Vegan Handbag

If you'd told me 10 years ago that I would be falling for a 'plastic' handbag, I would've replied: Yeah sure! Whatever!

Well I did! I bought my last handbag 2 years ago shortly after I lost my job. I purchased something sensible,sporty and let's face it perfect for our Brimfield trip....If you don't know what Brimfield is just follow this LINK ...So that bag went thrifting,dancing and on a lot of car trips. And I dropped countless cups of coffee on it and water and if I could spill it it went on the bag. It's still good mind you but not as nice.

It's a bit shabby...and frayed. So over the weekend we went window licking and browsing around and I see it...in a store display. A nice,cool Matt&Nat vegan handbag....sigh

And Dan says: A girl needs a nice handbag for her job interviews....And bought it for me1 I swear I nearly cried in the store...

Here it is....I go weak in the knees everytime I see it!

Left is the older faithful companion. It's not retiring just yet...It still has a couple of miles left in it. I will be using the new one for interviews and dates for the time being....

 

Look Tracy! The lining is aqua! And made with 21 used water bottles....How cool is that? A eco-friendly vegan handbag!

Have a great wednesday folks! I'm jumping on my bike and going exploring in my fave church basement! I hope I find good stuff!

And stop by my friend Jade's new blog Out Thrifting for a visit!

O'Greatness....

Today I made the Seitan recipe O' Greatness.

Very easy to do! First pic the dry ingredients,second the wet ones.

Third you mix everything and mold it into a log and roll it in foil (fourth pic).

You then proceed to shove it into the oven.

After 90 min it was done- it had to cool before I tasted it. But I couldn't wait! It's tasty, but if you're a meat eater it's different allright....but it is growing on me!

Of course I forgot to take a picture of the finished product!!!

Now I'll be looking for some recipes to use it in. I remember tasting a seitan 'meat' pie and I feel it could be spot on in a stew....I am glad I tried this recipe, it was WAY cool.

I still have to try to make vegan italian sausages and maybe vegan lunch meat! I'll keep you posted!

Scavenging (again!)

Do you remember that pale blue-green dresser from the July 7th post?
http://vonlipisfavorites.blogspot.com/2009/07/farm-fresh.html

Well the dresser is still there! After 2 big garbage day (imagine that!). So I decided that this morning I would go over and remove the handles, I love those handles. So I left home with a screwdriver in my handbag and a big smile on my face!

I took pics so you can look at them! Aren't they cute?

On another subject...I've been a bit tired of cooking always the same 2 or 3 tofu recipes. I love meat but I recognize that I can cut down...and after last week's tv show on poultry (I can't find the name of the show), I've been more than willing to experiment with other recipes vegeterian wise....The bloggyland is full of vegan blogs and I found this one pretty entertaining in a rauncgy kind of way! http://yeahthatveganshit.blogspot.com/

One of the recipes I found really intriguing was
The Infamous Seitan Recipe o' Greatness

So I found the ingredients and will be doing the O'Greatness experiment tomorrow, It seems it's the bestest seitan recipe around...We'll see!

I found recipes for fake sausages also...but that is for another post!

Here are the main ingredients: vital gluten flour and nutritional yeast.