Monday. Blech.

Another Monday, and it looks like a Monday, too-- all grey and foggy and generally unpleasant outside.

My foot is still bothering me.  The bruising has really set in now, and my little piggies are black and ugly.  It's swollen, too.  I was thinking that nothing is broken after all, but now I'm starting to reconsider.  The hubster thinks I need to go to the doctor to have it looked at.  Maybe he's  right, but I kind of hate to waste the money if all they're going to do is tell me to stay off it for a while.  It's not as though there's a chance that will happen, either.

Put up a couple of new recipes:  this one for some awesome creamy polenta with mascarpone cheese and cream that you can make in your crock pot or slow cooker, and a recipe for green beans with pine nuts.  Yes, I still do hate green beans, but everybody else seems to love them and isn't cooking about making people happy?

That cat's happy, anyway.  She's curled up on my lap, which is making it hard to write.  It's not good for my foot, either-- the extra pressure from her weight is making it throb.  O well, it's time to get ready so I can tend to GF's Pomeranian.

My foot. Italy's boot.

The charity dart tournament on Saturday went fine and I had a fantastic time-- right up until I got home and broke my foot on a rogue rock in our driveway.  Spent all day yesterday on the sofa with my foot up and iced down.  I should proably be doing that today, too, but life marches on and I must limp along with it.

New article up at Examiner today, a vegetarian recipe for Meatless Monday: Spicy Italian Lentil Soup Ponza style.   Meanwhile, my Japanese Soba noodle recipe from last Monday STILL hasn't indexed.  I'm getting annoyed, and I don't know whether linking to it again will help or hurt at this point.

So, yeah, we're still rocking that whole Vegan Month thing at Examiner.  And one of the Vegetarian Examiners-- from Cleveland, I think-- wrote an article of outrage that Sarah Palin has nasty things to say about vegetarians and vegans in Going Rogue.  Oh, and now she writes about being shocked at the response from the ultra right.

I'm sure that article has made her a lot of money, but was she really surprised at any of it? Really?  I mean, cheap shots, sensationalism and wading around in moose blood like she's some sort of Julia Child for the New Frontier is what La Palin is all about, right? 

Well, that and hypocrisy, but that goes without saying, too.

Pee Wee Salinas and the Dallas Tamale Festival

The Festival del Tamal is tomorrow.  I love a good tamale and the relentlessly cute Irvin Pee Wee Salinas will be performing, so it sounds like a day full of win.   I wrote an article about it here.

To every thing, fail, fail, fail.

Today has been full of housework and fail. 

Although fail and housework might be more accurate.  And I was hoping to get so much done today, too!

All that, and this recipe for delicious soba noodles tossed with veggies and topped with yummy Asian peanut sauce that I wrote for Meatless Monday still hasn't indexed with you-know-who.

Why, the only thing that could possibly make this this day better is to get my ass whipped at darts-- which is, of course, exactly what I'm heading out to do.  Go me.