Happy Easter bunnies!

Yesterday we spent most the day outside. We really were not prepared for Easter. I forgot to put Elinor's basket together the night before. While Dave had her on the potty, I ran downstairs and threw everything in her basket. They came down the stairs and she was confused by her bunny basket sitting on the couch. I guess we didn't talk about Easter or baskets too much with her. Over the last few weeks I had picked up a box of chalk, a bubble wand, little play toys for her new pool and an Anna dress. Of course she put her dress on right away and wanted to go outside to try out her chalk and bubbles. Dave made us home fries and french toast for breakfast, which was delicious! 

Dave's mom came over later to go on a walk with us. We live right near trails that we haven't explored too much. We walked down to a pretty section with cherry blossoms. We meant to just loop right back up to our house but took the wrong trail. We ended up way out of our way but we found some really cool spots. We were gone for a good 2 hours and I was so happy I remembered to grab the Ergo to backpack Elinor most of the walk. 

Along with not being prepared, we didn't hide her eggs or even open the package to put candy in yet. When we got back from our walk, I quickly stuffed candy in her eggs and then Dave ran out back and hid them. She had so much fun finding them. I think she will be asking to play hide and seek with her Easter bunny eggs again. About half way through her search, an egg popped open and she realized there was candy inside. She dropped and starting opening every one of them. We told her there were more hidden so as she found the new ones, she opened them up and ate the treats. Good things we only put out 20 and only one piece in each. 

Dave made sloppy joes with cashew avocado cream for dinner. We also had a little cake that Elinor and I picked up at Vegan Treats a few days ago. I was so incredibly stuffed after dinner, it was all so good! We finished off the day with watching Tangled and passing out early. We never got around to dying our plastic eggs but we can always save that for this week, right?

How was your Sunday?

I like food

We had major phone issues and I guess I forgot we also have a real camera. I lost some of the food pictures I took this week on my iphone. Anyway! We made and remade some tasty things this week..

 Cheesy Polenta Bake. We have made this one before but I don't think I blogged about it. Making this is the only time I've messed with polenta and I love it. This recipe is really fast and simple except for preparing the tofu feta. I made it before bed the night before. I want to make more of the tofu feta just to snack on. It is so good!

 We don't really celebrate Valentine's Day but Dave did order the Vegan Treats Valentine box. Oh man I love everything from Vegan Treats. I'm not sure what was my favorite in this box. Either the twix or pb cup.

 I lost the actual picture of the meal but we made Jerk Sloppy Joes with Coconut Cream Spinach. So good! I really wasn't sure of the spinach especially being on top of the sloppy joe but it really added to it and had a mild enough taste to not throw anything off. Elinor ate a ton. I thought it was a little spicy for her but she always surprises me. Also, right before dinner she decided to give herself tattoos to look like Dave's friend. This was the picture Dave sent to him.

Tofu Scramble for brinner. Dave had bought me a tofu press for my birthday awhile back. It is my favorite kitchen tool. I used to get really weird with tofu. If it wasn't firm enough or slimy, I wouldn't touch it. Even the packaged extra firm needs to be pressed for awhile for me. We always make our scramble different. This time we added cumin, thyme, black salt, tumeric, nutritional yeast, red peppers, onions and topped with avocados. I should probably pay attention to the amounts one of these times. We had a little bit of lightlife soy sausage left over that we fried up for a side.

We used to have pizza every Friday night but haven't in awhile. I could really go for one tonight! (pppssst Dave)

Have a great weekend!

I like food

Here are a couple of pictures we took at the Vegetarian Food Fest

 treats from vegan treats. We were really excited they were there and got a couple of donuts

 Uncle Eddie's vegan cookies. They were so soft and chewy. We should've picked up a bag. 

Daiya cheese! They made samples of grilled cheese with the cheddar and quesadillas with the pepperjack...sooo good

Yea, not too many pics. It is a little hard because it was so crowded and people get pushy. I waited on a bench while Dave went around one more time to see if we missed anything. He came back with some chocolates. 

I've had a couple of these go max go candy bars before but I've never seen this one before the fest. It tastes exactly what I remember a reeses cup tasting like. MIlky chocolate and peanut butter! and still vegan!

kale chips from the organic cafe in Beverly

black bean bowl from the organic cafe in Beverly 

homemade donuts recipe from peas and thank you. We didn't have coconut oil to make the glaze so we just used chocolate chips alone. It made a thicker glaze but Dave got the idea if we put them in the fridge the next morning they would taste like entenmann's with the thick chocolate. They did and were delicious!

Happy Friday!