Smoky Anniversary Weekend for the List

Another weekend flew by too fast after a strange, long week. We have been lucky with all the wildfires in the area to have decent air quality, but that changed this week with a wind shift causing a few days of frustratingly bad air quality and poor Miko not happy about missing walks.

He is hanging in there on his medication and I’m trying to keep him as healthy and stable as possible. Every Sunday refilling and pre-cutting his pills for the week while taking inventory for the next week or so is on my chore list. Poor guy is taking heart medication and supplements 4 times a days and making sure we’re organized and prepared so I can give it to him when half awake in the mornings or at bedtime is important.

Trying to keep eats simple this week with chilled watermelon for hot weather, simple tofu oil-free stir fries, soy curl sautés using garden summer squash, salads, and tempeh summer squash stir fries.

There has been some eating out such as spicy vegan Thai tofu curry at a quiet local Thai restaurant and Japanese Pan Noodles from The Noodle Company which were savory and delicious.

More salad using garden cucumber and vegan garlic dressing. Oh, and deal hunting at Grocery Outlet – check out the Just Egg deal!

At that price, I made a simple savory Just Egg scramble for lunch with veggies and vegan cheese. We also celebrated our wedding anniversary this week at Midtown Sushi enjoying vegan rolls and beer on the patio.

And it’s back to work tomorrow for a hopefully good and productive week for me and you starting with the list:

• Best vegan ice creams.
• 9 best vegan salad kits.
• Fight food waste with this app.
• Vegan shoes. I can’t get enough.
• Sacramento author helps people go vegan.
• Queen of vegan cheese looking to change the dairy industry.
• Best vegan store brands at Target.
• 5 vegan store bought salad dressings.