Last week had some highlights and lowlights. Let’s start off with the good. I made up some fajita enchiladas last week for Cinco de Mayo. DH really enjoyed them! And I even made the tortillas myself too. I was pleased all in all with the results.

And now, the bad. I hadn’t purchased sweet potatoes here before, but I did last week. I baked a couple of them one day. They turned out much differently than I’d anticipated. They sliced like a regular baked potato, and they were yellow and barely had any of the sweetness that we are used to in the States. They definitely were not orange and tender! The really sad thing is that DH hates baked potatoes and I am afraid these were a bit too much like baked potatoes. Oh well, now we know that sweet potatoes here are strange. I hear that they are quite good boiled.

Here’s what I have planned for this week!

Breakfast

• Scrambled tofu on toast
• Blueberry Grunts (except I just thicken blueberries in apple juice with cornstarch, and use biscuit mix on top)
• Pancakes
• Waffles
• Oatmeal
• Cereal (2 days)

Lunch

• Roasted potatoes, Nutee Supreme, vegetables
• Mad Cowboy bowl (I tried this once at Native Foods restaurant in Orange County. I absolutely loved it! I hope I can find the right ingredients to try and make it here. If you don’t have it, pick up a copy of the Native Foods cookbook. The recipe for this is in there!)
• Lasagna (yes, carryover from last week’s menu. Didn’t get around to it then).
• A loaf, possibly made into meatballs, using Magic Loaf Studio, and topped with something yummy… to be determined.
• The rest of the lunches will probably be leftovers.

Suppers

(some days we don’t eat suppers because we schedule our lunches halfway through the afternoon due to work schedules)

• Vege-chicken salad sandwiches (made with soy curls)
• Cream of celery soup
• Smoothies

In addition, I’m going to put some breakfast burritos away in the freezer along with perhaps some meatballs.

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At my party, I decided that brunch was a good theme for food, so please help yourself and find something delicious!

We’ve got fresh grapes and cherries, non-dairy waffles with fruit sauce, vegetarian sausage, hash brown patties, and blueberry muffins. Please, grab a plate and enjoy!

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My name is Joelle (I always tell people it rhymes with “The First Noel.” You know, the Christmas song.) I am a child of God. I have been married for 2 1/2 years to the love of my life. We are missionaries on an island.

And no, we don’t have kids. Yet.

I love writing. I started my writing “career” when I was about seven years old. I dictated stories to my mom who typed them out, and we have the little stories to this day (somewhere… in my mom’s archives). I have written much more since then. I got my B.A. in journalism from a Christian university and up til recently worked in the field of public relations, before coming to be missionaries.

In my free time, I like keeping house. Seriously. (I have a Dyson vacuum and that makes it fun.) I also like cooking. I started cooking when I was a kid and I haven’t gotten tired of it yet. But when I am really having fun, I enjoy scrap booking, rubber stamping, and quilting.

I blog about my interests in life:

• Cooking. I enjoy cooking and baking. We are vegetarian so my cooking style reflects that. I post recipes and fun things that I’m working on in my kitchen.
• Going green. I am trying to be environmentally conscious. I believe that as Christians we should be responsible about the way we care for our environment and be cautious about waste.
• Faith and spirituality. From time to time, I share thoughts with you about faith, femininity and blessings that I’ve come across.
• From time to time, I also blog about homemaking issues. You know, how to do things better… more frugally… with fewer harmful chemicals.
• And I do blog about life in general from time to time.

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