Seasonal Sundays (Week 1) Early On January

It's a big moment, switching years, ditching 2020 for a fresh too soon-to-be vaccinated 2021. For January, for the year, tin give notice nosotros alive amongst simple, spare too spartan? Let's start amongst recipes, uncomplicated single-vegetable soups buttressed past times hearty soups amongst slurpy noodles. And breakfasts, sumptuous inward their really simplicity. C'mon inward too facial expression around. Ideas galore!

vegetable soups buttressed past times hearty soups amongst slurpy noodles Seasonal Sundays (Week 1) Early January

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Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ...

Who knew that fifty-fifty a uncomplicated Christmas too New Years is a relief to exit behind? that it's energizing to deed dorsum into an [early 2021-ish] normal[-ish] life inward January?

I therefore loved our minimalist (for us) Christmas decorations that nosotros pose upward this twelvemonth but am also relieved that they're non solely downwardly but boxed upward for side past times side year. We push clitoris many/most/all fine art off the walls during the holidays therefore in 1 lawsuit the Christmas materials is gone, I exit the walls bare for a few days, peradventure a week, only to create a visual time out ... simple, spartan, spare.

And inward the kitchen? This week's grocery lodge volition last heavy on vegetables too footling else, because the pantry is total of grains too lean proteins to construct upon. Meals this side past times side week? Simple, spartan, spare.

"It feels similar it's getting closer," said our friend Jan terminal week, every bit nosotros recounted the stories of all the people nosotros know. Be safe, people, last safe.

I fearfulness we're therefore anxious for life to supply to normal directly that vaccines are reaching arms, that we're mentally unprepared for the months, fifty-fifty years, it mightiness take. If the expectation is a pre-covid normal for 2021 ... broken hearts may prevail.

Who's started to visualize nigh what a late-covid "normal" mightiness facial expression like? So far, mine includes get-to-know-you-again dinners amongst grandkids, morning time java inward PJs amongst my sister, in-person visits amongst my dad, friends at the kitchen tabular array for dinner.

Who needs Paris? fancy meals out? Not me.

What's on your list? What would brand life "normal" over again ... fifty-fifty if it's simple, spartan, spare.

PICK ONE

Pick One is for those of us overwhelmed past times life's unending choices. If that resonates, therefore depository fiscal establishment check out this 1 recipe too therefore telephone phone it a day. It's 1 that I think could brand the most difference, the 1 I promise volition larn a regular inward your kitchen, every bit it is inward mine.

THE RECIPE Tuscan Vegetable Stew A melange of vegetables, detox amongst big brilliant flavor.

Happy Anniversary, A Veggie Venture!

Hard to believe, I know, but A Veggie Venture turned fifteen terminal spring! There are thousands too thousands of nutrient blogs now, but agency dorsum inward 2005, in that place actually were solely a couplet of hundred of us too nosotros all knew 1 some other ... the photos were universally AWFUL but twas a blissful time, all those tables from across the world, joined past times a passion for food, identify unit of measurement too friendship.

But similar therefore many 2020 celebrations, A Veggie Venture's anniversary "party" was postponed.

The thought was to facial expression dorsum at A Veggie Venture's showtime twelvemonth of cooking a vegetable inward a novel agency every twenty-four hours to highlight recipes – only 15! from 365! – which rest e'er therefore useful, all these years too recipes later.

Dedicated to A Veggie Venture's community of vegetable lovers, may I acquaint ...

THE COLLECTION 15 Favorite Vegetable Recipes, Still Useful After fifteen Years From A Veggie Venture's showtime year.
ALL THE FAVORITES Favorite Vegetable Recipes Each year's best recipes, starting Day One.

Best Recipes of the Year for 2020

THE RECIPE Pinto Bean Salad

THE RECIPE How to Cook White Rice Basics done well, for dinner, for the freezer.

Made Me Think ...

FROM BILL GATES, therefore illuminating, both covid too climate These breakthroughs volition brand 2021 meliorate than 2020
QUOTE "When I think dorsum on the measuring of scientific advances inward 2020, I am stunned. Humans receive got never made to a greater extent than progress on whatsoever affliction inward a twelvemonth than the basis did on COVID-19 this year."
SMALL RANT Can someone inward Bill Gates' circle please-please-please moderate the comments? Total spam.

FROM VOX, over again a facial expression forrad Seven Significant Silver Linings from 2020
QUOTE "2020 had practiced word that would stand upward out every bit astonishing triumphs of human achievement inward whatsoever other year. In areas ranging from world wellness to medicine, from poverty alleviation to nutrient technology, in that place were some tremendous leaps."

ON A LIGHTER NOTE Guide to Canadian Cookbooks
QUOTE "We are to a greater extent than than a nation of butter tarts. We are to a greater extent than than poutine (which is Québécois too has been appropriated every bit Canadian, but that’s a whole other post). We are to a greater extent than than all dressed white patato chips too bagged milk. Canadian nutrient is non a monolith, nor are our recipes (or receipts, every bit some of us nevertheless telephone phone them)."

Digital Housekeeping #1 ... Automated Backups

January 2021 seems similar the perfect fourth dimension to create clean out our digital closets. Anybody in? Over the years, I've constitute a few ways that lucifer into an otherwise busy life. Will something move for you, too? Look for to a greater extent than ideas throughout January, only 1 per calendar week because who has time/energy/inclination to tackle every cupboard at the same time?

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT sponsored, it only plant for me.

I've used iDrive for automated backup for years too years. Every nighttime (or every bit oftentimes every bit yous choose), iDrive automatically backs upward files that receive got changed. I receive got had occasion to move dorsum inward too recover files, it's a footling clunky but works. I peculiarly similar how iDrive offers the choice of mirroring your laptop or not.

I've had non bad experience amongst support. Once I retrieve calling because I knew I was approximately 100% of my storage invention too therefore whoosh, I was nether 50%. Why? Because iDrive was offering 2X the storage infinite to novel customers too doubled the storage infinite for existing customers. Smart! Appreciated!

For to a greater extent than options, encounter Wire Cutter's cloud backup services, I encounter that iDrive is one!

Oh! And I encounter that iDrive volition also dorsum upward your telephone ...

What plant for you? Are yous backing upward your devices? Good ideas welcome!

A Journal Journey

I telephone phone it Dec Hindsight, Nov Hindsight. And today I think to exertion a 2020 Hindsight, hmmm, is that redundant?

Here's what I mean.

A journal, my magazine anyway, is a closeup view, a twenty-four hours past times twenty-four hours reckoning.

But these hindsight pages are different. They facial expression dorsum to the few things that colored the month. More impressions than incidents. More feelings than failures. More mood than memories.

Examples.

The showtime calendar week inward November, of course, was the election. But November's hindsight was the angst of the election, all the build-up, all the antagonism afterward.

December was all nigh the holidays. But December's hindsight was the ritual of turning on the lights at dusk, falling asleep too waking upward to fairy lights on the giant evergreen inward front, singing carols on the telephone amongst my dad.

See the difference?

Anway ... I'm finding it quite lovely, peradventure yous volition too?

PS My sis gifted herself, a daughter-in-love too me guided journals from Vertellis. Start when yous start, deed at your ain pace. A really thoughtful, mindful approach, peculiarly if your ain magazine efforts aren't quite working for yous ...