March 2, 2010

Breakfast and Lunch went fine for all of us. Dinner was another story...

Aleks made Macaroni and Chreese... (no that's not a spelling error, and it's pronounced chtrees). It's a dairy free substitute...NOT. Pasta was ok, but the sauce was sick... Stay away. I could make a homemade sauce that tastes a zillion times better. In fact, I'm going over it right now in my head, and it doesn't include melted cardboard. If I were to make a sauce now, I would melt some soy butter in a pan, add some dijon mustard, a little flour (maybe spelt) to thicken it up into a paste; then, I would add some soy or rice or almond milk (probably rice, but would taste test). I would add some soy or rice cheese substitute...cheddar flavor. Mix well, salt to taste, and top with Italian seasoned bread crumbs. That's kinda how I make my homemade mac and cheese anyways. Hmmm, will have to try this another day.

Pitched the rest of the concoction and settled in for a slice of Ezekiel 4:9 Sesame Bread with soy butter and coop peanut butter (honey roasted of course). Complete with Maxwell House vanilla coffee. Now, I'm ok.

It's interesting to listen to and see people's responses to our choice to try this. Some think we're crazy; some think we won't be able to do it; and some think we are stupid and inconveniencing them...lol, that's interesting, and it makes me want to do it more. I think that's the rebellious part of me. HA! I guess I still haven't outgrown that. Iza is finding the same response from most people, and some don't even know what vegan means...they think it's just no meat.

Aleks is still going strong...we all are. So far, it's not that hard, and we are having fun looking at recipes and trying new things. The kids are having fun making smoothies and inventing recipes. Our next invention is to attempt a raw apple pie. We have been comparing recipes online and don't like the looks of any of them, so... we make our own.

Maybe we'll come out of this with a cookbook deal...

Our poems for the day:

Aleks:
I am a dude; I ate some food.

Iza:
Citrus lemon, maple spice,
Steal a little paradise;
Ambrosia, nectar, summer sun,
Time to bake and have some fun;
Newborn cherry apple pie,
Looks so good that I could cry.

Me:
There once was a humanitarian,
who decided to eat vegetarian;
She let her kids eat
no dairy or meat,
and so they all got hungry-arian.

no...wait:

A canabalistic barbarian
decided to eat vegetarian,
it didn't last long,
it went oh so wrong;
cuz he devoured an octogenarian.

Ok...I'm done. G'night.