It has been WAAAAYY too long this time. So much has been going on lately, so my attention during the day during my free time at work has been focused on other projects. In addition to that, the past few weekends have not brought about much culinary excitment or adventures to run and blog about! Anyway, I have been homesick for posting so I am putting an end to the hiatus and hope there won't be such a void in posting for such a long while next time. This will probably be a long post as I attempt to play catch up, but I don't think you mind do you? Good! Here we go!!
Well, a few weekends ago, I was really pumped up to check out the Farmer's Market at Piedmont Park. JJ and I finally made it over there and we were very disappointed. There were hardly any vendors. You can get through the whole "market" in five minutes, and I'm NOT exaggerating. It was nice that they had some live jazz music playing while you browse, but not much browsing was going on. I guess I've been spoiled by the Farmer's Markets up in NYC and LA. I mean I know the ATL is much different than those two places, but I expected a little more than what we got. Anyway, I would still encourage you to check it out if you happen to be in that area on a Saturday morning between 9-12, to support those that are there trying to showcase and sell their goodies, just know what to expect. There are several more markets in the area on Saturday mornings that we still might check out, I'll keep you posted on that!
A glimpse of the Market
Picture I snapped on the way back to the car after our short trip..
So, I'll now fast forward to this past weekend. On Friday, it was a little flashback to the past with what I decided to make for dinner. First let me say, that I had some GREAT shots set up to take of my little feast, but my camera was out of juice, so I couldn't take any pictures the way I would have liked. I was very upset to say the least. The one weekend I'm ready to get back on the ball and I lack equipment!! Anyway, on Friday after work JJ and I headed over to my crib for the evening and we stopped at Sevananda on the way to get some grub. JJ got some vegan corn cakes from the prepared foods section and I got some vegan mac'n'cheese that I found that comes in a box, some vegan non-chicken buffalo wings (saw somebody buy them and wanted to try them ever since) and some frozen spinach to sautee up to get some green. I know what you're thinking, everything came in a package, yup it did. I was too tired to think about cooking anything creative from scratch; I was looking for quick and cheap and that's what I got! The non-chicken wings were VERY good as well as the mac'n'cheese and spinach is ALWAYS yummy. JJ's meal was tasty as well and he had some spinach and tried a few of the non-chicken wings. It was a flashback meal for me because it reminded me of meals I had back in the day when I was a kid before becoming a vegan (wouldn't go back for the world, but it's nice to once in a while have some old time favorites vegan style), especially the boxed mac'n'cheese. I even had applesauce on the side! Needless to say, I was very pleased with my dinner choice so it was a good Friday night! I'll have to take pictures of the boxes the next time I make this meal so you can indulge if you so choose!
The only picture I was able to get was of the leftover vegan mac'n'cheese for your viewing pleasure below:
On Saturday morning, JJ and I headed over to the park to get in a workout. Much to JJ's pleasant surprise there were some folks on the basketball court, so I knew JJ would be getting his work out in picking up some games with the fellas. I watched him play while stalling to do my own workout. I managed to finally get myself up and go to the court adjacent to his that was empty to get my body in gear. While playing JJ fell pretty hard and messed up his ankle that was fractured some years ago, so that wasn't good. He ended up playing ANOTHER game even after hurting his ankle and ended up limping away from the court. When we got back to my crib, we saw just how bad the damage was. His ankle swelled up pretty bad and walking proved to be very difficult the rest of the evening. So, we ended up in for the day and evening watching the tube and an old flick. It was nice to relax though, I always feel like I'm going, going, going even on the weekends, so to just chill out was nice. We ended up having a thunderstorm which made being in even better. I ended up going to Little Ceasar's to pick up some veggie pizzas with no cheese and salad for dinner. I have always been partial to Papa John's but this pizza was tasty! Next time, we will ask for extra sauce though.
JJ's swollen foot- much better now though
Half eaten veggie pizza...
Half eaten veggie pizza...
We headed back into the city on Sunday. Picked up some groceries for JJ and headed back to JJ's for the evening. I had leftover pizza for dinner and some Soy Dream Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream for dinner while JJ had a veggie bowl from Willy's. We watched pieces of HORRIBLE BET movie and some great Animal Planet shows. All in all, it was a nice relaxing, quick but good food weekend!
This weekend is the 4th, so I hope to have some fun stories and food to share! My folks will be in town and there will be a bbq at my house on Friday. I'm putting together me and JJ's vegan menu in my head now!
Until next time!
C
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