Today is the first of the month, which means a new Hot Flash on the Hot Flash page. It’s also Wednesday, so I’m sharing food. Now, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am not a vegetarian! The other day at church…

Charlie had a friend over for breakfast the other morning and asked if I’d make a coffee cake. Since I knew our vegan daughter would also be over the same day, I tweaked it to make it vegan — well, almost vegan: she’ll eat eggs…

So this happened. This is totally my new favorite thing. Okay, the yellow this is yellow squash, sliced, dredged in seasoned flour, and fried in vegan margarine until browned on both sides. The green bits are snow peas fried in sesame oil with slivered almonds…