Detroit Tigers have gone Veg*n

So.....I'm here to review the Detroit Tigers home - Comerica Park goes VEG*N!
Here are the critics involved......Goods & Me - one Vegan, one, not so much....of course the one in the orange hat is the Vegan.

Don't we look adorable in our matching shirts???
Well the game against the Oakland A's started off with a rain delay - that was okay, we were hungry so we decided to find the VEGGIE BURGER to try....
I did my research ahead of time - the veggie burger is located at the Brush Fire Grill by the ferris wheel (ha, and by our seats!)

It came in a burger basket....with lettuce, tomato slice, pickle, a bag of chips and coleslaw....for $ 8.50!

My coleslaw went to Goods....but even Goods got the veggie burger too :-)

We were both impressed with the burger- full of grains and veggies - but I did miss my vegenaise on it (so next time I will sneak that in along with my vodka). T he bun was awesome - too much for me, I didn't eat all the bun.

Then we watched the game, okay I watched more of the people then the game....here are some pixs of the people I watched...They posed for me!

They were obviously Oakland fans - they were actually from Oakland - check out their hats- there were a hoot.....and then here is their Grandfather

I just hope he was from Oakland too.

And some pics of the stadium - the sky was breathtaking after the rain.

It was time for Goods and me to walk around and also find a snack..

I got a pretzel, no butter please....

Goods got an elephant ear... (non-vegan)

Everything was very good, but I'm guessing the cocktails swayed that decision. I was totally Glutened out and full, so I just took some pixs of veg*n food signs...

So it was very cool that there were so many choices for me. I can see why they got to be #7 on the Peta list of Veggie Friendly Ball Parks.

Here is a pix of the Tiger Merry-Go-Round at Comerica.....

And here, I am imitating a tiger attacking Guido, after we got home from the game....for some reason, she wasn't scared.

Good Job Comerica- and I'm outta here!!

Sunny Monday to you....

In the summer I normally do not have fresh flowers inside the house, one- we are never in the house, two- there are plenty of flowers outside that I can enjoy....But Goods bought me these at our favorite roadside market- just beautiful!

8-8-08...and boy did we

I must admit, I have a gift for taking any event, object or situations and make it revolve around food. So Friday, was no different....the Olympics! on 8-8-08, so we ate.... I themed the food around the "Oriental" flavor... Wasbi Peas....

Rice Cracker Mix for a snack

Premeal food also included (premade) veggie spring rolls, of course

Homemade veggie sushi, that included awful brown rice - DON'T USE THAT, get you're butt down to the oriental market and restock on your sticky rice (okay that was directed towards me, not you). As you can see, the basmati brown rice IS NOT STICKY, no matter how much water you add to it....

And for the main food....our favorite Lettuce Wraps, with a side of Lenny....

Sorry for the bad photos; I bought a new point and shoot camera, for carrying convenience and I used it for these, really it wasn't the cocktails, it was really the camera.

Next up...A Vegan at the Detroit Tigers' Game.

Take me out to the veggie ball park.....

PETA has announced that Comerica Park is #7 on their PETA's 2008 Top 10 Vegetarian-Friendly Ballparks....

"Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers) Apparently, even Tigers love veggie burgers, because Comerica Park has cracked PETA's Top 10 for the first time ever! The Tigers are offering veggie burgers, vegetable stir-fries, vegetable fried rice, fruit trays, Mandarin salad, fish-free California rolls, and meatless taco salad. "

Goods and I are going to a Tiger's game Saturday night. We now plan to have dinner at the park instead of a restaurant.....a food review will follow next week. Hopefully they won't strike out and they will score with their veggie burger (vegan too). Gotta run, I'm outta here....

Busy as a bee

I've been busy, I needed a break, and I'll bee back soon.....

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Food post to appear soon.....

Flower of the Week - March 17, 2008

...and a Happy St. Patties Day to you!

I'm all Giddy, because Vegans fight back against- Anthony Bourdain!

After Goods told me Anthony Bourdain said this:
"Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."

- Anthony Bourdain, "Kitchen Confidential," p. 70

...I decided to boycott his show. FYI I watched the show like one would do a horror show, through your fingers as you covered up your eyes, during the gory parts....BUT now a genius came up with this "http://hezbollahtofu.blogspot.com/"

P.S. - Title - I do mean that Vegans are fighting back in a NON-violent way.
Peace out!

Goods Hearing

A conversation Goods and I had this week---
The scenario- I just got home from work, I was snacking on a few pistachios, Goods was across the living room (about 15 feet away) playing with the fire in the fireplace.

Goods: Did you just drop a pistachio?

Me: No, I don't think so...

Goods: I thought I heard one drop.

Me: Wait a minute, you can hear a pistachio drop on the carpeting, that far away but you can't hear me most of the time.

Typical man.

Har-Dee Foods....

Well since winter is never leaving us here in Michigan...I've been making more har-dee (OK - hardy) foods...well most of the time.

First off though, I would like to share some great zucchini I made on the fly one night.

BBZ - Breaded Baked Zucchini

Slice Zucchini (I had 3 small ones)

2 servings of egg replacer mixed

In dry breading mixture
Bread Crumbs
Pepper
Garlic Powder
Nutritional Yeast

Coat Zucchini w/ egg replacer
put Zucchini in breading
then single layer it on a greased baking pan

To Cook- preheat oven 475 degrees.

bake for 5 mins, flip zucchini and bake for additional 5-10 mins.

Eat! The zucchini remains a little crunchy! Perfect!

I have a personal mission to use up food that is stashed in the freezer. The yellow stuff in the right corner is from my Birthday meal Goods made me in December. It is the Mac & Cheese recipe from "VEGANOMICS". Excellent recipe but it made a 9" x 13" pan for the two of us...so I did what I do best - I froze it! When I reheated this time I made another batch of the cheese sauce and poured it on it. The noodles were a little soggy but who cares when something tastes that good! The tofu is "Blacken Tofu" from "EDBV" - great too, I had the leftovers on a salad. Then just some sauteed spinach with garlic- which the leftovers from this, made it's way into another recipe below.......

the spinach made it into this- Cheesy Lasagna from "VegWeb".

This is how I'm going to make my Lasagna from no one....It was great. BUTTTTTTT, these are the changes I would make/or made this time: (plus I made 1/2 recipe)

Cheesy Lasagna Ingredients

2-3 jars of favorite spaghetti sauce (Glen Muirs-the best)
1-16 oz bag of spinach leaves (precooked spinach from above)
2-3 jars of tomato sauce (skipped)
1/2 lb. carrots (I used 1/2 c for the halved recipe)
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley (used dried)
2 cloves minced garlic (used a lot more)
1/4 cup canned low-sodium veggie broth (I didn't dig this, after I heated the mixture I added ricemilk instead of the veggie broth)
1 lb. herbed tofu (regular tofu w/ 1 tsp. of Itailan seasoning- plus I crumbed more plain tofu when assembling for chucks )
8 oz. vegan cream cheese
2 Tblspns. lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
12 lasagna noodles, cooked
1/4 cup nutritional yeast, optional - (never an option, always a must)

Please see above link for the rest of the recipe instructions.

Goods and I have been craving Mexican - so the first course was "freezer bean dip". Named for where I found it, in the freezer. This is an awesome dip, I will blog the recipe some other time since it's kind of make as you go thing....

But I can tell you the gist of it, refried beans, jalapeno peppers, cream cheese and sour cream (vegan of course) and some taco mix.

Just in case you didn't know what it looked like on a chip.....

Can you tell I love jalapenos???


The main course was "Chicken Enchiladas" - a virgin attempt on my part.

The ingredients are as follows-

Sautee & Cool-
1/2 C. Chopped Green Pepper
1/2 C. Chopped Red Pepper
1/2 C. Onion
5 minced Garlic Cloves (another love of mine)
2 chopped Jalapenos

In mixing bowl:
8 oz. pkg of "Chicken Strips" (shredded/cubed/or whole, who cares)
1 shredded Carrot
1 C. Corn
1 C. cooked Black Beans
1 tsp. Cilantro
1 Tbs. dried Parsley
8 oz. Tofutti Sour Cream

Now Mix all the ingredients together .

Here is the "Chicken" I bought at our new local Trader Joes. I liked it a lot better then Morning Stars- one, the salt content seemed less, and two, it was about $2.00 less the Morning Stars!

To assemble - I used the big (around 8") tortillas and place 1/2 c. of mixture in each one.

It made a total of 8 enchiladas. I put 5 enchiladas in a 9"x13" (oiled) pan and 3 in a 8"x8" (which I was really itching to freeze but Goods talked me out of it) Then I poured canned enchilada sauce on it and baked @ 350 for about 45 mins.

And the finished product ....served with shredded lettuce and of course, jalapenos.

Goods declared it better then any Mexican we have had out! I must say it was super.

BUTTTT, because there are always buts - these are some hints and or changes I would possibly make. Hint#1- first put some enchilada sauce on the bottom of the pan because the tortillas got crispy!
Hint #2 - coat the tortillas, with enchilada sauce, in between each other, they kind of stuck together when removing them from the pan.

I don't know either, if it was totally necessary to precook the veggies- next time I don't think I will. And instead of shredded carrots I would chop them in small pieces instead. All said and down I used 2 large cans of enchilada sauces including reheating them for leftovers. Also, I think I would keep the "chicken" in their normal state.

I will be making these again and soon! I give them 6 out of 5 forks - hey it's my rating system I can do what I want.

Till next time - ADIOS!

Flower of the Week - March 3, 2008

Happy first Monday of March!
Only 17 more days to SPRING!

Quote of the Week

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

~Jeremy Bentham

Plan ol' good Veggin food

I've been craving French Toast for ages. None of the recipes that I came across really didn't seem appealing to me....but then I found this one!
Dreena's Fantastic French Toast! And that it is fantastic.

So on Sunday, after my 4 mile run OUTSIDE- OUTSIDE IN THE FRESH AIR, NO SNOW, SIDEWALKS CLEARED, - did I mention- OUTSIDE???? And can I mention that I ran 4 miles Saturday OUTSIDE...and now I will mention that I had to run on the treadmill, inside this morning because we got snow over night...okay, so anyway, Sunday I made the french toast.

Here is my naked french toast ~ before the maple syrup.

Recipe from her website (link above too)~

1 cup vanilla non-dairy milk
(note: I only have plain soymilk - I used that plus 1/2 tsp of vanilla)
2 tbsp flax meal
1⁄2 cup silken firm tofu
1⁄4 tsp cinnamon
1⁄8 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1⁄8 tsp sea salt
1 tsp canola oil

8 - 9 slices bread of choice

2 - 3 tsp canola oil (or more, if needed, for frying)

Using a hand blender or in a blender (used this), purée the non-dairy milk, flax meal, tofu, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and canola oil until very smooth and thick (it will get thicker as it sits a little while and the flax absorbs some of the liquid).

Dip a slice of bread in the batter. Turn over and let it sit for a few moments to soak, then remove and place on a plate until ready to fry. In a non-stick skillet over medium-high heat, add the canola oil when hot and reduce heat to low/medium-low. Fry bread for 4-6 minutes on each side, until lightly brown (try to flip only once so that the batter will set and brown nicely on the bread).
Serve with pure maple syrup.

Goods said that now he expects it every weekend. And don't we know "expecting" and it "happening" are two totally different things.

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Sunday we invited a friend (LM) over that has been spending a lot of his time traveling and staying in hotels for business...thought maybe he could use some good VEGAN food (or as LM says ~ Veggin)

Premeal (no pics)-
**Horseradish "Cheese"with crackers ("Vegan Vittles" recipe for crock cheese with horseradish added)
** Hummus and veggies

Main Grub-
**Garden Salad

**Freshly baked Light Oat Bread from Allrecipes.com~

INGREDIENTS
1 1/4 cups water
2 tablespoons margarine
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

DIRECTIONS
Add ingredients to bread machine pan in order recommended by your manufacturer. Use regular light setting.

This is awesome bread - so light and fluffy; I've made it before and will make in many times again.

**Fettuccine Alfredo with Veggies ~ recipe to follow

Here is my plate - kind of messy

LM couldn't believe that I was taking a photo of him eating.....

But Goods was all nonchalant about it, reassuring LM that it's okay, I do it all the time and that the photo will only end up on my blog.

LM stated that this was the best thing I ever made him....a tear came to my eye. But here is the recipe I concocted for the Veggie Fettuccine Alfredo

The Sauce-

Blend together with emulsion blender or other blender:
1 container of Tofutti Cream Cheese
½ c. firm Tofu
4 Tbs. of Earth Balance
1 C. Rice Milk
2 Tbs. Nutritional Yeast
1 Tbs. Dried Parsley
1 tsp. Sea Salt
1/4-1/2 C. of Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Fresh Ground Pepper to taste

Put in medium sauce pan.

Add one bulb of roasted garlic (we LOVE garlic)

Heat thoroughly. It's ready to use!

Veggies for in the pasta - I used asparagus, onion, carrots, artichoke, broccoli and roasted red pepper (homemade). Cook in a little olive oil until desired doneness.

Cook one package of Fettuccine (actually I didn't mix about 1 c. of cooked fettuccine upon assembling). Drain and rinse. Mix the noodles, veggies and sauce. TA-DA- Done.

**Dessert~
Vanilla Soy Ice Cream (homemade) with Carmel Sauce (from "Vegan Ice Cream Paradise" website) if you had room, they did, I didn't. I screwed up the Carmel Sauce because I apparently can't read directions...but the boys assured me that it was really good.

The Vanilla Ice Cream is just a variation of my new found ice cream formula-

2 C. Soy Creamer
(I think french vanilla creamer would be good here- next time!)
1/4 C. Powdered Soy Milk
4 oz. Tofutti Cream Cheese
1/2 C. Sugar
3 tsp. Vanilla
Chill above mixture, if you have time. In ice cream maker, put the “cream” mixture in and cycle for approx 30 minutes.

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That about wraps up my food production. I've been doing a lot of crafting - mosaic-ing anything that doesn't move....but I'll save that for another post. 'Till then - I'm out.

Feb. 25, 2008 - Flower of the Week

Happy Last Monday in February!!
Only 24 more days until Spring! Will that make the 4-6 inches of expected snow tonight more exceptable - NO! But there is light at the end of the tunnel!

Tip of the Week -

Don't eat any samples at Costco. Even if it is just a slice of apple.
Don't do it....unless you like to be sick for 2 days.
Trust Goods and me on this one...yes, both of us.

GET RED-DEE FOR DINNER!

Goods & I were invited over to dinner to his Bro's and SIL house this past weekend. In the course of chatting about the plans, I said to SIL- "oh- we should do a red theme party some day". Well SIL took the challenge, thus I too bring offerings of redness to the evening. What GREAT FUN!

For pre-meal food - SIL had some great Muir Glenn Black Bean and Salsa-
And per her request, I made Nacho Cheese Dip from Shmoooo's website - (close enough to red, wouldn't you say??). Love love this stuff....

Even their Granddog- DUFFY, got into the red theme.....here he is with Goods - a note, Goods is also adorned in RED, as was SIL and I.

First course - Tomato Basil Soup - from William Sonoma - SOUP cookbook. This was excellent, she used soy milk instead of the cow milk it called for....I'm waiting for the recipe from her.

Marinated fresh tomato salad...so nice and fresh, but we all agreed we really miss our garden tomatoes! Hey! Only 6 more months to wait!

Angel Hair Pasta w/ garlic, sundried tomatoes and roasted red pepper sauce. Loved the olives in it. It was a recipe that she concocted and it is definitely a recipe I'm copying from her :)

After all that food, someone was too pooped to party with her RED fish. This is another Granddog- Sarah.

So as we let the food settle in our tummies, we played a wild game of HI-HO-Cherrios (I know, cherries - I guess I should say RED cherries)

Not exactly sure what Goods is doing here, maybe just maybe Goods has come to LOVE HI HO CHERRIOS as much as I and he is showing it his affection. I love HI HO CHERRIOS- yeap, ask the youngsters and the adults, if we are going to play games it is mandatory that the first game is HI HO CHEERIOS. BTW, Good's Bro. won.

Then came dessert- Cherry Cheesecake "Ice Cream" -

Cherry Cheesecake Ice Cream

***Does not get rock hard in freezer ice cream!***

(NOTE: I did modified a recipe from vegsource.com and came up with this)

2 C. Soy Creamer
1/4 C. Powdered Soy Milk
6 oz. Tofutti Cream Cheese
1/2 C. Sugar
2 tsp. Vanilla
1 Tbs. Fresh Squeezed Lemon Juice

Chill above mixture, if you have time.

Cherry mixture:
Approx 1 cup of Frozen Cherries
1/2 C. of water
1 tsp. Vanilla or Lemon Juice
Combine in small sauce pan and bring to boil.

Combine:
2-3 tsp. Arrowroot
Add just enough Water to dissolve Arrowroot.

When the Cherry Mixture starts to boil, add Arrowroot mixture, turn off stove and stir well. Cool.

In ice cream maker put the “cream” mixture in and cycle for approx 30 minutes.
Add the Cherry mixture and cycle for 5 more minutes.

EAT!

What I really like about this ice cream, besides the awesome taste is that you can take leftovers out of the freezer and serve immediately! It doesn’t get rock hard- Now doesn’t that ROCK!

I have also made pineapple/ mango ice cream, instead of making the cherry mixture I just throw in, in the last 5 minutes, one cup of fresh mango & pineapple (cut in some pieces).
Totally yummy!

ALSO - When I was making the cherry cheesecake recipe I opened my Soy Creamer and it was BAD- so I used 2 C. of Soymilk and 1/2 C. of Powdered Soymilk.

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We had such a fun time! And it was such a fun idea. Maybe for St. Patties Day we will do a green theme! More odd-themed dinner will be in the future....the possibilities are endless.

Enjoy!

Feb. 18, 2008 - Flower of the week

OY, it's Monday again - have a happy one....

Who Needs Mojo?

Not with this service - Vegan meals delivered to your door.....

The Hungry Vegan - now this Rocks!

Where's the food???

I've been extremely uninterested in making food, even though Goods would say differently.
I think I lost my Mojo, maybe a mojito would help.

Even our neighborhood hawk is looking for food...

(on the brush pile in our garden- Goods built for the winter for the birdies)

Even Guido weighs nothing-

And Fluffy has resorted to threatening to run away to get food....

(not true always tons of kitty food out)

So here is some of the food I've made-

Spicy Peanut Sauce from VWV served over stirfry of veggies, preseasoned- prepressed tofu (see I told you no Mojo) and oriental noodles. Made enough for two dinners.

I love this sauce, I always make a batch of it for my lettuce wraps.

Whatever Bean Soup (made up as I went)...Mixed beans, veggie broth, seasoning, tomatoes & tomato paste, carrots and some other veggies- threw together and cooked in the slower cooker for 10 hours.

Another slow cooker recipe I made "What a Dal", from "Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker"

I served it in rolled up with fried potatoes & peppers and some fire roasted tomatoes - oh and a little "cheese". The concept was good but the "Dal" needed a lot more seasoning - we are "high seasoning" people. And the recipe stated to cook for 8 hours- well it was done in about 1/2 the time. It made TONS so the next night I made "Dal patties" - added some chopped veggies and more seasoning-

Then for dinner #3- the next night, we put the patties in buns and had "Dal Burgers" with all the burger fixings. I still have a huge container left of the lentils, they are going in the freezer, I'm lentiled out.

And lastly, I am fairly certain that I am the LAST person to finally make "Tamari-Roasted Chickpeas" from EDBV.

OMG- they are the best, LOVE LOVE LOVE them. Great with the baked potato I served with them. The organic baby zucchini that I got at Whole Foods was so sweet- excellent.

So that about wraps things up. Eating out a little bit more - have to give a shot out to the Majestic Cafe , in downtown Detroit, where I had the most kick ass Tempeh Sloppy Joe - oh and great hummous and all it's garlic loveliness! I was giddy with all their vegan options.

Until next time Ciao!

February 11th-ish, 2008 - Late flower of the week...

Due to technical difficulties (ME!) , the flower of the week is a day late....

I bought this miniture rose "bush" at the supermarket last week for $1.99!! Couldn't pass up such a deal. I will plant it outside in the spring.

They call it FAT TUESDAY for a reason....

Have you had your Paczki (pronounced poonch-kee) today????

(photo from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paczki)

I would have taken my own photo, since there are a couple of boxes of these in our office today, but they already think I'm a tad strange so I decided to "borrow" a photo.

Paczki are a Polish tradition, and since the Detroit Area has Hamtramck- we have Packzi day. They are made with flour (I'm sure bleached), sugar (white, bone chard I'm guessing), eggs, and of course, lard. Americans, however, added filling. Paczki now come in apple, blueberry, raspberry, cherry, custard (more eggs! ) and lemon filling.

Paczki fun facts- or not so fun....

• A typical 5 oz. paczki has 420 calories (and that is a small sized paczki)
• Also has 25 grams of fat.
• You would have to run 30-45 minutes to burn off one!
• They are fried, typically, in lard.
• I've never eaten one, even in my non-veg*n days.

This is one recipe I don't even care to try a veganize!

February 4, 2008 - Flower of the week

Happy 1st Monday of February! Spring is getting closer!!!

Friday - Tip of the week

And yet another reason not to eat meat.....Click here to gag.

Not sure if this is really considered MEAT though.

Tuesday Twitter

I'm behind.
Went away for the weekend and it throws me out of sink, and out of the kitchen.

But check this out - 247 lb. Vegan!
You go girl!

Quote of the Week

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia."
Joseph Wood Krutch

....truer words have never been spoken.

I Faked it this Weekend....

.....with fake sausage patties - Chickpea Sausage Patties to be exact. This recipe I found on the blog "EATAIR" . These were beyond yummy! And for once I followed the recipe and the only thing I would do differently next time is to double the recipe. 5 out of 5 forks on these. I'm dreaming of "Vegan McMuffins" as I type this. These patties would be perfect for that...but I served them with baked butternut squash and asparagus.

Then I made some balls....

...for pasta & balls. I use the "BETTER BURGER" recipe from "Vegan Vittles" and make them into balls. I usually double the recipe so I have extras to freeze. This time I change the recipe a tad...instead of 2 cups of TVP (in the double recipe) I used 1 1/2 cups of TVP and 1/2 c. of ground walnuts. I very much like the change, it added more flavor and they weren't as "gooey".

....and some baked seiten. I confess, I made them a while ago, in fact I've made a couple of times. This recipe is from "Veganomicon" - since everyone now has made the Chickpea Cutlets**, the Baked Seiten Cutlet recipe is the recipe before it.

Here's a photo before going into the oven.....

And the finished product.....

As stated, I've made these a couple of times. The second time I made them, I thought I screwed up with the wheat gluten and the "dough" was extremely a stringy glob mess- and of course I doubled the recipe. So I put that aside, and made another, single batch, better, but still had stringy globs in it. Well, I decided not to waste anything and cooked all 3 batches. They ended up turning out great- taste wise, just not as pretty as the above photos. Oh, and I save the broth from the baking process (freezer) to use again to make these...no need to waste. The cutlets were moist and tender with less mess then the boil method.

I really need to perfect my wheat gluten technique; I have issues of getting distracted and I think the problem arises when I don't mix immediately upon adding the wet ingredients. Or maybe I pour the wet ingredients in too quickly and not evenly. Any one has hints, pretty please let me know. The seiten was great as a substitute for the tofu in my lettuce wraps (April 13, 2007 post).

**Okay, don't totally BOO me, but the Chickpea Cutlets from "Veganomicon" were just okay for me. Goods even agreed with me. I do think they are a great base to work with. Sorry if I offend anyone.

The next new fake meat I'm going to make is Corned Beef from the blog- Everyday Dish. Yummy??? I'll let you know.

January 21, 2008 - Flower of the week

Well since my flowers from last week still look great, I did not buy new ones this weekend. So I'm posting the progress of my orchid producing a flower. I first spotted the stem on New Years Day. I'm very excited about this, I received the plant as a gift Christmas 2006. Well, happy Monday to you....

And the answer is.......

...A MOUSE!

But not this mouse, this a mouse from the yard- friendly little critter isn't he? The mouse in the freezer was a house mouse that died, we are assuming naturally (we would NEVER use any kind of poison). Here is how it panned out....

Last Friday I was digging in your freezer for vegan sausage that I needed for Sun. – needed to see if I had to go to the store. Well - I was digging, I come across the white package in Goods' sausage section.
I said “I know what this is”
a semi-startled/sad look comes over his face and he said “It’s not what you think”
I said “really – then what is it” as I had it in my hand
he said “a mouse”
I went “ewhhhhh” and gently put it back into the freezer (you have to have respect for the dead - but Goods says i threw it, but I don't believe him)
and then I said “well at least it was in the meat section”

I didn’t have to question why he had it in there- we had a hawk in the yard one day that was dazed and the only thing we had in the house was bacon, so Goods fed it bacon. Well a hawk guy told us that isn’t good for a hawk to eat (well it was better then nothing) and he said if you ever come across some fresh roadkill put it in the freezer and save it. So Goods was taking out x-mas decorations and found this mouse, dead, and fresh, so he put it in the freezer.

Here are some pics of the reason why we have the Popsicle mouse.
He was first in our front yard - very beautiful

Then I went into the backyard to do some work, and the hawk flew back there too. He landed on the cable line. He loss his balance and fell off, thank goodness some evergreens broke his fall. He ultimately landed in a row of dense hostas. He couldn't get out of them so Goods came to the rescue.
After Goods put him on the fence....

Eating his bacon...
After an hour or so he flew off. We pray that he is safe and sound.

So the tip of the week is.....Keep a mouse in your freezer for emergency hawk food.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK & A GUESS WHAT IT IS????

This is one of my favorite quotes:
Being vegan helped me realize I can say and do what I believe is right. That's powerful. -Alicia Silverstone


....And try and guess what is in the white package on top of GOODS' sausage- let me reiterate- GOODS' SAUSAGE- I have nothing to do with serving killed animals! Answer will be forth coming.