Saturday, December 29, 2012

Current accommodations



Rockaway, NY. Might seek to upgrade tonight. Or not.

Friday, December 28, 2012

And a lovely window view



As i explained to J earlier this month after our visit to the (awesome) Pima Air and Space Museum, and while standing at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, I'm not a *true* plane geek, in the sense that I can't tell a plane by its jet trails. But i do enjoy some plane-spotting.

Didn't get the standby, but:



an empty airport lounge, Sweetwater 420, the NYT, and schmancy olives isn't such a bad way to pass a couple hours.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Vegan day after xmas



Ohhhh, yeah. Potatoes and ONIONS and garlic and stuff.

YUM.

Vegan xmas leftovers!



That's: veggies (squash, onions, red and green bell peppers), hazelnut stuffing, tofurky, and gravy (which my phone keeps wanting to auto-correct to "heavy". Indeed.)

Moving the last big items out of the condo today. [insert huge sigh of relief here.]

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Vegan xmas veggie skewers



Done!

Vegan xmas



Veggie skewers! Yay!

Vegan xmas, part... oops.



That's what happens when you leave your fun vegan sour cream too long.

Vegan xmas, part deux!



Stuffing. Still. Yay!

Vegan xmas, part four in a series!



Finished fried vegetables, starting stuffing!

Strong lines, baby. Strong lines.



Third in a series of vegan xmas realtime blogging.

Can you believe that "realtime" wasn't in my phone's spellcheck dictionary?

Spellcheck wasn't either. Made short work of that!

Blow by blow vegan xmas!



These are the extra veggies that we didn't have skewers for.

More to come, friends! DON'T TURN THAT DIAL!

Vegan Xmas!



Overnight marinated veggies for grilling for the in-laws!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Broken unbreakable lexan fork?



No problem!

A nice project from the first of two nights on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. J and i are hiking down to Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the canyon tomorrow. Overnight temp supposed to be 6 degrees above zero. Whee! Vacation!

Thursday, December 13, 2012

The downside of first class:


The downside of first class: a toddler in front, a snorer behind, an asshat to the left.

But an upgrade means i get "free" fruit for breakfast. Yum!

Sunday, December 09, 2012

Ithaca is Gorges

some images of my last few days...

about 2% of what I did for two days: teaching people how to parse statutes. 

Moosewood Restaurant: I could never forgive myself if I didn't go there. And it was WOW: deeply unimpressive! I mean, everything was fine, edible, bordering on tasty. But nothing, nothing stood out. Clockwise from left:
  • the salad had a somewhat tasty lemon tahini dressing, but the composition of green lettuce, carrots, shredded carrots, and a few (hidden) plum tomatoes. 
  • the wheat bread was thickly sliced, but very basic, very uninteresting, and the olive oil I asked for was way too little (though the server gladly brought out the pourer and left it when I asked for more olive oil.) 
  • the Caribbean black bean soup was bland and boring. It needed salt, more vegetables, more depth, some acid, and something besides black beans and boring fine chopped veggies. 
Yes, I know: I got the $8 daily special, which is a good buy. But the two vegan-available nightly specials were lame, full of boring vegetables, no meaningful vegan protein, and at $15, I didn't care to risk either.


Fun graffiti and official signage in downtown Ithaca. 

Solid food at Viva Taqueria, a tofu mole burrito, chips, and the house-made hot sauces. At $6.98 total, the best buy of the weekend. Except all of the food other people bought. But still perhaps the tastiest.

Sitting in the tiny cute Ithaca airport now, waiting to fly back to DTW, then ATL.

A few down days, then J and I go to Arizona for vacation. Whee!

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Wednesday, December 05, 2012

More food porn



Based on the earlier mise en place post, broccoli, tofu, red jalapenos, ginger, garlic.

It smells AMAZING. we'll see how much is left for wraps tomorrow.

Mise en place



For tomorrow's wraps, for flying to Ithaca. Red jalapenos, broccoli, ginger, tomato, garlic, beer!

Sunday, December 02, 2012

Food porn, also NOW.



Yeah. Baby potatoes, roasted toaster oven style, with olive oil and salt. Yum!

Food porn



Pre-grilling. Yum.

Charlie Brown Xmas Tree, take 2



The other one was crapping out, and the pickings on the ground were solid when J and i were at Whole Paycheck earlier. 

It only fell out of my bike grocery bag panniers once on the ride home.