Pinteresting Indian food (vegan meal plan)

There is a small indian market near our place & the other day I went in to get some curry spice & black salt because we were running out. While browsing I saw they had moong bean &  got super excited!

Not long ago we ordered some dahl for Che's dinner when we were out & he wasn't impressed but I fell in love. So I've been pinning some recipes with a hopeful heart that my very Hispanic hands can duplicate such magical dish. Wish me luck!

Monday: Falafel Wraps

Tuesday: Moong Dahl

Wednesday: Alfredo Gnocchi + Asparagus

Thursday: Jamaican rice & beans + Tofu

Friday: Breakfast potatoes + Sauteed peppers & mushrooms

Eating this week...

This might be the most boring meal plan ever, but I promise next week is gonna be uh-some. We just need to go grocery shopping. Mmm still, so much abundance in this vegan life we get to live!

Monday: Chickpea salad sandwiches (Isa does it)

Tuesday: Veggie quinoa + Sweet tofu

Wednesday: Mushroom Pizza + (beet, spinach, quinoa) Salad

Thursday: Lentil + Roasted Sweet potato & Brox bowls

Friday: Who fucking knows?




What are you eating this week?

Working mama musings

After reading a couple books last night, we took our co-shower, brushed our teefs & got ready to go to bed. In the middle of the night I woke up smelling poop.

"Cosi, did you poop?" 

But Guru didn't respond as he was immersed in his trascendental travel.

We woke him up and Papa Vegan changed him. He had indeed a dirty diaper.

"Sleepy" you kept saying. & I saw you crawling back to your corner next to me.

Now I can't sleep. Its almost 3 am and I have to get up in 3 hours to go to work. Oh guru, if you read this: mama has been working for a while now. Sometimes you come with me, but commute has been intense & you are staying with papa at home.

Yesterday I missed my bus so I had to take a different route which meant I had to walk a little bit to get home. On my way home, with a grocery bag on hand & a heavy purse full of library books for guru, I felt an intense desire for crying. I was overwhelmed with a feeling of deep~humbling gratitude but also guilt and sadness. 

I haven't felt this empowered in a very long time. But everything in this mama body keeps evolving constantly; always surprising me with new discoveries. Oh, guru, I am so your mama but I am also so much more than that. I didn't know how to separate this divine devotion for you from my fights, my poetry, my independece, my fierce~badass womanhood.

I couldn't find myself after you & I was fine with it because I had you. You are enough. 

But, guru, if you read this, know that mama wasn't away because you were not enough. 

I want you to remember me genuinely content but also strong; with an open heart, ready to catch you if you fall. So I need to keep finding my~self so I can be a good mama for you. 

And even though I'm exhausted & sometimes guilty to the point of tears, I get home & find the strenght to cook the most delicious~nourishing meals for you; we snuggle up in bed and read the books I bring for you from the library & soak up this new space we have created for each other. There: everything is right in the Universe again. No more guilt, just pure~raw~i bow to you~ gratefulness.

You are too little to ask questions, but all I can see is that you care that I always show up. For you, for me and for us. 

This time is sacred. All of it. The ugly crying on the sidewalk, the awareness, the humbleness while looking at the face of "holy shit, i can do it all!", the pieces of growth I discover on your body & speech every day I come home from a long day without you. Everything is new & sacred.

How much we've painfully and blissfully grown, little gnome. How much we are healing in the process. Together.

Thank you, my teacher; my forgiver. So much.