i have a serious brain disease. please bring me a cat.
I’ve been craving this kind of food lately. Simple, healthy. Steamed broccoli, baked beans, brown rice and tofu sprinkled with gomashio and Bragg’s. It would’ve been a greener plate but lunch was a giant bowl of kale salad. The tofu was just sautéed in a pan, beans and broccoli cooked in the microwave and rice in the rice cooker. A healthy tasty meal doesn’t have to involve a ton of work or destroying your kitchen. It can be this simple.
Do you remember your first vegetarian cookbook? One of my first ones if not the first one for me was Paulette Mitchell’s The 15-Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian. I was a student at San Francisco State University at the time and picked it up at the bookstore there. It ended up being my go to book when I first became vegetarian. My copy is covered in stains from use. While not vegan, it has a few recipes that I still use that are vegan. It’s perfect for people that aren’t that in to cooking, need quick-cooking meals and don’t want to run around town looking for special ingredients.
The Pasta with Chinese Tahini Sauce is one of those fall back meals for me. The ingredients keep well so you can push off cooking it another week if need be without anything spoiling. And it is done in the time it takes for the pasta to cook. It went well with leftover cabbage crunch from the potluck and gomashio sprinkled on top.
Heck, I best post this one before the ground frosts. Sheesh. The last potluck we had was BBQ themed, although not a cookout since I hosted and have no grill. Whatever, it was full of yum.
Here’s the pulled vegan chicken BBQ.
Ranch dip.
Cabbage Crunch Salad
Mac & Cheeze 1
Mac & Cheeze 2
Watermelon salad
Potato salad
Banana cupcakes with peanut butter frosting
Vanilla cupcakes with mint frosting
We might’ve also watched a bunch of booty shakin’ youtube videos.
Kevin just got back from Las Vegas, so that can only mean one thing: Ronald’s Donuts. You know they’ve got some vegan donuts, right?
I woke up Friday morning to this on the kitchen counter:
Uh oh. Let’s look inside.
Oy. And that’s after giving a bunch away.
Breakfast of champions fat vegans:
Mmmm….apple fritter. And, same day I downed this Boston Cream:
I’m actually not super in to donuts, but there’s something about not having them available that makes them irresistible.
And, I hit up Chat Patti again for lunch. This is what appeared when I ordered the veggie platter, no dairy, with bread instead of rice. Loved it. Turned out to be the perfect amount of food. Also got 2 samosas to go. Total was $10 and some change.