oscar loves Whole Foods

...and chalk.

Whole Foods does have good bags!

cranberries!!

I felt like I wanted to practice a Thanksgiving recipe this weekend and this pin inspired me.

cranberry salsa.

I food processed mine a little more than my pin, but it was so delectable.

even the husband liked it.

we devoured it.  I was so happy that it was so tasty that I jumped up and gave my husband a big hug.  ha!

veggie paella

A few years ago I went to a wedding and the bride's brother-in-law made a huge pot of paella to feed the guests at the reception.  It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.  I was so sad that it had meat in it because I really wanted to partake in this beauty, but instead I just stared at it, enamored, chewing on celery sticks and carrots (and wedding cake... who am I kidding?)

waiting to be chopped.

yay for meatless mondays!!

I took this recipe from an old Vegetarian Times magazine.  I'm sure you could probably search for it online.

oscar loves his daddy.

this happens most mornings.

this particular morning, I was already up and moving and I hear, "Al, Oscar loves David!  Oscar loves David!" coming from the bedroom.  So here ya go, hun.  

Oscar loves David.

the mister.

I took some pics of David the other weekend.  Here's just a few...

ah there's that awesome lemon tree!

we don't usually keep our piano in the backyard, but he thought it would be cool for pics... so we did it.

In other news, he now has a blog that I haven't blogged about yet.

check out the mister!

pumpkin. protein. fail.

I am on the hunt for the perfect protein bar recipe.  I feel like it's so difficult to find a protein bar with no artificial sweeteners and not a ton of sugar.... like super difficult.  So I found a recipe for pumpkin protein bars sweetened with stevia and loaded with vegan protein... yay!  I was so excited.

I was so excited to make this... this is after I baked it.  It was just a big rubbery failure.

sad face :(

the protein bar search continues...

mummies!!

okay so Halloween's over... but I wanted to squeeze this post in.

My sweet little niece turned 5 yesterday and she had a Halloween birthday party.  My sister-in-law asked me, the vegetarian, to make these pig in a blanket mummies.  So here's my meat post.  The easy part was not eating them as I made them ;)  

uncooked mummies.

has this ever happened to you?  it just exploded out of the end!

snuggle bunny mummies.

leftover dough... it looked like a scary Halloween face, so I snapped a pic!