I started Sunday with a walk – on the cold side, and no one was out but me and the ice fishermen. Since we’ve had such dramatic highs and lows in temperature – on New Year’s eve day, it went up to almost 50°, and then got really windy and dropped to like 17° in about 2 hours – Lake Mendota froze almost clear, and shiny.
Actually just a puddle on my street, but this is what the ice on the lake was like, smooth & shiny
silicon pans
I didn’t go to yoga. I made 101 Cookbooks Heidi’s espresso-banana muffins (see page 38 for the recipe and a picture). I reduced the espresso powder to 2 teaspoons instead of a whole tablespoon, and used pecans instead of walnuts. I made them in my rainbow silicon chocolate lava cakes pans – they didn’t get brown at all on the sides, only the bottoms and the tops. I made cream of root & gourd soup, too – butternut squash, parsnips and rutabaga. So that was dinner, and we watched Hurt Locker. Tough movie.
Today, Monday, back to work.
Came home and made Veganomicon hot sauce glazed tempeh, and ate it with the extra bunch of greens that I didn’t put into the new year’s Hoppin’ John, sauteed, and some of the Hoppin’ John, microwaved. The marinade is mostly hot sauce and lemon juice (I used a lime) and a little oil. I left out the cumin and oregano, only used half the amount of wine, and added a bit of brown sugar. I was feeling pretty out of it – opened the high cabinet over the oven to get the colander for the greens, and 2 plastic containers fell out, narrowly missing the dish of tempeh in its marinade. Put the containers back, closed the cabinet up, forgot to get the colander, so when I opened the cabinet again, the same two containers fell out, and this time they landed in the marinade. I realized I’d only had one cup of coffee all day, so I made more and drank it with my dinner – seemed all the more southern, somehow.
Before
After
