up so she can beg me to play with her and get underfoot.

John took the huge flight of stairs up from the parking lot to the lodge at Starved Rock. I drove!

Lots of questions about vegan food. Here are some photos of some of our meals. My very fave so far, and I've liked them all, is one I don't have a photo for . . . http://ohsheglows.com/2015/01/21/warm-roasted-winter-salad-bowl/.  The burrito bowls were also wonderful. Once you start looking at recipes you just find more and more. Everything has been delicious and filling. My least fave so far was the mushroom polenta dish, and even that was still good. Oatmeal for breakfast with a little peanut butter and some vegan chocolate chips . . . and some lentils! Try it. It is delicious and satisfying in this cold weather. I just made the veggie burgers and home fries last night, so leftover tonight. They were excellent. I never thought I'd be saying that! They truly were delicious. Next on the menu:

 http://www.connoisseurusveg.com/2015/08/sticky-sesame-cauliflower.html

and

http://cookieandkate.com/2015/thai-pineapple-fried-rice-recipe/  No eggs for us though, we are substituting in some Crispy Baked Tofu from the same blog.  Love this blog, the recipes have been bit hits. 

Kay :)

Mallaney Cousin Get-together

Had a great lunch at Maria's today with the Mallaney girls. Lots of fun to be together and NOT at a funeral or wake. Saw lots of great old photos. We are gonna do it again in May. Don't Mom and Aunt Kay look terrific! Mom is 78, Aunt Kay will be 83. Of course the rest of us are good looking too. Good genes.  We really can't help it, it's just the way it is.

I'm coming off a bug, even missed a few days at the Y tsk tsk. But I went back today. In fact I may have picked up my bug at the Y M C AAAAAA.

I am heading to John's tomorrow for another Vegan Week! In preparation I had a great hoagie for lunch. With cheese. And garlic butter. I'm ready!

I forgot to say that I got my red hair back thanks to Loreal Medium Reddish Brown. Next time it's going to be Carribean Caramel, Light Reddish Brown. No fear now!

January is going by freakishly fast!  I'm doing my job hunting, nothing really promising has reared its head yet, but I'm ever  hopeful.

Kay :)

Happy New Year

One year anniversary of Dad's passing.

We had a good Christmas, quiet, quiet is good, and are looking forward to 2016 being a good year.

I'm at John's for a few days. He started his Biggest Loser competition at work, and is eating vegan, so I've been the chef. I'm doing a good job. I predict he will win the first weigh-in! It is good for me too, lots of beans and veggies.  We had too many cookies over the holidays. I feel like a veg-o-matic. And it is fun looking at new recipes, vegan or not.

John's cats had their annual Friday, and I rode along. Gosh they were loud. Hera was 11.9 before she got sick, 7.3 whe she got sick and now . . . 15.1# Oh lordy. So we are all on a diet. Hera is supposed to be eating low carb, kind of the opposite of vegan. Lucky cat . . .

Nothing else exciting, I'm pretty boring and blah right now. I've been job hunting, going to the Y every day that I'm home, and pestering my kitties.  And I can be perfectly happy being boring and blah, at least for right now.

Kay :)