My millet recipe has been perfected!

A few months ago, I created a millet recipe with pine nuts, chopped dried apricots, dried cherries, coriander, and nutritional yeast. I think I got my inspiration from a Joanne Stepaniak recipe and just threw things into the millet until it seemed right. I made my favorite tofu recipe--I'm still looking for quick, easy tofu cutlet-type recipes, so if you have any or know where to find any, point me in that direction, please. I didn't have capers this time, and I added the green onions later than the recipe calls for--I am having fun playing with this recipe--and used balsamic vinegar instead of apple cider. Every time I've made this recipe, I've loved, loved, loved it.

But now, I'm feeling a little blue. I had to take my little kitty in to have her teeth cleaned. The vet recommended I take her in the night before her appointment to be put on fluids because her kidney values are not good. She's almost 15 years old, so I shouldn't be terribly surprised. I've started giving her better canned food than she had been getting before. She really loves the stinky canned stuff, but she always has her crunchies, too, for her teeth.

She's a gorgeous little tabby:


And a playful, too. When I got back from New York, after I had unpacked, I left my suitcase on my bed, and, well, she had to see where I had been and what I was doing while I was gone:


I get to pick her up tomorrow, and no doubt she'll be unhappy and feeling kind of crappy, but I'll give her lots of love. But it feels really strange to be sitting here at my computer, look over to my sofa, and not see my little kitty curled up there on her blanky. And it's going to be really weird when I go to bed and I don't have a kitty climbing up on my chest to cuddle me.

I'm really lucky to have such a lovely, affectionate kitty.