wine

i have also had the luck to purchase a bottle of sutter hill red. so funny i went in to the store for groceries sunday morning and picked up the bottle...slowly on my way to check out realized it was before noon on sunday! woops...too funny. but got that wine later cabernet sauvignon. lasted four evenings. i was pretty proud of my tolerance.

veggie meatballs2

i made my veggie meatballs...super success!! they taste almost like regular meat sausage ( i think because of the herbs and other ingredients) but they arent at all greasy. i baked em for 40 min at 350 degrees and that was perf. i also used a sauce to bake them in, half sour cream and half water. i only made it so that the sauce covered the bottom of the pan. originally i had wanted to boil them in sour cream sauce like hungarian style but i somehow figured baking would work. next time i would try to cover them in the sauce one way or another to prevent moisture loss and it does really add some flavour.

veggie meatballs

so i am on this important adventure to make veggie meatballs. i am going to use ground lentils, tvp (texturized vegetable protein) and some eggs and herbs...make them into balls and then bake them in a sour cream sauce...should be great!!

sweets

i have been having the funnest time with my morning coffee ritual time. i have just recently got two types of sweet roll, both with cinnamon, one with a caramel top though no nuts and one with a cream cheese frosting top. they are so excellent and the dough is basically just bread dough so no guilt. also i realized my chai caramel tea is actually making a pretty good replica of cooked chai because the caramel flavor mimics the caramelization you get when you actually make a cooked chai. utter brilliance

swiss cheese

i have been trying to eat cheaply, obviously i always do that. my latest fave is kale , pasta and melted swiss cheese or ramen instead of pasta. i think the swiss is giving me a minor gall bladder attack...either that or the cake donuts. man donuts are so good when your craving a bit of chocolate. and sweetened condensed milk in my coffee has really upped my quality to like level 10. i was researching french sauces and how to make them...now i cant decide if i want to.

latest

i have been thinking about it for a while but i finally got some sweetened condensed milk for my coffee and tea. it is pretty good. i also got some sweet rolls, like a tray of them with frosting and cinnamon. of course i also got the ubiquitous ramen noodles and some goat cheese and some caramel chai tea bags. pretty cool

labor

so for the past couple days (well yesterday and the day before) i have been just having coffee and taking no food. it has been quite good. seems to be like a seasonal cleanse for me. the few days before that i was having just coffee and a bowl or two of pasta with greens. also very nice. i am feeling like i might want to get some food though. perhaps a breakfast muffin and ramen i can make with greens. these renters who live in the front of the unit are like old guys who are really pesky. they will be really loud in their conversations. then if i see them they are never just like "hey" they always have this dark and persisting need to talk and try to get me to come back and talk with them. and they always watch me coming and going. it is really frightening because they would always come back to my apt and knock. its really scary! they were both gone this summer for some time...it was like paradise. i keep praying for them to move out. i guess they are both sick. it really sucks. id like to have normal people living around me. although before i had another set of neighbors who were really mental, yelling at me and stuff...they had a lot of swords and bunch of dogs...really weirdos...they used to drink all day and do drugs...i was so scared to walk buy and go for groceries...somewhat

indoor plants

i have brought some more plants from outdoors into pots inside :). i have a huge tomato plant and a bunch of basil plants. i guess a few or a lot of plants are tropical perrenials but outside of the tropics they become annuals. i have two more large pots that i am going to put eggplant plants in. also trying to water my snapdragon a lot in fall so that it survives winter.

pasta dish

so i made my pasta dish that i wanted to. it was very very good. macaroni pasta canned tomatoes lambs quarters greens gorgonzola crumbles salt and pepper and ground dried herbs i just throw the greens in the pasta water when the pasta is almost done, drain and throw in the tomatoes ( i used half a can for two medium size servings of pasta) stir it up to warm the tomatoes, add the crumble (maybe four or five full to above full table spoons) add ground herbs stir and serve. don't forget the salt and pepper, they really brought the flavours forward.

budgeting

i got four cinnamon muffins, ramen, can of tomatoes, and some gorgonzola crumbles...all for 5.87$. now i am trying to have a six dollar a day budget because i have some other stuff i wanted to buy this month (headphones and blender replacement part). the muffins were really good with coffee. i ate like half the can of tomatoes just cause it was hot and i had refrigerated them for like a gazpacho "chunk" soup. and i put some ground herbs and a tad of vinegar into the ramen. this was totally perfect because the acidity and i beleive msg in the ramen sometimes feels undigestable, but this combination really worked. sometimes i think dried herbs (i have a few dried herbs in a pepper grinder) are overbearing as a flavor but now i realize they really help with digestion and vinegar can really neutralize acidity. yesterday i also had so pasta a two servings of greens, lambs quarters from my yard. its about nearing the end of season and i had really wanted to puree them and make freen soups as the seasons transition but my blender blade is stuck (nutri bullet) and i have to get a new one or figure how to fix it ( the co. says theres no fix hmm).

crocheting

i am trying to teach myself to crochet...it is pretty funand i am figuring it out little by little. i was originally attracted to crocheting because it can create these great and colorful brocades. its difficult to understand for me though. i think because i have gotten so focused on learning new knitting patterns and stitches now just the conversion in the language is getting me. so i am just trying to break down the pattern bit by bit and see if i understand more and more each time i look at it. i did once learn a granny square through video but my intetest in that did not hold. i go in and out of like of floral motiff.

days

so another one of my ten dollar purchases: cream of mushroom soup with roasted garlic cheddar cheese soup flour tortillas cream cheese chocolate frosting i also got before: four pack of heinekin pints black beans corn tortillas lay potato chips i drank the fourpack, went to the bar :) like 7pm. had a glass of red wine and started looking through a fashion magazine my mum had just got for me. this guy next to me was like " my daughters got into a mag once, i only like them for the skin shots. then i turned the page to some birth control product add and he was like "see this i hate the words pages" i said "thats there for the readers info, its like for women". i got kind of riled cause i think he tried to touch the mag so i laid my hand on the shoulder of the guy and was like you have gotten out of control calm down, almost sarcasticaly, then he tried to again turn the pages again and be a little raunchy so i did the shoulder thing and said he had gotten out of control, bar tender came over and said this is dumb whats going on. i said he dissed the birth control add i guess the bartender sided with me and asked the dude to pay up. woah.

perfect buy

this was the ultimate buy... garlic french bread coffee icecream vanilla icecream cream cheese frosting cinnamon rolls equaled 10$