As already stated Day 3 was anticipated as an outrageously busy day. It was the last day before my audit at work, soccer practice for Emma and Steven, School Board and School Budget Elections with an Ice Cream Social for the kids and of course a school night. Added in at the last minute was my teenagers final admittance that she was indeed sick enough to need to see the doctor and 5 pages of math homework for my son. I couldn't really see where we were going to eat at all, let alone eat together. But with a little manuevering and the admission that life is short so eat dessert first....we managed to eat take out around the table after the icecream. This was seen as a wonderful innovation by my two youngest. The oldest, was upstairs in bed diagnosed with strep throat which I swore I would eat my hat if that was what was really wrong. Well suffice it to say a Lakewood Blueclaws cap fricasse was on my menu for the evening. It was tough but we managed to make day 3 a success! Sean's fact for the day is : Blueberry's grow best in direct sunlight.(who knew?)
Day 4 was promising to be a challenge as well due to my actually having the audit, a Jr Class trip to NYC, dance class and school work. This time I employed my other favorite trick for busy weeknight meals: the crockpot.
Tonight's menu contains two things you won't see very often in this house: The ominvores had meat and my daughter and I ate a premade vegan non-meat product. The heathens had spare ribs made with BBQ sauce in the crockpot. Basically the hubby cooks the meat or it needs to be made in a way that I don't really need to look at it or touch it--hence the crockpot. Which does evidently make very good ribs. I personally think pork ribs look far better on the cutie above. Holly and I had the Morningstar Farms riblets which are actually quite good. Sean came very close to stealing mine rather than going with the little piggy. I usually don't buy premade stuff because let's face it just because it is vegan doesn't mean it isn't processed frankenfood with environmental implications. Also Morningstar managed to anger more than a few of my fellow vegans by changing the recipes on several of their formerly vegan products to add random egg whites and things which obviously weren't need as they had sold quite well in their previous incarnation. It kind of felt like they were giving us the finger so you know what...Boca and home made are just fine by me.
Along with our protein (yes I watch a little too much Top Chef), we had a latin style potato salad and grilled asparagus and zuccini. Quick and yummy and eaten by all. The only hitch in this day was Holly's near meltdown when we refused to let her turn on Jeopardy until we were done. Teenagers.
Sean's fact of the day for day 4 is: The USA has the largest consumption of Blueberries in the world. I feel at least some responsibility for this fact. We eat a lot of blueberries.
Day 5 is shaping up for more scheduling craziness with a meeting for me, and an afterschool orientation for Holly. Thank goodness I did a lot of cooking this week as I am thinking the menu will be leftovers! Dinner will be served at 6pm.
How are you doing on your pledge? Drop me a line about what you and your family are doing. I don't have to talk about myself ALL the time.
Happy Earthday and please take a moment today to remember Holly Maddux. As much as I love environmentalism and respect the earth, the original founder of this day in addition to being an environmentalist committed a rather horrible murder. It is unfortunate if his victim and her family should be forgotten. Justice is important for all beings.
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