Vegetarian Chatter

Hi there Elle :) It's a shame when people are so rude, I'm surprised that they don't feel bad inviting a guest over and not having anything for them to eat? I would suggest taking your own food from now on, I'm sure they will find something to whindge about by you taking your own food :rolleyes: BUT you can smile and nicely tell them "you never really have anything for me and I was sick of being hungry when I come over... I thought you would't mind seeing it seems to be such a hassel" :rofl: dh and I don't really have any worries, we are usually happy with salad (dh likes no dressing), we will either take our own meal or take some healthy home made organic spelt bread and have salad with it... We know the places which wont have any food for us so it's better to just take our own HTH is some small way :)

Hi Elle! Welcome!

I love taking my own food along to things, escpecially when I know that whoever's house it is is a mediocre cook and whatever I produce is nicer. I usually make sure it's something really aromatic or stunning looking, and just unveil it and be all smug :D
Have just been at the Ekka today - we met Melinda of Melinda's gluten free/vegan cake mixes fame. We started to hero worship her, and she was so flattered she gave us a free packet of poppyseed crackers, which are SO nice! We ate them with some chutney that we bought while we watched the woodchopping. Got right into the kitsch show thing. So much fun.

Elle - I totally know where you're coming from! It's even harder when you have to explain it in another language. DP's family in Lebanon think I'm a freak, but it's pretty easy to over-eat there and still be vego. Not so easy in France, tho, as they're a very meat-centric culture. I carry an international vegetarian card in my wallet now, with "I'm a vegetarian, what can you recommend?" in about 20 different languages, and pictures of animals and eggs crossed out on it!
Here in suburban Oz it's a different story, and people just don't seem to know or care about where their food comes from, and will eat anything out of a packet and expect you to do the same.
I would be making an effort, for your own health too, to make some really nutritious and delicious vego food (it's not that hard - really!), and take some with you next time you have to visit. Make enough for everyone to try it at least, but don't mention that it's vegetarian. Vegetarian does NOT equal bread and salad. At least not their notion of it.
Just my opinion (and I have a few of them... ;) ) but I always get some smug satisfaction out of eating something fabulous that I've brought along to one of those situations, because my food is a pleasure, not just badly cooked meat.
ETA - snuggly, we posted at the same time! I can't remember the last Ekka I went to, but I wish I had one of them kewpie dolls on a stick... that smugness is hard to beat, hey? When you lift the lid on something really awesome, and then don't have to share it! :nahnah:

Good evening Ladies,

Welcome Elle!! My jaw dropped reading your post. 10 years, wtf?! Thats harsh about the coleslaw, thats just messed up. Im positive you will get some inspiration from this thread to cook some great meals for yourself and stuff for your family too.
Oh DD giving us hell, be back tmrw to finish post**

Crisis averted thanks to DP :)

Where was I..? Elle- We are pretty lucky actually, anywhere we go we are generally catered for pretty well with our friends, but it must be a generation thing I dont know but DPs folks took a fair while to come around. His mum has learnt to cook a vego pasta bake so she makes that one meal everytime we eat there, so thats definately better than nothing...And better than damn iceberg lettuce salad and white bread. Which is EXACTLY what I was offered to eat in the birth suite after I had DD. "I just pushed this baby out and to regenerise you give me THIS" :rolleyes: Anyway, thats another story :)

Snuggly- Oh I bet you had a blast at the ekka! Im envious! Did you go on any of the rides? I love the ekka, havnt been in forever though.

NaNa- Devo about the no spices! At least you can have garlic right? What about tofu marinated in garlic and chilli paste and pan fried with somethingorather? Have you noticed much of an improvement in your DS?

Made a lentil and eggplant masala for dinner, was nice. Just slap dash but tasty.

Oh Cherished, Delish recipie, might make that one tmrw night!

Hope your all having a great weekend :)

garlic, yes, but no chilli... I cheated and used a dash of soy sauce. I just couldn't help it!! I don't know how much of an effect a few drops of soy sauce is going to have on DS anyway, but I'm hoping it's negligible. Seriously, it's so boring! Hanging out for a couple more weeks before we start the challenges. Where to begin?
DS is definitely calmer, though I think the Chinese herbs I'm giving him are definitely helping that too. He's cutting two molars ATM, so the ammonia-stinky nappies combined with the cabbage/garlic sulphurous smell.... it is TOO MUCH!! Made my eyes water! But he's not irritable or excessively clingy or grizzly, so that's great. Compared to the last two molars he got, when he was just atrocious (and we were staying with DP's family - boy were they glad to see us leave! :lol:).

I cooked up some roasted swedes tonight, with honey and poppyseeds. It was actually better than I expected (I have not-so-fond memories of my nanna's cooking of swedes!). And cannellini and green beans sauteed with saffron and garlic. Definitely edible, but DP still preferred to cook his own dinner... oh well!

hehe thanks girls, I really appreciate your replies, I am relieved to know that I am not just being a bit of a B****, I was offended and do feel that from now on I will take my own with me if I go there again, I know this offends them as I have done this in the past and they were not very happy about it, but truly if they are having a lovly meal then why cant I, its not that I dont like salad I really love it but on a cold winters night when everyone else is enjoying a yummy hot meal I kinda want that too, and its especially awful when you are expecting something yummy and get nothing much at all, just felt so let down,

anywho, thanks again for the advice, I am posative I will gain alot from this thread, so thanks girls, i look forward to chatting some more when I have some spare time, which seems to be a luxury here atm LOL

Hi girls, just wanted to share what I had for lunch today, Snug bug it was very similar to your Moroccan Apricot dish with chic peas...

Onion, garlic, ginger, red wine covered & simmer for 5 min, add cinnamon, cumin, salt, chilli & paprika stir and cook for another minute... add tofu, sweet pot, dried apricots & water and simmer until pot is soft, than I added lemon juice, raisins and chic peas. I served with chopped almonds on top, couscous and yummo salad on the side and dh & I shared a beer :P

Oh Yum yum yum yum yum! You can come over and make that for me anytime Cherished ;)

NaNa thts good to hear that the diet is actually making a difference in your DS. Geez Im not looking forward to molars, the first 3 were bad enough.
Not much going on here as usual, hope your all having a good night :)

Hi all,

Welcome Elle!

Cherished, those recipes sound delicious!

Cherished & Peach, the book I mentioned was written by Ruby Roth, and I ordered it from Angus & Robertson online.

Sorry, not much time now. Will check back in soon.

Hooray for sharing beers with your DH cherished! I have been loving doing stuff like that lately - we are like a pair of teenagers! By the way, chicken, empty your mailbox, my msg is bouncing.
Have not cooked anything inspiring for a while, so not much to add! :redface:

Sorry SungBug, my mailbox was full with that message I sent to 'myself' :redface: hahaah I'm such a looser :rofl: btw I looooove your sig!

Aliash I'm gonna get that book :) think it will be a while before I have any kids to read it to .... not even pg! but that doesn't matter I have already bought heaps of books!

AFM I am SLOSHED :rofl: on 1 glass of the most scrumptious organic red wine! I don't think I will even be able to cook dh any dinner :doh: yeah I'm doing the doh sign but I am really laughing out loud right now :rofl: aaaaahhhhh HAHAHAHA ok so I come onto this thread to tell you guys that I bought some tofutti today and if I hadn't have had home made pizza for dinner last night I would try it out tonight! I will let you all know what I think of it :p

Good morning everyone... Well I pulled up really well today and feel great ;) Today I am making some of these yummo almond crackers which I just love, They are great with cheese, sundried tomatoes, dips etc and later today I am going to eat them with basil pesto and some more of that yummo organic red wine!

almond crackers
about 100g of finely ground almonds, 1/2tsp garlic salt, 1/2 tsp italian herb mix, 1/4 tsp of cayenne pepper or chill powder, freshly ground black pepper and 4-6 tsp of water.

preheat over to 180C and put a tray in the oven to heat it up

mix all ingredients and add 4tsp of cold water (you want the mix more dry than wet but if it's too dry to work with add a tiny bit more water)
put mix onto a sheet of baking paper, make a rectangle shape with it
Put another piece of baking paper on top of the mix and roll out with a rolling pin as thin as you can
Cut into the size crackers you want (mine makes a couple dozen I guess, about the size of regular rice crackers (maybe a bit smaller)
take off top piece of baking paper and place the cracker onto the heated up tray in the over for 7-9 minutes until they are golden brown an crisp. I check them at about 5 mins, some can already be getting brown aroudn the edges so I take them out of the over to cool on a wire rack and leave the rest in the over for a couple more mins... "warning" they burn easily so keep your eye on them ;)
Mine stay crisp in a container for a few days (if they last that long without being eaten!) I love to make them for entertaining ahead of time because they keep well and are yummo

Those crackers sound ace - and how funny are you, posting while you're plastered!

Hey, for a totally easy dip, I stick some tofutti cream cheese in a bowl, dollop a bit of mango chutney on top, and dot some coriander leaves over it.
Also this week, I made a red lentil puree, and stirred some flaxseed oil through it. I've been keeping it in the fridge, and use it on toast, OR, stir some kind of chutney through it (I'm a bit of a chutney fiend at the mo) and eat it with rice cakes. Nom.

Made this for tea last night - very scrummy! Thanks McCormicks!

Stockman's Pie with Mountain Pepper

Ingredients

1 tbsp butter
1 onion, sliced
1 ? tbsp McCormick Bush Spices with Mountain Pepper
1 potato, grated
1 sweet potato, grated
1 turnip, grated
1 Swede, grated
2 x sheets puff pastry
150g fetta cheese

Direction

1.Pre-heat oven to 200?C.
2.Heat frying pan until hot and add butter.
3.Fry onion, McCormick Bush Spices with Mountain Pepper, potato, sweet potato, turnip and Swede for five minutes or until soft.
4.Allow to cool slightly while baking pastry.
5.On the bottom a greased pie dish place one sheet of pastry and bake for ten minutes or until pastry has risen and slightly browned.
6.Crumble fetta into vegetable mixture and mix through. Place mixture into pie dish and top with the remaining sheet of pastry. Bake in oven for 20 minutes.
7.Allow to cool slightly before serving.

DS had it with tommy sauce, DH with sweet chilli & I with relish ;)

Thanks so much Kaz, I've never made anything with bush spices... I'm gonna cook this one this week :p

I made my yum winter bean and veg stew today for lunch with my light and fluffy organic spelt loaf that I make, have I posted the recipe for that stew before? If anyones interested let me know it'd be a good one for your slow cookers ;)

YUM Kaz! Need to eat pies and stews and stuff before salad season hits again, abotu 5 mins from now!
Last week I went to a grocer that was having a closing down sale, got a bottle of macadamia oil infused with mountain pepper for $3, DH and I have been having it on everything!

I love cooking with lemon myrtle - one of my sexiest vegan dishes is mushrooms with lemon myrtle polenta:

Boil up your polenta stock (4 parts stock to 1 part polenta) and add 1 tsp lemon myrtle. While that's boiling, I crush up some macadamias with a garlic clove, and toast them. Set aside. Then I fry up some mushrooms, sometimes with a little bit of chilli, but mostly just mushrooms. Pour polenta into stock, cook through. Serve mushies on top of polenta, sprinkle with macadamia crumb.

Dinner was turtle bean enchiladas, avocado on the side, with a tiny bit of (guess what?) macadamia oil! Wouldn't have picked macadamia oil to go with Mexican but OMG! Heaven.

SnugBug, yummy, yum, yum :p and it totally does feel like summer already! I was thinking that about making the stew for lunch today "betta make it while it's still kinda winter" we are already getting into the salads again (not that we really stopped) but the fridge is totally stocked with all the salad stuff... The dish you mentioned tonight sounds light and summery with the lemon myrtle and mushy's are light too, with salad on the side it's sounds beautiful with a glass of white wine ;)

dinner for me tonight was nothing! I am not hungry and dh is at work so I walked on the treadmill for 15 mins, had a little sing-a-along with my mp3 player up full volume and drank lots of water :D

Thumbs up for the glass of wine!
I feel so NAUGHTY! Like I am drinking all the time, and partying. It's true, and it's fun, but after tfour months of being virtuous, I feel so wicked...

The other recipe I was going to post was out awesome Sunday lunch.

Middle Eastern Lentil Soup
Toast 2 tsp cumin seeds in large pot. Add olive oil, chopped onion, fry off for a minute or so. Add 1cm finely chopped ginger, two cloves garlic, 1 cassia stick. Stir it up. Add 3 diced carrots, then chop 5 or 6 or however many tomatoes. Chuck them in. Add some stock, and brown lentils. Cook until lentils soft and your house smells like dirty hippy.
Serve with dukkah toast. Use a half turkish bread. Cut in half lengthways, then slice open. Drizzle tiny bit of olive oil over each piece, sprinkle with dukkah, grill. DH did this, and it looked SO good!

Quite good for the hangover too! (SO wicked!)

Ooooooh I can't wait until I get my kitchen, and I can cook stuff on the stovetop!!!

That polenta sounds nice, I have some lemon myrtle here too ... mmmm, mushies.

My silly dog knocked over my mushroom box, just when I was starting to get some mushies!! Does anyone else grow their own?

I used to work at an aboriginal cultural park in Cairns, in the restaurant there. We used to use a lot of bush spices and fruits and stuff (a few native animals too... bleurk!). I used to love the lemon aspen tarts the pastry chef used to sneak to me... the ones that "accidentally" got damaged before making it to the buffet! So tangy!
Oh, this diet is driving me nuts! Yes, DS was a lot calmer and less hyper, but then someone went and set fire to our car in our driveway, and well, that has a slightly disruptive effect on everything afterwards... and I'm so tired I just want to eat pizza, but the fabulous spelt pizza place up the road doesn't deliver and my bike is busted and I'm just too tired.... oy! What to do...
Anyways, enough moaning. Here's my recipe for a vegan pumpkin and coconut bread/cake thingy. Yes, it has lots of sugar in it. I'm feeling ok about that right now, tho!

Moist Pumpkin and coconut bread
3 1/2 cups plain flour (gluten free also works)
2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
2/3 cup caster sugar
2 cups pumpkin puree
1 cup vegetable oil
2/3 cup coconut milk
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
2/3 cup flaked coconut

Preheat oven to 175C. Grease & line 2 8x4” loaf pans. In a large bowl, combine all ingredients and mix well. Pour into prepared pans and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean. Remove from oven and cover tightly with foil. Allow to steam for 10 minutes. Remove foil and turn onto a cooling rack. Tent loosely with the foil and allow to cool completely.
If you don't eat them both the same day they're made, you can always freeze one!

Yum, NaNa, will have to try! I don't know if your spelt pizza place is the same as the one I know, but if so, YUM! I love it there. Can't remember the name though.

I had a bike stack this arvo :redface: Have been to hospy and everything. BUT, when I got home, made up some white hot chocolate (dairy free!) that I found, and OMG, it was the best! So sugary and bad, but just what I fancied, after my first ambulance trip, and ensuing x-rays and tetanus shots.

So, since I'm a bit out of action, need your ideas for one-handed food! (right now tahini straight out of the jar is my fave:D)

I saw your facebook post and thought OMG!!! Glad it wasn't too bad an accident. And what a great excuse for the hot choccie. :)

snuggly - OMGoddess, are you ok?? And your bike? sheesh, what a week and it's only wednesday...
The place is called pizza farro. it rocks my world... the hundreds of rolling pins hanging from the ceiling and the vintage tea-towel curtains are so cool, and the pizzas are just the best ever. But I didn't get there. DP made a zucchini slice (coz I taught him how) and even though I'm not supposed to eat half the things in it, I did anyway. With tomato chutney. Praying DS doesn't have a psycho day today because of it, coz I'm still too tired to deal with it!
I can't think of any easy-to-make-one-handed recipes off the top of my head right now... I'll have to get back to you. I should know some more, since I kept working with three dislocated fingers once upon a time, but that all seems like a lifetime ago!

So far it's been toast with marmalade - this beautiful lemon myrtle maramalade we got at the ekka.
Tahini out of the jar might be morning tea :D

I thought it was Casa Farro, but it's been a while. Anyway, yeah, I loved that place! We should go there when I move back to Melbs!
I spent Sunday dealing with the cops over an incident with a bouncer. And yesterday in an ambulance. So between us, NaNa, we have the trifecta of emergency services in three days! Wild!

What is going on with you girls??!! Did I read right that someone set your car on fire NaNa??!! What the hell??
Oh my god Snuggly, you sound like a gnarly force to be reckoned with... What were you doing stirring the pot with bouncers? Heheh. No good about your stack, good to hear your ok though.

Hi to everyone else, sorry its brief, DD wont sleep or let me put her down so Im one handed today.
Hope your all well**

Holly crap-a-molly! SnugBug I hope you are ok and NaNa I must have missed something... fire...car....:wtf:

Peach sounds like you need a one handed recipe but I can't think of anything but peanut butter on toast :lol: heheh

Kazbah I had thought about growing my own... there is a place I know you can buy the compost but I don't think I will look into it until I have got my herbs sorted and the rest of the garden

I'm OK thanks, but the painkillers are screwing with me. I just feel so useless. I'm home all day but can hardly do anything. I have some sweet potatoes in the cupboard, and would love to roast them up with some capsicums and macadamias in a maple mustard sauce. But can't peel, or chop. Grrrrr!
Oh, and we have some bananas that neeeeed to be made into a cake or muffins or something. But I can't stir! :crying:

We're having a vegan pizza night on Saturday, and I went into mild panic when our normal Cheezly supplier was unavailable! But just jumped on to cruelty free shop and ordered some, to be delivered before then. And a couple of other goodies :D

How did you come off Snuggly?? It must have been a big fall :(

My stomach is about to burst, tonight I made the chickpea cassarole Cherished1 posted two pages back... with a few modifications of course.. added a bunch of field mushrooms, half a capsicum and chilli... OMG you all have to make this, divine! Ive had 2 bowls and am going back for a third. My stomach is screaming no but my mouth wants it so bad. And it was officially my first tahini experience. Probably wont be eating it one-handed out of the jar anytime soon(not pointing fingers:lol:) but it was delicious in a meal.

Hope everyone is having a great night*

darn, lost my post before... yeah, things have been a bit too exciting around here. I did post in the punching bag and boohoo thread about it, but to save you the search, someone set fire to DP's car in our driveway on Monday night. Could have been a tragedy, but we're all ok and I'm just now dealing with cleaning up the toxic filth that's left over. Bleurk. I'm still annoyed that I didn't have any gelatine-free marshmallows to toast ;) coz I never wanted a car anyway. DP thinks I'm such a heretic/feral/tree-hugger because I've never owned a car or even had my license, I'd rather ride a bike or take public transport, for much the same reasons I don't eat mass-produced animals! So I'm less than thrilled that 1) someone could have been killed as a result of senseless vandalism, and 2) burning car is not exactly the environmental impact I want to have on my hands. Carbon footprint? Yeah, there's a heap of them on my front porch now. Anyhoo...
snuggly - have you tried roasting sweet potato whole, unpeeled? It's yummy! And you could probly manage it with one hand and under the influence of painkillers! Put it on a tray, and when it's all puffed up and smooshy inside, split the skin and scoop out the good stuff. Oh yeah, Pizza Farro is the same as Casa Farro, but in Thornbury. With different owners, but the same concept and everything. I must get down there for breakfast one day... You coming back to Melbs??

Back to elimination diet soup here tonight. DS has been chucking a wobbly (to use my nanna's term) at me all day. I am dying for some chocolate cake. Purely for medicinal purposes, of course!

oh yeah, mushroom growing kits are neat! I think you can get them from some nurseries, and probably Bunnings if you're that way inclined! Easy peasy to grow your own.

aarghhhhhhh I bought the wrong stock and put beef stock in with my polenta by accident, its all brown and beefy :(

NaNa, That is insane, thank goodness you all are ok and not hurt!

I have eating problems I seriously need to address... Im the biggest over-eater at night, thank god I have almost no saturated fats in my diet or I would be huge. Once again Im about to burst from dinner!

Tonight I made a delish spag bog, found TVP in our local health shop and its the first time in over a year Ive cooked with it, so yum but I couldnt stop eating! Made garlic bread too which our stupid damn oven(blame the oven Peach) burnt the crapola out of.
What kind of mushies grow? Buttons,fields? That would be so awesome, we eat so many mushies here.
Kazbah- That sucks about the stock :( blech.

Awww Kaz that sucks about the beef stock :( I accidently bought a packet of meat vegi pasties a couple of months ago, I hate wasting so they are still in the freezer waiting to be given to my MIL next time she visits :rolleyes:

Peach I know what you mean about over eating... I used to do it heaps along with emotional eating, but I'm pretty good these days.

AFM I am doing my own elimination diet again. I have a list of foods to avoid which cause my eczema... I have pretty much been eczema free for about 10 months now which I am totally proud of! Last year I got tested and found out heaps of stuff to avoid so I did it strictly for about 3 months and than started throwing in the odd tomato, red wine or regular wholegrain bread etc and I was fine so I was happy to have in moderation BUT I've had a bit of a flair up over the last month :doh: so I need to cut out all the bad stuff again. On my list of do not eat is tofu, Pasta, Pineapple, orange, soy products!!! and even strawberries :( Plus much more.... I know it's not that bad but I worry about getting enough protein without tofu and soy??? Any ideas? I can only think of my oat & rice milk & whey powder... What else has really high protein that I can eat more of.

Butting my head in again...

Here are some high protein veg for ya ;)

lentils (18 gms of protein), black beans (15 gms of protein), kidney beans (13 gms of protein), chickpeas (12 gms of protein), veggie baked beans (12 gms of protein), pinto beans (12 gms of protein), black-eyed peas (11 gms of protein), peas (9 gms of protein), spinach (5 gms of protein) and broccoli (4 gms of protein)

And also a 1/4 cup sunflower seeds is 4 gms protein

Tofu is only 11 gms of protein and soybeans is 29... so you should be fine just by incorporating a few of the above (you probably use them already!) And if all else fails... hommus is high in protein for veg ;)

Thanks Rouge :p Are those figures per 100 grams cooked or dry? I do eat lots of beans etc already, I knew they had protein but not that high so it looks like I'll be set :)

dh cooked the yummiest lunch today! some kind of vegie and bean stew with chic peas and couscous yummmmo I asked him what he put in it but apparently it was secret herbs and spices hehehhehe :lol:

Hope everyone is doing well.... It's been quiet in here! btw have I mentioned that I'm loving the tofutti! but after what I have got has gone I wont be getting it for a while...

As far as I know, all lentils and beans are great sources of protein but in order to maximise it, you should incorporate some nuts and seeds along with it. Chickpeas and tahini is a good example, so go the hommus!

Nothing interesting happening food-wise around here. I am plodding along with this bland-as-cardboard diet for a few more weeks until I either see some real improvement in DS's behaviour or I go completely berserk and have myself a little broccoli-tempeh-sticky-soy-eating binge. There's something that is still setting DS off, turning him into a silly, aggressive little boy, but I can't pinpoint it yet. Could be vegetable oil, though I don't use much of it. Or maybe it's the glutamates in peas... have to cut that out for a bit longer too. SO HARD!! And he's teething again and wants to BF a lot. Of all the times I could really use a whole mudcake to myself... hmm...

I did make a sauce substitute from red kidney beans, garlic and citric acid the other day. I don't think I love it, but it's the only way I can make this food bearable. This diet allows meat and fresh white cheeses and eggs, and all the vegetables I really despise, like swedes and celery and cabbage (without spices, anyway!) so I feel like my mind is turning to mush! It's really hard work to maintain it and still be BF and vego. But at least I can have coffee again, since it apparently has the opposite effect on hyperactivity! All this time I've been depriving myself of caffeine! Argh!
Sorry, I'm ranting... porridge brains. Does anyone have a recipe for tofu cheesecake they'd like to share??

NaNa I had a dream about your diet last night, how funny! Swedes, everywhere. I was surrounded.

Going to the snow tomorrow - just ringing Qantas to request a vegan meal. Yaaaay!

Oh my goodness, how scary! I got nothing against people from Sweden, but swedes... ugh... I don't care if I never see one ever again!

I always request Asian Veg meals when flying, especially with Emirates. Qantas have a habit of screwing up and "losing" my vegan meal every time I fly with them. Once they offered me a green banana and a bottle of wine as compensation for a lost meal. Um, no thanks!
Enjoy the snow!!

Ooh, I made TVP spag bol last night for DP, and he didn't even notice it wasn't meat! Haha!

Hi everyone,

Sorry I have been so quiet. I hope you are all well.

cherished, I am going to make your crackers - yum!

snuggly, I hope you are recovering well. Your polenta sounds awesome. I made your sweet potato barley dish again this week. I love the cruelty free shop.

NaNa, sorry to hear about the fire. Bloody hell! That is crazy. I am glad you are all OK.

I have been craving a green curry lately, so DH made one tonight. It was soooo hot, but delicious. The kids wouldn't eat it that hot so they had something else. Since having kids we have toned down the spiciness of our food, although our kids eat spicier food than many adults we know. Sometimes I just crave a hot curry!

I have had a few Sanitarium 'Not Burgers' lately. They have changed the recipe and left out the milk. Yay!

Definately feels like summer up here.

I hope you are all having a great weekend!

snugbug you lil' jet setter, hope you're having fun at the snow :p

NaNa I have no idea how to cook with or use citric acid, I guess that's why you are the chef and I am the amateur hehehhe :rofl: Hey I drove past soul food the last Sunday! we were gonna go there for dinner but they were closed so we went to that cafe paradisio place instead at the resort around the corner...

Alisha nice to hear from you hope you enjoy the crackers! and I am gonna have green curry for lunch as reading about it made my mouth water hehehhe. It feels like summer up here too, I am actually gonna sunbake on the deck today while I read a book :dance:

Krys, peach & Kaz where have you girls gotten to? Hope you are doing great xo