I'm Still Here

Thanks to the excellent care I received from 3 of you I am feeling great and am back to my exercise class - plus a new one that is harder. This will help get me ready for London although I think Twiggy is going to be the one who is dragging.

Chip, I loved the dress. I agree with Roothy - you have a career.

I am making vegan spaghetti tonight for two friends (and Charles) using veggie burgers in the sauce. I have cut WAY down on cheese - I seem to eat a lot of butter, however. One thing at a time.

I will have a better blog when I get back from England.

Let's Get the Party Started!

Roothy, you're back. As soon as I saw your post I got up and ate a grapefruit. Okay, 1/2 a grapefruit, the 3 smews are here and I didn't feel like cutting up four so I just cut up 2 and said 1/2 is a serving. I have been trying to practise the 5 a day but so far have only been successful on the weekends. I can't remember if anyone else said they were going to give my challenge a go too.

Momcat? Kipsy? Anyone, Anyone?

Mrs. Spottletoe moves up in the world

Two years ago, Sharon helped me make a skirt for Dickens Fair. I wore it with a white blouse (boring!) I needed to make a bodice to go with it.

Anya had a pattern that was the wrong size for her, so she gave it to me. I found that I did not have enough matching fabric to make the whole bodice, so with Sharon's advice, I decided to cut off the bottom of my skirt (gasp!) to make the sleeves for the bodice.

I found a bed ruffle at Savers that was the same gold color as the stripe in my skirt, and sewed it to the bottom. Then I found some old curtains at Savers with this really great tassel fringe on them.

I'm going to use the curtain fabric (sans fringe) to make a 50s dance dress (the pattern for which I won on ebay for 10 bucks.) I also got some old pink curtains which I am using to make a cartridge-pleated skirt (to go with the white blouse) for the Victorian Picnic that I hope will happen again this year.

What I've Done with UncleSam's Leftovers

Uncle Sam left a lot of delicious leftover vegan ingredients. So far, I have made (listing only the ingredients she left behind):

a nice sambar (recipe earlier in the blog) using celery, onions, potatoes, carrots, zucchini

a mock chicken salad using tofu, celery, green pepper, Veganaise, and Bacos (served on spring mix--though that was on its last legs)

lentil soup using onions, potatoes, carrots, celery

cut cantelope as a side dish

I also ate her leftover bechamel/macaroni/fake meat casserole thingie.

It's been a lot of fun trying to use it all up so it doesn't go bad. It made me think that there should be a reality tv chef show where the contestants have to show up in a randomly selected US household and cook a meal using whatever happens to be in the fridge and pantry.