W00t! for Mater!

[purpletigron]

Out-of-spoon error for me. Ho, hum.

Mater got the train into town, I met her and we had a quiet lunch at Hippy Central. She ate herself to a stand-still on chickpea mezze, interesting salad leaves, mint potato cakes and new seasons asparagus! We walked around the old industrial district and looked at architecture for a while. Then she picked up some shopping at the wholefoods shop, and with her anxieties rising, I put her on the train home.

She says she had a wonderful time, and rates herself 9/10 for achievement. Wow!

Then I did some LETS paperwork wrangling, picked up my own shopping at the wholefoods shop, realised I'd over-done it but still had to trudge to the train and then home. Splat.

Comments

[sammywol.livejournal.com]

Well excellent work by Mater and yah boo sucks to spoon supply! Go Splat for a bit. Sounds like you have earned it.

We are trying to cook veggie one day a week at least and this is taxing our repertoire of veggie recipes to the limit of boredom. Mint potato cakes sound wonderful though. Maybe one day when you have some spoons to spare, you can point me in the direction of some good but dumbass simple recipes.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

You should have said! I know pots and pots of good references for veg*n food :-) For very quick starters:

http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/
http://www.theppk.com/recipes/
http://pakupaku.info/

vegrecipes, vegancooking, vegan_cookoff

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

Some useful sources for vegan recipes which will come in handy as tanngrisnir has gone vegan and I have been given no choice as my body has decided it's lactose intolerant. Having said that, I haven't eaten cheese in over 3 months and I appear to have lost weight, so it's not all bad.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

That's really tough :-( But yes, one thing I like about eating vegan food is that I find it easier to make it good for me ...

I have found some great vegan cookbooks: "The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen", and "Vegan with a Vengeance" are my favourites. I also find the nutritional reference books "Becoming Vegan" and "Plant Based Nutrition and Health" to be invaluable.

Hmm - sounds like I should start blogging my cooking!

[tanngrisnir.livejournal.com]

Hippy Central sounds good. (I'm trying to remember if I like asparagus... I probably do. It has been quite a while since I had any, though.) I hope you respoon quickly.

Well done your mother!