Goods Grilling

I have been accused by Goods that I spend entirely too much time in the kitchen. I beg to differ, but he has threaten to take out the new kitchen he put in for me us. So I've been trying to make yummy food that doesn't take so much time - I do have gardening to do ya know.

I did a simple meal of BBQ tofu, sweet potato, corn on the cob, and kale.

Most everything was done on the grill, so Goods was in charge. As you can see he produced some excellent grill markings for effect. This is what I did-

Corn - soaked corn in husk in water for about 12 hours.
Grilled for about 45 mins.
Sweet Potato - okay I cheated here, I did the evil microwave
cooking on those before grilling
(I don't like to microwave- but the future of my our kitchen is at steak here!)
Tofu - extra firm marinated in some store bought BBQ sauce
Kale - I sauteed chopped garlic and sliced onions until soft.
Added the kale and threw in some fresh pineapple chucks.
Topped it off w/ some Agave Nectar. Totally yummy.

So dinner was easy, fast and simple - but yet very yummy.

I hate to admit that I've only recently been eating kale. In the past I've only used it as platter decoration. SHAME ON ME. The stuff is awesome. I'm even planting it in our garden this year. I have another kale recipe I will share with you at a later date, when I'm allowed to go back using my our kitchen...but I definitely will be making the above kale concoction again with the pineapple, great combination. Just rating the kale - 5 out of 5 forks!


And some odds and ends.....


Goods' son brought us 3 new little fantail fishies for our pond...
and they are thriving!
Introducing on of the 3- "Hot Lips" Wiggles. (She wiggles when she swims)

and some spring yard pics......

Happy Birthday Spike!

Goods' son Spike is 23 today.Happy B-day Spike!!
When you grow up - will you wear a skirt too???

You can send him b-day wishes or see his amazing photographs on his webpage http://www.myspace.com/spikephoto

You can't BEET the day I'm having already.....

To start my wonderful day I'm having already, which it's not even 9 o'clock yet-

I ran almost 4 miles this morning. I've been nursing a couple of injuries for about 2 months and I haven't done too much past 3 miles on a run.

Then as I was getting ready for work - I looked out our kitchen window and there was a female oriole was eating the orange we had out - anticipating their arrival. I was super excited to see her this morning!

(The photo is from a previous year)

And when you just think you can't beat that morning, so far- try these-

BEET BURGERS....
This recipe came from "But did they eat it" blog (March 11th post)

I thought these were very yummy. I opted to grill some thinly sliced pineapple for the burger, which complemented it very nicely. But I thought something was missing as Goods & I were eating it. I suggested maybe some carrots in the mixture next time. Goods thought pickles....but he's a pickled beet freak. Then I read in "but did they eat it" post that FatFreeVegan made another version - which included carrots & sweet potato! I'll be trying that next time! But I do highly recommend the grilled pineapple on it. RATING - 3 OUT 5 FORKS

I'm going to leave you with some trivia - how many quarts of pickled beets do you get from 25 pounds???? That would be 16 quarts and 2 very purple hands.

Mosica Me

I have many hobbies. Besides cooking, I love crafting.
Mosaicing is one of my favorite hobbies.

I’ll mosaic anything that doesn’t stand still.
See- I’ve mosaic my cat- Guido

(I didn’t place Guido next to the statue, she plopped her furry little tail down there all by herself- and I’m not making typos, Guido is a girlie cat.)

I do have a ball, mosaicing-

I can mosaic night and day-

Goods thought this was TOADALLY cool when I made him this for Christmas one year.

Okay enough, I'm going to hop a long.....