Hi everyone! Yesterday I made pineapple juice popsicles. I blended together ¾ cup pineapple juice, 1 cup frozen diced peaches, 1 cup frozen strawberries, and ¼ cup water.
They turned out really well; I had one today as I took a break from making pickles! I’ve been harvesting lots of cucumbers from my garden…
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| 37 cucumbers so far! |
Oh, and I realized I haven’t posted much art here lately… whoops… but I’ve been doing a sketch a day this summer (mostly looking through old animal books and using the illustrations and photos therein as visual guides), and here’s one that turned out nicely. I sketched this using an ultra fine point sharpie and then colored it in with colored pencils.
Here’s Cringer sleeping next to a bag of potatoes!
Peace. :)
Hello everyone! I know I promised a post about Phoenixville's VegFest, but believe it or not, I haven't finished all my goodies from it yet -- I still have to try the blueberry chocolate bark that Zach & I bought from Bridge Street Chocolates. So, once we get to that, I'll put the post together. But I will say that it was an amazing day, and I'm already looking forward to next year!
On to the main event: I put together a nice & simple recipe this week! I had the idea to make peaches & cream popsicles, so I looked up "peaches and cream" recipes online, saw this one, and used its measurements for vanilla and confectioner's sugar.
Ingredients:
1 can coconut milk
2 tsps vanilla
2 tsps confectioner's sugar
1 peach, cut into small pieces*
Directions:
Whisk together the first three ingredients. Add half of peach pieces to ice pop molds. Pour in half of milk mixture. Add remaining peach pieces. Top off with remaining milk mixture (I had some left over). Freeze & enjoy!
*The peach pieces I used had been frozen, but feel free to use fresh!
Here's Buttons napping in the sunshine on the first day of fall...
Peace. :)
Hello everyone! The new recipe I tried this week was the Grilled Peach & Tempeh Kebabs with Peach Barbecue Glaze from the July/August VegNews magazine. I used my panini press/grill; it worked well. This recipe was really fun, a bit messy, but definitely delicious. (A couple of the tempeh pieces split when I skewered them, but they managed to hang on long enough to get grilled.)
Here's Cringer being a cutie, napping on my desk...
Peace. :)
Hello on the 27th day of the Vegan Month of Food! Today's final Veganlist is short & sweet, featuring two fruits – apples and peaches – that have appeared on The Blacklist.
The apples, of course, are those of the “Apple Man,” the one who was conducting surveillance on the Keens. Sitting at his desk, he munched on an apple, watching the footage taken from multiple cameras inside their home. In “Anslo Garrick (No. 16) Conclusion” (Season 1, Episode 10), Liz discovers the surveillance site, and we meet Mr. Kaplan when she arrives to “clean up.” (Mr. Kaplan is one of my favorite minor characters & I really hope she will feature more prominently in Season 2.)
The peaches hail from “Berlin (No. 8) Conclusion” (Season 1, Episode 22), when Red goes to the Russian ambassador's place, sitting down to eat while holding the ambassador's dog and going on and on about how good the peaches are and how freestone peaches are so ideal. The ambassador warns Red to not hurt his dog, to which Red replies, “Oh my goodness, no! I'm not a monster. You really think I'd harm a dog?”
Bonus quote from “Berlin (No. 8) Conclusion” (Season 1, Episode 22):
Red: Tell me your story. I'm not leaving here without a story.
Here's two more pictures of Buttons and Leela from yesterday.
Peace. :)
