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.

Adventures in scavenging....

I had to mail something this morning and while walking to the mailbox I remembered that it was big garbage pickup today....Oh my! The possibilities!

While reading my blog you might have noticed that I get really excited over small stuff....Nothing makes me happier than a big pile'0'garbage....And I keep having the recurrant fantasy that I will find mint Pyrex in the garbage! Not all loony tunes are locked up let me tell you that!

Well today with my enveloppe in hand I spied a wall of rejected furniture, old carpets and this adorable wicker chair!!! I had to move an old mattress and shelving units to get at it....Ok, ok the seat has a couple of holes, but I'm thinking...garden ornement with a plant on it....

After I freed the chair, I saw a big bunch of plastic plants...but wait just one minute! It's not just plastic crap, it's a big tomato plant, with small tomatoes in it! Well I just had to bring that home as well!

Who throws away a tomato plant???

I believe scavenging is genetic...Dad would bring furniture he'd found in alleys, Mom would recycle fabric until it died. When my Dad would have a hole in a sweater, well presto changeo, Mom would recut it, sew it back and it would become a dress for me...She would take white thights and dye them to match...I had a lot of brown and khaki outfits when I was small!!!