soup bread wraps and a sad dog

We have had our first frost here, which means we have harvested the last of our tomatoes from the garden. Although I have a tomato soup recipe that I absolutely adore (recipe here), I tried Dreena's roasted tomato soup. It is good and nice for a change. A little work with the roasting time involved. I think I prefer my previous tomato soup better, link above.

I also made "Brian's Bread". Bryanna (see Vegan Feast link on my sidebar) husband bakes bread for customers. This bread has oatmeal and whole grain flour in it. He uses a method in which the oven is on at 500 degrees when the bread is added, when bread goes in spray with a mister bottle, and bake for 5 minutes. Turn heat down to 350 degrees and bake for18-20 minutes more. I have never tried this before, but now I have been baking it this way with all of the breads I have made in the past two weeks. I love the crackle. If you notice my bread pictures, the end of one loaf is never there. I am a hopeless bread lover,I can't help myself... I cut the end off of one loaf as soon as the bread comes out of the oven to eat it.

Another new thing I tried this week is Dreena's zucchini pepper pizza from the Everyday Vegan cookbook. I added a bit a frozen Gruyere cheese (a Bryanna subscription recipe) for the family, I prefer mine without cheese usually. The zucchini pepper stir fry combo was the best! I really enjoyed this meal.

Here's a lunchbox. A wonderful wrap told about above, Newman's pretzel's and pineapple. I have many pictures of lunchboxes taken this week, but I'll have to wait for this weekend to get the best ones blogged. Matt will be home Friday and I will be able to get a pix of his Renaissance costume. He purchased a hat this year and a wooden sword to go with his costume. Gradually he increases his costume, perhaps some year he will find a fair maiden to make his mama happy with. :) Okay, I might want him to be happy with her too.
Pup looks a little on edge here. She says she would like the cats/ kittens adopted soon because they are cramping her style.
The pregnant cat Sophie has now taken a spare room that pup used to enjoy for a short while , Pup is :(

We are trying to cheer her with extra attention, but she's not quite comfortable with the intrusion. However, she is a very mild tempered pup and never gets aggressive. My week is going well, keeps me a little busier than I have been since I am away from home during the days. I can't say a whole lot about it on my blog. One unfortunate event was that I experienced a bomb threat and saw policy and preparedness plan in action. Nothing happened and it was a low level threat, but precautions had to be taken anyway.

Matt called this evening and said he got a 50% on a test (oh no!), but was allowed to retake it today and got an 85%. I probably should help him out with a few study skills this weekend.