Let there be light! And television! And Internet! And good food! I love electricity!

If you haven’t already heard, we are back on the grid!!! The good news came on Saturday at around 1:30PM – almost 6 whole days after the power went out. The power company trucks flooded our neighborhood around 9AM Saturday morning and the munchkin and I stood outside and did a little dance for them. They were all very nice and it was so great of them to come from all around the country to help restore our power! The guys who hooked up our power were from West Virginia, but I saw trucks from other parts of Ohio, Virginia, and even Canada all helping out this week. Woo hoo!

I didn’t get back to cooking right away because we had no groceries. We took care of that problem Sunday morning when we went on a shopping spree at Trader Joe’s and then went to my Mom’s house to pick up the food we had dropped off there earlier in the week.

We came home and I set to work unloading the bags – it was like Christmas! I got to put everything away in a clean and empty fridge. Here are the pictures of our newly-stocked fridge and freezer:

So clean and orderly! I love it. There are some non-vegan items visible, but I don’t eat those. And those little Trader Joe’s yogurts visible in the top photo??? They totally have gelatin in them. I forgot to check and am so bummed that I didn’t think to check until my daughter had eaten almost one whole container. Ugh.

So, even though we had all this fancy new food in our fancy clean fridge, I didn’t make anything fancy for dinner last night. Here’s a pic of what we had:

I made Wildwood Tofu Veggie Burgers with corn (from my CSA) topped with chipotle cream and roasted potatoes and sweet potatoes. The corn with chipotle cream is DEEEEEEElicious! So easy to make, too! The tofu burgers were just okay; not nearly as yummy as Sunshine Burgers.

So, those are all the food-related highlights from my weekend. I hope everyone had a great weekend with beautiful weather and tasty food!