Day 1 of our Spring Break staycation. overlooking the Rose Garden: in the Butterfly Garden: enjoying the Children’s Garden: I’ve been to Zilker Botanical Garden lots of times before, but what struck me most on this visit were (a) how accessible the bathrooms are. When you take preschoolers for a morning romp through a big [...]
February 25, 2012 – 3:10 pm
While Nathan attended a zafu-sewing get together this morning, the kids and I ventured out to Boggy Creek Farm in SE Austin. The air was cool and comfortable, the sun was gentle and we had a wonderful time. Ben and Maddie carried baskets around the market tables. They each chose sweet potatoes, and Maddie chose [...]
January 29, 2012 – 5:51 pm
at the Austin Zoo The train ride at the zoo, with its psychedelic mushroom people peeking out of the ashe juniper trees, the satellite dish UFO and aliens, never fails to crack me up, no matter how many times I’ve been on it before.
January 19, 2012 – 3:05 pm
Continuing what seems to be legume month here at Sunrise Ruby, here’s a snack recipe adapted from one published in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Vegetarian Times. Roasted Chickpeas 2 15-oz cans chickpeas, drained and rinsed 1/4 C olive oil 5-6 cloves garlic, minced (about 2 Tbs) salt and pepper to taste space Preheat oven [...]
January 13, 2012 – 2:43 pm
Red Lentil Hummus Serve this dip with fresh bread or raw veggies, or serve as a sandwich spread with fresh tomato, spinach, carrot and thinly sliced red onion. Adapted from a recipe in La Dolce Vegan: 1 C red lentils 1 1/2 C water 2 Tbs olive oil 3 Tbs flax oil juice of 1 [...]
January 9, 2012 – 6:53 pm
This embarrassingly easy soup is vegan and gluten-free, but it somehow manages to taste like chicken. Ben ate it, and that’s no easy seal of approval for a legume soup to earn. Without further ado, the ingredients: 2 small onions (or 1 large onion), chopped 4 medium carrots, chopped 4 celery stalks, chopped 2 Tbs [...]
January 1, 2012 – 10:35 pm
Prickly pear Some kind of sotol? or yucca? Deer track in our campsite Great Blue Heron, on the lake near Devil’s Waterhole Camp kitchen Cooking pouches of camp fire apples on New Year’s Eve! Playing “sink or float?” in small pools of water in the gneiss rock After dinner Pencil cactus White-tailed deer Playing in [...]