Vegan eating out- City O City, Denver CO

 I have posted about the glories of City O' City before.
Here: http://questingadventures.blogspot.com/2013/07/vegan-eating-in-colorado-and-other.html
and Here: http://questingadventures.blogspot.com/2014/01/photographic-evidence-11414.html

Yeah, we go there whenever we are in town. What can I say? Once you've had one of their savory vegan waffles I DARE you not to dream about them. It's that good.

Anyway, we flew into Denver last Wednesday, and immediately headed over for lunch. We started off for some seitan wings- half BBQ, half buffalo. Yum. I've had my share of vegan seitan wings, and theirs are the best.

Mia got the savory waffle, because that is what she gets every time. Sometimes she talks about getting something different... but she always comes back to the savory waffle. She loves it, and I think, it loves her in return.

I went with the WOW- the vegan waffle of the week, which was a savory nacho black bean waffle. Huh. How can you not order that? It was really good. the only downfall was that I went halvsies with Rob, and when I split up the waffle, I took the vegan spicy aioli off the plate, and FORGOT about it. And it was good, too.

Rob ordered my favorite brunch item, vegan tofu biscuits and gravy. I am such a sucker for biscuits and gravy. My folks used to make (non-veg) biscuits and gravy as a quick meal when I was growing up, and I always feel so comforted by the idea of it. It was the first recipe I ever figured out how to make vegetarian, and then totally veganized all by my onsie. Nowadays my gravy is all speckled with veggies, carrots and celery and mushrooms and dill. And my biscuits are full of flax, but the idea is the same!

Jeff's meal was accidentally vegan, so I had to test his out, too. He got a peanut butter waffle with grapefruit jam that was topped with potato chips! A grown up version of a melted PB&J!

Speaking of which, while we were in Copper, at one of the cafes on the mountain, they had a grilled PB&J station, and people LOVED it. My mom and I were shocked with how much people were raving about it. My mom used to make me grilled PB&J sandwiches all the time growing up, and her mom used to do the same for her, but these folks on the ski slopes had never heard of it, and though my mom should be cashing in on some royalties! Did you ever eat that stuff as a kid? I always loved the Peanut Butter when it got warm, and kind of oozed off the bread....

Annual Ski Trip!

 December, you know what that means! We went out west and met my family for our annual ski trip in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. My parents are so awesome to host all of us kids (and our ever-growing families) each year. It is the coolest. Even if we do have to wake up at 2 am to get to the airport in time...


This year, we were again in Copper mountain, which you may know, is the name sake of our dog, Copper. Yep, we love it here so much we named our dog after this mountain.  Can you blame us?

Copper Mountain is about an hour and a half west of Denver (in optimal weather/driving conditions!). This was our fourth year here (non-consecutively) and second year in the same house.

 I'm convinced that there is more sky in Colorado than there is in other places.

 I didn't get too many pictures, but when I remember to take out my phone camera, my niece, Niki, and I had some selfie-fun.

Mom actually got a picture of us on the slopes. This was day 4, just before the storm came in and dropped 29 inches of fresh powder on us! It wasn't too cold, but boy, was the wind blowing, and fresh powder is TOUGH to ski in! I definitely counted those ski days as my run streak days. I got a great work out on the slopes.

I also got some quality time with the baby, my niece and god-daughter, Kateri Rose. She was now 4 weeks old, so she even smiled at me a few times as I held her!

Traveling back home, we were in the midst of that same storm, so we did some frantic plane shuffling, and made it to our plane transfer in Dallas with about 30 seconds to spare. Eventually we landed in DC, and had to take a shuttle to BWI, where our car was parked, but it was all okay, because in the end we arrived home safely!

Hope your holidays were as great as ours!

Photographic Evidence 1/14/14

I'm guilty of taking pictures on my phone, and then never posting them, so I thought I'd share some I've taken this winter.

On Monday, I earned my first virtual race medal of 2014, for a 15k (I ran 9.5 niles)!

This past weekend, we visited Rob's mom, Paula, and took her to lunch at a vegetarian Indian restaurant. I was excited because I could eat most things on the buffet! That never happens!

I posted some of these pictures from Westmoreland State Park on my personal facebook page. This is where Rob and the pups and I spent New Year's.

We hiked every day, and had a fire each night.  Perfect.

One thing I love about being vegan: how pretty my groceries are. This was about $100 at my local supermarket.

After our travels over the holidays, Mia took a nap on the floor of the airport while we waited for our bags.  I wish I could tell you that this was the first (or fifth) time she's done this.

Silliness with my Love.

The above and below picture were taken at a great little Asian Fusion restaurant in Denver.  Mia got General Tso's Tofu, and I got Orange Sesame Tofu.  Both were very tasty.  

Love Colorado.  We're going to live there one day.  When we grow up.

You know, if I did this more often, it wouldn't be such a pain...  Sigh.  Lesson learned.

These next three pictures are from City O' City in Denver.  This is one of our favorite vegetarian restaurants.  And we finally got my parents to go there, AND they even liked it!  Whoo-Hoo!

I got the Vegan BBQ, kale, and Mac and Cheese.

Mia got some Pho, and Rob got the Savory Waffle.  As with any veg establishment, I laid claim to whatever my fork reached! Rob and Mia are great sports.

Ok.  Last few.  These are from a Mysteryfunland adventure we went on in December.  We went ice-skating on the mall in DC in the sculpture garden, had some vegan pizza at the District of Pi, and then saw Die Hard at the midnight movie showing at the E Street Theater.

Allright, I will try to be more timely in the future!