BBQ Jackfruit

I bought a few cans of jackfruit a few months ago to make vegan bbq, and I've reviewed the recipe several times lately. Today I went to the kitchen to make it, and the site the recipe was on was down. I reviewed a few others and mentally combined a new one with what I remembered from the one I'd read.



It'll get a little more bbq sauce when it's used on a sandwich, but I wanted to try it as tacos first. I've got dozens of corn tortillas in the freezer to use up, and also was in the mood for avocado. These tacos have shredded cabbage, avocado slices, the jackfruit, and one's got salsa just to mix it up. This was good! And I finally realized you can wrap more around the filling if your second tortilla is offset a bit.

Upon reflection

The neighborhood's got me hooked! I wasn't even sure I'd go for a walk this morning after so much back pain from standing around yesterday, but as soon as 6am rolled around today, I was ready to get out. I waited a little while longer and got geared up. Not too far into the walk, a truck going my same direction slowed down. I was just saying to my friend Barbara who I drove to and from the anniversary party yesterday that it always makes me uneasy when cars approach or slow down. The subject came up because we were on a street in the neighborhood where I've been nervous about cars slowing down nearby, but that street has speed bumps so it was nothing.

Thankfully the guy slowing down wasn't doing it to hurl insults or anything. He yelled something I didn't hear, so I pulled out an earbud and yelled, "Huh?" back. He said something along the lines of, "Your reflectors! That's good, I like those!" I get it. A very small percentage of people I see walking around wear bright colors and almost nobody wears reflectors. Mostly the safety gear I see on pedestrians seems to be on people who wear it for work and are walking to a bus stop. I won't leave home without it.

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