anniebean
Flyers fan stuck in Tennessee
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Not a whole lot to report on. I did ok eating wise yesterday, even though it was a date night. I only drank about 1/4 of the shake for breakfast, and then I had like 5 small squares of the leftover orange tofu for lunch--no rice. I did split some fries with the kids once I got home, and that was really my only bad thing. On date night, I had a grilled tofu wrap which had rice in it so it was filling. I had 2 pieces of my avocado roll, but brought the rest home for Andy to eat. The side was taro root chips with salsa so I brought that for lunch today.
I've been researching the whole blogging thing and ebooks. I'm very dumb about it, but thinking very strongly of doing this. If I just compiled all of my original recipes (that are in my head and not on paper--except for the one my 20 year old submitted for his 3rd grade cookbook ages ago), and maybe create a few more, I think I'd have enough for a starter vegan recipe ebook. Cooking has always been fun for me, but in the past 6-8 months, it's really become a passion. It probably won't be until the first of the year before I actually do something concrete about it, but I thought about buying a journal to at least put the recipes in my head down on paper.
Plus, my husband and I have talked about me possibly retiring early (in 10 years). We both are very fortunate to have an individual pension plan thru work and I'll have enough points by then to take partial benefits. We'd have no mortgage or anything at that time. He said if I do this, he wants me to have a hobby, and is very encouraging of the blogging/ebooks thing. I've also planned friends and co-worker's Disney trips in the past and he wants me to continue to do this.
Anyways, tonight I'm making vegan corn dogs. And, believe it or not, Geoff has never had one....in all his 43 years never one single corn dog. My brother was kinda shocked by this revelation. He said he thought since my husband was German that he'd have tried anything with any sort of frank in it...but no. He must've been deprived as a child....or had really good authentic food and didn't have to rely on frozen corn dogs while his parents were at work
However, Geoff is a mustard (and pretzel) connoisseur so we have PLENTY of exotic mustards to dip the dogs in.
I've been researching the whole blogging thing and ebooks. I'm very dumb about it, but thinking very strongly of doing this. If I just compiled all of my original recipes (that are in my head and not on paper--except for the one my 20 year old submitted for his 3rd grade cookbook ages ago), and maybe create a few more, I think I'd have enough for a starter vegan recipe ebook. Cooking has always been fun for me, but in the past 6-8 months, it's really become a passion. It probably won't be until the first of the year before I actually do something concrete about it, but I thought about buying a journal to at least put the recipes in my head down on paper.
Plus, my husband and I have talked about me possibly retiring early (in 10 years). We both are very fortunate to have an individual pension plan thru work and I'll have enough points by then to take partial benefits. We'd have no mortgage or anything at that time. He said if I do this, he wants me to have a hobby, and is very encouraging of the blogging/ebooks thing. I've also planned friends and co-worker's Disney trips in the past and he wants me to continue to do this.
Anyways, tonight I'm making vegan corn dogs. And, believe it or not, Geoff has never had one....in all his 43 years never one single corn dog. My brother was kinda shocked by this revelation. He said he thought since my husband was German that he'd have tried anything with any sort of frank in it...but no. He must've been deprived as a child....or had really good authentic food and didn't have to rely on frozen corn dogs while his parents were at work
However, Geoff is a mustard (and pretzel) connoisseur so we have PLENTY of exotic mustards to dip the dogs in.
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