Hector for President and Other Silly Ramblings

Oh it was good

Last night Darlene, Jan, Christina and I went to cooking school - at Viking in Franklin - and learned to make some Indian dishes.  The kitchens were, of course, amazing, and the food was REALLY REALLY AWESOMELY GOOD!.  I was not overly enthused at going anywhere yesterday (Il ove being home on my day's off) and don't really like Samosas much, but by the end of the evening I was really happy.  The samosas were fabulous, the Dal (lentil soup) was very yummy, the curry incredibly flavorful.  I even ate a bit of the yogurt/cucumber dip cause it was just too good.  And our Chef/teacher is the sweetest person.  If you ever get a chance to go to one of these, jump at it.  I'll be going back.

Yeah, another restaurant

that I can eat at.  Puleo's has great veggies, uses whipped margarine on them too.  The appetizer yesterday was really good and could serve as an entree - veggie egg rolls on sesame noodles.  Then I had a plate of veggies.  Other restaurants that are good: my favorite Mellow Mushroom Pizza - the mega veggie pizza tastes great without cheese even, the hummus is delicious and they have a pretty decent veggie hoagie which you can get with Soy cheese.  Subway will make a fair veggie sub.  Olive Garden has vegetarian vegetable soup and so does Panera.  Camino still only has a vegetarian taco salad - though I don't think I trust that the beans are lard free.  But in a situation of margherita desperation it can be tolerated I guess.

I have taken to doing veggie scrambles for breakfast - sometimes with tofu, sometimes without. This morning was with - and peppers, onions, mushrooms, peas.  Yesterday without - but with potatoes, onions, peppers, mushrooms, smoked paprika, black beans.  Kale or spinach make a good addition too. I know oatmeal would be healthier maybe but it isn't what I want. Plus I don't get hungry until mid afternoon with this.  Even with steel cut oats I am hungry an hour later.

At Doyle's birthday party I made a rice/kidney bean/butternut squash jambalaya sort of thing - I managed to get a good serving of it but it got completely scarfed up by the meat eaters in no time.

Okay I guess that's enough of food obsessing for the day.

Random Ramblings

I was thinking of Hector the other day, remembering what a sweet soul he was.  He probably would not approve of the veganism - he liked meat, but he would have let it go without saying a thing. Cats are kind of that way anyway - Letting you be yourself and not trying to change you. I hope I can do that.  I know I have to bite my tongue sometimes when folks are complaining about how they feel, and I am sure that diet changes would help.  But unless they ask, I should butt out.  I try not to push it and keep my comments to a minimum, but it's hard.  I am feeling so much better, have comeoff one of my blodd pressure meds and even when I am not feeling well I have so much more energy than I used to.  I was reading Veganomicon  and Isa says everyone you know will eventually go vegan.  I'm not sure about this but maybe - it'd sure help the planet if it happened.  And Skipper - well he keeps begging at the dinner table even though he doesn't like anything I am eating - He's not a veggie sort of dog.