Slow-cooker corn chowder. Saltene or Ritx crackers.

Black tea.

Ice cream (dish or caramel bar.)

Never too hot to heat up the kitchen

Doctoring up in this case means canned collards with added bacon and Texas Pete hot sauce

earlier. Eating a big salad later this evening.

Watermelon before bedtime.

Good Evening

I most often poop out before I figure out dinner on work nights but at son’s insistence, I had a Gardein burger (despite the goofy “Bef burger” name—I don’t WANT meat and don’t need to pretend it is…) on seeded bread with BBQ sauce and sweet pickle relish. I usually make my own seitan, but these were on sale (only $2.19 for a 4-pack!) so kind of a lazy splurge.

Good enough that I may take one for lunch at work tomorrow, just because.

LOL.

(I don’t WANT meat and don’t need to pretend it is)

This Gardein stuff is great. Take a few crumbles out of the package from the freezer and pretend you added "sausage," and there you go. It tastes really good, I think. And so fast and easy. I'm a fan.

... but it's so much cheaper to make your own. I'd just finished the last of my big batch of black bean beet burgers and saw the sale on these and said, "$2.19?! Hell yeah!"

Only thing easier is to throw a cup of TVP in spaghetti sauce or chili. Don't need Gardein prices for burger crumbles.

Thanks for the tip !

...and rice, and salads. I'm cooking for two again.

Steam-fried in evoo and veggie broth: chopped onion, yellow bell pepper, sliced carrots, sliced mushrooms, cut asparagus and minced garlic. When done I added air-fried tofu cubes, cooked whole wheat spaghetti, and a dollop of Miyoko’s butter. A good helping of TJ’s vegan parmesan and chopped parsley after playing. Cheers! 🥂

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I'm out of little Haagen coffee i.c; too hot to go out.

a "little" turned into the whole container. It was great!

I deserved it, I rationalized, because I was out in this heat most of the day.

I actually had chocolate with espresso chips. Is that ever good.

I have no excuse, haven't been out in a day, and expecting same tomorrow, due to this: The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory for Calvert County for Friday, July 25, 2025. Heat index values of 106 degrees are expected.

B&J Coffee BuzzBuzz works; hope some in freezer.

marinated in Mango and Barons' Caribbean hot sauce.

& Sweet potatoes