my mom makes the best spicy chex mix. one summer after 7th grade i lived off of her spicy chex mix and popsicles. i considered it a healthy diet. yesterday i tried again, and it turned out alright. there are only a couple of bites left, so i consider it a success, but it wasn't amazing. regular ol' homemade spicy chex mix isn't even vegetarian, so this stuff was vegetarian-ized and vegan-ized. to replace the worcestershire (which has anchovies) i used some vegan stuff we picked up at whole foods. there are a couple of different brands out there, i like the one with the wizard on it! there are also recipes you can find online. and then to vegan-ize it i just replaced the butter with earth balance. i'm going to try to make some more this weekend, and maybe it will go better.
today is October 1st which marks the beginning of vegan mofo! the idea is to write as much about vegan food as possible during the month of October. eric has offered to help write some blog posts and he is going to start october, and vegan mofo, off!
Hi, my name is Eric. This is my post. Usually Lauren does the typing around here for various reasons but I will try my hand at this and try to post more frequently. I figured the first day of this vegan mofo would be a good day to start.
I made some sweet potato gnocchi. I topped it with my grandfathers marinara, nutritional yeast, and a bit of parsley. It was my first go at gnocchi but it turned out fairly well for the first time. It was a bit sticky because I had baked the potatoes a few days before. I will be making more this week.
I had made some covatelli a few days back as well and since Lauren had not put up a picture, I figured I would. I just used a simple semolina flour dough and topped them with earth balance and later some nutritional yeast. A simple meal that remided me of my younger days.
i bought a philadelphia poster last week that i am way too excited about. i need to figure out where to hang it!
and in other randomness, eric bought bike rollers, so he can ride his road bike inside this winter. it's pretty neat and we had fun trying it out last night. eric was a natural and did awesome right away. i had a little bit more trouble and fell a few times.
friday morning i woke up and the first thing i did was take kitta marie to the vet. she definitely had a UTI and bladder stones (again!) so she got a shot, and some pills and we have completely changed her diet. she seems to be doing better. eric and i decided to not going to ocean city that day, and just watch her and make sure she was ok.
once eric got home from work we went to a bar across the street from our apartment for happy hour.
then we rode our bikes into center city to meet up with people and go to dinner and to a bar. juli had taken the bus but eric decided to give her a ride back.
everyone in amsterdam rode bikes around like this and it made me kind of jealous. i wish more people did it here. so we jumped at the opportunity to give it a try and it worked out quite well.
this is really my only photo from saturday. eric was awesome and cooked me pancakes for breakfast.
we ended up catching a ride to ocean city, which was about 3 hours away. sadly it was cold and rainy when we got there.
sunday morning we woke up to go to the car show. it was raining when we got there, but it ended up being a pretty nice day. VW was handing out stickers with numbers on it, and you had to find someone with your same number and you got a prize. eric found his match. i never found mine.
i was kind of having a crappy weekend because i was worried about kitta, the weather had been gross, i was at some car show were i knew no one, but then eric told me they had potato ribbons and it made everything so much better. i got a large order of potato ribbons and fries and it was amazing.
we got home early evening and did our grocery shopping and hung out around the apartment. i got in bed to read and both of the cats joined me. THIS WAS AMAZING. the cats hate being near each other.
i think eric might actually make a post this week! he made some food last week that he is pretty proud about and i am trying to get him to post about it.
kitta marie has another UTI. i just hope it doesn't turn into bladder stones like last time. luckily i am more prepared this time and i already have a urine sample and i am taking her to the vet this afternoon.
eric and i had plans to go to ocean city, md for the weekend, but who knows now.
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