Good Food and Cute Animals

Hi everyone! I had lots of good food this week, and here are the highlights: I did another batch of the delicious spinach and feta pinwheels from Long Island Vegan and had them with spaghetti… 

I made a tofu scramble and added in a hash brown mix (diced potatoes, onions, and peppers) and had that with some fun zucchini pancakes (from My cat loves Daiya!)… 

I threw together some mac & cheese & tomatoes… 

And had more zucchini pancakes, this time with Boca chik’n, tater tots, and homemade pickles! 

And now for the cute animals, the first picture is a sketch I did this week… 

The little bun hangs out under the hedge while I water the garden… 

The praying mantis continues to guard my pole beans… 

And finally, here’s a sleepy Cringer… 

Peace. :)

Spinach Tomato Linguine & Garden Veggies

Hi everyone! One of our neighbors gave us some veggies he grew, so this week I’ve been enjoying them. 

I made a chocolate zucchini cake, added cucumber slices to a salad, and made one of my favorite pasta dishes (spinach tomato linguine) using the tomatoes. I have the recipe written down on an index card, but it looks like it originated from here, and I continue to modify it. This time, I left out the green onions (and obviously the feta cheese, which isn’t even on my written-down version, haha). I sautéed the frozen spinach first, in canola oil, then added the tomatoes. And finally I used garlic salt instead of both salt and garlic salt. It’s so simple, but so, so good! And the leftovers are great as well. 

I’ll definitely make this again soon because my cherry tomatoes have started to come in, and if this harvest is anything like last year’s, I’m going to have a lot of cherry tomatoes on hand soon! 

And yesterday Zach pulled up one of the carrots! 

As much as I’ve been enjoying my cucumbers, I’m glad that the cucumber harvest has started to slow down a bit. In addition to the ones pictured with the other veggies above, there were only five others I picked since my last post.
 

The seeds I planted for the broccoli, cauliflower, and snow peas have sprouted, but there’s no sign of the kale, yet.

Here’s another of my wolf sketches…

Look at that little face!

Sometimes when Leela naps, she’ll hold up a curled front paw as if she’s saying “YES!” I often imagine her dramatically thinking, “Victory!” (which always makes me laugh).

Peace. :)