{"id":2563,"date":"2011-01-03T21:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2011-01-03T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:41:49","slug":"first-days-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/first-days-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"First days of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00b0, and then got really windy and dropped to like 17\u00b0 in about 2 hours – Lake Mendota froze almost clear, and shiny.<\/p>\n

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Actually just a puddle on my street, but this is what the ice on the lake was like, smooth & shiny<\/p><\/div>\n

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silicon pans<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn’t go to yoga. I made 101 Cookbooks Heidi’s espresso-banana muffins<\/a> (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<\/a> – 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<\/a>. Tough movie.<\/p>\n

Today, Monday, back to work.<\/p>\n

Came home and made Veganomicon<\/a> 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,<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

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