Caturday Night Fever

When I first moved back to Seattle, one of the first places I wanted to go to was a little fruit and vegetable stand called Lenny's. It's located at 10410 Greenwood Ave. if anyone ever finds them self in Seattle. Go to the Pike Place Market to visit, but buy your fruits and vegetables at Lenny's. You'll save a ton of money that you can use to do something else fun! I should have brought my camera, and taken pictures. I will be going back, so I'll write myself a Post-It to remember my camera next time. In addition to all kinds of fruits and vegetables, they have all kinds of Asian cookies and packaged treats, sauces, canned goods, all kinds of noodles and beans and spices. All at insanely low prices. And they have all kinds of fruits and vegetables you never see at regular groceries, or if you do see them you'd have to get a third job to afford them. I'm going to show you all that I got for sixteen dollars!

Pineapple,cilantro,coconut cream,jackfruit,fava beans with chili,passion fruit, and two HUGE Ataulfo mangoes,and rice noodles

Dried red chilis and tofu puffs

Caught mid chomp!

I have never even had passion fruit, because anytime I've seen it in a grocery it is wayyyyy out of my price range. I think they were forty five cents each or something insane. I used to live like two minutes away, and Lenny's saved me from starving more times than I can remember. When I had NO money, if i could scrounge up four or five dollars, I would go to Lenny's, but a bag of lentils, and onion, carrot, and a few stalks of celery and be able to feed myself for awhile. And their produce is very good quality, they don't have a lot of organics, but other than that they are perfect. And guess what I noticed when I was there? Right next door to them is a little sandwich type shop, and they were selling pupusas!! It inspired me to get the jackfruit! I think jackfruit with some jalapeno havarti daiya in my next batch sounds pretty tasty!

Carrots, potato buns, HP sauce, Sauerkraut,and organic strawberries

I also stopped at the regular grocery close to Lenny's and picked up some strawberries and fixins for some carrot hot dogs I'm going to make tonight. I'm cheap and didn't want to buy a whole bag of hot dog buns, so once again they will be served in veggie burger buns. I was watching a video the other day where someone made carrot hot dogs and didn't care for them. I noticed that they didn't steam them before marinating, and carrots are so hard, I doubt a raw carrot will soak up much moisture. If you steam them first, then let them marinate for at least a few hours, the marinade totally soaks in and really flavors the carrot. The sauerkraut is going to make such a huge difference!
I made some red curry over noodles last night with spinach, onion, shredded carrot and tofu puffs. Lots of cilantro of course!

By the time I got home yesterday, the sun had switched to rain, so this was the perfect meal for a cool, rainy afternoon. OOdles of noodles!

String??

Pretty Yetti, looking like she's up to something!

Afro and Animal sitting in a cat tree!

Happy Caturday!