Cozy Autumn Wild Rice Soup
Happy Vegan Vednesday! My backup dancer and I now have a firm routine going with slow-cooker oatmeal on Vednesday mornings, and then I enjoyed tea with oat milk as my hot beverage a little later. Lunch was pasta with a little olive oil and a sprinkling of Maldon salt flakes and some diced fresh tomato (what in the sam heck am I going to do when the farmer's market ceases after next week?!!! I don't want to think about it).
I love that the author of our dinner recipe, "Cozy Autumn Wild Rice Soup" (Gimme Some Oven), provides directions for vegan and non-vegan options, and instant pot or slow cooker* or stovetop options. I used the slow cooker. With vegetable oil substituting for butter, and coconut milk for cow's milk, I was flying non-stop to Veganville.
Wow, that was corny. Sorry about that.
The soup turned out to be a hit among all three of us. Definitely a winner. Definitely going on the "Greatest Meatless Hits" list that I keep thinking should post but never get around to posting.
Emma has decided to try her hand at songwriting. In addition to songs about her wiggly teeth and her father's love of the Yankees, she wrote this one about me.
I found the lyrics a little bittersweet. I don't mind cooking, but what I really love is eating. I cook because I want to eat in a way that incorporates healthy elements, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and is environmentally friendly. It does frequently feel like I cook "non-stop," as the song suggests, and that's not a great feeling.
Fortunately, there are a lot of things I get to do that I really do love, like writing fiction, and making clothes and Halloween costumes, and gardening, and going to parties, ooooh! oh yeah, hoo! hoo!
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| Oatmeal for breakfast |
I love that the author of our dinner recipe, "Cozy Autumn Wild Rice Soup" (Gimme Some Oven), provides directions for vegan and non-vegan options, and instant pot or slow cooker* or stovetop options. I used the slow cooker. With vegetable oil substituting for butter, and coconut milk for cow's milk, I was flying non-stop to Veganville.
Wow, that was corny. Sorry about that.
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| Isn't this little onion cute? |
The soup turned out to be a hit among all three of us. Definitely a winner. Definitely going on the "Greatest Meatless Hits" list that I keep thinking should post but never get around to posting.
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| This was right before the aliens beamed me up. |
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| Like I said, the soup was a hit! |
Emma has decided to try her hand at songwriting. In addition to songs about her wiggly teeth and her father's love of the Yankees, she wrote this one about me.
I found the lyrics a little bittersweet. I don't mind cooking, but what I really love is eating. I cook because I want to eat in a way that incorporates healthy elements, and doesn't cost an arm and a leg, and is environmentally friendly. It does frequently feel like I cook "non-stop," as the song suggests, and that's not a great feeling.
Fortunately, there are a lot of things I get to do that I really do love, like writing fiction, and making clothes and Halloween costumes, and gardening, and going to parties, ooooh! oh yeah, hoo! hoo!
*Update as of October 2023: the recipe author has actually removed the slow cooker instructions from the site, but lucky for me, I had saved them! Here they are:
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