Vegan Fondue review

I have been following the Vegan Lunch Box blog for a steady couple of years, and have worked my way through Jennifer Shmoo's back catalogue completely :) I bought her book (you should too: Vegan Lunch Box) for myself and have been picking and choosing which recipes to try sooner rather than later.

Who said you need to have kids to enjoy fun lunches?

Tonight, I made her vegan fondue (page 72), which I have been coveting for months. Actually, I made it as a mac-and-cheese sauce. This worked out very well indeed. To add some vitamins, the macaroni had diced carrots, frozen peas and frozen corn kernels added to it. The fondue sauce itself (no, I'm not giving you the recipe - buy the book yourself!) has some vitamins and protein in the ingredients, and of course no dairy at all, so it was reasonably healthy ... for comfort food.



Doesn't that look YUM???

For the record, Sox had three bowls, and I had two. It didn't taste like the neon orange box product they call mac and cheese (or KD: how many of us have noticed that they don't call it mac and cheese? I think it may be far enough removed now that it no longer resembles its' original inspiration ...) but it was smooth and very creamy, with a good medium level of cheeseness.

Yay! I made so much, there are leftovers!

Did you know ...

That I can't touch type?

Back to BC

I hereby declare that 8 hours in Hong Kong International Terminal is too long, although the Transit Lounge is very good.

Got on the plane, got bored, got back to BC.

It's autumn now, or "fall". I like that a lot.

Arrive Sunday afternoon, back at work Monday. A plan with no drawbacks. Well ...

Where did you get that hat ...

Yeah baby.

Nardia and Lindsay went on vacation, and brought me this hat ... and a t-shirt ... and a tote bag ... and ...

Kings Park

This one's for Anita -

We went to Kings Park today! It was good. Overcast, but still 30 degrees. Mum, Dad and I had a huge walk through the wildflower botanic gardens (wildflower season officially ended a few weeks back, so it is still rather spectacular), and walked over the new bridge walkway - very pleasant.

Mum had packed an outstanding picnic lunch - we feasted on rice paper rolls, home made apricot iced tea, and date slice.

It was up there with "really good days out"!







For the record, it has been over 30 degrees for 3 days in a row, and Sunday was 34 degrees - the highest temperature in October in Perth for 8 years or something.

I am a Sun God. I had forgotten this.

A frog he would a wooing go

I go to sleep listening to this little guy courting.

He may be a girl, I have no knowledge on these things.

I must have a nice face

As may be generally agreed to (just don't ask Kevin), I have a pleasant demeanour. Sometimes this leads to random events.

Mum and I arranged to meet up at a cafe, I got there early, so I settled down with a book and my flat white.

A lady settled down with me.

I have never met her before, and she knew it too. She showed me her shopping (one bling blouse and three pairs of slacks from Big W), told me she was happily surprised by the amount of cash she had in the bank, and pulled out a lot of $50 notes to prove it to me. She offered me half her chocolate eclair that she pulled out of her purse. I declined.

I have never drunk a flat white so fast. I am not able to review it, as it tasted like burnt tongue.

While it is sad that I - a complete stranger - was her best option for companionship, I selfishly ask "why me?".

And don't you dare say "why not?".