Whew!

I've been busy these past few weekends. I got to lay around all yesterday, which I really needed. Now I don't have any major deadlines, so I can do what I want. Even better, Andy is taking a month off starting on Friday. Yay! We aren't going anywhere, just chillin'.

Here are pics from NARN bingo that raised money for their anti foie gras campaign.

My winning card (we were going for a box pattern):

I won potholders & some cool bags. The potholders have been hidden away so I will have something unstained/burned to take to potlucks. What I made for prizes. I made 2 boxes of treats. Each had about 5 cookies 'n cream cupcakes (vegan cupcakes take over the world), 15 or so peanut butter pillows cookies (ppk blog), and 4 lemon polenta cookies (aka lemon gravel cookies from an old issue of Veggie Life).

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A while back (hmmm... I'm always behind, huh?) I made some of the red curry paste from a PCC cooking class, which was the base for some kick ass panang curry (paste, sugar, coconut milk, lightly fried tofu, and portobello mushrooms). It was AMAZING!!! If you live in the Seattle area, you have to take a class w/ Pranee (make sure it says "Vegetarian; no dairy or eggs").

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Like any proper dog, Kobie loves car rides.

Mmmmm... wind licking

On the way to the furry 5k, he opened car windows on his own.
Tired after the furry 5k.

Drinking some ice water. Andy fills up a tupperware container w/ ice and hours later when Kobie wants to drink, it is about 1/2 ice, 1/2 water. If he won't drink, I can easily get him to chew on ice.

Bake sale success!

The bake sale was a huge success. As a result, I'm completely tired today. Zero desire to do anything, and I have lots to do :( Enough whining, because I'm sure you want details on the sale.

I met a fellow blogger! Tofu Mom and her boyfriend made an appearance and we talked about things like making barbie cakes. Tofu Mom, I've confirmed what I already knew from reading your blog, you're awesome!

There were 28 different kinds of baked goods at the sale, 554 items in total. I bought a bunch of them, but I missed out on a few kinds because I was too caught up in the logistics of the sale.

Baked goods kept rolling in throughout the day, so what you could buy at any given hour would change.

Here is some of what I bought (Andy & I are still working our way through them). The cookies at the bottom right are mojito cookies and they are refreshingly minty and surprisingly mojito-y -- I loved them!

Here is what I made.

I used mostly eco friendly containers. Bagasse paper containers for the baklava and cupcakes. Natural Value waxed paper bags for the scones. I say mostly eco because the baklava needed an aluminum foil liner because it's so sticky and I didn't trust the bagasse container.

Cheddar Cheezly Scones using Bittersweet's delicious recipe. I actually made them twice for a total of 4.5 batches. They went quickly.

Cookies 'n Creme Cupcakes from where else but Vegan Cupcake Take Over the World. I sold them w/ 2 Newman O's so people could scrape frosting off the cupcake. My real motivation for that was to make sure there weren't lots of Newman O's lying around at home for me to eat.

Persian Baklava from a PCC Cooks class recipe.

More pics of the sale can be found here. The pic of the PB Insider eater is Sidecar's manager.

Now do you know why I'm tired? Two days of bake saleing is hard work.

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Random summer fruits.

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The new foster dog is here! Her name is Diana and she has tons of puppy energy because she is only 7 months old.

It's really hard to take a picture of a white dog on a super sunny day, so you can just barely see that she has super fuzzy wispy fur. That's because she is a longdog, which is a cross between 2 types of sighthound. In this case part greyhound. The things you learn while fostering dogs.

Aside from that, she is like any other dog I have fostered - loves to lick my face, likes to steal cat poop and cat food (though hopefully not before licking me), is way too interested in Kobie, and has lots of energy. I have found a way to keep her occupied and that's by giving her a Snook's dried sweet potato treat. It takes her hours to eat it.

Around here, a cat is always watching. This time it's only 2 - Chippy and The Judge.