Chore Day, Oct 17, 2020: Baking WFPB Mac and Cheeze and Almond Poppy Seed Cake

Today was a yard work, laundry, baking day. The yard work was part of my long term project to remove the mountain of sequoia needles that our big tree (90-feet tall) drops on our house every year. Whoever planted that tree ten feet from the house 40 years ago wasn’t thinking straight. I have about six more bins to fill before the ground is clear.

The laundry was…laundry.

The baking, however, was intense. It’s been months since I’ve dedicated a day to trying new recipes. The whole food, plant based mac and cheese looked like it would simple to toss together, but it had it’s complications: the preparation was more than I’m used to doing for an “easy” dish. Recipes tend to look simple and easy when you see them done perfectly in an eight-minute well-edited Youtube video. When I try them myself, I experience all of the shopping for ingredients, the preparation, the kitchen gear, and the cleanup of the sink full of dishes these recipes generate. The upside is that I have enough great food to last a week.

Please check out The Jaroudie Family videos for these two dishes:

• Easy Plant Based ‘Mac and Cheese’

• Almond-Chia Seed Cake (My 29th Birthday!)

Chore Day, Oct 3, 2020: Laundry, WFPB Queso Salsa, and Krita

This picture need some highlights. I’m struggling with Krita — all of the keyboard shortcuts are neither like Photoshop nor Clip Studio Paint.

My chores today were laundry (check) and cooking (check). There’s not much to say about doing laundry, but I always enjoy doing it. I usually spend my time studying Japanese, surfing the web, watching videos, sketching, or reading. Today I started reading David Chang’s Eat a Peach: A Memoir.

After doing laundry I cooked up a big batch of wfpb (whole food, plant based) queso dip, the recipe for which came from The Jaroudi Family’s Youtube channel. Simple and delicious.

Chore Day Dec 21, 2019 -- Lots of Whole Food, Plant Based Cooking

When I say “lots of cooking,” I mean that I put in eight hours of kitchen time today. I cooked enough food to carry me through the week. I started at 10am and washed up the last of a sink full of dishes at 6pm. That’s the price of going entirely whole food, plant-based — you have use one day a week to cook your own food. I may be exhausted now, but in the end, I feel good knowing that I’m eating food that gives my body a chance to do its thing