Snack Attack

Another busy weekend. Sometimes it feels like I could use a weekend just to recover from our weekend...!

Everyone but me is out of the house at the mo' though -- so it's nice and quiet. The kids had a sleepover, and DH is off to a coaching gig. But I'm expecting everyone to descend upon the house probably sometime around noon, and most likely in various states of famishment. I ought to have something prepared for the event, but ugh. I'm still just not in a cooksey mood right now. What is wrong with me? I'll need to think of something that will cook itself without a lot of tending -- soup perhaps, even though we just had some the other day. It would be different of course. Say, vegetable noodle soup for example -- I have a recipe by Bryana Clark Grogan that we especially like. Or perhaps chili?

I did notice the other day, that I had home frozen homemade seitan in the freezer. Hmmmm....

And breadsticks -- if I can summon the energy. Hmmm (thinking).., breadsticks ...made with vitamixed tomatoes from the garden for the liquid..., and lots of the chopped basil I still have on tabletop.... --Sort of pizza flavored -- yeah, that's the ticket!... (although that hardly goes with chili --oh, well!) Mr. Breadmachine? On your feet and get ready for action....

Furthermore, a dessert/goody of some sort (cookies? brownies?) today would probably also be appreciated -- I've noticed I've recently been getting complaints from my perpetually starved 13 year old son, that's there's 'never anything to eat around here'. Well, that's hardly true. However, I'm translating his statement to actually mean that there's 'rarely CONVENIENCE or JUNK FOODS to eat around here' -- and that certainly *is* true. I know he's only expressing a desire for easy and tasty things that he can just grab at hand and inhale -- but my healthy, whole grain, low-fat, low-sugar, homemade whatevers don't always manage to satisfy him anymore. Not to mention that he needs to consume calories approximately every 11 minutes -- and it's just not easy keeping up with that demand...!

Sheesh, wish I had a magic wand right about now....