Lazy Dog!

Here is Abby in her bed...is this the picture of pure relaxation or what?

Vegetables, vegetables, and more vegetables...

This is some of the harvest from our garden this year! We have so many peppers. My freezer is full so I'm at a loss as to what to do...I could pickle them but I haven't taken the time to yet since many times they don't turn out like I think they should. The bugs have moved in tho' so we don't have much left now. I'm not one to put pesticides on so eventually the bugs win. The broccoli was fun and turned out pretty good. Need to go pick my basil and make more pesto again.

Laptop Lunch #1

Well we finally got Ian's NEW Laptop Lunch yesterday. So last night I stayed up and made the "Sneaky mom's tomato sauce" from "Vegan Lunch Box" book I just got. (see the blog link to veganlunchbox for more info). It is really tasty and it is chucked full of vegetables!!! Something I am having a time with getting him to eat in his lunches. Another book I recently bought is "Deceptively Delicious". Ian says he doesn't care if I sneak vegetables into his food...as long as he doesn't have to taste 'em. Silly kid. We do make him eat them at home but when we are not there to "encourage" him I need to still be sure he is getting some. Anyway, here is a picture of his lunch this morning. The pizza was a bit too big to fit in the lunchbox so I had to cut it. I put the sneaky tomato sauce on it and then sauteed some mushrooms with olive oil, garlic, salt and topped it...YUM! Smelled wonderful! He's excited to eat his lunch today. The cookies are the Wheat Germ cookies from Aunt Eleanor. So he's getting a nice balanced meal. The crust of the pizza has whole wheat flour and cornmeal in it too.