My day was quite productive! Mainly due to this:

My poor honey was still feeling pretty puny this morning, she got up only to come downstairs and sleep all morning.

Maxine enjoyed her freedom and ruled the roost!

After my productive morning, I got down to the business of dinner. At lunch time.

I told Zak I was going to make lentil burgers for dinner tonight. I make homemade veggie burgers all the time but have yet to try them with lentils. He said curry might be good in them, so I went with it!

In fact, I thought curried lentil burgers sounded so good I made it for myself for lunch! I was simply doing my part to protect Zak, just in case it didn’t turn out right. 😉 I cooked up 1 cup of dried brown lentils in 2 1/2 cups of water for about 45 minutes.

I only used about half of the lentils this made, maybe 2 cups? Mixed with (approx):

1 cup of tomato sauce
1 Tbsp curry powder
1/2 c oatbran (I would have used whole wheat flour but I’m out!)
1 c cooked corn

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Curried lentil burger with provolone, pickles, mustard, lettuce and tomato and with a side of steamed broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and mushrooms, topped with a bit of parm.

I whipped Zak up a burger with plenty of left over burger goop when he got home, and a couple of salads too. This would be Zak trying to persuade Ava (who perked up around lunch time) to come out and eat with us and the bees wouldn’t sting her if she didn’t bother them.

And that’s Maxine reaching for the ketchup. No stinkin’ bee is gonna keep Maxine from the ketchup.

Since I had my burger for lunch, I doubled my side salad and called it dinner. Red leaf, tomatoes, tofu, cashews, apples, feta cheese, mushrooms and 2 Tbsp of Miso dressing. Why yes, I did measure it out, thanks for asking. It’s too easy to go crazy with salad dressing without realizing it!

I saved my grains for dessert!

H2H, granola and banana!

Ava and her xray bee vision asked me to take a picture of the small bee hive behind me.

We usually knock these suckers down with hose, and I will tomorrow. If I got the hose out at dinner time I would surely be unable to resist the urge to spray Zak.

And no judgement! I love bees as much as the next environmentalist but I’ve got little kids for crying out loud. I simply use the hose to gently encourage them to build their hives elsewhere. I’ve got lots of flowers in my garden to make up for a little hose on hive action.n