I'm sorry, so sorry

I has been too hot to cook. This is the sort of weather I dealt with when I grew up in Florida, where the temperature and the humidity are in the neighborhood of 90, and a rainstorm only makes the humidity worse. I also had a few projects at work that practically ate my brain.

My cat turned 15 a couple of weeks ago, and my boyfriend got her all sorts of neat stuff, like a window perch:


And he also got catnip bubbles and a "gun" to blow lots of them, driving her nuts (helped along by the catnip she ate):


And here is the dinner I cooked tonight.


I made a chicken-fried seitan recipe and some gravy from "The Dirty South/Hot Damn and Hell Yeah," a double-sided book I picked up when I was in NYC. If you like Southern-style cooking, you will probably like this. I never got around to trying the recipes until now, though. I also did some cooking for tomorrow night, and I'll feature that food then. The seitan had a peppery taste, probably because I put in a bit much pepper or it didn't get mixed quite right. Some of the recipes are imprecise, which I don't mind, as I'm the sort of person to fiddle around with recipes to make them my own. The corn salad was something I picked up at Whole Foods last week, and was still very tasty.

I finally got cable Internet--hooray, hooray. Now, it takes a lot less time for my photos to upload here and for me to download stuff. I ended up with an external modem, which I don't mind because I can turn it off when I'm done for the evening. My kitty is keeping me company--she likes to lie on the sofa while I putter about online. She's happy as long as I'm here. And she's getting to really like her new window perch, I think. She was a little nervous of it at first, but sprinkle catnip on it, and she learns to love it. Maybe I should try that with her prescription canned food...